81_FR_67546 81 FR 67356 - Fee for Using a Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher in Fiscal Year 2017

81 FR 67356 - Fee for Using a Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher in Fiscal Year 2017

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 190 (September 30, 2016)

Page Range67356-67358
FR Document2016-23623

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is announcing the fee rates for using a tropical disease priority review voucher for fiscal year (FY) 2017. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act), as amended by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), authorizes FDA to determine and collect priority review user fees for certain applications for approval of drug or biological products when those applications use a tropical disease priority review voucher awarded by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. These vouchers are awarded to the sponsors of certain tropical disease product applications, submitted after September 27, 2007, upon FDA approval of such applications. The amount of the fee submitted to FDA with applications using a tropical disease priority review voucher is determined each fiscal year based on the difference between the average cost incurred by FDA in the review of a human drug application subject to priority review in the previous fiscal year, and the average cost incurred in the review of an application that is not subject to priority review in the previous fiscal year. This notice establishes the tropical disease priority review fee rate for FY 2017.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2016-N-0007]


Fee for Using a Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher in 
Fiscal Year 2017

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is 
announcing the fee rates for using a tropical disease priority review 
voucher for fiscal year (FY) 2017. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act (the FD&C Act), as amended by the Food and Drug Administration 
Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), authorizes FDA to determine and collect 
priority review user fees for certain applications for approval of drug 
or biological products when those applications use a tropical disease 
priority review voucher awarded by the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services. These vouchers are awarded to the sponsors of certain 
tropical disease product applications, submitted after September 27, 
2007, upon FDA approval of such applications. The amount of the fee 
submitted to FDA with applications using a tropical disease priority 
review voucher is determined each fiscal year based on the difference 
between the average cost incurred by FDA in the review of a human drug 
application subject to priority review in the previous fiscal year, and 
the average cost incurred in the review of an application that is not 
subject to priority review in the previous fiscal year. This notice 
establishes the tropical disease priority review fee rate for FY 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert J. Marcarelli, Office of 
Financial Management, Food and Drug Administration, 8455 Colesville 
Rd., COLE-14202F, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-7223.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    Section 1102 of FDAAA (Pub. L. 110-85) added section 524 to the 
FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 360n). In section 524, Congress encouraged 
development of new drug and biological products for prevention and 
treatment of certain tropical diseases by offering additional 
incentives for obtaining FDA approval

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of such products. Under section 524, the sponsor of an eligible human 
drug application submitted after September 27, 2007, for a tropical 
disease (as defined in section 524(a)(3) of the FD&C Act), shall 
receive a priority review voucher upon approval of the tropical disease 
product application. The recipient of a tropical disease priority 
review voucher may either use the voucher with a future submission to 
FDA under section 505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 355(b)(1)) or 
section 351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262), or 
transfer (including by sale) the voucher to another party. The voucher 
may be transferred (including by sale) repeatedly until it ultimately 
is used for a human drug application submitted to FDA under section 
505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act or section 351(a) of the Public Health 
Service Act. A priority review is a review conducted with a 
Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of 6 months after the 
receipt or filing date, depending upon the type of application. 
Information regarding the PDUFA goals is available at: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/forindustry/userfees/prescriptiondruguserfee/ucm270412.pdf.
    The applicant that uses a priority review voucher is entitled to a 
priority review but must pay FDA a priority review user fee in addition 
to any other fee required by PDUFA. FDA published draft guidance on its 
Web site about how this tropical disease priority review voucher 
program operates (available at: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm080599.pdf).
    This notice establishes the tropical disease priority review fee 
rate for FY 2017 as $2,706,000 and outlines FDA's process for 
implementing the collection of the priority review user fees. This rate 
is effective on October 1, 2016, and will remain in effect through 
September 30, 2017, for applications submitted with a tropical disease 
priority review voucher. The payment of this priority review user fee 
is required in addition to the payment of any other fee that would 
normally apply to such an application under PDUFA before FDA will 
consider the application complete and acceptable for filing.

