[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 13, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40066-40067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17285]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30-Day-19-19IJ]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted the information 
collection request titled ``The Performance Measures Project: Improving 
Performance Measurement and Monitoring by CDC Programs'' to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. CDC previously 
published a ``Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations'' notice on February 7, 2019 to obtain comments from 
the public and affected agencies. CDC received one non-substantive 
comment related to the previous notice. This notice serves to allow an 
additional 30 days for public and affected agency comments.
    CDC will accept all comments for this proposed information 
collection project. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly 
interested in comments that:
    (a) 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;
    (b) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected;
    (d) 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 submission of responses; and
    (e) Assess information collection costs.
    To request additional information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call 
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Direct written comments 
and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice to the 
Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th 
Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Provide 
written comments within 30 days of notice publication.

Proposed Project

    The Performance Measures Project: Improving Performance Measurement 
and Monitoring by CDC Programs--New--Program Performance and Evaluation 
Office (PPEO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Each year, approximately 75% of the CDC's congressionally 
appropriated funding goes to extramural organizations, including state 
and local partners, via contracts, grants, and, most commonly, 
cooperative agreements. A cooperative agreement is an award mechanism 
used when there will be substantial Federal programmatic involvement, 
meaning that the CDC program staff will collaborate or participate in 
project or program activities. These funds are distributed from the 
Office of Grant Services to partners throughout the world to promote 
health, prevent disease, injury and disability and prepare for new 
health threats. The availability of funding for cooperative agreements 
is announced through a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). CDC awards 
approximately 65 new domestic, non-research NOFOs each year (each 
funded

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for one to five years). Cooperative agreements may have only a few 
funded recipients or more than 50 (such as when a CDC program provides 
funding to all states and territories).
    To monitor the performance of recipients and CDC programs toward 
achieving outcomes specified by cooperative agreements, CDC currently 
uses the PPMR (OMB Control Number- 0920-1132, Expiration Date: 08/31/
2019), a progress report form adapted from an information collection 
owned by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). This tool 
may be used to collect information periodically from recipients of CDC 
funds regarding the progress made on CDC funded projects.
    The Performance Measures Project will work with up to 25 CDC 
programs developing cooperative agreements to address the challenges 
they face with performance planning, measurement and monitoring. Each 
cooperative agreement will provide funding to an average of 35 local 
entities, for a total of up to 875 locally funded entities.
    Through participation in this Project, CDC programs and recipients 
of cooperative agreement funds will: (1) Develop strong performance 
measurement systems and practices; (2) define and operationalize 
priority performance measures tailored to a specific cooperative 
agreement; and (3) establish common data collection and reporting 
expectations across all recipients for a specific cooperative 
agreement. The Project focuses on addressing these issues during the 
early stages of cooperative agreement development and implementation.
    The Project proposes a generic clearance adapted from a previously 
approved generic clearance (OMB Control Number: 0970-0490, Expiration 
Date 1/31/2020) owned by ACF. This ACF generic clearance replaces the 
information collection that is the basis of CDC's current PPMR. Project 
participants will customize sample information collections to meet 
program-specific needs. The information collected will enable the 
accurate, reliable, uniform and timely submission to CDC of each 
recipient's progress and performance measures.
    The information collected by the generic information collection is 
designed to align with, and support the goals outlined for each of the 
CDC recipients. Collection and reporting of the information will occur 
in an efficient, standardized, and user-friendly manner that will 
generate a variety of routine and customizable reports. The generic 
information collection will allow each recipient to summarize 
activities and progress towards meeting performance measures and goals 
over a specified time period specific to each award. CDC will also have 
the capacity to generate reports that describe activities across 
multiple recipients. In addition, CDC will use the information 
collected to respond to inquiries from HHS, Congress and other 
stakeholder inquiries about program activities and their impact. CDC 
requests OMB approval for three years. The total estimated burden is 
35,000 hours. There is no cost to respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
        Type of respondents                   Form name             respondents    responses per   response  (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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CDC Award Recipients...............  (A) Performance Measures                875               1              40
                                      Project Sample Performance
                                      Measure Technical
                                      Specification Instrument.
                                     (B) Performance Measures
                                      project Sample Performance
                                      Measure Reporting
                                      Instrument.
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2019-17285 Filed 8-12-19; 8:45 am]
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