80 FR 79341 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 244 (December 21, 2015)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on the Management Information System for Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs data collection. CDC uses the electronic MIS to collect information about cancer prevention and control activities conducted by states, territories, and tribal organizations.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 244 (Monday, December 21, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79341-79342]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31961]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-0841; Docket No. CDC-2015-0115]


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 efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or 
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on the Management 
Information System for Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs data 
collection. CDC uses the electronic MIS to collect information about 
cancer prevention and control activities conducted by states, 
territories, and tribal organizations.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before February 19, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0115 by any of the following methods:
    Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions 
for submitting comments.
    Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, 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. All relevant comments received will be posted 
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.

    Please note: All public comment should be submitted 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 the Information Collection Review Office, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 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 OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services 
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or 
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This 
includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, 
install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of 
collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and 
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to 
train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of 
information, to search data sources, to complete and review the 
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the 
information.

Proposed Project

    Management Information System for Comprehensive Cancer Control 
Programs (OMB No. 0920-0841, exp. 3/31/2016)--Revision--National Center 
for Chronic Disease Prevention and

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Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    From 2007-2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC) provided funding to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, 
seven tribes/tribal organizations, and seven territories/U.S. Pacific 
Island Jurisdictions through the National Cancer Prevention and Control 
Program (CDC Funding Opportunity Announcement [FOA] DP07-703). New 
five-year cooperative agreements were established in June 2012 under 
FOA DP12-1205 (``Cancer Prevention and Control Program for State, 
Territorial and Tribal Organizations''). From 2012-2015, a subset of 13 
awardees received additional funding for demonstration programs to 
advance cancer control using policy, systems, and environmental change 
strategies.
    Since 2010, cancer prevention and control (CPC) awardees have used 
an electronic management information system (MIS) to submit semi-annual 
progress reports to CDC (``Management Information System for 
Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs,'' OMB No. 0920-0841, exp. 3/31/
2016). The progress reports satisfy federal reporting requirements and 
allow CDC to provide targeted technical assistance to awardees while 
monitoring their activities and progress. The MIS also provides CDC 
with the capacity to respond in a timely manner to requests for 
information from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 
Congress, and other sources.
    CDC plans to request a revision of the current MIS-based reporting 
system. Minor modifications will be made to standardize and streamline 
data entry; for example, the open-ended text boxes previously used to 
develop objectives will be replaced with a drop-down menu of evidence-
based indicators. The modifications will also make MIS entries and 
output more user-friendly for CDC staff who use the MIS to monitor and 
evaluate specific program outcomes. The search function will also be 
modified to search for these indicators.
    All 65 DP12-1205 cancer prevention and control awardees will 
continue to submit semi-annual reports to CDC through the end of the 
cooperative agreement period. These reports include information about 
personnel, resources, finances, planning, action plans, and progress. 
Information will be submitted by the program director for the state, 
territory, or tribal cancer control program. Awardees will be 
responsible for verifying their current information and entering new 
objectives and progress. To minimize respondent burden, information 
that has not changed does not need to be re-entered into the MIS. The 
estimated burden for ongoing system maintenance and semi-annual 
reporting is being reduced from three hours per response to two hours 
per response.
    CDC anticipates that DP12-1205 will be succeeded in 2017 by a new 
FOA based on similar objectives and a comparable monitoring and 
evaluation plan. The burden table includes an annualized, one-time 
allocation of two hours response per response for initial population of 
the MIS with information that is specific to the new FOA. Due to 
annualization, this activity is represented in the table as 22 awardees 
instead of 65 awardees. CDC is considering a change in the frequency of 
progress reporting, effective with the new FOA. Routine progress 
reporting is likely to occur once per year instead of twice per year.
    OMB approval will be requested for three years. The total estimated 
annualized burden for this reporting period will decrease due to a 
reduction in the estimated burden per response for semi-annual 
reporting; a reduction in the estimated burden per response for 
populating the MIS with information specific to the new FOA; and 
discontinuation of semi-annual reporting for demonstration program 
activities.
    Awardees are required to submit the requested information to CDC as 
a condition of funding. CDC will use the information submitted by 
awardees to identify training and technical assistance needs, monitor 
compliance with cooperative agreement requirements, evaluate progress 
made in achieving program-specific goals, and obtain information needed 
to respond to Congressional and other inquiries regarding program 
activities and effectiveness. All information will be collected 
electronically. There are no costs to respondents other than their 
time.

                                                            Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                             Number of      Avg. burden
              Type of respondents                               Form name                    Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                                                            respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)       (in hrs.)
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Program Director for State-, Tribal-, or         Data Elements for All CPC Programs:                  65               2               2             260
 Territorial-based Cancer Prevention and          Semi-annual Reporting.
 Control Program.
                                                 Data Elements for All CPC Programs:                  22               1               2              44
                                                  Initial MIS Population for New FOA.
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    Total......................................  .......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............             304
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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