II. Tropical Disease Priority Review User Fee for FY 2017

    FDA interprets section 524(c)(2) of the FD&C Act as requiring that 
FDA determine the amount of the tropical disease priority review user 
fee each fiscal year based on the difference between the average cost 
incurred by FDA in the review of a human drug application subject to 
priority review in the previous fiscal year, and the average cost 
incurred by FDA in the review of a human drug application that is not 
subject to priority review in the previous fiscal year.
    A priority review is a review conducted with a PDUFA goal date of 6 
months after the receipt or filing date, depending on the type of 
application. Under the PDUFA goals letter, FDA has committed to 
reviewing and acting on 90 percent of the applications granted priority 
review status within this expedited timeframe. Normally, an application 
for a human drug or biological product will qualify for priority review 
if the product is intended to treat a serious condition and, if 
approved, would provide a significant improvement in safety or 
effectiveness. An application that does not receive a priority 
designation will receive a standard review. Under the PDUFA goals 
letter, FDA committed to reviewing and acting on 90 percent of standard 
applications within 10 months of the receipt or filing date, depending 
on the type of application. A priority review involves a more intensive 
level of effort and a higher level of resources than a standard review.
    As interpreted by FDA, section 524(c)(2) of the FD&C Act requires 
that the fee amount should be based on the difference between the 
average cost incurred by the Agency in the review of a human drug 
application subject to a priority review in the previous fiscal year, 
and the average cost incurred by FDA in the review of a human drug 
application that is not subject to priority review in the previous 
fiscal year. FDA is setting fees for FY 2017, and the previous fiscal 
year is FY 2016. However, the FY 2016 submission cohort has not been 
closed out yet, and the cost data for FY 2016 are not complete. The 
latest year for which FDA has complete cost data is FY 2015. 
Furthermore, because FDA has never tracked the cost of reviewing 
applications that get priority review as a separate cost subset, FDA 
estimated this cost based on other data that the Agency has tracked. 
FDA uses data that the Agency estimates and publishes on its Web site 
each year--standard costs for review. FDA does not publish a standard 
cost for ``the review of a human drug application subject to priority 
review in the previous fiscal year.'' However, we expect all such 
applications would contain clinical data. The standard cost application 
categories with clinical data that FDA does publish each year are: (1) 
New drug applications (NDAs) for a new molecular entity (NME) with 
clinical data and (2) biologics license applications (BLAs).
    The worksheets for standard costs for FY 2015, show a standard cost 
(rounded to the nearest thousand dollars) of $5,251,000 for a NME NDA 
and $5,055,000 for a BLA. Based on these standard costs, the total cost 
to review the 56 applications in these two categories in FY 2015 (32 
NME NDAs with clinical data and 24 BLAs) was $289,352,000. (Note: These 
numbers exclude the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief NDAs; no 
investigational new drug review costs are included in this amount.) 25 
of these applications (18 NDAs and 7 BLAs) received priority review, 
which would mean that the remaining 31 received standard reviews. 
Because a priority review compresses a review that ordinarily takes 10 
months into 6 months, FDA estimates that a multiplier of 1.67 (10 
months divided by 6 months) should be applied to non-priority review 
costs in estimating the effort and cost of a priority review as 
compared to a standard review. This multiplier is consistent with 
published research on this subject which supports a priority review 
multiplier in the range of 1.48 to 2.35 (Ref. 1). Using FY 2015 
figures, the costs of a priority and standard review are estimated 
using the following formula:

(25 [alpha] x 1.67) + (31 [alpha]) = $289,352,000

where ``[alpha]'' is the cost of a standard review and ``[alpha] times 
1.67'' is the cost of a priority review. Using this formula, the cost 
of a standard review for NME NDAs and BLAs is calculated to be 
$3,977,000 (rounded to the nearest thousand dollars) and the cost of a 
priority review for NME NDAs and BLAs is 1.67 times that amount, or 
$6,642,000 (rounded to the nearest thousand dollars). The difference 
between these two cost estimates, or $2,665,000, represents the 
incremental cost of conducting a priority review rather than a standard 
review.
    For the FY 2017 fee, FDA will need to adjust the FY 2015 
incremental cost by the average amount by which FDA's average costs 
increased in the three years prior to FY 2016, to adjust the FY 2015 
amount for cost increases in FY 2016. That adjustment, published in the 
Federal Register on July 28, 2016 (see 81 FR 49674 at 49676), setting 
FY 2017 PDUFA fees, is 1.5468 percent for the most recent year, not 
compounded. Increasing the FY 2015 incremental priority review cost of 
$2,665,000 by 1.5468 percent results in an estimated cost of $2,706,000 
(rounded to the nearest thousand dollars). This is the

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tropical disease priority review user fee amount for FY 2017 that must 
be submitted with a priority review voucher for a human drug 
application in FY 2017, in addition to any PDUFA fee that is required 
for such an application.

