[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 125 (Friday, July 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35297-35298]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14224]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-21-21GB; Docket No. CDC-2021-0062]


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 Performance Monitoring of CDC's 
Core State Injury Prevention Program. The proposed study is designed to 
collect performance monitoring data, via a web-based tool, from 
recipients funded under the Core State Injury Prevention Program 
cooperative agreement (Core SIPP).

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before August 31, 2021.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2021-
0062 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;
    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; and
    5. Assess information collection costs.

Proposed Project

    Performance Monitoring of CDC's Core State Injury Prevention 
Program--New--National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 
(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seeks Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to electronically collect 
performance monitoring data, via a web-based Partners' Portal, from 
recipients funded under the Core State Injury Prevention Program 
cooperative agreement, hereafter known as Core SIPP. OMB approval is 
requested for three years. The electronic collection of information for 
program and performance monitoring aligns with three of CDC's Data 
Modernization Initiative Key Objectives to:
     Develop and implement cloud-based approaches for 
automating data collection and supporting multi-directional data flows 
among STLT partners and CDC.
     Reduce burden for data providers and public health 
agencies.
     Ensure systems and services are scalable, interoperable, 
and adaptable to meet evolving needs.
    Recipients will report progress and activity information to CDC on 
an annual schedule using a web-based Partners' Portal.
    Information to be collected will provide crucial data for program 
performance monitoring and provide CDC with the capacity to respond in 
a timely manner to requests for information about the program from the 
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the White House, 
Congress, and other sources. Information to be collected will also 
strengthen CDC's ability to monitor awardee progress, provide data-
driven technical assistance, and disseminate the most current 
surveillance data on unintentional and intentional injuries.
    Monitoring the impact of population-based strategies and 
identifying new insights and innovative solutions to health problems 
are two of the noted public health activities that all public health 
systems should undertake. For NCIPC, these objectives cannot be 
satisfied without the systematic collection of data and information 
from state health departments. The information collection will enable 
the accurate, reliable, uniform and timely submission to NCIPC of each 
awardee's progress report and injury indicators, including strategies 
and performance measures. The information collection plan proposed here 
will also generate a variety of routine and customizable reports. 
State-specific reports will allow each awardee to summarize activities 
and progress towards meeting strategies and performance measure targets 
related to the reduction and prevention of unintentional and 
intentional injuries. NCIPC will also have the capacity to generate 
reports that describe activities and health outcomes across multiple 
recipients, which will enable better reporting of trends and provision 
of technical assistance through linking

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partners across state health departments and collaborating divisions 
within CDC.
    The information collection and reporting requirements have been 
carefully designed to align with, and support the specific goals and 
outcomes outlined in the Core SIPP cooperative agreement. The 
overarching goal of Core SIPP is to strengthen the awardee's injury 
prevention programs and policies and demonstrate impact in the 
reduction of injury-related morbidity and mortality. Although the data 
are limited to the 23 recipients of the Core SIPP NOFO, the results can 
be generalizable and inform injury prevention work. Moreover, it is 
asserted that the results of the data collection are vital to ensuring 
the Core SIPPs efficient management. Results will not only allow NCIPC 
staff to provide data-driven technical assistance to recipients, but 
also to assess patterns across other NCIPC injury prevention programs 
such as, Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention for States and the 
Injury Control Research Centers. In addition, the data collection will 
inform the continuous quality improvement process and allow NCIPC staff 
to make mid-course corrections and describe the impact on health 
outcomes.
    The information collection procedures will also allow NCIPC to 
respond to inquiries from the HHS, the White House, Congress and other 
stakeholders about program activities and their impact; as well as, 
work towards CDCs overarching mission to protect America from health, 
safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. NCIPC will 
use the information collected in the Partners' Portal to perform 
program activities to accomplish the following objectives:
     Monitor each awardee's progress and identify facilitators 
and barriers to program implementation and achievement of outcomes. 
Monitoring allows NCIPC to determine whether an awardee is meeting 
performance goals, to inform awardee continuous quality improvements, 
and to inform the type of intensity of CDC-provided technical 
assistance to support attainment of their performance measures.
     Identify trends in injury surveillance data to inform 
state foci for prevention and intervention strategies as well as the 
production of relevant reports, journal articles, and resources for 
state health departments.
     Identify, translate, and disseminate information about 
successful injury prevention and control strategies implemented by 
recipients through the development of journal articles, tools, 
templates, and other injury prevention resources/products.
    Program recipients will use the information collected to manage and 
coordinate their activities and to improve their efforts to prevent and 
control injuries. The Partners' Portal allows recipients to fulfill 
their annual reporting obligations efficiently by employing user-
friendly, easily accessible web-based instruments to collect necessary 
information for both progress reports and continuation applications 
including work plans. This approach enables recipients to save 
pertinent information from one reporting period to the next and reduces 
the administrative burden on the annual continuation application and 
the performance monitoring process. Awardee program staff are able to 
review the completeness of data needed to generate required reports, 
enter basic summary data for reports annually, and finalize and save 
required reports for upload into other reporting systems as required.

                                        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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Core SIPP Program Recipients..  Annual Progress               23               1              11             253
                                 Report.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             253
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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. 2021-14224 Filed 7-1-21; 8:45 am]
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