[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 214 (Thursday, November 5, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68540-68542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28155]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-16CB; Docket No. CDC-2015-0094]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or 
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on the evaluation of 
the progress of CDC partners that receive awards distributed via 
contracts, grants and cooperative agreements, from the Procurements and 
Grants Office (PGO). PGO is responsible for the stewardship of these 
funds while providing excellent, professional services to our partners 
and stakeholders. Data will be collected for the purpose of evaluating 
the progress of programmatic activities.

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DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 4, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0094 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review 
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road 
NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted 
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.

    Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the 
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the 
address listed above.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires 
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register 
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new 
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of 
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information 
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services 
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or 
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This 
includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, 
install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of 
collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and 
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to 
train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of 
information, to search data sources, to complete and review the 
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the 
information.

Proposed Project

    Performance Progress and Evaluation Report (PPER)--Existing 
Collection in use without an OMB Control Number--Procurements and 
Grants Office (PGO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Each year, approximately 80% of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention's (CDC) budget is distributed via contracts, grants and 
cooperative agreements, from the Procurements and Grants Office (PGO) 
to partners throughout the world to promote health, prevent disease, 
injury and disability and prepare for new health threats. PGO is 
responsible for the stewardship of these funds while providing 
excellent, professional services to our partners and stakeholders.
    Currently, CDC uses SF-PPR (a progress report form for Non-Research 
awards) to collect information semi-annually from Awardees regarding 
the progress made over specified time periods on CDC funded projects. 
The SF-PPR (OMB Control Number: 0970-0406, Expiration Date: 10/31/2015) 
is owned by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within 
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This New ICR is 
being developed by CDC to create a CDC-wide collection tool called the 
Progress Performance and Evaluation Report (PPER) that will be used to 
collect data on the progress of CDC Awardees for the purposes of 
evaluation and to bring the Awardee reporting procedure into compliance 
with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).
    The information collected will enable the accurate, reliable, 
uniform and timely submission to CDC of each Awardee's work plans and 
progress reports, including strategies, activities and performance 
measures. The information collected by the PPER is designed to align 
with, and support the goals outlined for each of the CDC Awardees. 
Collection and reporting of the information will occur in an efficient, 
standardized, and user-friendly manner that will generate a variety of 
routine and customizable reports. The PPER will allow each Awardee to 
summarize activities and progress towards meeting performance measures 
and goals over a specified time period specific to each award. CDC will 
also have the capacity to generate reports that describe activities 
across multiple Awardees. In addition, CDC will use the information 
collection to respond to inquiries from HHS, Congress and other 
stakeholder inquiries about program activities and their impact.
    The total estimated burden is 16,000 hours. There is no cost to 
respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondent            Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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CDC Non-Research contract,      Performance                8,000               1          120/60          16,000
 grant, and cooperative          Progress and
 agreement Awardees.             Evaluation
                                 Report (PPER).
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............          16,000
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2015-28155 Filed 11-4-15; 8:45 am]
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