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AHRQ Addressing Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care Initiative

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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 115 / Monday, June 15, 2020 / Notices
Notice of request for comments
regarding an extension to an OMB
clearance.

ACTION:

Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, the
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be
submitting to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request to review
and approve an extension of a
previously approved information
collection requirement regarding the
National Contact Center customer
evaluation surveys.
DATES: Submit comments on or before:
July 15, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
David Kaufmann, Program Analyst,
Office of Technology Transformation
Services, via email to david.kaufmann@
gsa.gov, or at 202–357–9661.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for this information
collection should be sent within 30 days
of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

A. Purpose

Beth Ann Killoran,
Deputy Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

Notice.

This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project ‘‘AHRQ
Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use in
Primary Care Initiative.’’ This proposed
information collection was previously
published in the Federal Register on
March 30, 2020 and allowed 60 days for
public comment. AHRQ did not receive
any comments during the
aforementioned public comment period.
The purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.

SUMMARY:

This information collection will be
used to assess the public’s satisfaction
with the USA.gov National Contact
Center service (formerly the Federal
Citizen Information Center’s (FCIC)
National Contact Center), to assist in
increasing the efficiency in responding
to the public’s need for Federal
information, and to assess the
effectiveness of marketing efforts.
B. Annual Reporting Burden

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OBTAINING COPIES OF
PROPOSALS: Requesters may obtain a
copy of the information collection
documents from the GSA Regulatory
Secretariat Division (MVCB)by calling
202–501–4755, or emailing
[email protected]. Please cite OMB
Control No. 3090–0278, National
Contact Center Customer Evaluation
Survey, in all correspondence.

The following are estimates of the
annual hourly burdens for our surveys
based on historical participation in our
surveys.
(1) Telephone Survey:
Respondents: 6000.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 6000.
Hours per Response: 0.12.
Total Burden Hours: 720.
(2) Web Chat Survey:
Respondents: 2400.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 2400.
Hours Per Response: 0.12.
Total Burden Hours: 288.
Grand Total Burden Hours: 1008.

Comments on this notice must be
received by 30 days after date of
publication of this notice.

DATES:

Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.

ADDRESSES:

C. Public Comments

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

A 60-day notice was published in the
Federal Register at 85 FR 17333 on
March 27, 2020. No comments were
received.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at [email protected].

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Proposed Project
AHRQ Managing Unhealthy Alcohol
Use in Primary Care Initiative
The Affordable Care Act established
the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Trust Fund (PCORTF) and authorized
AHRQ to broadly disseminate the
research findings published by the
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Institute (PCORI) and other governmentfunded research relevant to comparative
clinical effectiveness research. AHRQ’s
PCORTF-funded initiative identifies
research findings that could
significantly improve patient outcomes
through broader implementation in
clinical practice. Under this initiative,
in 2019 AHRQ launched a new
initiative, Managing Unhealthy Alcohol
Use in Primary Care, in order to
promote the uptake of evidence-based
practices for unhealthy alcohol use
(UAU). As part of this initiative, AHRQ
selected six grantees and funded a
contractor to support and evaluate the
grantees. The grantees will collectively
work with more than 700 primary care
practices over three years to implement
and evaluate strategies to increase the
use of evidence-based interventions
such as screening for unhealthy alcohol
use, brief interventions for adult
patients who drink too much, and
medication-assisted therapy (MAT) for
patients with an alcohol use disorder.
The contractor will develop a resource
center, convene a technical expert
panel, conduct an ongoing
environmental scan, support a learning
community of grantees, and complete a
multisite, mixed methods evaluation.
Unhealthy alcohol use, defined as
behaviors ranging from risky drinking to
alcohol use disorders (AUD), is
estimated to be the third leading cause
of preventable death in the United
States. Between 2006 and 2010, nearly
one in ten deaths were alcohol-related.
In addition to early mortality, UAU is
associated with a host of adverse
outcomes, including unintentional
injuries and the development or
exacerbation of a range of physical and
behavioral health conditions. The
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention estimates suggest that
excessive alcohol consumption costs the
United States $249 billion annually.
Under the UAU initiative, six AHRQ
grantees will work to improve the
management of UAU in primary care by
disseminating and implementing
evidence-based practices for screening
and brief intervention, referral to
treatment (SBI/RT), and MAT in
primary care practices. The multi-site,
mixed-methods evaluation will include
primary data collection by the evaluator,

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NORC at the University of Chicago. The
evaluation will also include secondary
data collected by the six grantee teams
working with 750 primary care
practices. Collectively the data will
allow the evaluator to assess the
implementation and impact of the six
grants.
The project goals, as laid out in the
AHRQ request for applications include:
• Success of recruitment and
retention strategies across all six
grantees to engage primary care
practices for implementation of SBI/RT
and MAT, across the initiative;
• Effectiveness of the grantees’
collective dissemination and
implementation strategies, and the
factors associated with the success and/
or failure of the strategies as it relates to
populations, settings and the influence
of contextual factors;
• Success at the practice level in
increasing the number of patients
screened, identified, and treated; and
• Overall impact on changes in
processes or outcomes that can be
attributed to the initiative.
This study is being conducted
pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority
to broadly disseminate research findings
published by the Patient-Centered
Outcomes Research Institute and other
government-funded research relevant to
comparative clinical effectiveness
research to physicians, health care
providers, and patients. 42 U.S.C 299b–
37.

