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DASH will continue to use a webbased system to collect data on the
strategies that LEAs are using to meet
their goals. Strategies include helping
LEAs and priority schools deliver SHE
emphasizing HIV and other STD
prevention; increasing adolescent access
to key SHS; and establishing SSE for
students and staff. To track funded LEA
progress and evaluate the effectiveness
of program activities, DASH will collect
a mix of process and outcome measure
data. LEAs will complete process
measures that will assess the extent to
which planned program activities have
been implemented and lead to feasible
and sustainable programmatic
outcomes. Process measures include
items on school health policy and
practice assessment and training and
technical assistance received from nongovernmental partner organizations.
Outcome measures assess whether
funded activities at each site are leading
to intended outcomes including public
health impact of systemic change in
schools. The measures tailored to each

The estimated burden per response is
approximately 2–26 hours. This
estimate includes time for LEAs to
gather information at the district and
priority school-levels. Annualizing this
collection over five years of this project
results in an estimated annualized
burden of 1,750 hours per year and a
total of 3,500 hours for the requested
two-year extension across all funded
LEAs.
Funded LEAs are required to allocate
at least 6% of their NOFO award to
support evaluation activities ranging
from $15,000 to $21,000. Use of these
funds is discretionary, including for
collection of process and outcome
measures. Funded LEAs are required to
spend at least 6% of their award to
support evaluation activities, including
time to gather and enter data into the
online performance and evaluation
reporting system.
CDC requests OMB approval for an
estimated 1,750 annual burden hours.
There are no costs to respondents other
than their time to participate.

PS18–1807 strategy (i.e., SHE, SHS,
SSE) drove the development of
questionnaires.
Respondents are the same 25 LEAs
funded under PS18–1807. LEAs will
continue to complete the questionnaires
semi-annually using the Program
Evaluation and Reporting System
(PERS), an electronic web-based
interface specifically designed for this
data collection. Each LEA has a unique
login to the system and has access to
technical assistance to ensure they can
use the system easily. To provide timely
feedback to LEAs and DASH staff for
accountability and optimal use of funds,
the requested dates for data reflect the
Office of Financial Resources deadlines.
DASH anticipates that semi-annual
information collection will continue
after the current OMB approval time
frame ends on November 30, 2022. With
this extension, additional data
collection will be conducted at two time
points, November 1, 2022–March 1,
2023 and May 1, 2023–September 1,
2023.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

LEA ...................................................

Funded District Questionnaire .........
Priority School Questionnaire ..........
District Assistance Questionnaire ....

25
25
25

2
2
2

2
26
7

100
1,300
350

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

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

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

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

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

1,750

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–22–0980; Docket No. CDC–2022–
0045]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
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Number of
respondents

Type of respondents

Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public

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CDC must receive written
comments on or before June 7, 2022.

DATES:

AGENCY:

SUMMARY:

burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a continuing information collection, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on a proposed information
collection project titled National
Environmental Assessment Reporting
System (NEARS). This project is
designed to collect data from foodborne
illness outbreak environmental
assessments routinely conducted by
local, state, territorial, or tribal food
safety programs during outbreak
investigations.

You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2022–
0045, by either of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.

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• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE, MS H21–8, 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
H21–8, 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

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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;
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; and
5. Assess information collection costs.

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Proposed Project
National Environmental Assessment
Reporting System (NEARS) (OMB
Control No. 0920–0980, Exp. 8/31/
2022)—Revision—National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC is requesting OMB approval for
the National Environmental Assessment
Reporting System (NEARS) to collect
data from foodborne illness outbreak
environmental assessments routinely
conducted by local, state, territorial, or
tribal food safety programs during
outbreak investigations. Prior to the
development of NEARS, environmental
assessment data were not collected at
the national level. The data reported
through this surveillance system
provides timely information on the
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outbreaks, and are essential to
environmental public health regulators’
efforts to respond more effectively to
outbreaks and prevent future, similar
outbreaks. This surveillance system was
specifically designed to link to CDC’s
National Outbreak Reporting System
(NORS). NORS is a disease (e.g., enteric
diseases transmitted by food) outbreak
surveillance system. NEARS was
developed by the Environmental Health
Specialists Network (EHS–Net), a
collaborative network of CDC, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA), and nine state food safety
programs (California, Connecticut,
Georgia, Iowa, New York, Minnesota,
Oregon, Rhode Island, and Tennessee).
The network consists of environmental
health specialists (EHS),
epidemiologists, and laboratorians.
EHS-Net developed a standardized
protocol for identifying, reporting, and
analyzing data relevant to foodborne
illness outbreak environmental
assessments.
While conducting environmental
assessments during outbreak
investigations is routine for food safety
program officials, reporting information
from the environmental assessments to
CDC is not routine. Local, state, federal,
territorial, and tribal food safety
programs are the primary respondents
for this data collection. One official
from each participating program will
report environmental assessment data
on outbreaks. These programs are
typically located in public health or
agriculture agencies. In the U.S., there
are approximately 3,000 such agencies.
Currently, 63 state and local health
departments are registered to report data
on outbreaks to NEARS. Based on our
experience over the past five years, we
expect up to 10 additional local and
state public health departments to
register to report outbreak data to
NEARS over the next three years.
It is not possible to determine exactly
how many outbreaks will occur in the
future, nor where they will occur. Based
on past trends, it is likely that up to 300
foodborne illness outbreaks may be
reported annually to NEARS from up to
63 entities for the duration of the next
PRA clearance. Only programs in the
jurisdictions in which these outbreaks
occur would report to NEARS. Thus, not
every program of the approximate 3,000
programs will respond every year.
Assuming each outbreak occurs in a
different jurisdiction, there will be one
respondent per outbreak.
The activities associated with NEARS
that require a burden estimate consist of
training, observing, data recording, and
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is the training for the food safety
program personnel participating in
NEARS. These staff will be encouraged
to attend a Zoom/Microsoft Teams
Meeting (i.e., webinar) training session
conducted by CDC staff. Training
burden is based on the maximum
expected participation from the
reporting entities which could be up to
10 additional local and state health
departments. We estimate the burden of
this training to be a maximum of two
hours. Respondents will only be
required to take this training one time.
Assuming a maximum participation of
up to 10 programs and about five staff
being trained at each participating
program, the total estimated burden
associated with this training is 100
hours.
Food safety program personnel
participating in NEARS will also be
encouraged to complete CDC’s
Environmental Assessment Training
Series (EATS). This eCourse provides
training to staff on how to use a systems
approach in foodborne illness outbreak
environmental assessments. We
estimate the burden of this training to be
a maximum of 10 hours. Respondents
will only have to take this training one
time. Assuming a maximum
participation of up to 10 programs and
approximately five staff being trained at
each program, the estimated burden
associated with this training is 500
hours.
Data reporting activities for NEARS
will be done once for each
establishment involved in the outbreak.
Information collection activities for
NEARS consist of the following: NEARS
data reporting and NEARS manager
interview. For each outbreak, the
respondent (one official from each
participating program) will spend
around 30 minutes recording
environmental assessment data on pen
and paper. Assuming a maximum of 300
outbreaks, the estimated annual burden
is 150 hours for recording observations.
The manager interview will be
conducted at each establishment
associated with an outbreak and data is
initially recorded using pen and paper.
The respondents for this activity are the
retail food managers of the outbreak
establishments. Most outbreaks are
associated with only one establishment;
however, some are associated with
multiple establishments. We estimate
that a maximum of four manager
interviews will be conducted per
outbreak. Each interview and data
reporting will take about 20 minutes.
Assuming a maximum of 300 outbreaks,
the estimated annual burden is 400
hours. Web-based data entry for both
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interview will be combined. Data entry
into the NEARS system is expected to
take approximately 40 minutes for the

