[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 139 (Monday, July 20, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43837-43838]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-15660]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-20-1215; Docket No. CDC-2020-0075]


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 ``Awardee Lead Profile Assessment 
(ALPA).'' The ICR includes a survey to collect information to identify 
jurisdictional legal frameworks governing funded childhood lead 
poisoning prevention programs in the United States, and strategies for 
implementing childhood lead poisoning prevention activities in the 
United States.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before September 18, 
2020.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2020-
0075 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection 
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton 
Road NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7118; 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:
    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.

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Proposed Project

    Awardee Lead Profile Assessment (ALPA) (OMB Control No. 0920-1215, 
Exp. 02/28/2021)--Revision--National Center for Environmental Health 
(NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is requesting 
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) clearance for a three-year revised 
information collection request (ICR) titled ``Awardee Lead Profile 
Assessment (ALPA)'' (OMB Control No. 0920-1215; expiration date of 02/
28/2021). The goal of this ICR is to build on the CDC's existing 
childhood lead poisoning prevention program. Based on program successes 
over the past three years, CDC has made ALPA an annual reporting 
requirement for ongoing and new CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention 
Programs (CLPPPs), including the FY17 ``Lead Poisoning Prevention--
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention--financed partially by Prevention 
and Public Health Funds'' (CDC-RFA-EH17-1701PPHF17); the FY18 
``Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Projects, State and Local 
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance of Blood Lead 
Levels in Children'' (CDC-RFA-EH18-1806); and the FY20 ``Childhood Lead 
Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance of Blood Lead Levels in 
Children'' (CDC-RFA-EH20-2001). This annual information collection will 
be used to (1) identify common characteristics of funded childhood lead 
poisoning prevention programs, and (2) inform guidance and resource 
development in support of the ultimate program goal, which is blood 
lead elimination in children.
    The dissemination of these ALPA results will ensure that both 
funded and non-funded jurisdictions are able to (1) identify policies 
and other factors that support or hinder childhood lead poisoning 
prevention efforts; (2) understand what strategies are being used by 
funded public health agencies to implement childhood lead poisoning 
prevention activities; and (3) use this knowledge to develop and apply 
similar strategies to support the national agenda to eliminate 
childhood lead poisoning.
    This program management information collection has been revised in 
several ways. Due to an increase in funding and program growth, CDC is 
requesting an increase in the number of respondents from 48 to a 
maximum of 61 recipients, defined as state and local governments, or 
their bona fide agents.
    CDC will continue to use two data collection modes, a web survey 
and an email survey. We anticipate that most of the respondents (n = 
60; 98 percent) will use the web survey. The estimates of the number 
and percentage of respondents by mode of data collection are based on 
previous data collections. In the past, respondents only used the email 
survey if they had technical difficulties with the web survey, which 
was rare. For this purpose, we estimate that only 2% (n = 1) of the 
respondents may need to submit an email survey. This represents a 
change in distribution from the 2018 estimates, which were initially 
assumed as 83.3% for the web survey and 16.7% for the email survey.
    A redistribution by mode of collection will not affect the total 
time burden requested as the time per response is the same for either 
mode; however, the time to take the survey has increased from seven 
minutes in 2018 to 47 minutes per response due to a revision of the 
survey. This revised time estimate per response is based on pilot tests 
of the revised survey among nine respondents, and includes the time 
needed to review the ALPA Training Manual, which is a new addition in 
this revision ICR. Thus, CDC is requesting an increase in the total 
annual time burden from six hours in 2018 to 48 hours.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
      Type of respondent            Form name       respondents    responses per   response (in        hours
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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State or Local Governments (or  ALPA Web Survey.              60               1           47/60              47
 their bona fide fiscal
 agents).
                                ALPA Email                     1               1           47/60               1
                                 Survey.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............              48
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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.
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