[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 
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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 
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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]
 BILLING CODE 4160-18-P