combined activities, for a total of 200
burden hours. The total estimated
annual burden requested for this

information collection is 1,350 hours.
There is no cost to respondents other
than their time.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Form name

Food safety program personnel ........

Retail food personnel ........................

NEARS Food Safety Program Training.
NEARS e-Learning (screenshots) ....
NEARS Data Recording (paper
form).
NEARS Data reporting and manager’s interview (web entry).
NEARS Manager Interview ..............

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

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

Jeffery 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

Proposed Information Collection
Activity; National and Tribal Evaluation
of the 2nd Generation of the Health
Profession Opportunity Grants (OMB
#0970–0462)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:

The Health Profession
Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Program
provides healthcare occupational
training for Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families recipients and other
individuals with low incomes. The
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) has approved various data
collection activities for the National and
Tribal Evaluation of the 2nd Generation
of HPOG (HPOG 2.0 National and Tribal
Evaluation) under OMB #0970–0462.
The Administration for Children and
Families’ (ACF) Office of Planning,
Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is now
preparing to conduct the HPOG 2.0

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Instrument 21a: HPOG 2.0 Long-Term Survey ...........

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100

50
300

1
1

10
30/60

500
150

300

1

40/60

200

1,200

1

20/60

400

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

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

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

1,350

Comments due within 60 days of
publication. In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting
public comment on the specific aspects
of the information collection described
above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information and
submit comments by emailing
[email protected].
Identify all requests by the title of the
information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The HPOG 2.0 evaluation
of non-tribal programs is assessing the
implementation and impacts of HPOG
in non-tribal HPOG programs and will
include a cost-benefit analysis. Key
participant outcomes of interest include
(but are not limited to) educational
progress, employment, and earnings.
The HPOG 2.0 Long-Term Follow-Up
Study will use survey and
administrative data to estimate longerterm (approximately 51⁄2 years after
random assignment) program impacts at
the local and national level and to
explore characteristics of local programs
that are associated with more favorable
outcomes. By extending data collection

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request period)

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(in hours)

1

Long-Term Follow-Up Study of HPOG
2.0 participants 51⁄2 years after study
enrollment, using a long-term survey
(LTS) and administrative data. This
notice provides a summary for public
review and comment of the use and
burden associated with the LTS
instrument.

Number of
respondents
(total over
request period)

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

50

DATES:

Administration for Children and
Families

SUMMARY:

Number of
responses per
respondent

Number of
respondents

Type of respondents

to include an LTS, OPRE can address
important unanswered questions for
policymakers and practitioners. The
HPOG 2.0 LTS specifically will provide
insights into the long-term impacts of
HPOG 2.0 for outcomes that are not
captured in administrative records, such
as details about educational
experiences, characteristics of
employment, self-employment, and
earnings from jobs not covered in
administrative data, receipt of public
assistance, physical and mental wellbeing, and child outcomes. There are
two versions of the HPOG 2.0 LTS, the
full version (Instrument 21) and a
shorter version with critical items of
interest only (Instrument 21a).
Instrument 21a will be offered to
reluctant participants who would
otherwise not complete the survey to
help maximize response rates and
reduce item non-response for the most
critical outcomes in the study.
Respondents: HPOG impact study
participants from the 27 non-tribal
HPOG 2.0 grantees (treatment and
control group members) who enrolled
between September 2017 and January
2018.
Annual Burden Estimates: This
request is specific to the HPOG 2.0
Long-Term Follow-Up Survey (LTS)
(both the full and critical items only
versions). Currently approved materials
and associated burden, which we plan
to continue to use can be found at:
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAICList?ref_nbr=201904-0970-006.
Avg. burden
per response
(in hours)

1

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Total burden
(in hours)

3,064

Annual burden
(in hours)

1,021