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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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substance and
Disease Registry
[60Day–20–0057; Docket No. ATSDR–19–
0009]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:

The Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR), 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 ‘‘APPLETREE
Performance Measures,’’ which ATSDR
will use to manage its next three-year
cooperative agreement program under
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
No. CDC–RFA–TS20–2001.
DATES: ATSDR must receive written
comments on or before February 21,
2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. ATSDR–2019–
0009 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. ATSDR 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

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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:
404–639–7570; 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 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.
Proposed Project
APPLETREE Performance Measures
(OMB Control No. 0923–0057, Exp. 07/
31/2020)—Revision—Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR).
Background and Brief Description
The Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) seeks to build
and sustain the capacity to evaluate
exposures to hazardous waste across the
country. Releases from hazardous waste
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exposures in homes, schools,
workplaces, and communities. These
exposures are often complex and may be
difficult to identify and control.
Hazardous waste sites may involve
various toxic substances, exposure
pathways, and health impacts. ATSDR’s
primary goal is to keep communities
safe from harmful exposures and related
diseases. To accomplish this goal, the
agency works closely with partnering
agencies to evaluate exposures at
hazardous waste sites, educate
communities, and seek new ways to
better protect public health.
ATSDR’s Partnership to Promote
Local Efforts to Reduce Environmental
Exposure (APPLETREE) Program is
critical to ATSDR’s success in
accomplishing its mission in
communities nationwide. ATSDR’s
recipients will use APPLETREE funding
to advance ATSDR’s primary goal of
keeping communities safe from harmful
environmental exposures and related
diseases. APPLETREE gives recipients
the resources to build their capacity to
assess and respond to site-specific
issues involving human exposure to
hazardous substances in the
environment. APPLETREE helps
recipients identify exposure pathways at
specific sites; educate affected
communities about site contamination
and potential health effects; make
recommendations to prevent exposure;
review health outcome data to evaluate
potential links between site
contaminants and community health
outcomes. APPLETREE facilitates the
implementation of state-level programs
to ensure that potential early care and
education facilities are in areas free
from harmful environmental exposures.
It also encourages recipients in the
innovation of progressive public health
interventions that prevent exposures to
environmental contamination. Because
of APPLETREE recipients’ local
connections and partnerships,
community engagement and
implementation of recommendations is
improved. This program is authorized
under Sections 104(i)(15) of the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended by
the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986 [42
U.S.C. 9604(i)(15)].
Under the next three-year
APPLETREE cooperative agreement
(NOFO No. CDC–RFA–TS20–2001),
eligible applicants include federally
recognized American Indian/Alaska
Native tribal governments; American
Indian/Alaska native tribally designated
organizations; political subdivisions of
states (in consultation with states); and

