81 FR 66024 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 186 (September 26, 2016)

Page Range		66024-66026
FR Document		2016-23094

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), 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 ``ATSDR Communication Activities Survey (ACAS)'' which will be used to assess the effectiveness of ATSDR site team members as they engage and inform members of communities in providing effective, clear, and consistent communication and information about protecting communities from environmental hazards.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

[60Day-16-16BEH; Docket No. ATSDR-2016-0006]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), 
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 ``ATSDR 
Communication Activities Survey (ACAS)'' which will be used to assess 
the effectiveness of ATSDR site team members as they engage and inform 
members of communities in providing effective, clear, and consistent 
communication and information about protecting communities from 
environmental hazards.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before November 25, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. ATSDR-
2016-0006 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.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.

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Proposed Project

    ATSDR Communication Activities Survey (ACAS)--NEW--Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

Background and Brief Description

    The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) serves 
the public through responsive public health actions to promote healthy 
and safe environments and to prevent harmful exposures. The agency aims 
to work effectively with communities in proximity to hazardous waste 
sites by listening to and understanding their health concerns and 
seeking their guidance on where, when, and how to take public health 
actions.
    Community members are key participants in the agency's public 
health assessment process and should be actively involved in decisions 
that impact their community. Thus, agency's goals for this new 
information collection request (ICR) titled the ``ATSDR Communication 
Activities Survey (ACAS)'' are to ascertain the effectiveness of, and 
to assess the differences and the consistency of, the delivery of ATSDR 
activities and respondent perceptions across sites and over time. ATSDR 
will use the ACAS to: (1) Determine how effectively it's site teams 
engage community members; (2) discover how well ATSDR provides 
effective, clear, and consistent communication and information on how 
to promote healthy and safe environments; (3) understand whether the 
agency's activities are helping the communities address environmental 
issues; and (4) improve ATSDR's activities to make a greater impact 
within the communities served.
    Recruitment will occur at communities where ATSDR and state or 
local agencies have implemented site activities to address 
environmental issues. For each engaged community, the ACAS will be used 
to assess a set of effectiveness indicators for ATSDR site-specific 
activities about the respondents' involvement, knowledge, satisfaction, 
observations, and opinions about ATSDR's community engagement and 
educational outreach efforts to inform communities. The indicators will 
measure ATSDR effectiveness in the following respondent areas: (1) 
Their involvement with the site activities; (2) how they received, and 
prefer to receive, ATSDR information; (3) their knowledge and 
understanding of ATSDR site activities and how to reduce hazardous 
exposures; (4) their observations and opinions of ATSDR's role in 
community preparedness; (5) their self-evaluation on their risk of 
exposure to possible environmental hazards; (6) their demographic 
profile; (7) their environmental concerns; and (8) any additional 
feedback.
    ATSDR is seeking a three-year clearance for this new ICR. ATSDR 
anticipates that approximately six to seven sites will be engaged for 
feedback per year (or about 20 sites over the next three years). Each 
year, ATSDR will recruit approximately 167 individuals per year, aged 
18 and older, to participate in the ACAS where ATSDR is holding public 
community meetings. Therefore, respondents will include approximately 
24 to 28 community members and agency stakeholders per meeting (6 to 7 
meetings per year). The community members may include, but are not 
limited to, the general public, community leaders, faith-based leaders, 
and business leaders. The agency stakeholders may include, but are not 
limited to, state and local environmental health department employees, 
such as environmental health assessors, toxicologists, and departmental 
officials. The mix of respondents will be approximately 75 percent 
community members (n = 125 per year) and 25 percent agency stakeholders 
(n = 42 per year).
    Trained ATSDR contractors will have a table set up at the entrance 
of the community meeting where community meeting attendees will pick up 
a fact sheet which explains what ATSDR does, and the purpose of ATSDR's 
site activities and the survey.
    At the end of ATSDR public community meetings, there will be an 
announcement to ask interested attendees to take the survey. All 
interested attendees will sign in and provide their contact 
information, their preferred mode for taking the survey (in-person, 
online or over the phone), and whether they are a community member or 
an agency stakeholder.
    The ACAS will preferably be self-administered right after the 
public community meetings. If this is not a convenient time for the 
respondent, the ACAS may be completed online or by phone. We estimate 
that approximately 80 percent of respondents will choose the self-
administered ACAS, 15 percent will choose the online ACAS, and 5 
percent will choose the telephone ACAS.
    There are no costs to the respondents other than their time. The 
total annual time burden requested is 96 hours per year.

