[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51349-51350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13229]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-24-1352; Docket No. CDC-2024-0049]


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 continuing information 
collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This 
notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project 
titled Operational Readiness Review 2.0. The Operational Readiness 
Review (ORR) is a rigorous, evidence-based assessment used to evaluate 
Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) recipient's planning and 
operational functions.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before August 16, 2024.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2024-
0049 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

    Operational Readiness Review 2.0 (OMB Control No. 0920-1352, Exp. 
10/31/2024)--Extension--Office of Readiness and Response (ORR), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    To help evaluate the country's public health emergency preparedness 
and response capacity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 
Division of State and Local Readiness (DSLR) administers the Public 
Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement. The PHEP 
program is a critical source of funding for 62 state, local, and 
territorial jurisdictions, including four major metropolitan areas: 
Chicago, Los Angeles County, New York City, and Washington, DC, to 
build and strengthen their ability to respond to and recover from 
public health emergencies. The Operational Readiness Review (ORR) is a 
rigorous, evidence-based assessment used to evaluate PHEP recipients' 
planning and operational functions. The purpose of the ORR 2.0 is to 
expand measurement and evaluation to all 15 Public Health Emergency 
Preparedness and Response Capabilities (1--Community Preparedness, 2--
Community Recovery, 3--Emergency Operations Coordination, 4--Emergency 
Public Information and Warning, 5--Fatality Management, 6--Information 
Sharing, 7--Mass Care, 8--Medical Countermeasure Dispensing and 
Administration, 9--Medical Materiel Management and Distribution, 10--
Medical Surge, 11--Nonpharmaceutical Intervention, 12--Public Health 
Laboratory Testing, 13--Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological 
Investigation, 14--Responder Safety and Health, 15--Volunteer 
Management), which serve as national standards for public health 
preparedness planning.
    These capabilities serve as national standards for public health 
preparedness planning.
    The ORR 2.0 has three modules: Descriptive, Planning, and 
Operational, which will allow DSLR to analyze the data for the 
development of descriptive statistics and to monitor the progress of 
each recipient towards performance goals. The intended outcome of the 
ORR 2.0 is to assist CDC to identify strengths and challenges facing 
preparedness programs across the nation and to identify opportunities 
for improvement and further technical support.
    Information will be collected from respondents using the new ORR 
2.0 platform, and a backup paper option may be available for 
jurisdictions that require it. Information collected from respondents 
is a requirement of the PHEP Cooperative Agreement for participants to 
receive funding. CDC is requesting a three-year approval for this 
information collection. The total annualized burden hour estimate is 
3,055 burden 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    Total burden
                                                                                            respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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PHEP Recipients................................  Critical contact sheet (CCS)...........              62               1           80/60              83
PHEP Recipients................................  Jurisdictional data sheet (JDS)........              62               1          255/60             264
PHEP Recipients................................  Receive, stage, store (RSS) warehouse                62               1               4             248
                                                  (x2, primary and alternate).
PHEP Recipients................................  Partner form/spreadsheet...............              62               1               8             496
PHEP Recipients................................  Workforce development and training.....              62               1             1.5              93
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 1--Community Preparedness...              62               1               1              62
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 2--Community Recovery.......              62               1               1              62
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 3--Emergency Operations                   62               1               2             124
                                                  Coordination.
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 4--Emergency Public                       62               1             1.5              93
                                                  Information and Warning.
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 5--Fatality Management......              62               1             2.5             155
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 6--Information Sharing......              62               1               1              62
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 7--Mass Care................              62               1               2             124
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 8--Medical Countermeasure                 62               1               3             186
                                                  Dispensing and Administration.
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 9--Medical Materiel                       62               1          195/60             202
                                                  Management and Distribution.
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 10--Medical Surge...........              62               1               2             124
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 11--Nonpharmaceutical                     62               1             1.5              93
                                                  Intervention.
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 12--Public Health Laboratory              62               1             1.5              93
                                                  Testing.
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 13--Public Health                         62               1             2.5             155
                                                  Surveillance and Epidemiological
                                                  Investigation.
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 14--Responder Safety and                  62               1             1.5              93
                                                  Health.
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 15--Volunteer Management....              62               1           75/60              78
PHEP Recipients................................  Multiyear training and exercise plans                62               1               1              62
                                                  (MYTEP)--training and exercise
                                                  planning workshop.
PHEP Recipients................................  MYTEP--training and exercise planning                62               1               2             124
                                                  (annual).
PHEP Recipients................................  Capability 13--Quality improvement                   62               1           20/60              21
                                                  process.
PHEP Recipients................................  PHEP functional exercise (FE), full-                 62               1           20/60              21
                                                  scale exercise (FSE) or incident--
                                                  annual PHEP exercise.
PHEP Recipients................................  PHEP FE, FSE, or incident--annual staff              62               1             1.5              93
                                                  notification and assembly performance
                                                  measure.
Directly Funded Localities.....................  Facility setup drill...................               4               1           45/60               3
Directly Funded Localities.....................  Site activation drill..................               4               1               1               4
PHEP Recipients................................  EOC activation.........................              62               2           30/60              62
PHEP Recipients................................  PHEP FE, FSE, or incident--Five-year                 62               1           20/60              21
                                                  joint exercise.
PHEP Recipients................................  Five-year Distribution FSE OR Five-year              62               1             0.5              31
                                                  Pan-flu FSE.
                                                 Five-year Dispensing FSE...............             * 4               1             0.5               2
PHEP Recipients................................  Five-year pan flu functional exercise..              62               1           45/60              47
PHEP Recipients................................  Tabletop exercise (TTX)--Administrative              62               1           20/60              21
                                                  or fiscal preparedness.
PHEP Recipients................................  TTX--Continuity of Operations..........              62               1           20/60              21
Directly Funded Localities and Freely            Dispensing Throughput Drill............              12               1           20/60               4
 Associated States.
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    Total......................................  .......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           3,055
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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.
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