III. Fee Schedule for FY 2017

    The fee rate for FY 2017 is set out in Table 1:

     Table 1--Tropical Disease Priority Review Schedule for FY 2017
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                                                         Fee rate for FY
                      Fee category                             2017
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Application submitted with a tropical disease priority       $2,706,000
 review voucher in addition to the normal PDUFA fee....
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IV. Implementation of Tropical Disease Priority Review User Fee

    Under section 524(c)(4)(A) of the FD&C Act, the priority review 
user fee is due upon submission of a human drug application for which 
the priority review voucher is used. Section 524(c)(4)(B) of the FD&C 
Act specifies that the application will be considered incomplete if the 
priority review user fee and all other applicable user fees are not 
paid in accordance with FDA payment procedures. In addition, FDA may 
not grant a waiver, exemption, reduction, or refund of any fees due and 
payable under this section of the FD&C Act and FDA may not collect 
priority review voucher fees ``except to the extent provided in advance 
in appropriation Acts.'' Section 524(c)(4)(C) and 524(c)(5)(B). 
Beginning with FDA's appropriation for FY 2009, the annual 
appropriation language states specifically that ``priority review user 
fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360n (section 524 of the FD&C Act) may be 
credited to this account, to remain available until expended.'' (Pub. 
L. 111-8, Section 5, Division A, Title VI).
    The tropical disease priority review fee established in the new fee 
schedule must be paid for any application that is received on or after 
October 1, 2016, and submitted with a priority review voucher. This fee 
must be paid in addition to any other fee due under PDUFA. Payment must 
be made in U.S. currency by electronic check, check, bank draft, wire 
transfer, credit card, or U.S. postal money order payable to the order 
of the Food and Drug Administration. The preferred payment method is 
online using electronic check (Automated Clearing House (ACH) also 
known as eCheck). Secure electronic payments can be submitted using the 
User Fees Payment Portal at https://userfees.fda.gov/pay. Once you 
search for your invoice, click ``Pay Now'' to be redirected to Pay.gov. 
Note that electronic payment options are based on the balance due. 
Payments must be drawn on U.S bank accounts.
    FDA has partnered with the U.S. Department of the Treasury to use 
Pay.gov, a Web-based payment application, for online electronic 
payment. The Pay.gov feature is available on the FDA Web site after the 
user fee ID number is generated.
    The user fee identification (ID) number should be included on the 
check, followed by the words ``Tropical Disease Priority Review.'' 
Payments can be mailed to: Food and Drug Administration, P.O. Box 
979107, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000.
    If checks are sent by a courier that requests a street address, the 
courier can deliver the checks to: U.S. Bank, Attention: Government 
Lockbox 979107, 1005 Convention Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63101. (Note: This 
U.S. Bank address is for courier delivery only. If you have any 
questions concerning courier delivery contact the U.S. Bank at 314-418-
4013. This telephone number is only for questions about courier 
delivery.) The FDA post office box number (P.O. Box 979107) must be 
written on the check. The tax identification number of FDA is 53-
0196965.
    If paying by wire transfer, please reference your unique user fee 
ID number when completing your transfer. The originating financial 
institution may charge a wire transfer fee. Please ask your financial 
institution about the fee and include it with your payment to ensure 
that your fee is fully paid. The account information is as follows: 
U.S. Dept. of Treasury, TREAS NYC, 33 Liberty St., New York, NY 10045, 
Account Number: 75060099, Routing Number: 021030004, SWIFT: FRNYUS33, 
Beneficiary: FDA, 8455 Colesville Rd., 14th Floor, Silver Spring, MD 
20993-0002.
    Paying by credit card (Discover, VISA, MasterCard, American 
Express) is available for balances less than $25,000. If the balance 
exceeds this amount, only the ACH option is available. Payments must be 
drawn on U.S. credit cards.