                                        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 hrs.)       (in hrs.)
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Community Members.............  Sign In Sheet...             125               1            3/60               7
                                Hardcopy ACAS...             100               1           30/60              50
                                Online ACAS.....              19               1           30/60              10
                                Telephone ACAS..               7               1           30/60               4
Agency Stakeholders...........  Sign In Sheet...              42               1            3/60               3
                                Hardcopy ACAS...              34               1           30/60              17
                                Online ACAS.....               7               1           30/60               4
                                Telephone ACAS..               2               1           30/60               1
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    Total.....................  ................             167  ..............  ..............              96
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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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Leroy A. Richardson, terms of points of view represented, and The Director, Management Analysis
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, the committee’s function. Appointments and Services Office, has been delegated
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the shall be made without discrimination the authority to sign Federal Register
Associate Director for Science, Office of the on the basis of age, race, ethnicity, notices pertaining to announcements of
Director, Centers for Disease Control and gender, sexual orientation, gender meetings and other committee
Prevention.
identity, HIV status, disability, and management activities, for both the CDC
[FR Doc. 2016–23094 Filed 9–23–16; 8:45 am] cultural, religious, or socioeconomic and the Agency for Toxic Substances
BILLING CODE 4163–70–P status. Nominees must be U.S. citizens, and Disease Registry.
and cannot be full-time employees of
Elaine L. Baker,
the U.S. Government. Current
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND participation on federal workgroups or Director, Management Analysis and Services
HUMAN SERVICES prior experience serving on a federal Office, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Centers for Disease Control and advisory committee does not disqualify
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Prevention a candidate; however, HHS policy is to
avoid excessive individual service on BILLING CODE 4163–18–P

Request for Nominations of advisory committees and multiple
Candidates To Serve on the Advisory committee memberships. Committee
members are Special Government DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
Council for the Elimination of HUMAN SERVICES
Tuberculosis (ACET) Employees, requiring the filing of
financial disclosure reports at the Centers for Disease Control and
The Centers for Disease Control and beginning and annually during their
Prevention (CDC) is soliciting Prevention
terms. CDC reviews potential candidates
nominations for membership on ACET. for ACET membership each year, and [30Day–16–16AMV]
The ACET consists of 10 experts in provides a slate of nominees for
fields associated with public Health, consideration to the Secretary of HHS Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
epidemiology, immunology, infectious for final selection. HHS notifies selected Reduction Act Review
diseases, pulmonary disease, pediatrics, candidates of their appointment near
tuberculosis, microbiology, or The Centers for Disease Control and
the start of the term in July 1, 2018, or Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
preventive health care delivery, who are as soon as the HHS selection process is
selected by the Secretary of the United following information collection request
completed. Note that the need for to the Office of Management and Budget
State Department of Health and Human different expertise varies from year to
Services (HHS). ACET provides advice (OMB) for review and approval in
year and a candidate who is not selected accordance with the Paperwork
and recommendations to the Secretary, in one year may be reconsidered in a
HHS; the Assistant Secretary of Health; Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
subsequent year. the proposed information collection is
and the Director, CDC, regarding Candidates should submit the
program policies, strategies, objectives, published to obtain comments from the
following items. The deadline for
and priorities; address the development public and affected agencies.
receipt of materials for the 2017 term is
and application of new technologies; Written comments and suggestions
October 31, 2016:
provide guidance and review on CDC’s • Current curriculum vitae, including from the public and affected agencies
Tuberculosis prevention research complete contact information concerning the proposed collection of
portfolio and program priorities; and (telephone numbers, mailing address, information are encouraged. Your
review the extent to which progress has email address). comments should address any of the
been made toward eliminating • At least one letter of following: (a) Evaluate whether the
tuberculosis. recommendation from person(s) not proposed collection of information is
Nominations are being sought for employed by the U.S. Department of necessary for the proper performance of
individuals who have expertise and Health and Human Services (Candidates the functions of the agency, including
qualifications necessary to contribute to may submit letter(s) from current HHS whether the information will have
the accomplishments of the committee’s employees if they wish, but at least one practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
objectives. Nominees will be selected letter must be submitted by a person not accuracy of the agencies estimate of the
based on expertise in the field of employed by an HHS agency (e.g., CDC, burden of the proposed collection of
epidemiology, immunology, infectious NIH, FDA, etc.). information, including the validity of
diseases, pulmonary disease, pediatrics, The deadline for receipts of all the methodology and assumptions used;
tuberculosis, microbiology, preventive application materials for consideration (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
health care delivery, and experts in for term beginning July 1, 2018 is due clarity of the information to be
public health. Federal employees will October 31, 2016 electronically or in collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
not be considered for membership. writing, and must be postmarked by the collection of information on those
Members may be invited to serve for October 31, 2016. who are to respond, including through
four-year terms. Regular, Express or Overnight Mail to: the use of appropriate automated,
The next cycle of selection of Margie Scott-Cseh, Committee electronic, mechanical, or other
candidates will begin in the Fall of 2016 Management Specialist, NCHHSTP, technological collection techniques or
for selection of potential nominees to CDC, 1600 Clifton Road NE., Mailstop: other forms of information technology,
replace members whose terms will end e.g., permitting electronic submission of
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on June 30, 2018. Selection of members Electronic submissions may be sent responses; and (e) Assess information
is based on candidates’ qualifications to to: zkr7@cdc.gov. collection costs.
contribute to the accomplishment of Telephone and facsimile submissions To request additional information on
ACET objectives. cannot be accepted. Nominations may the proposed project or to obtain a copy
The U. S. Department of Health and be submitted by the candidate or by the of the information collection plan and
Human Services policy stipulates that person/organization recommending the instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
committee membership be balanced in candidate. send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Written

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Action		Notice with comment period.
Dates		Written comments must be received on or before November 25, 2016.
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]
FR Citation		81 FR 66024

81 FR 66024 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 186 (September 26, 2016)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry