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well-functioning healthcare coalitions,
among other activities.
ASPR seeks to partner with LHDs and
local communities which frequently
prepare for, respond to, and recover
from localized emergency incidents and
to identify valuable lessons and
promising practices to collect and share
these practices with other LHDs and
communities. This project will capture
lessons learned and promising practices
from local communities and share them
more widely.
Justification: The National
Association of County and City Health
Officials (NACCHO) is the national
nonprofit organization representing all
local and tribal health officials from
across the country. Members are elected
by their peers, and include ex officio
members representing the National
Association of Counties, of which
NACCHO is an affiliate, and the U.S.
Conference of Mayors. NACCHO
advocates on the behalf of county and
city health departments by providing
Congressional testimony, submitting
letters to the Administration, and
endorsing proposed legislation.
NACCHO has demonstrated
experience establishing partnerships
with both traditional and nontraditional organizations to impact both
county and city public health
departments and the broader public
health system.
NACCHO’s existing network of health
officials will provide ASPR with the
unique ability to collaborate on federal
programs and actions that could impact
the preparation for, response to or
recovery from emergencies and disasters
impacting public health and health care.
Additional Information: The agency
program contact is Lisa Kaplowitz, who
can be contacted by phone at (202) 202–
2882 or via email at Lisa.Kaplowitz@
hhs.gov.
Dated: August 28, 2013.
Nicole Lurie,
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Sole Source Cooperative Agreement
Award to the Association for State and
Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Office of Policy and Planning,
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness
and Response (ASPR), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notification of a Sole Source
Cooperative Agreement Award to the
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Association for State and Territorial
Health Officials (ASTHO) for a grant
titled: ‘‘Technical Assistance to Obtain
State and Territorial Health Department
Input for National Health Securityrelated Activities’’.
Statutory Authority: Public Health
Service Act, Section 1703(a), 42 U.S.C.
Section 300u–2(a).
Estimated Amount of Award:
$1,500,000 USD.
Project Period: September 30, 2013 to
September 29, 2016.
SUMMARY: ASPR requires collaboration
with state and territorial health
departments and officials to ensure that
state and local governments,
communities, private sector entities,
non-governmental organizations,
academia, and individuals can
optimally coordinate their respective
national health security roles and
responsibilities to achieve community
health resilience and strengthen health
care, public health, and emergency
management systems. This project aims
to improve collaboration between ASPR
and the state health departments (SHDs)
to enhance national health security,
foster community health resilience, and
strengthen health care, public health,
and emergency management systems.
One of the overarching goals of both the
National Health Security Strategy (2009)
and the ASPR Strategic Plan 2011–2015
is to build community health resilience.
ASPR seeks to partner with SHDs and
territorial health officials, which play a
critical role in building community
health resilience by employing and
evaluating public health strategies such
as preparing local communities to
withstand and recover from public
health emergencies and disasters, and
engaging health care organizations to
build healthcare coalitions. The project
will foster better approaches for
building community health resilience.
SHDs and territorial health officials
are intimately familiar with the
communities and populations that they
serve and are an essential partner in
carrying out the mission of ASPR. ASPR
seeks to engage SHDs and health
officials as well as other appropriate
stakeholders in bi-directional
communications to evaluate the
effectiveness of, and ensure that, ASPR’s
strategies, policies, and programmatic
activities are informed by and support
the needs of states, territories, and local
communities. The project will foster
collaboration with state health officials
to achieve, for example, national health
security and strengthen emergency
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well-functioning healthcare coalitions,
among other activities.
ASPR seeks to partner with SHDs and
territorial health officials and local
communities which frequently prepare
for, respond to, and recover from
emergency incidents and to identify
valuable lessons learned and promising
practices to collect and share these
practices with other SHDs and
communities. This project will capture
lessons and promising practices and
share them more widely.
Justification: The Association for State
and Territorial Health Officials
(ASTHO) is the only national nonprofit
membership organization that includes
membership representation from every
state and local public health agency in
the United States (U.S.), the U.S.
Territories, the District of Columbia, and
over 100,000 public health professionals
employed by these agencies. ASTHO
members, the chief health officials of
these jurisdictions, formulate and
influence sound public health policy
and ensure excellence in state-based
public health practice. The ASTHO
organization has the unique ability to
represent the perspectives of all the
state and territorial health officials
across the nation.
Additional Information: The agency
program contact is Lisa Kaplowitz, who
can be contacted by phone at (202) 202–
2882 or via email at Lisa.Kaplowitz@
hhs.gov.
Dated: August 28, 2013.
Nicole Lurie,
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send

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comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov.
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; and (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. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
Evaluation of Food Safety Programs—
New—National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Local and state food safety programs
(FSPs) are on the frontline of foodborne
disease prevention in the U.S. Through
the Environmental Health Specialists
Network (EHS-Net), CDC currently
funds and works with local and state

capacity and competency, financial
resources, community health, and
demographics of FSPs. Data collected
will help CDC better understand the
relationship between different levels of
funding and FSP effectiveness in the
U.S.
The evaluation survey will take
approximately two hours to complete.
The survey will be completed once by
respondents either manually or
electronically. The CDC is asking for
this data collection burden to allow
local and state health departments
ample time to request and obtain the
information they need from their
various departments and units to
complete the evaluation survey.
There are over 3,000 state and local
health departments in the U.S. It is
unknown how many state and local
health departments will actually
participate in the evaluation survey, as
participation will be voluntary. Per year,
the anticipated number of respondents
for this survey is 190 health
departments, and the requested number
of burden hours is 380. The CDC is
requesting OMB approval for two years.
Only local and state health
departments implementing food safety
programs in the U.S. will be eligible to
participate in the survey. There will be
no cost to the respondents other than
their time.

health departments in five states
(California, New York, Minnesota,
Rhode Island, and Tennessee) to: (1)
Identify environmental antecedents
(underlying factors) to illness and
disease outbreaks; (2) translate findings
into improved prevention efforts using a
systems-based approach; (3) offer
training opportunities to current and
future environmental health specialists;
and (4) strengthen collaboration among
epidemiology, laboratory, and
environmental health programs. This
CDC program offers insights into the
current status of FSPs among EHS-Net
partners, but information is lacking on
a national scale.
In the current economic milieu, food
safety, along with other public health
programs, is being eliminated due to
funding reductions. Therefore, the CDC
proposes to conduct the ‘‘Evaluation of
Food Safety Programs’’ survey among a
representative sample of local and state
health departments implementing FSPs
in the United States (U.S.).
The purpose of this evaluation of
local and state FSPs is to collect
descriptive data on the current status
and activities, to describe changes in
status and activities from 2007 to 2012,
and to determine if there is a
relationship between funding and status
and activities. Data will be collected on
food safety activities, workforce

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Type of respondents

Local health departments .................
State health departments ..................
Total ...........................................

Evaluation
Evaluation
Evaluation
Evaluation

Survey
Survey
Survey
Survey

Total burden
(in hrs.)

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1
1
1

2
2
2
2

276
70
28
6

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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic

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Average
burden per
response
(in hrs.)

138
35
14
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Leroy 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
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summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to Leroy Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS D–74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov.
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

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