V. Reference

    The following reference is on display in the Division of Dockets 
Management (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, 
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, and is available for viewing by 
interested persons between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

1. Ridley, D.B., H.G. Grabowski, and J.L. Moe, ``Developing Drugs 
for Developing Countries,'' Health Affairs, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 313-
324, 2006.

    Dated: September 26, 2016.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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                                                  support programs to use federally-                                 its chapter in a Caseworker’s Guide to                                   Respondents: State agencies
                                                  approved forms in intergovernmental                                Processing Cases with Foreign                                          administering a child support program
                                                  IV–D cases unless a country has                                    Reciprocating Countries.                                               under title IV–D of the Social Security
                                                  provided alternative forms as a part of                                                                                                   Act.
                                                                                                                              ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
                                                                                                                                                                                          Number of                     Average
                                                                                                                                                               Number of                   responses                    burden                Total burden
                                                                                              Instrument                                                      respondents                     per                      hours per                 hours
                                                                                                                                                                                          respondent                   response

                                                  Annex I: Transmittal form under Article 12(2) .................................................                                54                         46                           1           2,484
                                                  Annex II: Acknowledgment form under Article 12(3) .......................................                                      54                         93                          .5           2,511
                                                  Annex A: Application for Recognition and Enforcement, including restricted
                                                    information on the applicant .........................................................................                       54                        19                        .5                513
                                                  Annex A: Abstract of Decision .........................................................................                        54                         5                          1               270
                                                  Annex A: Statement of Enforceability of Decision ...........................................                                   54                        19                      0.17                174
                                                  Annex A: Statement of Proper Notice .............................................................                              54                         5                         .5               135
                                                  Annex A: Status of Application Report ............................................................                             54                        37                       .33                659
                                                  Annex B: Application for Enforcement of a Decision Made or Recognized in
                                                    the Requested State, including restricted information on the applicant ......                                                54                         19                         .5              513
                                                  Annex B: Status of Application Report, Article 12 ...........................................                                  54                         37                        .33              659
                                                  Annex C: Application for Establishment of a Decision, including restricted
                                                    information on the Applicant ........................................................................                        54                           5                        .5              135
                                                  Annex C: Status of Application Report—Article 12 .........................................                                     54                           9                       .33              160
                                                  Annex D: Application for Modification of a Decision, including Restricted In-
                                                    formation on the Applicant ...........................................................................                       54                          5                         .5              135
                                                  Annex D: Status of Application Report—Article 12 .........................................                                     54                          9                        .33              160
                                                  Annex E: Financial Circumstances Form ........................................................                                 54                         46                          2            4,968

                                                        Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours .....................................................            ........................   ........................   ........................         13,478



