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.

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 evaluation of the progress of CDC partners that receive awards distributed via contracts, grants and cooperative agreements, from the Procurements and Grants Office (PGO). PGO is responsible for the stewardship of these funds while providing excellent, professional services to our partners and stakeholders. Data will be collected for the purpose of evaluating the progress of programmatic activities.

DATES:

Written comments must be received on or before January 4, 2016.

ADDRESSES:

You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-0094 by any of the following methods:

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.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: omb@cdc.gov.

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

Performance Progress and Evaluation Report (PPER)—Existing Collection in use without an OMB Control Number—Procurements and Grants Office (PGO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

Each year, approximately 80% of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) budget is distributed via contracts, grants and cooperative agreements, from the Procurements and Grants Office (PGO) to partners throughout the world to promote health, prevent disease, injury and disability and prepare for new health threats. PGO is responsible for the stewardship of these funds while providing excellent, professional services to our partners and stakeholders.

Currently, CDC uses SF-PPR (a progress report form for Non-Research awards) to collect information semi-annually from Awardees regarding the progress made over specified time periods on CDC funded projects. The SF-PPR (OMB Control Number: 0970-0406, Expiration Date: 10/31/2015) is owned by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This New ICR is being developed by CDC to create a CDC-wide collection tool called the Progress Performance and Evaluation Report (PPER) that will be used to collect data on the progress of CDC Awardees for the purposes of evaluation and to bring the Awardee reporting procedure into compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).

The information collected will enable the accurate, reliable, uniform and timely submission to CDC of each Awardee's work plans and progress reports, including strategies, activities and performance measures. The information collected by the PPER is designed to align with, and support the goals outlined for each of the CDC Awardees. Collection and reporting of the information will occur in an efficient, standardized, and user-friendly manner that will generate a variety of routine and customizable reports. The PPER will allow each Awardee to summarize activities and progress towards meeting performance measures and goals over a specified time period specific to each award. CDC will also have the capacity to generate reports that describe activities across multiple Awardees. In addition, CDC will use the information collection to respond to inquiries from HHS, Congress and other stakeholder inquiries about program activities and their impact.

The total estimated burden is 16,000 hours. There is no cost to respondents other than their time.