[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 10, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14379-14381]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-07035]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as
amended most recently at 84 FR 10518-10519, dated March 21, 2019) is
amended to reflect the reorganization of the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. The reorganization is needed to provide streamlined and
focused research programs in Cincinnati, as well as to better deliver
administrative and management functions by the Office of Administrative
and Management Services within the NIOSH Office of the Director.
I. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, the
following organizational units are deleted in their entirety:
Office of Administrative and Management Services (CCA1)
Administrative Services Branch (Pittsburgh) (CCA12)
Administrative Services Branch (Cincinnati) (CCA13)
Administrative Services Branch (Spokane) (CCA14)
Management Systems Branch (CCA15)
Administrative Services Branch (Morgantown) (CCA16)
Health Communication Research Branch (CCCJ)
Document Development Branch (CCED)
Division of Applied Research and Technology (CCG)
II. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, make the
following changes:
Create the Office of the Deputy Director for Management (CCA6)
Create the Human Capital Management Office (CCA62)
Create the Facilities Management Office (CCA63)
Create the Fiscal Resources Management Office (CCA64)
Create the Information Technology and Informatics Services
Office (CCA65)
Create the Policy, Planning, and Evaluation Office (CCA66)
Retitle all references to the Engineering and Control Branch
(CCCE) to the Physical Effects Research Branch (CCCE)
Retitle all references to the Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Branch (CCCH) to the Bioanalytics Branch (CCCH)
Create the Chemical and Biological Monitoring Branch (CCCK)
Retitle all references to the Education and Information
Division (CCE) to the Division of Science Integration (CCE)
Retitle all references to the Information Resources and
Dissemination Branch (CCEB) to the Science Applications Branch (CCEB)
Retitle all references to the Training Research and Evaluation
Branch (CCEC) to the Social Science and Translation Research Branch
(CCEC)
Create the Emerging Technologies Branch (CCEG)
Retitle all references to the Division of Surveillance,
Hazard, Evaluations, and Field Studies (CCK) to the Division of Field
Studies and Engineering (CCK)
Retitle all references to the Industrywide Studies Branch
(CCKC) to the Field Research Branch (CCKC)
Retitle all references to the Surveillance Branch (CCKD) to
the Health Informatics Branch (CCKD)
Create the Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch (CCKE)
III. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, insert
the following:
Office of the Deputy Director for Management (CCA6):
Provides leadership, direction, guidance and support across the
Institute in the areas of: (1) Information technology and informatics;
(2) facilities management; (3) policy, planning and evaluation; (4)
fiscal resources management; and (5) human capital management.
Human Capital Management Office (CCA62): (1) Serves as the
Institute's focal point for Strategic Human Capital Management
activities that promote and retain a high-performing, diverse and
engaged workforce; (2) coordinates and advises on human capital
programs and initiatives; (3) conducts strategic human capital planning
activities to ensure all human capital programs are aligned with agency
missions, goals, and objectives through analysis, planning, investment,
and measurement; (4) implements talent management initiatives to ensure
that the Institute has the right people with the right skills in the
right position at the right time to accomplish the Institute's mission;
(5) creates and sustains a performance culture that engages, develops,
retains and inspires a diverse, high-performing workforce by creating,
implementing, and maintaining effective performance management and
incentive strategies, practices, and activities; (6) initiates labor-
management activities that promote a shared vision of mission
accomplishment through partnerships with labor unions; (7) provides
programs and initiatives that support an engaged and healthy NIOSH
workforce; and (8) performs human capital support functions to include
monitoring and tracking recruitment and placement activities,
maintaining position-based management systems, conducting new NIOSH
employee onboarding and orientation, approving incentive and
performance awards, planning and implementing awards programs, ensuring
manager and supervisor compliance in areas of performance management,
managing and providing NIOSH-specific training opportunities, and other
human capital support advice, activities and functions.
Facilities Management Office (CCA63): (1) Provides
leadership, guidance, direction and support for all Facilities
Engineering and Environmental Safety and Health functions across the
Institute; (2) provides and/or oversees comprehensive facilities
operations, maintenance, and support functions for the offices,
laboratories, and grounds at NIOSH facilities (Cincinnati, Morgantown,
Pittsburgh, and Spokane); (3) serves as the focal point on matters of
internal security and safety including facilities security
coordination, smart card/ID card issuance and control, access to
facilities, and in/out processing; and (4) provides inventory and
property management control activities at NIOSH field locations.