                                                    In compliance with the requirements                              Consideration will be given to                                         awarded by the Secretary of Health and
                                                  of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork                           comments and suggestions submitted                                     Human Services. These vouchers are
                                                  Reduction Act of 1995, the                                         within 60 days of this publication.                                    awarded to the sponsors of certain
                                                  Administration for Children and                                                                                                           tropical disease product applications,
                                                                                                                     Robert Sargis,
                                                  Families is soliciting public comment                                                                                                     submitted after September 27, 2007,
                                                  on the specific aspects of the                                     Reports Clearance Officer.                                             upon FDA approval of such
                                                  information collection described above.                            [FR Doc. 2016–23722 Filed 9–29–16; 8:45 am]                            applications. The amount of the fee
                                                  Copies of the proposed collection of                               BILLING CODE 4184–01–P                                                 submitted to FDA with applications
                                                  information can be obtained and                                                                                                           using a tropical disease priority review
                                                  comments may be forwarded by writing                                                                                                      voucher is determined each fiscal year
                                                  to the Administration for Children and                             DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND                                               based on the difference between the
                                                  Families, Office of Planning, Research                             HUMAN SERVICES                                                         average cost incurred by FDA in the
                                                  and Evaluation, 370 L’Enfant                                       Food and Drug Administration                                           review of a human drug application
                                                  Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447,                                                                                                      subject to priority review in the
                                                  Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer.                               [Docket No. FDA–2016–N–0007]                                           previous fiscal year, and the average
                                                  Email address: infocollection@                                                                                                            cost incurred in the review of an
                                                  acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be                                Fee for Using a Tropical Disease                                       application that is not subject to priority
                                                  identified by the title of the information                         Priority Review Voucher in Fiscal Year                                 review in the previous fiscal year. This
                                                  collection.                                                        2017                                                                   notice establishes the tropical disease
                                                    The Department specifically requests                             AGENCY:       Food and Drug Administration,                            priority review fee rate for FY 2017.
                                                  comments on: (a) Whether the proposed                              HHS.                                                                   FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                  collection of information is necessary                             ACTION:     Notice.                                                    Robert J. Marcarelli, Office of Financial
                                                  for the proper performance of the                                                                                                         Management, Food and Drug
                                                  functions of the agency, including                                 SUMMARY:    The Food and Drug                                          Administration, 8455 Colesville Rd.,
                                                  whether the information shall have                                 Administration (FDA or the Agency) is                                  COLE–14202F, Silver Spring, MD
                                                  practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the                         announcing the fee rates for using a                                   20993–0002, 301–796–7223.
                                                  agency’s estimate of the burden of the                             tropical disease priority review voucher                               SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                                                  proposed collection of information; (c)                            for fiscal year (FY) 2017. The Federal
                                                  the quality, utility, and clarity of the                           Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the                                      I. Background
                                                  information to be collected; and (d)                               FD&C Act), as amended by the Food and                                     Section 1102 of FDAAA (Pub. L. 110–
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                                                  ways to minimize the burden                                        Drug Administration Amendments Act                                     85) added section 524 to the FD&C Act
                                                  information to be collected; and (d)                               of 2007 (FDAAA), authorizes FDA to                                     (21 U.S.C. 360n). In section 524,
                                                  ways to minimize the burden of the                                 determine and collect priority review                                  Congress encouraged development of
                                                  collection of information on                                       user fees for certain applications for                                 new drug and biological products for
                                                  respondents, including through the use                             approval of drug or biological products                                prevention and treatment of certain
                                                  of automated collection techniques or                              when those applications use a tropical                                 tropical diseases by offering additional
                                                  other forms of information technology.                             disease priority review voucher                                        incentives for obtaining FDA approval


