82 FR 44798 - 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 185 (September 26, 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 Monitoring and Reporting System for the Division of Community Health's Cooperative Agreement Programs. CDC seeks to continue the collection of information from awardees funded through the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community health (REACH) cooperative agreement to provide semi-annual reports to CDC describing their work plan, activities and progress toward achieving objectives during the fourth year of funding.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 26, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44798-44800]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20510]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60 Day-17-1053; Docket No. CDC-2017-0079]


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 Monitoring and 
Reporting System for the Division of Community Health's Cooperative 
Agreement Programs. CDC seeks to continue the collection of information 
from awardees funded through the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to 
Community health (REACH) cooperative agreement to provide semi-annual 
reports to CDC describing their work plan, activities and progress 
toward achieving objectives during the fourth year of funding.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before November 27, 
2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0079 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, 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

    Monitoring and Reporting System for the Division of Community 
Health's Cooperative Agreement Programs (OMB Control Number 0920-1053, 
Expiration 03/31/2018)--Revision--National Center for Chronic Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established 
the Division of Community Health (DCH) to support multi-sectorial, 
community-based programs that promote healthy living. In 2014, DCH 
announced a new cooperative agreement program, Racial and Ethnic 
Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program, authorized by the 
Public Health Service Act and the Prevention and Public Health Fund of 
the Affordable Care Act (Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) FOA 
DP14-1419PPHF14). CDC designed the REACH program to address chronic 
diseases and risk factors for chronic diseases, including physical 
inactivity, poor diet, obesity, and tobacco use. The program will 
provide support for implementation of broad, evidence- and practice-
based policy and environmental improvements in large and small cities, 
urban rural areas, tribes, multi-sectorial community coalitions, and 
racial and ethnic communities experiencing chronic disease disparities. 
The REACH program aligns with the National Prevention Strategy and 
``Healthy People 2020'' focus areas.
    CDC's Division of Community Health (DCH) and Division of Nutrition, 
Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO) receive semi-annual progress 
reports from REACH awardees through an electronic management 
information system, the DCH-Performance Monitoring Database (DCH-PMD), 
(in the original OMB request the DCH-DMD was also referred to as the 
DCH-Performance Monitoring and Reporting System). This system collects 
information from awardees funded through the Racial and Ethnic 
Approaches to Community Health (REACH) cooperative agreement. REACH 
awardees include 18 state, local and tribal governmental agencies, and 
31 non-governmental organizations.
    CDC DNPAO is proposing a revision to the information collection 
request, effective immediately, to request additional time to 
facilitate awardees reporting critical information in a consistent 
manner. Specifically, CDC DNPAO requests to extend the current OMB 
approval period to collect information needed to monitor the REACH 
cooperative agreement program for an additional year ending in March 
31, 2019. This will allow REACH awardees to continue to provide semi-
annual reports to CDC describing their work plan, activities and 
progress toward achieving objectives during a fourth year of 
supplemental funding.
    Information collection will continue to be conducted primarily via 
DCH-PMD, which enables the accurate, reliable, uniform and timely 
submission to CDC of each awardee's work plans and progress reports, 
including objectives and milestones. The DCH-PMD will also generate a 
variety of routine and customizable reports. Local level reports will 
allow each awardee to summarize its activities and progress towards 
meeting work plan objectives. CDC will use the information collected in 
the DCH-PMD to monitor each awardee's progress and to identify its 
strengths and weaknesses. Monitoring allows CDC to determine whether an 
awardee is meeting performance goals and to make adjustments in the 
type and level of technical assistance provided to them to support 
attainment of their objectives. CDC's monitoring and evaluation 
activities allow CDC to provide oversight of the use of federal funds, 
and to identify and disseminate information about successful prevention 
and control strategies implemented by awardees. Finally, the 
information collection will allow CDC to monitor the increased emphasis 
on partnerships and programmatic collaboration. CDC expects to reduce 
duplication of effort, enhance program impact and maximize the use of 
federal funds. The estimated time burden of producing each semi-annual 
report is 3 hours.
    Due to substantial interest in the REACH program from a variety of 
stakeholders, CDC may also seek OMB approval to conduct targeted, 
special-purpose information collections on an as-needed basis. CDC will 
ask each REACH awardee to participate in one special purpose 
information collection. Methods for these data collections could 
include telephone interviews, in-person interviews, Web-based surveys, 
or paper-and-pencil surveys. CDC will submit each special-purpose 
information collection request to OMB for approval through the Change 
Request mechanism, and will include the data collection instrument(s) 
and a description of purpose and methods.
    CDC seeks a one-year OMB approval, starting on April 1, 2018. 
Participation in semi-annual progress reporting is required for 
cooperative agreement awardees, but could be voluntary for some 
special-purpose data collections. There are no costs to respondents 
other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of      Avg. burden
      Type of respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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DCH Program Awardees (state,    DCH MIS: Semi-                18               2               3             108
 local and tribal government     annual
 sector).                        reporting.
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                                Special Data                  18               1               6             108
                                 Request.
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DCH Program Awardees (private   DCH MIS: Semi-                31               2               3             186
 sector).                        annual
                                 reporting.
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                                Special Data                  31               1               6             186
                                 Request.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             588
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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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