82 FR 19375 - 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 80 (April 27, 2017)

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 information collection project titled ``Awardee Lead Profile Assessment (ALPA).'' The information collection project includes a questionnaire to collect information to identify jurisdictional legal frameworks governing funded childhood lead poisoning prevention programs in the United States, and strategies for implementing childhood lead poisoning prevention activities in the United States.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 80 (Thursday, April 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19375-19376]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-17-17ADS; Docket No. CDC-2017-0045]


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 
information collection project titled ``Awardee Lead Profile Assessment 
(ALPA).'' The information collection project includes a questionnaire 
to collect information to identify jurisdictional legal frameworks 
governing funded childhood lead poisoning prevention programs in the 
United States, and strategies for implementing childhood lead poisoning 
prevention activities in the United States.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before June 26, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0045 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 Leroy A. Richardson, of 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

    Awardee Lead Profile Assessment (ALPA)--NEW--National Center for 
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is requesting 
a three-year clearance for a new information collection project titled 
``Awardee Lead Profile Assessment (ALPA).'' The goal of this project is 
to build on an existing childhood lead poisoning prevention program. 
CDC will obtain program management information from participating state 
and local governments that are awardees under the CDC Healthy Homes and 
Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (HHLPPP) FY17 Funding Opportunity 
Announcement (FOA No. CDC-RFA-EH17-1701PPHF17). This annual information 
collection will be used: (1) To identify common characteristics of 
funded childhood lead poisoning prevention programs; and (2) inform 
guidance and resource development in support of the ultimate program 
goal, which is blood lead elimination in children.
    The dissemination of these ALPA results will ensure that both 
funded and non-funded jurisdictions are able to: (1) Identify policies 
and other factors that support or hinder childhood lead poisoning 
prevention efforts; (2) understand what strategies are being used by 
funded public health agencies to implement childhood lead poisoning 
prevention activities; and (3) use this knowledge to develop and apply 
similar strategies to support the national agenda to eliminate 
childhood lead poisoning.
    This program management information will be collected annually from 
45 awardees, using two data collection modes. We anticipate that the 
majority, 40 respondents, will choose the Web survey due to the ease of 
use, and that 5 respondents will choose the MSWord format mode.
    We estimate the time burden to be the same, 7 minutes per response, 
regardless of data collection mode (Web survey or Word format). This 
estimate is based on a 2015 survey among 35 former awardees titled 
``Baseline Profile of State and Local Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning 
Prevention Programs (PROF-LEAD),'' approved under the generic clearance 
for ``Information Collections to Advance State, Tribal, Local, and 
Territorial (STLT) Governmental Health'' (OMB Control No. 0920-0879; 
expiration date 03/31/2018). Due to its success, the PROF-

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LEAD questionnaire is now proposed as an annual reporting requirement 
for awardees under the FY17 FOA, as the ALPA questionnaire.
    There is no cost to the respondents other than their time. The 
total annual time burden requested is six hours.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total  burden
      Type of respondent            Form name       respondents    responses per   response  (in       hours
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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State And Local Governments     Awardee Lead                  40               1            7/60               5
 (or their bona fide fiscal      Profile
 agents).                        Assessment
                                 (ALPA)
                                 Questionnaire--
                                 Web survey.
                                ALPA                           5               1            7/60               1
                                 Questionnaire--
                                 Word format.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............               6
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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. 2017-08539 Filed 4-26-17; 8:45 am]
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