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                                                  of such products. Under section 524, the                FDA in the review of a human drug                     molecular entity (NME) with clinical
                                                  sponsor of an eligible human drug                       application subject to priority review in             data and (2) biologics license
                                                  application submitted after September                   the previous fiscal year, and the average             applications (BLAs).
                                                  27, 2007, for a tropical disease (as                    cost incurred by FDA in the review of                    The worksheets for standard costs for
                                                  defined in section 524(a)(3) of the FD&C                a human drug application that is not                  FY 2015, show a standard cost (rounded
                                                  Act), shall receive a priority review                   subject to priority review in the                     to the nearest thousand dollars) of
                                                  voucher upon approval of the tropical                   previous fiscal year.                                 $5,251,000 for a NME NDA and
                                                  disease product application. The                           A priority review is a review                      $5,055,000 for a BLA. Based on these
                                                  recipient of a tropical disease priority                conducted with a PDUFA goal date of 6                 standard costs, the total cost to review
                                                  review voucher may either use the                       months after the receipt or filing date,              the 56 applications in these two
                                                  voucher with a future submission to                     depending on the type of application.                 categories in FY 2015 (32 NME NDAs
                                                  FDA under section 505(b)(1) of the                      Under the PDUFA goals letter, FDA has                 with clinical data and 24 BLAs) was
                                                  FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 355(b)(1)) or                       committed to reviewing and acting on                  $289,352,000. (Note: These numbers
                                                  section 351 of the Public Health Service                90 percent of the applications granted                exclude the President’s Emergency Plan
                                                  Act (42 U.S.C. 262), or transfer                        priority review status within this                    for AIDS Relief NDAs; no
                                                  (including by sale) the voucher to                      expedited timeframe. Normally, an                     investigational new drug review costs
                                                  another party. The voucher may be                       application for a human drug or                       are included in this amount.) 25 of these
                                                  transferred (including by sale)                         biological product will qualify for                   applications (18 NDAs and 7 BLAs)
                                                  repeatedly until it ultimately is used for              priority review if the product is                     received priority review, which would
                                                  a human drug application submitted to                   intended to treat a serious condition                 mean that the remaining 31 received
                                                  FDA under section 505(b)(1) of the                      and, if approved, would provide a                     standard reviews. Because a priority
                                                  FD&C Act or section 351(a) of the Public                significant improvement in safety or                  review compresses a review that
                                                  Health Service Act. A priority review is                effectiveness. An application that does               ordinarily takes 10 months into 6
                                                  a review conducted with a Prescription                  not receive a priority designation will               months, FDA estimates that a multiplier
                                                  Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of                  receive a standard review. Under the                  of 1.67 (10 months divided by 6 months)
                                                  6 months after the receipt or filing date,              PDUFA goals letter, FDA committed to                  should be applied to non-priority
                                                  depending upon the type of application.                 reviewing and acting on 90 percent of                 review costs in estimating the effort and
                                                  Information regarding the PDUFA goals                   standard applications within 10 months                cost of a priority review as compared to
                                                  is available at: http://www.fda.gov/                    of the receipt or filing date, depending              a standard review. This multiplier is
                                                  downloads/forindustry/userfees/                         on the type of application. A priority                consistent with published research on
                                                  prescriptiondruguserfee/                                review involves a more intensive level                this subject which supports a priority
                                                  ucm270412.pdf.                                          of effort and a higher level of resources             review multiplier in the range of 1.48 to
                                                     The applicant that uses a priority                   than a standard review.                               2.35 (Ref. 1). Using FY 2015 figures, the
                                                  review voucher is entitled to a priority                   As interpreted by FDA, section                     costs of a priority and standard review