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state and local governments or their
bona fide agents. ATSDR technical
project officers (TPOs) will assist
approximately 25 APPLETREE
recipients to address site-specific issues
involving human exposure to hazardous
substances. Key capacities include
identification of human exposure
pathways at ATSDR sites, education of
affected communities and local health
professionals about site contamination
and potential health effects; making
appropriate recommendations to
prevent exposure; reviewing health
outcome data to evaluate potential links
between site contaminants and
community health; and documenting
the effects of environmental remediation
on health.
This is a revision of an information
collection request (ICR) titled
‘‘APPLETREE Performance Measures,’’
previously approved under OMB
Control No. 0923–0057 (expiration date
07/31/2020). ATSDR will continue to
collect information related to recipient
activities, and the process and outcome
performance measures outlined by the
cooperative agreement program.
Information will be used to monitor
progress toward program goals and
objectives, and for program quality
improvement. The first five forms were
previously approved by OMB
(‘‘APPLETREE Performance Measures’’
under OMB Control No. 0923–0057,
expiration date 07/31/2020). The first
three forms, formerly reported in
SharePoint, will be migrated to a new
information technology (IT) system
called ATSDR’s Request Management
System (ARMS).
1. ATSDR Health Education Activity
Tracking (HEAT) Form: For each
environmental health assessment and
health education activity conducted at
ATSDR sites, APPLETREE Recipients
shall quantitatively assess and report
efforts to educate community members
about site recommendations and health
risks using indicators to assess
community understanding of site
findings about health risks and
community understanding of agency
recommendations to reduce health risks.
This information will be entered in to
the ATSDR HEAT system for each
activity at ATSDR sites.
2. ATSDR Technical Assistance (TA)
Activity Form: Throughout the budget
year, this form will be used to record the
routine requests made of the recipients
and their program responses. These
responses do not evaluate
environmental data and do not make
health calls, but are monitored by
ATSDR as part of the recipients’
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3. ATSDR Site Impact Assessment
(SIA) Form: For each environmental
health assessment and health education
activity conducted at ATSDR sites,
recipients shall estimate and report the
number of people protected from
exposure to toxic substances at each site
where implementation of agency
recommendations has taken place and at
each child care center where safe siting
guidelines have been implemented. To
the extent possible, recipients shall
estimate and report the disease burden
prevented due to the implementation of
site recommendations and safe siting
guidelines.
Recipients will continue to submit the
following form to ATSDR via
SharePoint:
4. ATSDR Success Story Form:
Recipients will provide one success
story per quarter (four success stories
total per year) that highlights an impact
of any of their programs. Recipients will
report a brief summary, background,
intervention/action taken, and
accomplishment/impact for each story.
Optionally, they may include a photo or
quote.
Recipients will submit the following
five forms to ATSDR via email. As part
of the revision request, the last four
forms are new.
5. APPLETREE Annual Performance
Report (APR) Template: Recipients will
continue to provide an APR each year
and at the end of the funding cycle,
which summarizes their annual and
funding cycle performances,
respectively. APRs will be due in
December of each year to coincide with
the CDC Grants Management annual
reports to reduce overall reporting
burden and the final report will be due
at the end of the funding cycle. The
purpose of the performance reports will
be to assess Partners based on
performance measures and evaluation
projects. The reports should include a
summary of performance measures,
results of any evaluation projects,
accompanying narrative of progress and
interpretation of results, optional
successes, challenges, and updated
work plan. These reports will be entered
into a Microsoft Word form.
6. Choose Safe Places for Early Care
and Education (CSPECE) Qualitative
Narrative Form: Recipients will now
provide a narrative report of their
CSPECE Programs to document
descriptive details of their state’s
landscape, program plan, program
implementation, and results that cannot
be captured through numbers.
Recipients will complete and submit the
narrative once a year as a supplement
with their APRs in a Microsoft Word
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7. CSPECE Quantitative Form:
Recipients will also now provide data
on their CSPECE Programs to quantify
aspects of their program such as
children reached, target audiences
educated, early care and education
programs referred and screened, and
recommendations implemented. To
supplement their APRs, recipients will
complete and submit a Microsoft Excel
form once a year as a supplement with
their APRs.
In addition to the required annual
reporting, at the end of the three-year
program, each recipient will report
cumulative three-year performance
measures for three forms: The APR, the
CSPECE Qualitative Narrative Form,
and the CSPECE Quantitative Form.
This will result in four total responses
in a three-year period for each form. The
estimated annualized number of
required responses is thus rounded to
once per year for these three forms, as
4 hours divided by three years equals
1.33 hours per year.
8. ATSDR SoilSHOP Form:
SoilSHOPs are not a required activity;
however, if conducted, a recipient will
need to complete the ATSDR SoilSHOP
Form in Word. This form gathers data
on the inputs, activities, outputs, and
outcomes of the event, such as the
number of soil samples screened,
number of elevated soil samples,
number of individuals receiving health
consultations, and number of
individuals receiving referrals. The form
should be provided back to ATSDR via
email within two weeks of the
SoilSHOP completion.
9. ATSDR Recommendation Followup Form: For each environmental health
assessment, recipients will provide an
update on the status of acceptance and
implementation of all recommendations
to understand whether and how
recommendations have been
implemented, and the subsequent
impact on communities. Recipients will
complete a Microsoft Excel reporting
form annually on the anniversary date
of the release of each health assessment.
Initially recipients will provide to
ATSDR via email, but the form will be
migrated into the ARMS system in the
future.
ATSDR is seeking a three-year
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
clearance for this revision information
collection request. The total annual time
burden requested is 240 hours. This
reflects a reduction in requested time
burden compared to the 272 hours
previously approved in 2017. This
revision also requests approval for an
increase in the annual number of
responses from 1,575 in 2017, to 1,685
in this current request. ATSDR will

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continue to fund 25 recipients.
Recipient reporting is required to

receive funding under the APPLETREE
cooperative agreement.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Form name

APPLETREE Recipients

ATSDR Health Education Activity Tracking
(HEAT) Form.
ATSDR Technical Assistance (TA) Activity Form
ATSDR Site Impact Assessment (SIA) Form .....
ATSDR Success Story Form ...............................
APPLETREE Annual Performance Report (APR)
Template.
Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education (CSPECE) Qualitative Narrative Form.
CSPECE Quantitative Form ................................
ATSDR SoilSHOP Form ......................................
ATSDR Recommendation Follow-up Form .........
..............................................................................

Total ........................

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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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60–Day–20–1180; Docket No. CDC–2019–
0092]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:

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 Airline and Vessel and Traveler
Information Collection (42 CFR part 71)
that enables CDC to order air carriers
and maritime vessels to provide certain
contact information for travelers in the
event there is a confirmed illness
onboard that poses a public health risk.

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Number of
responses
per
respondent

Number of
respondents

Type of respondents

37

3/60

47

25
25
25
25

15
4
4
1

5/60
7/60
30/60
2

32
12
50
50

25

1

1

25

25
10
25

1
1
4

15/60
7/60
10/60

6
1
17

........................

........................

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240

CDC must receive written
comments on or before February 21,
2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2020–
0092 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, of
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: [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

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(in hours)

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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.
Proposed Project
Airline and Vessel and Traveler
Information Collection (42 CFR part 71)
(0920–1180 expires 05/31/2020)—
Revision—Division of Global Migration
and Quarantine (DGMQ), National
Center for Emerging Zoonotic and
Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers

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