[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 3, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 126-128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-31773]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[60Day-17-17IV; Docket No. ATSDR-2016-0008]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
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 information
collection request titled ``APPLETREE Performance Measures.'' Under the
APPLETREE cooperative agreement program (Funding Opportunity
Announcement No. CDC-RFA-TS17-1701), awardees will be required to
submit an Annual Plan of Work (APOW), several standardized outcome and
performance measures, and an Annual Performance Report (APR).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before March 6, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. ATSDR-
2016-0008 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.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
APPLETREE Performance Measures--New--Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
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Background and Brief Description
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) serves
the public through responsive public health actions to promote healthy
and safe environments and to prevent harmful exposures in communities
across the nation. ATSDR's Partnership to Promote Local Efforts to
Reduce Environmental Exposure (APPLETREE) Program is critical to
ATSDR's success in this mission. The purpose of the program is to: (1)
Identify pathways of exposure to hazardous substances at hazardous
waste sites and releases; (2) identify, implement, and coordinate
public health interventions to reduce exposures to hazardous substances
which occur at levels of health concern; and (3) provide training at
the state level to promote and achieve the safe siting of child care
facilities in the United States. The APPLETREE Program is also a
mechanism which enhances ATSDR's communication with state, local, and
federal health and environmental agencies. This program is authorized
under Sections 104(i)(15) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended by the
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986 [42 U.S.C.
9604(i)(15)].
Under the new three-year APPLETREE cooperative agreement (Funding
Opportunity Announcement No. CDC-RFA-TS17-1701), eligible applicants
include federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal
governments; American Indian/Alaska native tribally designated
organizations; political subdivisions of states (in consultation with
states); and state and local governments or their bona fide agents.
ATSDR technical project officers (TPOs) will assist approximately 25
APPLETREE awardees to address site-specific issues involving human
exposure to hazardous substances. Key capacities include identification
of human exposure pathways at ATSDR sites, education of affected
communities and local health professionals about site contamination and
potential health effects; making appropriate recommendations to prevent
exposure; reviewing health outcome data to evaluate potential links
between site contaminants and community health; and documenting the
effects of environmental remediation on health.
ATSDR will collect information related to awardee activities, and
the process and outcome performance measures outlined by the
cooperative agreement program. Information will be used to monitor
progress toward program goals and objectives, and for quality
improvement.
Annual Plan of Work (APOW): Each budget year, awardees shall
deliver an APOW. The APOW will include awardee workplans for site-
specific activities, environmental health assessment outputs, and
overarching milestones for child care safe siting activities. The
estimated annual time burden to prepare and report the APOW is eight
hours per awardee.
ATSDR Health Education Activity Tracking (HEAT) Performance
Measure: For each environmental health assessment and health education
activity conducted at ATSDR sites, APPLETREE awardees shall
quantitatively assess and report efforts to educate community members
about site recommendations and health risks using indicators to assess
community understanding of site findings about health risks and
community understanding of agency recommendations to reduce health
risks. This information will be entered in to the ATSDR HEAT system for
each activity at ATSDR sites. Based on past experience, ATSDR assumes a
maximum of 925 activities will be entered into the HEAT database each
year; therefore, each of the 25 awardees will enter an average of 37
activities into the HEAT database.
ATSDR Site Impact Assessment (SIA) Performance Measure: For each
environmental health assessment and health education activity conducted
at ATSDR sites, awardees shall estimate and report the number of people
protected from exposure to toxic substances at each site where
implementation of agency recommendations has taken place and at each
child care center where safe siting guidelines have been implemented.
To the extent possible, awardees shall estimate the disease burden
prevented due to the implementation of site recommendations and safe
siting guidelines. This information will be entered into the ATSDR SIA
database by the awardee. ATSDR assumes a maximum of 150 ATSDR sites
will undergo an environmental assessment, or an average of 6 sites per
awardee, per year.
APPLETREE Annual Performance Report (APR): Awardees must provide an
APR at the end of each budget year. The report must include a minimum
of three site activity success stories; a synopsis of the number of
people involved in environmental health assessments at sites, the
number of public health recommendations accepted, the number of health
education activities conducted at sites; and the outcomes achieved
during the budget year. The APR must also demonstrate annual progress
in implementing child care safe siting policies in their jurisdictions
over the three-year program period. ATSDR assumes that ASARs will take
15 burden hours for each awardee to prepare.
ATSDR seeks to request a three-year clearance from OMB to collect
the necessary information for this project.
The awardee reporting is a requirement of the APPLETREE cooperative
agreement. The total annual time burden requested is 635 hours.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average
Number of responses per burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents respondent per response (in (in hours)
per year year hours)
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APPLETREE Awardees............ Annual Plan of 25 1 8 200
Work (APOW).
ATSDR Health 25 37 3/60 47
Education
Activity
Tracking (HEAT)
Form.
ATSDR Site 25 6 5/60 13
Impact
Assessment
(SIA) Form.
APPLETREE Annual 25 1 15 375
Performance
Report (APR).
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 635
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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. 2016-31773 Filed 12-30-16; 8:45 am]
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