[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 23, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30375-30376]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-08592]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-24-24EZ]


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 (ICR) titled ``Workplan Templates for Ten Regional 
Centers to Enhance Public Health Preparedness and Response'' 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 May 19, 2023 to obtain comments 
from the public and affected agencies. CDC received one comment related 
to the previous notice. This notice serves to allow 30 days for public 
and affected agency comments on new and updated information collection 
instruments.
    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. Comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. 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

    Workplan Templates for Ten 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 supported 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 Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response that are 
equally distributed among the geographical regions of the U.S. 
(referred to as the ``network of centers'').
    This project aims to establish up to 10 centers across the 
designated Health and Human Services (HHS) regions for public health 
preparedness and response (PHPR). The goal is to improve PHPR practices 
by increasing the uptake of evidence-based strategies and interventions 
(EBSIs) that align with the needs of the communities involved. This 
will be achieved through: (1) the development of a five-year workplan 
that covers known strategies or interventions, plans to implement each 
strategy or intervention, or the development and evaluation of new 
approaches in PHPR; (2) the use of a Cooperative Agreement Work Plan 
Template to monitor performance of activities throughout the funding 
period; and (3) the use of an Evaluation Work Plan Template to support 
evaluation of implemented work plan activities.
    The Five-Year Regional Work Plan addresses: (1) focus areas and 
objectives across State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial (STLT) and 
relevant partners that would benefit from use of new or enhanced PHPR 
EBSIs; (2) activities to meet objectives; (3) prioritized EBSIs to 
implement; (4) capability and capacity of STLT health departments and 
relevant partners to implement and evaluate activities; and (5) 
regional sustainability for implementation of evidence-based practice 
beyond the five-year period. Contractors will collect information from 
the 10 HHS regional Strategic Coordinators to develop focus areas, 
objectives, or activities for individualized workplans to advance the 
implementation of EBSIs for PHPR activities.
    This proposed project also includes two additional instruments 
including: (1) an Evaluation Work Plan Template that provides 
background information needed to understand approaches in evaluating 
selected strategies or intervention activities; and (2) a Cooperative 
Agreement Work Plan Template that serves as a performance monitoring 
instrument that supports tracking of project activities throughout the 
performance period.
    OMB approval is sought for three years. The estimated annualized 
burden for this information collection is 150 hours. There is no cost 
to respondents other than their time.

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                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Type of respondents                   Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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HHS Regional Strategic Coordinators...  Office of Readiness and               10               1               5
                                         Response--Regional
                                         Centers for Public
                                         Health Preparedness and
                                         Response: Five-Year
                                         Regional Workplan
                                         Template FY2024-2030.
HHS Regional Strategic Coordinators...  Office of Readiness and               10               1               8
                                         Response--Evaluation
                                         Work Plan Template.
HHS Regional Strategic Coordinators...  Office of Readiness and               10               1               2
                                         Response--Cooperative
                                         Agreement Work Plan.
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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. 2024-08592 Filed 4-22-24; 8:45 am]
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