Fiscal Resources Management Office (CCA64): (1) Provides
fiscal expertise and oversight to the Institute, divisions and
geographic locations across the Institute; (2) provides for sound
fiscal stewardship, and ensures compliance with Appropriation Law and
all HHS, CDC, NIOSH policies; (3) ensures the most efficient and
appropriate allocation of fiscal resources to support NIOSH's research;
and (4) handles budget planning and execution oversight, acquisition
policy and oversight, and business services oversight for travel
management, ICAP processing, P-card and travel card compliance, and
timekeeping.
Information Technology and Informatics Services Office
(CCA65): (1) Provides expertise in enterprise architecture, IT policy
and planning, data architecture and administration, IT lifecycle
management, and subject matter expertise supporting analytical software
and the NIOSH Analytical Data
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Warehouse program; (2) provides information security and resources for
NIOSH IT and data security needs across the Institute; (3) provides
management of the NIOSH technology platforms providing data,
application and analytical services to NIOSH divisions while performing
administrative security and patching functions on behalf of the NIOSH
user community; (4) provides specialized ready-to-use application
platforms, design support and subject matter expertise to NIOSH
divisions for core application platforms providing database,
analytical, visualization and web services; and (5) supports NIOSH
divisions with IT policy, business process development and project
management services including compliance requirements for the Federal
Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, the Enterprise
Performance Life Cycle, Data Governance and the National Archives and
Records Administration.
Policy, Planning, and Evaluation Office (CCA66): (1)
Provides leadership and coordination of the Institute's planning,
evaluation, legislative, committee management, and policy activities;
(2) provides technical assistance to NIOSH scientists; (3) designs and
carries out evaluation studies based on evidence-based evaluation
methodologies, and advances the ways NIOSH demonstrates the relevance
and impact of its work; (4) ensures budget formulation through the
Congressional budget and appropriations process, and coordinates
responses to requests from Congress, OMB, HHS, and others; (5)
coordinates FOIA and Privacy Act responses; (6) oversees and
coordinates project planning, strategic planning, research program
portfolio management, and program evaluation across the Institute; and
(7) provides oversight for Committee Management for NIOSH's two main
Federal Advisory Committee Act responsibilities (the Board of
Scientific Counselors and the Mine Safety and Health Research Advisory
Committee).
Physical Effects Research Branch (CCCE): (1) Provides
research capabilities for developing and establishing engineering
solutions for the control of occupational disease; (2) coordinates with
the Exposure Assessment Branch to develop engineering techniques to
solve problems in measuring and monitoring programs; (3) develops and
utilizes techniques in computerized workplace simulations and
mathematical models; (4) develops passive protective devices and
systems for preventing or minimizing worker exposure to hazardous
chemical, biological, and physical substances; and (5) develops
sophisticated personal protective equipment to provide workers with
information about their working environment.
Bioanalytics Branch (CCCH): (1) Provides experimental
design and support of laboratory-based research to address the
statistical aspects of projects in the Division and throughout the
Institute; (2) verifies the statistical quality, both in the design and
analysis phases, of all experimental research in the Institute; (3)
develops and directs the application of new statistical methods as well
as the design and analysis of field research projects for the
Institute; (4) develops computerized methods for independent research
initiatives in statistical methods to advance basic research in
experimental and observational studies; and (5) collaborates in the
design of laboratory and field research studies, providing consultation
through the course of research on computerized methods of data
collection and interpretation of results.
Chemical and Biological Monitoring Branch (CCCK): (1)
Conducts applied research and establishes the methods for the
identification and assessment of occupational exposures using
biomonitoring, industrial hygiene field- and laboratory-based
analytical methods, direct reading instruments and sensors, advanced
microscopy techniques, and aerosol science; and (2) serves as an
Institutional resource and collaborates with internal and external
partners as related to application of these areas for occupational
exposure assessment research focusing on novel and emerging issues.
Division of Science Integration (CCE): (1) Conducts
research that will lead to the prevention of occupational disease,
deaths, and injuries through the evaluation and synthesis of scientific
information, and forecasting the emergence of technologies that impact
work, how work is organized, and how to stimulate change in the work
environment; (2) researches and develops preventive outcomes so that
workers are protected from workplace hazards; (3) identifies factors
that impact the conduct of work and that are potentially harmful to
workers and the workforce; (4) develops recommendations and guidance
for safe and best practices by building on research, evaluation,
synthesis of information, and collaboration across branches and
programs; and (5) conducts studies of the most effective ways to
translate research and guidance to practice through utilization of
hazard and risk information to apprise employers, workers, and decision
makers of the extent and severity of workplace risks to be prevented
and the means to do so.