                                                  review but must pay FDA a priority                      524(c)(2) of the FD&C Act requires that               are estimated using the following
                                                  review user fee in addition to any other                the fee amount should be based on the                 formula:
                                                  fee required by PDUFA. FDA published                    difference between the average cost
                                                                                                          incurred by the Agency in the review of               (25 a × 1.67) + (31 a) = $289,352,000
                                                  draft guidance on its Web site about
                                                  how this tropical disease priority review               a human drug application subject to a                 where ‘‘a’’ is the cost of a standard
                                                  voucher program operates (available at:                 priority review in the previous fiscal                review and ‘‘a times 1.67’’ is the cost of
                                                  http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/                     year, and the average cost incurred by                a priority review. Using this formula,
                                                  GuidanceComplianceRegulatory                            FDA in the review of a human drug                     the cost of a standard review for NME
                                                  Information/Guidances/                                  application that is not subject to priority           NDAs and BLAs is calculated to be
                                                  ucm080599.pdf).                                         review in the previous fiscal year. FDA               $3,977,000 (rounded to the nearest
                                                     This notice establishes the tropical                 is setting fees for FY 2017, and the                  thousand dollars) and the cost of a
                                                  disease priority review fee rate for FY                 previous fiscal year is FY 2016.                      priority review for NME NDAs and
                                                  2017 as $2,706,000 and outlines FDA’s                   However, the FY 2016 submission                       BLAs is 1.67 times that amount, or
                                                  process for implementing the collection                 cohort has not been closed out yet, and               $6,642,000 (rounded to the nearest
                                                  of the priority review user fees. This rate             the cost data for FY 2016 are not                     thousand dollars). The difference
                                                  is effective on October 1, 2016, and will               complete. The latest year for which FDA               between these two cost estimates, or
                                                  remain in effect through September 30,                  has complete cost data is FY 2015.                    $2,665,000, represents the incremental
                                                  2017, for applications submitted with a                 Furthermore, because FDA has never                    cost of conducting a priority review
                                                  tropical disease priority review voucher.               tracked the cost of reviewing                         rather than a standard review.
                                                  The payment of this priority review user                applications that get priority review as                 For the FY 2017 fee, FDA will need
                                                  fee is required in addition to the                      a separate cost subset, FDA estimated                 to adjust the FY 2015 incremental cost
                                                  payment of any other fee that would                     this cost based on other data that the                by the average amount by which FDA’s
                                                  normally apply to such an application                   Agency has tracked. FDA uses data that                average costs increased in the three
                                                  under PDUFA before FDA will consider                    the Agency estimates and publishes on                 years prior to FY 2016, to adjust the FY
                                                  the application complete and acceptable                 its Web site each year—standard costs                 2015 amount for cost increases in FY
                                                  for filing.                                             for review. FDA does not publish a                    2016. That adjustment, published in the
                                                                                                          standard cost for ‘‘the review of a                   Federal Register on July 28, 2016 (see
                                                  II. Tropical Disease Priority Review                    human drug application subject to                     81 FR 49674 at 49676), setting FY 2017
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                                                  User Fee for FY 2017                                    priority review in the previous fiscal                PDUFA fees, is 1.5468 percent for the
                                                     FDA interprets section 524(c)(2) of the              year.’’ However, we expect all such                   most recent year, not compounded.
                                                  FD&C Act as requiring that FDA                          applications would contain clinical                   Increasing the FY 2015 incremental
                                                  determine the amount of the tropical                    data. The standard cost application                   priority review cost of $2,665,000 by
                                                  disease priority review user fee each                   categories with clinical data that FDA                1.5468 percent results in an estimated
                                                  fiscal year based on the difference                     does publish each year are: (1) New                   cost of $2,706,000 (rounded to the
                                                  between the average cost incurred by                    drug applications (NDAs) for a new                    nearest thousand dollars). This is the


