[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 80 (Thursday, April 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19368-19370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08540]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-17-17NW; Docket No. CDC-2017-0011]


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 a new information 
collection project titled ``A Novel Framework for Structuring Industry-
Tuned Public-Private Partnerships and Economic Incentives for U.S. 
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response''. This data collection will 
conduct interviews with industry leaders and survey private sector 
organization managers to systematically evaluate and explore the 
partnership preferences of private sector organizations, specifically 
when they are interacting or considering an interaction with government 
agencies.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before June 26, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0011 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.

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     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 Leroy A. Richardson, of 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

    A Novel Framework for Structuring Industry-Tuned Public-Private 
Partnerships and Economic Incentives for U.S. Health Emergency 
Preparedness and Response--New--Office of Public Health Preparedness 
and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Despite the important role of public-private partnerships in 
supporting the U.S.'s public health preparedness and response mission, 
many partnership efforts are not successful due to poorly aligned 
incentives or lack of awareness of external market factors. There is 
little research or information on private sector incentive structures 
and partnership opportunities and barriers specific to public health 
preparedness and response. This study will evaluate the effectiveness 
of public-private partnership incentives from the perspective of 
private sector industries within the public health preparedness and 
response space.
    CDC proposes to collect information from the private industry 
leaders in the public health preparedness and response space to 
accomplish this goal. Study activities will include (1) identifying 
public-private partnership incentives and target industries for public 
health preparedness and response; (2) conducting interviews with 
industry leaders in person or via telephone to identify related public 
health emergency preparedness activities and partnership opportunities 
and barriers; and (3) surveying private sector organization managers 
using on-line technology (Qualtrics) on key issues and attractiveness 
of partnership opportunities and incentives; and develop a framework to 
identify partnership target organizations, opportunities, and 
incentives to promote public health emergency preparedness 
capabilities.
    The information collection request is composed of two parts: (1) 
Interviews and (2) an on-line general survey distributed. The targeted 
interviews will seek respondents in the following eight sectors: 
Pharmaceutical/life sciences (n = 8), health IT/mobile (n = 8), 
retailers/distributors (n = 6), academia/research organization (n = 6), 
hospital/healthcare provider (n = 5), health insurance (n = 4), 
logistics/transportation (n = 4), and charitable organization/
foundation (n = 4). The interview questions and the information 
collected will vary significantly across the different sectors.
    The survey portion of the information collection will be a larger 
survey that will be sent to 200 individuals to reach a total sample 
population of 100 (assuming a 50% response rate). The interviews and 
survey will only be administered one time to each individual 
respondent. CDC plans to conduct interviews and surveys within six 
months after OMB approval.
    Members of the research team will conduct the interviews. Surveys 
will be conducted using the secure online software Qualtrics, and 
respondents will receive an email with a unique link that will direct 
them to the Qualtrics survey platform. All data will then be 
transferred to CDC's preferred Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) 
client, where it will be stored and later accessed securely by members 
of the research team. After this transfer, all copies of the data that 
reside outside of the SFTP will be destroyed. Only the research team 
will have access to the interview transcripts and survey responses that 
will link responses to personally identifiable information. Any printed 
or hand-written documents containing PII will be stored securely in 
locked file cabinets when not in use, and will be destroyed once the 
information has been scanned or otherwise transferred into electronic 
files (which will also be transferred to the SFTP client). Access to 
the SFTP will require the user to enter a host address, username, 
password and port number, all of which will only be provided to the 
research team.
    CDC will make the collected data available only to research team 
members for analysis and will maintain the data for the duration of the 
study. Identifiable information may be filed by the name of respondent 
on the SFTP, but it will not be removed from the SFTP in that format. 
Any information removed from the SFTP client to be shared with outside 
parties will be presented in aggregated and de-identified form, unless 
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compelled by law. CDC will retain and destroy all records in accordance 
with the applicable CDC Records Control Schedule.
    OPHPR is requesting an approval period of one year to collect this 
information. There are no cost burdens to respondents or record keepers 
for this data collection. The total time burden to respondents is 70 
hours. See a summary of the annualized burden hours in the below table.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total  burden
      Type of respondents           Form name       respondents    responses per   response  (in     (in hrs.)
                                                                    respondent         hrs.)
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Private Sector Organization     Interview Plan..              45               1               1              45
 Senior Leader.
Private Sector Organization     Survey Plan.....             100               1           15/60              25
 Manager.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............              70
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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. 2017-08540 Filed 4-26-17; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4163-18-P