82 FR 1339 - Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

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

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 3 (January 5, 2017)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies 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 National Program of Cancer Registries Program Evaluation Instrument.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 3 (Thursday, January 5, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1339-1340]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-31991]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-17-0706; Docket No. CDC-2016-0128]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 
of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, invites the general public and other 
Federal agencies 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 National Program 
of Cancer Registries Program Evaluation Instrument.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before March 6, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0128 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.

Proposed Project

    National Program of Cancer Registries Program Evaluation Instrument 
(NPCR- PEI), (OMB Control Number 0920-0706,

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expired 05/31/2016)--Reinstatement with Change--National Center for 
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    CDC is responsible for administering and monitoring the National 
Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR). The NPCR provides technical 
assistance and funding and sets program standards to assure that 
complete local, state, regional, and national cancer incidence data are 
available for national and state cancer control and prevention 
activities and health planning activities.
    The Program Evaluation Instrument has been used for 24 years to 
monitor the performance of NPCR grantees in meeting the required 
Program Standards. In 2009, the frequency of the data collection was 
reduced from annual to a biennial schedule in odd-numbered years.
    CDC currently supports 48 population-based central cancer 
registries (CCR) in 45 states, one territory, the District of Columbia, 
and the Pacific Islands. The National Cancer Institute supports the 
operations of CCRs in the five remaining states.
    A new FOA (DP17-1701) will be released during the first quarter of 
2017 and a new project period will begin July 1, 2017. DP17-1701 will 
allow State health departments or their Bona Fide Agents, and U.S. 
territories that have not received NPCR funding previously to apply. 
DP17-1701 NPCR eligibility will include the 48 awardees funded under 
the DP12-1205 FOA and potentially 6 additional State health departments 
or their Bona Fide Agents, and a combination of U.S. territories as in 
DP12-1205.
    The NPCR is open to the possibility of funding the territories 
individually in the DP17-1701 FOA. While Pacific Island Jurisdiction 
(PIJ) is funded under one award in DP12-105, they will have the 
opportunity to apply as one, individually, or a combination of 
individual and joint applications.
    States that were solely funded by Surveillance, Epidemiology, and 
End Result (SEER) in previous years can easily respond to the questions 
in the survey. The information being requested in the NPCR-PEI are 
either already collected by or are readily available to all CCRs. Thus, 
the only burden on the CCRs involves the time it takes to enter 
responses on the web-based NPCR-PEI every other year.
    Minor changes to the Program Evaluation Instrument (NPCR-PEI) 
include removing questions determined to be outdated or inappropriate 
for this survey, rewording questions for clarity and consolidating a 
few questions. In addition, questions that showed 100% compliance in 
2015 were deleted.
    The NCPR-PEI includes questions about the following categories of 
registry operations: (1) Staffing, (2) legislation, (3) administration, 
(4) reporting completeness, (5) data exchange, (6) data content and 
format, (7) data quality assurance, (8) data use, (9) collaborative 
relationships, (10) advanced activities, and (11) survey feedback.
    Examples of information that can be obtained from various questions 
include, but are not limited to: (1) Number of filled staff full-time 
positions by position responsibility, (2) revision to cancer reporting 
legislation, (3) various data quality control activities, (4) data 
collection activities as they relate to achieving NPCR program 
standards for data completeness, and (5) whether registry data is being 
used for comprehensive cancer control programs, needs assessment/
program planning, clinical studies, or incidence and mortality 
estimates.
    The NPCR-PEI is needed to receive, process, evaluate, aggregate, 
and disseminate NPCR program information. The information is used by 
CDC and the NPCR-funded registries to monitor progress toward meeting 
established program standards, goals, and objectives; to evaluate 
various attributes of the registries funded by NPCR; and to respond to 
data inquiries made by CDC and other agencies of the federal 
government.
    CDC intends to seek a three-year OMB-approval to collect 
information in the winter of 2017 and 2019. There are no costs to 
respondents except their time. The estimated annualized burden hours 
are summarized in the table below.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden
      Type of respondents           Form name       respondents    responses per   response (in      (in hrs.)
                                                                    respondent         hrs.)
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NPCR Awardees.................  PEI.............            39.5               1               2              79
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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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