82 FR 57453 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 232 (December 5, 2017)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 232 (December 5, 2017)
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| FR Document | 2017-26151 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 5, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 57453-57454] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-26151] [[Page 57453]] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as amended most recently at 81 FR 84583-84591, dated November 23, 2016) is amended to reflect the reorganization of the Office of Financial Resources, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as follows: Delete in its entirety the title and the mission and function statements for the Office of Grants Services (CAJEY) and insert the following: Office of Grants Services (CAJEY). Office of Grants Services (OGS) (1) provides leadership, direction, and guidance for operations and policies in matters relating to CDC/ATSDR cooperative agreements and grants; (2) plans, develops, and implements policies, procedures, and practices to ensure effective customer service, consultation, and oversight in grants processes; (3) engages CDC/ATSDR Centers/Institute/ Offices (CIOs), as well as other key stakeholders to align agency-wide grants processes with applicable laws, regulations, and policies, and with CDC/ATSDR public health goals; and (4) provides all support necessary to help ensure that appropriated funds are utilized in compliance with Congressional mandate, for the sole purpose of preventing and controlling diseases domestically and globally. Office of the Director (CAJEY1). (1) Provides overall leadership, supervision, and management of the grants staff; (2) ensures policies, processes, and procedures adhere to all rules and regulations and are in alignment with CDC's public health goals; (3) develops and implements organizational strategic planning goals and objectives; (4) provides budgetary, human resource management, and administrative support; (5) leads the development of grants policy agendas with federal agencies and organizations; (6) provides cost advisory support to assistance activities with responsibility for initiating requests for audits and evaluations, and providing recommendations to grants management officer, as required; (7) conducts continuing studies and analysis of grants activities; (8) provides technical and managerial direction for the development, implementation, and maintenance of grants systems; (9) ensures adherence to laws, policies, procedures, regulations, and alignment with CDC's public health goals; (10) provides technical and managerial direction for functions related to objective review and grants close out; (11) serves as a central CDC receipt and referral point for all applications for assistance funds, including interfacing with the automated grants systems and relevant Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) line of business agencies; (12) distributes draft public health program announcements for review; (13) develops formal training in grants management for awardees and CDC staff; and (14) develops and implements organizational and CDC-wide policies and procedures for grants to support CDC's public health science and programs. Infectious Disease Services Branch (CAJEYB). Infectious Disease Services Branch supports one or more CIOs. The branch (1) plans, directs, and conducts assistance management activities for CDC through the awards of domestic grants and cooperative agreements (competitive and non-competitive) across public health systems; (2) plans, directs, coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and processes in support of public health assistance awards; (3) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project officers and public health program officials related to grants activities; (4) maintains a close working relationship with CDC program offices; (5) reviews assistance applications for conformity to laws, regulations, policies, and alignment to CDC's public health goals; (6) issues grants and cooperative agreements; (7) provides continuing surveillance of financial and administrative aspects of assistance-supported activities to ensure compliance with DHHS and CDC policies; (8) ensures that grantee performance is in accordance with assistance requirements; and (9) collects and reports business management and public health programmatic data, analyzes and monitor business management data on grants and cooperative agreements and maintains assistance files. Chronic Disease and Birth Defects Services Branch (CAJEYC). Chronic Disease and Birth Defects Services Branch supports one or more CIOs. The branch (1) plans, directs, and conducts assistance management activities for CDC through the awards of domestic grants and cooperative agreements (competitive and non-competitive) across public health systems; (2) plans, directs, coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and processes in support of public health assistance awards; (3) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project officers and public health program officials related to grants activities; (4) maintains a close working relationship with CDC program offices; (5) reviews assistance applications for conformity to laws, regulations, policies, and alignment to CDC's public health goals; (6) issues grants and cooperative agreements; (7) provides continuing surveillance of financial and administrative aspects of assistance- supported activities to ensure compliance with DHHS and CDC policies; (8) ensures that grantee performance is in accordance with assistance requirements; and (9) collects and reports business management and public health programmatic data, analyzes and monitor business management data on grants and cooperative agreements and maintains assistance files. OD, Environmental, Occupational Health and Injury Prevention Services Branch (CAJEYD). OD, Environmental, Occupational Health and Injury Prevention Services Branch supports one or more CIOs. The branch (1) plans, directs, and conducts assistance management activities for CDC through the awards of domestic grants and cooperative agreements (competitive and non-competitive) across public health systems; (2) plans, directs, coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and processes in support of public health assistance awards; (3) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project officers and public health program officials related to grants activities; (4) maintains a close working relationship with CDC program offices; (5) reviews assistance applications for conformity to laws, regulations, policies, and alignment to CDC's public health goals; (6) issues grants and cooperative agreements; (7) provides continuing surveillance of financial and administrative aspects of assistance-supported activities to ensure compliance with DHHS and CDC policies; (8) ensures that grantee performance is in accordance with assistance requirements; and (9) collects and reports business management and