[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 139 (Monday, July 20, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43837-43838]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-15660]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-20-1215; Docket No. CDC-2020-0075]
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 the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed
information collection project titled ``Awardee Lead Profile Assessment
(ALPA).'' The ICR includes a survey 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: CDC must receive written comments on or before September 18,
2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2020-
0075 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments
to Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments 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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information Collection
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
Road NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7118; 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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submissions of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.
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Proposed Project
Awardee Lead Profile Assessment (ALPA) (OMB Control No. 0920-1215,
Exp. 02/28/2021)--Revision--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
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) clearance for a three-year revised
information collection request (ICR) titled ``Awardee Lead Profile
Assessment (ALPA)'' (OMB Control No. 0920-1215; expiration date of 02/
28/2021). The goal of this ICR is to build on the CDC's existing
childhood lead poisoning prevention program. Based on program successes
over the past three years, CDC has made ALPA an annual reporting
requirement for ongoing and new CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
Programs (CLPPPs), including the FY17 ``Lead Poisoning Prevention--
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention--financed partially by Prevention
and Public Health Funds'' (CDC-RFA-EH17-1701PPHF17); the FY18
``Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Projects, State and Local
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance of Blood Lead
Levels in Children'' (CDC-RFA-EH18-1806); and the FY20 ``Childhood Lead
Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance of Blood Lead Levels in
Children'' (CDC-RFA-EH20-2001). This annual information collection will
be used to (1) 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 collection has been revised in
several ways. Due to an increase in funding and program growth, CDC is
requesting an increase in the number of respondents from 48 to a
maximum of 61 recipients, defined as state and local governments, or
their bona fide agents.
CDC will continue to use two data collection modes, a web survey
and an email survey. We anticipate that most of the respondents (n =
60; 98 percent) will use the web survey. The estimates of the number
and percentage of respondents by mode of data collection are based on
previous data collections. In the past, respondents only used the email
survey if they had technical difficulties with the web survey, which
was rare. For this purpose, we estimate that only 2% (n = 1) of the
respondents may need to submit an email survey. This represents a
change in distribution from the 2018 estimates, which were initially
assumed as 83.3% for the web survey and 16.7% for the email survey.
A redistribution by mode of collection will not affect the total
time burden requested as the time per response is the same for either
mode; however, the time to take the survey has increased from seven
minutes in 2018 to 47 minutes per response due to a revision of the
survey. This revised time estimate per response is based on pilot tests
of the revised survey among nine respondents, and includes the time
needed to review the ALPA Training Manual, which is a new addition in
this revision ICR. Thus, CDC is requesting an increase in the total
annual time burden from six hours in 2018 to 48 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 or Local Governments (or ALPA Web Survey. 60 1 47/60 47
their bona fide fiscal
agents).
ALPA Email 1 1 47/60 1
Survey.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 48
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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