[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 97 (Friday, May 19, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32222-32223]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10742]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-23-23EZ; Docket No. CDC-2023-0037]


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 information 
collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This 
notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project 
titled Workplans for Regional Centers to Enhance Public Health 
Preparedness and Response. This data collection is designed to support 
regional centers' creation of a five-year workplan which addresses 
focus areas that would benefit from use of new or enhanced evidence-
based strategies (EBSI), existing and needed approaches to meet 
regional emergency preparedness and EBSI needs, proposed measures to 
ensure strategies and interventions are effectively implemented, and 
regional sustainability of evidence-based practice beyond the five-year 
workplan.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before July 18, 2023.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2023-
0037 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
    Workplans for Regional Centers to Enhance Public Health 
Preparedness and Response--New--Office of Readiness and Response (ORR), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Since 2001, CDC has supported the development, implementation, 
evaluation, translation and dissemination of research findings, 
strategies, and interventions to improve public health preparedness and 
response systems, infrastructures, processes, and practices. This 
includes the long-standing PHEP cooperative agreement, CDC's Public 
Health Crisis Response Funding, and support for applied research and 
evaluation, metrics, measures, tools, and training development.
    In 2021, with contract support, CDC's Office of Applied Research 
(OAR) initiated 12 scoping reviews, six landscape analyses, and one 
systematic review to conduct deeper dives into topics such as trust in 
public health preparedness and response, emergency communications 
strategies with people with limited English proficiency, public health 
emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR) practice in rural and 
tribal communities, and use of health equity coordinators in incident 
management. The results of these reviews show great breadth in the 
PHEPR field as it relates to knowledge available to support current 
practice and highlights the need to expand knowledge to address 
specific gaps. These needs and gaps may differ across geographical 
regions and within those regions at the state or local level. To 
address needs to increase the uptake of evidence-based interventions, 
in December 2022, through Section 2231 of the Federal appropriations 
for fiscal year 2023, CDC was directed to support not fewer than 10 
Centers for PHEPR that are equally distributed among the geographical 
regions of the U.S. (referred to as the ``network of centers''.
    The goal of this project is to conduct a needs assessment to 
enhance the PHEPR capabilities in the 10 designated Health and Human 
Services (HHS) regions by creating an optimal five-year workplan to 
implement evidence-based strategies or interventions (EBSI) in this 
space. The five-year workplan will address: (1) focus areas that would 
benefit from use of new or enhanced evidence-based strategies or 
interventions (EBSI) or interventions, particularly to increase health 
equity; (2) existing and needed approaches as well as STLT health 
departments' capacity and capability to meet regional emergency 
preparedness and EBSI needs; (3) prioritized strategies and 
interventions to implement (and develop, if needed) EBSIs over the next

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five years; (4) proposed quantitative (required) and qualitative 
(optional) measures to ensure strategies and interventions are 
effectively implemented; and (5) regional sustainability of evidence-
based practice beyond the five-year work plan. Contractors will collect 
information from the 10 HHS regional Strategic Coordinators to develop 
individualized workplans for their respective regions to increase the 
implementation of EBSIs for PHEPR activities.
    OMB approval is requested for six months. The total estimated 
annualized burden for this information collection is 80 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    Total burden
       Type of respondents             Form name       respondents   responses per  response (in    (in hours)
                                                                      respondent       hours)
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HHS Regional Strategic            Office of Applied             10               1             8              80
 Coordinators.                     Research Five-
                                   Year Regional
                                   Work Plan
                                   Development
                                   Template FY 2024-
                                   2028.
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    Total.......................  ..................  ............  ..............  ............              80
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Public Health 
Ethics and Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2023-10742 Filed 5-18-23; 8:45 am]
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