public health programmatic data, [[Page 57454]] analyzes and monitor business management data on grants and cooperative agreements and maintains assistance files. Global Health Services Branch (CAJEYE). Global Health Services Branch supports one or more CIOs. The branch (1) plans, directs, and conducts assistance management activities for CDC through the awards of global (international) grants and cooperative agreements (competitive and non-competitive) across public health systems; (2) plans, directs, coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and processes in support of public health assistance awards; (3) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project officers and public health program officials related to grants activities; (4) maintains a close working relationship with CDC program offices; (5) reviews assistance applications for conformity to laws, regulations, policies, and alignment to CDC's public health goals; (6) issues grants and cooperative agreements; (7) provides continuing surveillance of financial and administrative aspects of assistance-supported activities to ensure compliance with DHHS and CDC policies; (8) ensures that grantee performance is in accordance with assistance requirements; (9) collects and reports business management and public health programmatic data, analyzes and monitor business management data on grants and cooperative agreements and maintains assistance files; and (10) provides innovative problem-solving methods in the coordination of international grants for a wide range of public health partners in virtually all major domestic and international health organizations including resolving issues with the Department of State. Global Health Security Branch (CAJEYG). Global Health Security Branch supports one or more CIOs. The branch (1) plans, directs, and conducts assistance management activities for CDC through the awards of global (international) grants and cooperative agreements (competitive and non-competitive) across public health systems; (2) plans, directs, coordinates, and conducts the grants management functions and processes in support of public health assistance awards; (3) provides leadership and guidance to CDC project officers and public health program officials related to grants activities; (4) maintains a close working relationship with CDC program offices; (5) reviews assistance applications for conformity to laws, regulations, policies, and alignment to CDC's public health goals; (6) issues grants and cooperative agreements; (7) provides continuing surveillance of financial and administrative aspects of assistance-supported activities to ensure compliance with DHHS and CDC policies; (8) ensures that grantee performance is in accordance with assistance requirements; (9) collects and reports business management and public health programmatic data, analyzes and monitor business management data on grants and cooperative agreements and maintains assistance files; and (10) provides innovative problem-solving methods in the coordination of international grants for a wide range of public health partners in virtually all major domestic and international health organizations including resolving issues with the Department of State. Risk and Performance Management Services Branch (CAJEYH). Risk and Performance Management Services Branch supports all agency grants operations. The branch (1) maintains situational awareness to identify issues/concerns and communicates them to OGS leadership for consideration, strategy development, and issue resolution; (2) conducts grant pre-award activities to identify potential high risk grantees; (3) manages grantee audits and monitors grantee submission of responses to audits and corrective action plans (CAPs); (4) conducts follow-up audits to determine if CAPs effectively resolved deficiencies; (5) provides audit support for matters of interest to the agency to determine suitability for referral to the Office of Inspector General or other investigative agencies; (6) coordinates and manages annual grant forecasting activities; (7) validates, analyzes, and provides data for annual planning meetings, annual reports, data calls, end-of- year coordination, and ad-hoc requests; (8) leads business processes improvement initiatives and the development of strategic plans, performance metrics, dashboards, and OGS strategic direction materials; (9) identifies systemic operational issues and works with OGS leadership to develop strategies to mitigate risk; (10) facilitates problem/issue resolution and continuous improvements based on best practices; and (11) gathers and analyzes workforce challenges, constraints and opportunities for leadership awareness and possible future initiatives. 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analyzes and monitor business cooperative agreements; (7) provides DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
management data on grants and continuing surveillance of financial and HUMAN SERVICES
cooperative agreements and maintains administrative aspects of assistance-
assistance files. supported activities to ensure Centers for Disease Control and
Global Health Services Branch compliance with DHHS and CDC Prevention
(CAJEYE). Global Health Services policies; (8) ensures that grantee
Branch supports one or more CIOs. The performance is in accordance with Statement of Organization, Functions,
branch (1) plans, directs, and conducts assistance requirements; (9) collects and and Delegations of Authority
assistance management activities for reports business management and
CDC through the awards of global public health programmatic data, Part C (Centers for Disease Control
(international) grants and cooperative analyzes and monitor business and Prevention) of the Statement of
agreements (competitive and non- management data on grants and Organization, Functions, and
competitive) across public health cooperative agreements and maintains Delegations of Authority of the
systems; (2) plans, directs, coordinates, assistance files; and (10) provides Department of Health and Human
and conducts the grants management innovative problem-solving methods in Services (45 FR 67772–76, dated
functions and processes in support of the coordination of international grants October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR
public health assistance awards; (3) for a wide range of public health 69296, October 20, 1980, as amended
provides leadership and guidance to partners in virtually all major domestic most recently at 81 FR 84583–84591
CDC project officers and public health and international health organizations dated November 23, 2016) is amended
program officials related to grants including resolving issues with the
activities; (4) maintains a close working to reflect the reorganization of the Office
Department of State. of the Chief Operating Officer, Office of
relationship with CDC program offices;
(5) reviews assistance applications for Risk and Performance Management the Director, Centers for Disease Control
conformity to laws, regulations, Services Branch (CAJEYH). Risk and and Prevention.
