[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 141 (Monday, July 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44121-44122]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15767]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-22-1282; Docket No. CDC-2022-0092]


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 Improving Performance Measurement 
and Monitoring by CDC Programs: The Performance Measures Project. CDC 
is requesting approval for a revision to the previously approved 
project to work with selected CDC programs to provide tools, templates 
and technical assistance to develop and implement performance measures 
for CDC funded public health initiatives.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before September 23, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2022-
0092 by either of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.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 H21-8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and Docket Number. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments 
to www.regulations.gov.
    Please note: Submit all comments through the Federal eRulemaking 
portal (www.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 H21-8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; Telephone: 404-639-7570; 
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

    Improving Performance Measurement and Monitoring by CDC Programs: 
The Performance Measures Project (OMB Control No. 0920-1282, Exp. 01/
31/2023)--Revision--Office of the Associate Director for Policy and 
Strategy (OADPS), 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. The

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availability of funding for grants and cooperative agreements is 
announced through a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). CDC awards up 
to 100 new, non-research NOFOs each year (each funded for one to five 
years). These awards may have only a few funded recipients or more than 
50 (such as when a CDC program provides funding to all states and 
territories).
    CDC programs develop logic models for each NOFO, describing the key 
programmatic strategies and activities and the short/medium/long-term 
outcomes funded recipients are expected to achieve during their period 
of performance. Programs develop performance measures customized to a 
NOFO-specific public health initiative to assess actions prescribed by 
the logic model with the immediate goal of monitoring progress and the 
long-term goal of improving performance.
    Monitoring and reporting of program performance is required of any 
non-federal entity receiving federal funds under 45 CFR 75.342 which 
states; ``the non-Federal entity must monitor its activities under 
Federal awards to assure compliance with applicable Federal 
requirements and performance expectations are being achieved''. Under 
this requested approval, CDC programs customize a sample ``Performance 
Measure Technical Specification Instrument'' and a sample ``Performance 
Measure Reporting Instrument'' to measure, at the local level, the 
desired public health outcomes of a particular public health 
initiative, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). 
Individual collection requests submitted under this Generic approval 
will include the tailored forms and a supplementary template. CDC 
programs developing new, non-research NOFOs are eligible to 
participate.
    Currently three CDC programs have received OMB approval to collect 
performance measure data using the 0920-1282 Generic Information 
Collection. Two additional programs are in final CDC clearance for 
submitting their Generic ICR (GenIC) requests and three programs are 
actively developing applications. As CDC programs begin to normalize 
operations following the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous other CDC programs 
have showed strong interest in participating in the Performance 
Measures Project (PMP) when: (1) they develop new NOFOs or; (2) 
transition current performance measure data collection from the HHS 
Public Health Emergency (PHE) PRA waiver for Coronavirus Disease 2019 
[COVID-19] to the PMP GenIC for ongoing performance data collection. 
This revision is requested to allow participating CDC programs to 
continue performance measure data collection through the remaining 
approval period and for additional programs to use the GenIC for future 
performance measure data collection.
    This revision reflects expanded technical assistance that the 
Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO) provides to CDC 
programs. CDC program eligibility to participate in PMP will be 
expanded as follows:
    (1) Given the recent increase in grants and other funding 
mechanisms used at CDC to enhance programmatic flexibility, PMP 
eligibility will expand to include all available funding mechanisms for 
eligible programs.
    (2) PPEO is providing increasing technical assistance to 
international programs. Eligibility will expand to include both 
domestic and international programs.
    (3) Many CDC programs are operating under the 21st Century Cures 
Act PHE PRA COVID-19 Emergency Waiver. This PHE PRA Waiver is likely to 
be terminated in 2022. PMP will prioritize transitioning CDC program 
performance measure data collection from the PHE PRA Waiver to PMP.
    (4) Some CDC programs are developing common performance metrics 
across multiple public health initiatives. PMP will prioritize cross-
NOFO collaboration with these programs to increase efficiency.
    (5) As programs transition back to normal function after the COVID-
19 pandemic, there has been increased interest in PMP. The revision 
will increase the number of programs that may participate from 25 
Programs to 40, resulting in an increase of estimated annual burden 
hours from 35,000 to 56,000.
    CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 56,000 annual burden 
hours. Participation of respondents is voluntary. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
      Type of respondents           Form name       respondents    responses per   response (in     (in hours)
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Recipients of CDC funds for     Performance                 1400               1              40          56,000
 public health initiatives.      Measures
                                 Project
                                 Information
                                 Collection Tool.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............          56,000
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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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