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                                                  67358                       Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 190 / Friday, September 30, 2016 / Notices

                                                  tropical disease priority review user fee               User Fees Payment Portal at https://                  1. Ridley, D.B., H.G. Grabowski, and J.L. Moe,
                                                  amount for FY 2017 that must be                         userfees.fda.gov/pay. Once you search                      ‘‘Developing Drugs for Developing
                                                  submitted with a priority review                        for your invoice, click ‘‘Pay Now’’ to be                  Countries,’’ Health Affairs, vol. 25, no. 2,
                                                                                                                                                                     pp. 313–324, 2006.
                                                  voucher for a human drug application in                 redirected to Pay.gov. Note that
                                                  FY 2017, in addition to any PDUFA fee                   electronic payment options are based on                 Dated: September 26, 2016.
                                                  that is required for such an application.               the balance due. Payments must be                     Leslie Kux,
                                                                                                          drawn on U.S bank accounts.                           Associate Commissioner for Policy.
                                                  III. Fee Schedule for FY 2017                              FDA has partnered with the U.S.                    [FR Doc. 2016–23623 Filed 9–29–16; 8:45 am]
                                                     The fee rate for FY 2017 is set out in               Department of the Treasury to use                     BILLING CODE 4164–01–P
                                                  Table 1:                                                Pay.gov, a Web-based payment
                                                                                                          application, for online electronic
                                                     TABLE    1—TROPICAL DISEASE PRI-                     payment. The Pay.gov feature is                       DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                                                     ORITY    REVIEW SCHEDULE FOR FY                      available on the FDA Web site after the               HUMAN SERVICES
                                                     2017                                                 user fee ID number is generated.
                                                                                                             The user fee identification (ID)                   Food and Drug Administration
                                                                                        Fee rate for      number should be included on the
                                                           Fee category                                                                                         [Docket No. FDA–2016–N–2836]
                                                                                         FY 2017          check, followed by the words ‘‘Tropical
                                                                                                          Disease Priority Review.’’ Payments can               Agency Information Collection
                                                  Application submitted with a                            be mailed to: Food and Drug
                                                    tropical disease priority re-                                                                               Activities; Proposed Collection;
                                                    view voucher in addition to
                                                                                                          Administration, P.O. Box 979107, St.                  Comment Request; Donor Risk
                                                    the normal PDUFA fee .....          $2,706,000        Louis, MO 63197–9000.                                 Assessment Questionnaire for the
                                                                                                             If checks are sent by a courier that               Food and Drug Administration/National
                                                                                                          requests a street address, the courier can            Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-
                                                  IV. Implementation of Tropical Disease
                                                                                                          deliver the checks to: U.S. Bank,                     Sponsored Transfusion-Transmissible
                                                  Priority Review User Fee
                                                                                                          Attention: Government Lockbox 979107,                 Infections Monitoring System—Risk
                                                     Under section 524(c)(4)(A) of the                    1005 Convention Plaza, St. Louis, MO
                                                  FD&C Act, the priority review user fee                                                                        Factor Elicitation
                                                                                                          63101. (Note: This U.S. Bank address is
                                                  is due upon submission of a human                       for courier delivery only. If you have                AGENCY:    Food and Drug Administration,
                                                  drug application for which the priority                 any questions concerning courier                      HHS.
                                                  review voucher is used. Section                         delivery contact the U.S. Bank at 314–                ACTION:   Notice.
                                                  524(c)(4)(B) of the FD&C Act specifies                  418–4013. This telephone number is
                                                  that the application will be considered                 only for questions about courier                      SUMMARY:   The Food and Drug
                                                  incomplete if the priority review user                  delivery.) The FDA post office box                    Administration (FDA) is announcing an
                                                  fee and all other applicable user fees are              number (P.O. Box 979107) must be                      opportunity for public comment on the
                                                  not paid in accordance with FDA                         written on the check. The tax                         proposed collection of certain
                                                  payment procedures. In addition, FDA                    identification number of FDA is 53–                   information by the Agency. Under the
                                                  may not grant a waiver, exemption,                      0196965.                                              Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the
                                                  reduction, or refund of any fees due and                   If paying by wire transfer, please                 PRA), Federal Agencies are required to
                                                  payable under this section of the FD&C                  reference your unique user fee ID                     publish notice in the Federal Register
                                                  Act and FDA may not collect priority                    number when completing your transfer.                 concerning each proposed collection of
                                                  review voucher fees ‘‘except to the                     The originating financial institution                 information and to allow 60 days for
                                                  extent provided in advance in                           may charge a wire transfer fee. Please                public comment in response to the
                                                  appropriation Acts.’’ Section                           ask your financial institution about the              notice. This notice solicits comments on
                                                  524(c)(4)(C) and 524(c)(5)(B). Beginning                fee and include it with your payment to               an information collection request
                                                  with FDA’s appropriation for FY 2009,                   ensure that your fee is fully paid. The               regarding risk factors associated with
                                                  the annual appropriation language states                account information is as follows: U.S.               transfusion-transmissible infections
                                                  specifically that ‘‘priority review user                Dept. of Treasury, TREAS NYC, 33                      (TTI) in blood donors.
                                                  fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360n                       Liberty St., New York, NY 10045,                      DATES: Submit either electronic or
                                                  (section 524 of the FD&C Act) may be                    Account Number: 75060099, Routing                     written comments on the collection of
                                                  credited to this account, to remain                     Number: 021030004, SWIFT:                             information by November 29, 2016.
                                                  available until expended.’’ (Pub. L. 111–               FRNYUS33, Beneficiary: FDA, 8455                      ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
                                                  8, Section 5, Division A, Title VI).                    Colesville Rd., 14th Floor, Silver Spring,            as follows:
                                                     The tropical disease priority review                 MD 20993–0002.
                                                  fee established in the new fee schedule                    Paying by credit card (Discover, VISA,             Electronic Submissions
                                                  must be paid for any application that is                MasterCard, American Express) is                        Submit electronic comments in the
                                                  received on or after October 1, 2016, and               available for balances less than $25,000.             following way:
                                                  submitted with a priority review                        If the balance exceeds this amount, only                • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
                                                  voucher. This fee must be paid in                       the ACH option is available. Payments                 www.regulations.gov. Follow the
                                                  addition to any other fee due under                     must be drawn on U.S. credit cards.                   instructions for submitting comments.
                                                  PDUFA. Payment must be made in U.S.                                                                           Comments submitted electronically,
                                                  currency by electronic check, check,                    V. Reference                                          including attachments, to http://
                                                  bank draft, wire transfer, credit card, or                The following reference is on display               www.regulations.gov will be posted to
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                                                  U.S. postal money order payable to the                  in the Division of Dockets Management                 the docket unchanged. Because your
                                                  order of the Food and Drug                              (HFA–305), Food and Drug                              comment will be made public, you are
                                                  Administration. The preferred payment                   Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm.                solely responsible for ensuring that your
                                                  method is online using electronic check                 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, and is                     comment does not include any
                                                  (Automated Clearing House (ACH) also                    available for viewing by interested                   confidential information that you or a
                                                  known as eCheck). Secure electronic                     persons between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.,                    third party may not wish to be posted,
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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
ContactRobert J. Marcarelli, Office of Financial Management, Food and Drug Administration, 8455 Colesville Rd., COLE-14202F, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-7223.
FR Citation81 FR 67356 

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