policies, and alignment to CDC’s public Performance Management Services Section C–B, Organization and
health goals; (6) issues grants and Branch supports all agency grants
Functions, is hereby amended as
cooperative agreements; (7) provides operations. The branch (1) maintains
follows:
continuing surveillance of financial and situational awareness to identify issues/
concerns and communicates them to Delete in its entirety the functional
administrative aspects of assistance-
OGS leadership for consideration, statement for the Freedom of
supported activities to ensure
compliance with DHHS and CDC strategy development, and issue Information Act Office (CAJR13), Office
policies; (8) ensures that grantee resolution; (2) conducts grant pre-award of the Chief Information Officer (CAJR),
performance is in accordance with activities to identify potential high risk Office of the Chief Operating Officer
assistance requirements; (9) collects and grantees; (3) manages grantee audits and (CAJ).
reports business management and monitors grantee submission of After the functional statement for the
public health programmatic data, responses to audits and corrective Office of the Director (CAJ1), Office of
analyzes and monitor business action plans (CAPs); (4) conducts the Chief Operating Officer (CAJ), insert
management data on grants and follow-up audits to determine if CAPs
the following:
cooperative agreements and maintains effectively resolved deficiencies; (5)
assistance files; and (10) provides provides audit support for matters of Freedom of Information Act Office
innovative problem-solving methods in interest to the agency to determine (CAJ12). (1) Leads and administers the
the coordination of international grants suitability for referral to the Office of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
for a wide range of public health Inspector General or other investigative program for CDC and ATSDR; (2)
partners in virtually all major domestic agencies; (6) coordinates and manages reviews, analyzes, redacts as necessary,
and international health organizations annual grant forecasting activities; (7) and releases documents to the public
including resolving issues with the validates, analyzes, and provides data under the provisions of the Act; (3)
Department of State. for annual planning meetings, annual tracks and monitors FOIA requests and
Global Health Security Branch reports, data calls, end-of-year responses to ensure timely and
(CAJEYG). Global Health Security coordination, and ad-hoc requests; (8) appropriate responses; (4) provides
Branch supports one or more CIOs. The leads business processes improvement guidance to employees, supervisors,
branch (1) plans, directs, and conducts initiatives and the development of management, the Office of the General
assistance management activities for strategic plans, performance metrics, Counsel and high-level agency officials
CDC through the awards of global dashboards, and OGS strategic direction on various aspects of the Act; (5)
(international) grants and cooperative materials; (9) identifies systemic interprets and applies legal and
agreements (competitive and non- operational issues and works with OGS technical precedents, laws and
competitive) across public health leadership to develop strategies to regulations relating to FOIA issues; and
systems; (2) plans, directs, coordinates, mitigate risk; (10) facilitates problem/
(6) provides training to program staff
and conducts the grants management issue resolution and continuous
functions and processes in support of and management concerning FOIA
improvements based on best practices;
public health assistance awards; (3) and (11) gathers and analyzes workforce requirements and processing.
provides leadership and guidance to challenges, constraints and Sherri A. Berger,
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CDC project officers and public health opportunities for leadership awareness Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease
program officials related to grants and possible future initiatives. Control and Prevention.
activities; (4) maintains a close working [FR Doc. 2017–26149 Filed 12–4–17; 8:45 am]
relationship with CDC program offices; Sherri A. Berger,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease BILLING CODE 4160–18–P
(5) reviews assistance applications for
conformity to laws, regulations, Control and Prevention.
policies, and alignment to CDC’s public [FR Doc. 2017–26151 Filed 12–4–17; 8:45 am]
health goals; (6) issues grants and BILLING CODE 4160–18–P
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