81 FR 3136 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

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

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 12 (January 20, 2016)

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 proposed revision of the information collection entitled ``Division of Community Health (DCH) Training and Technical Assistance: Needs Assessment and Satisfaction Surveys''.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 20, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3136-3138]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00940]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-1076; Docket No. CDC-2016-0009]


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 proposed 
revision of the information collection entitled ``Division of Community 
Health (DCH) Training and Technical Assistance: Needs Assessment and 
Satisfaction Surveys''.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before March 21, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0009 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

    Division of Community Health (DCH) Training and Technical 
Assistance: Needs Assessment and Satisfaction Surveys (OMB No. 0920-
1076, exp. 7/31/2017)--Revision--National Center for Chronic Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of 
Community Health (DCH), requests OMB approval to revise an ongoing 
information collection. The original information collection plan was 
based on two needs assessments conducted with DCH awardees at two 
different time points. In the proposed Revision, CDC describes plans to 
assess awardee satisfaction with the training and technical assistance 
(TA) being provided to them, in lieu of conducting the second needs 
assessment. The project title is being revised to reflect changes in 
the information collection plan. The original project title was ``DCH 
Awardee Training Needs Assessment.''
    In 2014, DCH announced the availability of funding for two 
cooperative agreement programs authorized by the Public Health Service 
Act: Partnerships for Community Health (PICH) and Racial and Ethnic 
Approaches to Community Health (REACH). The REACH cooperative agreement 
is financed in part by the Prevention and Public Health Fund of the 
Affordable Care Act. The cooperative agreements are designed to address 
chronic diseases and risk factors for chronic diseases, including 
physical inactivity, poor diet, obesity, and tobacco use. These risk 
factors contribute to chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer, 
diabetes, and obesity. Over three-year funding periods, PICH and REACH 
awardees are providing support for implementation of broad, evidence- 
and practice-based policy and environmental improvements in large and 
small cities, urban and rural areas, tribes, multi-sector community 
coalitions, and racial and ethnic communities experiencing chronic 
disease disparities. PICH and REACH awardees include a mix of state,

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local, and tribal government entities as well as organizations based in 
the private sector.
    DCH engaged contractors to provide training and TA services to PICH 
and REACH awardees on a variety of topics. ICF International provides 
training and TA on program implementation and sustainability (ICF-P), 
and also on evaluation (ICF-E); and FHI 360 provides training and TA 
related to communications (e.g., public education campaigns, social 
marketing, and using digital and social media). Services are provided 
in a variety of formats including in-person TA, phone-based TA, and in-
person and online training.
    The original information collection plan involved two needs 
assessments designed to inform the delivery of training and TA 
services. The first needs assessment was conducted in 2015 and the 
second was scheduled for fall 2016. CDC has since determined that 
program management will be better informed by an assessment of awardee 
satisfaction with the training and TA services being provided than an 
additional needs assessment. As a result, the needs assessment 
scheduled for fall 2016 will be replaced with new surveys designed to 
assess the extent to which training and TA provided through the ICF-P, 
ICF-E and FHI 360 contracts are being delivered as intended; to assess 
DCH awardees' satisfaction with the services they receive and the 
usefulness of provided services; and to inform improvement to training 
and TA services.
    The two questions guiding this assessment of training and TA are: 
(1) How satisfied are DCH awardees with the TA services they receive?; 
and (2) Do the customers of DCH, who receive TA services, consider 
these services to be beneficial to them as they develop capacity to 
move forward in implementing their community health interventions? 
Survey instruments include questions to assess the following dimensions 
of training and TA:
     Accessibility--awardees' experience with acquiring 
training and TA in the various formats (e.g., in-person, phone-based, 
Web-based);
     Usefulness--perceptions about the relevance of provided 
training and TA, and whether it provides helpful guidance for 
implementing and/or evaluating community health interventions and fits 
with the unique contexts in which awardees work;
     Utilization--whether and how awardees have actually used 
available training and TA services, or whether awardees plan to apply 
the training and TA received to their community health work.
     Quality--opinions about the clarity, organization, visible 
appeal, credibility, and user-friendliness of training and TA services; 
and
     Areas for Improvement--recommendations for enhancing the 
content, delivery and format of training and TA, suggestions for 
increasing awareness about available services, and recommendations for 
addressing training and TA gaps.
    Three web-based survey instruments have been developed to support 
revised goals. The questions on each instrument are tailored to the 
type of training or TA service provided to DCH awardees (in-person 
technical assistance, phone-based technical assistance, or in-person or 
online training). Information collection will be open for approximately 
three months in spring/summer 2016. Respondents will be a convenience 
sample of REACH and PICH awardees who receive training and TA within 
the data collection period. Based on DCH records of the training and TA 
services provided to date, CDC estimates up to 40 respondents per 
survey.
    Completion of the training and TA surveys will provide a rich set 
of information that can be used for planning purposes and to ensure 
that DCH is responsive to the training needs of awardees, is proactive 
in improving support, and provides support in the format(s) most useful 
to awardees. Findings will help DCH ensure that it provides support 
that awardees perceive to be accessible, useful, and of high quality. 
The information will be used by DCH in aggregate.
    OMB approval is requested until the current expiration date of July 
31, 2017. The revised information collection plan will result in 
reductions in the number of responses and burden hours. Participation 
is voluntary and 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
        Type of respondent              Form name       respondents   responses per   response  (in   burden (in
                                                                       respondent          hr)           hr)
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Private Sector Respondents         In-Person Technical           20               1           20/60            7
 Associated with PICH or REACH      Assistance Survey.
 Awards.
                                   Phone Technical               20               1           20/60            7
                                    Assistance Survey.
                                   In-Person/Online              20               1           20/60            7
                                    Training Survey.
State/Local/Tribal Government      In-Person Technical           20               1           20/60            7
 Sector Respondents Associated      Assistance Survey.
 with PICH or REACH Awards.
                                   Phone Technical               20               1           20/60            7
                                    Assistance Survey.
                                   In-Person/Online              20               1           20/60            7
                                    Training Survey.
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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.
[FR Doc. 2016-00940 Filed 1-19-16; 8:45 am]
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