Method of Collection
To achieve the goals of the multi-site
evaluation (MSE), AHRQ is requesting
OMB approval for three years for new
data collection by the evaluator. The
evaluator’s primary data collection is
requested to achieve the goals of the
MSE and includes the following data
collection activities:
Semi-Structured Qualitative
Interviews will take place in-person
and/or by telephone with key staff from
each grantee team (i.e., principal
investigator, co-investigator, evaluation
lead, practice facilitation/
implementation lead, and project
manager) and with clinicians and staff
at one primary care practice working
with each grantee. Interviews will be
conducted annually beginning at the
end of Year 1, for a total of three time
points per grantee. During Years 1 and
3 the interviews will be conducted by
phone, while Year 2 interviews will be
collected in-person. The interviews for
both grantee teams and primary care
practice staff will cover domains such as
understanding the practice
implementation and changes overtime,
methods of supporting practices,
barriers and facilitators to
implementation, strategies to overcome
barriers, and the number and type of
staff implementing SBI/RT and MAT.
Secondary data collected by grantees
and analyzed by the evaluator will
include:

Aggregated process measure data that
will be used to assess whether the
number of patients receiving SBI/RT
and/or MAT increased at the practice
level. Grantees will survey all
participating primary care practices at
the beginning of the initiative to collect
data on basic practice characteristics
(e.g., size, ownership, staff, and patient
population) that can be used to evaluate
relationships between practice
characteristics and the number of
patients receiving SBI/RT and/or MAT.
Grantees will also collect quantitative
information about the number, duration,
and function of contact between
practice facilitators and primary care
practices to evaluate the relationship
between duration, frequency, and type
of practice facilitator-practice
engagement, and the number of patients
screened, receiving brief intervention,
and/or treated for UAU. The practice
facilitators will collect data to track
changes in practices over time and
facilitate an overall assessment of what
activities the practice is conducting to
identify and manage UAU.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents’ time to complete the semistructured Key Informant Interviews.
For the three-year clearance period, the
estimated annualized burden hours for
the interviews are 60.

EXHIBIT 1
Number of
respondents

Data collection activity

Number of
responses per
respondent

Hours per
response

Total burden
hours

Semi-Structured Interviews ..............................................................................

60

1

1.0

60

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

60

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

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

60

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden based on the

respondents’ time to complete the Key
Informant Interviews. The total

annualized cost burden is estimated to
be $6,109.

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents

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Form name

Total burden
hours

Average
hourly wage
rate *

Total cost
burden

Semi-Structured Interviews ..............................................................................

60

60

a $101.82

$6,109

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

60

60

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

6,109

* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2018 ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics’’:
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.
a Based on the mean wages for 29–1062 Family and General Practitioners.

Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s

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with regard to any of the following: (a)
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dissemination functions, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including
hours and costs) of the proposed
collection(s) 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 upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: June 9, 2020.
Virginia L. Mackay-Smith,
Associate Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60 Day-20–1161; Docket No. CDC–2020–
0068]

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 ‘‘Evaluation of Enhancing HIV
Prevention Communication and
Mobilization Efforts through Strategic
Partnerships.’’ This collection is
designed to assess the extent to which
partnership activities meet the
overarching goals for dissemination,
communication, and implementation of
national engagement efforts in support
of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services’ Ending the HIV
Epidemic.

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Please note: Submit all comments through
the Federal eRulemaking portal
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.

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:
404–639–7570; 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;
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

[FR Doc. 2020–12804 Filed 6–12–20; 8:45 am]

SUMMARY:

CDC must receive written
comments on or before August 14, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2020–
0068 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.
DATES:

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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
Evaluation of Enhancing HIV
Prevention Communication and
Mobilization Efforts through Strategic
Partnerships (OMB Control No. 0920–
1161)—Reinstatement without Change—
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral
Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
(NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
To address the HIV epidemic in the
U.S., the Department of Health and
Human Services launched Ending the
HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America,
which is a cross-agency initiative
aiming to reduce new HIV infections in
the U.S. by 90% by 2030. CDC’s Let’s
Stop HIV Together campaign (formerly
known as Act Against AIDS) is part of
the national Ending the HIV Epidemic
initiative, and includes resources aimed
at reducing HIV stigma and promoting
testing, prevention, and treatment across
the HIV care continuum.
Within this context, CDC’s Division of
HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) has and
will continue implementing various
partnership activities to increase HIV
awareness among the general public,
reduce new HIV infections among
disproportionately impacted
populations, and improve health
outcomes for people living with HIV/
AIDS in the US and its territories.
DHAP partners will be funded under
to (1) support the dissemination of
Together campaign materials,
messaging, and other CDC resources that
support HIV prevention and (2)
implement national engagement efforts
focusing on HIV prevention and
awareness. Partners represent civic/
social, media, and LGBT-focused
organizations. In addition, DHAP will
continue to engage and support the
private sector in promoting HIV
education, awareness, and policies in
the workplace. This may take the form
of encouraging businesses to implement
HIV/AIDS policies and education
programs in the workplace with the
overarching goal of increasing public

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