Science Applications Branch (CCEB): (1) Develops
interventions and preventive guidance to protect the workforce from
adverse effects of work and workplace hazards through the evaluation
and synthesis of scientific research; (2) conducts research to address
the range of workplace hazards in their chemical, physical, and
biological forms and conducts research on the organization of work,
which will lead to the development of guidance on various hazards and
analytical methods; and (3) prioritizes and informs guidance
development through the use of risk assessments and exposure science.
Social Science and Translation Research Branch (CCEC): (1)
Conducts research on work and non-work factors that lead to adverse
effects in workers and develops guidance to ameliorate those factors
through focusing on understanding and investigating the environment of
work; (2) conducts research on how work is organized and the
implications for health, productivity, and prevention; (3) provides
leadership via a virtual cross-Institute effort in translation research
which is the application of scientific investigative approaches to
study how the outputs of basic and applied research can be effectively
translated into practice and have an impact, including the study of how
useful knowledge and interventions are disseminated, adopted,
implemented and institutionalized; and (4) conducts research and
develops guidance on vulnerable populations including young, aging,
contingent, and immigrant workers, and small businesses.
Emerging Technologies Branch (CCEG): (1) Conducts research
and gathers information that facilitates forecasting, identifying,
evaluating, and developing guidance on potential hazards in new or
emergent technologies; (2) collaborates with other branches, divisions,
programs, and agencies that research and investigate new technologies
to identify and increase understanding of hazards as a technology
emerges and information on it as it is deployed; (3) conducts research
addressing nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing and materials,
synthetic and engineered biology, and other technologies as they
emerge; (4) manages and coordinates the Nanotechnology Research Center;
and (5) develops recommendations and guidance, utilizing Prevention
through
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Design (PtD) concepts, and leads the PtD program.
Division of Field Studies and Engineering (CCK): (1)
Conducts the legislatively mandated health hazard evaluation and
industry-wide research programs through longitudinal record-based
studies and field studies to identify the occupational causes of
disease in working populations and their offspring, and determines the
incidence and prevalence of acute and chronic effects from work-related
exposures to hazardous substances; (2) conducts exposure,
epidemiologic, and engineering research for input to standards to
control occupational health hazards; (3) plans and conducts worksite
and laboratory engineering research to identify, evaluate, develop and
implement technology to prevent workers' exposures to chemical,
biological, and physical agents; (4) plans and conducts laboratory and
worksite research to develop strategies to prevent occupational hearing
loss and musculoskeletal disorders; (5) develops and maintains data
systems, using national and state data, that track the magnitude and
extent of job-related illnesses, exposures, and hazardous agents among
the nation's workers; (6) provides support for first responders during
national emergency response activities; and (7) provides technical
assistance and consultation on matters pertaining to occupational
safety and health to other Federal, state, and local agencies, and
other groups or individuals.
Field Research Branch (CCKC): (1) Conducts and supports
etiologic and exposure assessment research studies in working
populations; (2) communicates research results to workers, scientists,
industry, and the public; (3) provides research data for the
development of health hazard controls and protective standards; and (4)
conducts research using workers' compensation data and systems to
identify hazards and improve workplace safety and health.
Health Informatics Branch (CCKD): (l) Develops, maintains,
and uses data and record systems to track the magnitude and extent of
job-related illnesses and exposures among the nation's workers using
new and existing data from sources such as Federal, State, and local
agencies, labor, industry, tumor registries, medical, laboratory, and
other records; (2) uses novel research methods to identify and develop,
or in certain instances, support the development of new sources of data
for surveillance and research purposes; (3) develops new surveillance
research methods; and (4) uses new technologies to communicate health
and exposure information to stakeholders and the public.
Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch (CCKE): (1) Plans
and conducts research on engineering control technology to prevent
worker exposures to hazards and promotes the application of effective
engineering control technologies for safeguarding worker health and
safety; (2) provides consultation in the application of effective
control solutions and techniques for hazard prevention; (3) conducts
research related to occupational hearing loss, including causative
factors, noise control, hearing protection devices, and impulse noise
to prevent occupational hearing loss for workers at risk in non-mining
sectors; (4) conducts research related to ergonomic hazards including
developing engineering controls in the laboratory and evaluating their
effectiveness in the workplace to prevent workplace musculoskeletal
disorders; and (5) conducts rapid prototype research to design and
develop control solutions to workplace exposure problems.
IV. Delegations of Authority: All delegations and redelegations of
authority made to officials and employees of affected organizational
components will continue with them or their successors pending further
redelegation, provided they are consistent with this reorganization.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3101)
Alex M. Azar II,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-07035 Filed 4-9-19; 8:45 am]
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