[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 29, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24475-24476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-11400]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-18-18AEJ; Docket No. CDC-2018-0048]


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 effort to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or 
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed 
information collection project titled Applied Research to Address 
Emerging Public Health Priorities, a broad agency announcement for the 
competitive selection of research proposals.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before July 30, 2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2018-
0048 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Jeffery M. Zirger, 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments 
to Regulations.gov.

    Please note: Submit all comments 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 Jeffery M. Zirger, 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 the OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:

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    1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and
    4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic 
submissions of responses.
    5. Assess information collection costs.

Proposed Project

    Applied Research to Address Emerging Public Health Priorities--New 
ICR--National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases 
(NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    On March 26, 2018, CDC issued a Broad Agency Announcement (FY2018-
OADS-01) available at https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/CDCP/PGOA/FY2018-OADS-BAA/listing.html. There is potential for standardized information 
collection attached to a limited number of awarded projects. For those 
projects, a 30-day notice will be published in the Federal Register and 
information collection requests will be submitted to OMB for approval. 
This Federal Register notice is intended to broadly inform the public 
of CDC's intent to contract with researchers to carry out a variety of 
different research projects awarded through this announcement.
    For this announcement, CDC has identified the following research 
areas of interest. Interested parties are invited to consider 
innovative approaches to support advanced research and development 
strategies in the following research areas of interest:

1. New Diagnostic, Sequencing, and Metagenomic Tools for AR Detection 
and Improved Antibiotic Use
2. International Transmission, Colonization, and Prevention of AR 
Pathogens
3. Domestic Transmission, Colonization, and Prevention of AR Pathogens 
and CDI
4. Develop Human Microbiome Disruption Indices Relevant to Antibiotic 
Resistance
5. Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens and Genes in Water Systems and the 
Environment and their Contribution to Human Infections
6. Improving Antibiotic Stewardship
7. Approaches to Prevention and Control of Parasitic Infections in the 
United States
8. Approaches to Prevention and Control of Parasitic Infections and 
Neglected Tropical Diseases Globally
9. Surveillance and Control of Arthropod Vectors of Human Pathogens
10. Modernization of the Surveillance Data Platform

    Contracts that are awarded based on responses to this BAA are as a 
result of full and open competition and therefore in full compliance 
with the provisions of Public Law 98-369, ``The Competition in 
Contracting Act of 1984.'' CDC contracts with educational institutions, 
nonprofit organizations, state and local government, and private 
industry for research and development (R&D) in those areas covered in 
this BAA.
    The public is invited to look at the BAA online for greater detail 
and more specific research areas falling under the ten topics listed 
above.
    Authorizing legislation comes from Section 301 of the Public Health 
Service Act. Responses will be voluntary and it is not expected that 
there will be any cost to respondents other than the time to 
participate in information collection. The total estimated burden for 
all of the information collections is not expected to exceed 1,500 
hours (100 hours of burden for a maximum of 15 potentially PRA-
applicable contracts).

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Public........................  Information                  150              10               1           1,500
                                 collection.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,500
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Jeffery M. Zirger,
Acting 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. 2018-11400 Filed 5-25-18; 8:45 am]
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