[Federal Register: August 10, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 153)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as
amended most recently at 70 FR 34772-34774, dated June 15, 2005) is
amended to reflect the establishment of the Coordinating Officer for
Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response.
After the mission statement for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (C), insert the following:
Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency
Response (CG), The mission of the Coordinating Office for Terrorism and
Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) is to protect health and
enhance the potential for full, satisfying and productive living across
the lifespan of all people in all communities related to community
preparedness and response. To carry out its mission COTPER (1) fosters
collaborations, partnerships, integration, and resource leveraging to
increase the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) health
impact and achieve population health goals; (2) provides strategic
direction to support CDC's terrorism preparedness and emergency
response efforts; (3) manage CDC-wide preparedness and emergency
response programs; (4) maintains concerted emergency response
operations--including the Strategic National Stockpile and the
Director's Emergency Operations Center; (5) communicates terrorism
preparedness and emergency response activities to internal and external
stakeholders.
Office of the Director (CGA). (1) Manages, directs, and coordinates
the activities of the office; (2) coordinates CDC legislative agenda
and activities related to public health preparedness and emergency
response; (3) provides leadership in policy formation, program
operations, strategic direction, and fiscal
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oversight; (4) identifies needs and resources for new initiatives and
assigns responsibilities for their development; (5) serves as the
principal CDC liaison to the Department of Health and Human Services as
well as other federal agencies, international organizations, foreign
governments and other organization concerned with terrorism
preparedness and response; (6) directs and coordinates CDC and national
activities to better prepare the public health workforce through
training and education; (7) serves as the liaison from the Office of
the Director, CDC, to the emergency operations of CDC; (8) coordinates
CDC emergency operations; (9) serves as spokesperson for CDC policies
and strategies regarding terrorism; (10) develops and maintains the
CDC-wide Terrorism Preparedness and Response Strategic Plan; (11)
coordinates CDC-wide terrorism budget formulation with the Financial
Management Office, coordinating centers and coordinating offices,
centers and staff offices; (12) develops and analyzes legislation and
potential legislation for their impact on CDC and the nation's safety;
(13) coordinates and provides on training and education programs,
international activities, partnership and special projects related to
terrorism.
Division of Business Services (CGB). The Division of Business
Services (DBS) provides the coordinating office with a centralized
business hub where customer service and business administration is the
focal point of all business support functions. To carry out its
mission, the division: (1) Develops and implements supplemental and/or
unique to COPTER administrative policies and procedures that govern
business administration, procurement practices, facilities management,
time and attendance reporting, travel, records management, personnel
and a wide scope of other business services; (2) plans, coordinates,
tracks, and provides management advice and direction of fiscal
management for the organization's annual budgets and spend plans; (3)
provides consultation on human capital needs and facilitates hiring and
training practices as described in the Office of Personnel Management
and agency guidelines; (4) coordinates and manages all business
services related to management, administration, and training for
COPTER; (5) coordinates all issues related to physical security,
telecommunications, office space and design, procurement of equipment,
furniture, IT services, and facilities management; (6) provides
assistance in formulating, developing, negotiating, managing, and
administering various COPTER contracts; (7) coordinates and manages all
controlled correspondence and Freedom of Information Act requests; (8)
maintains liaison with the other offices within COPTER and other
business services divisions within CDC and the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
Division of State and Local Readiness (CGC). The Division of State
and Local Readiness provides support, technical guidance and fiscal
oversight to State, local, and territorial public health department
grantees for the development and enhancement of public health plans,
infrastructure and systems to prepare for and respond to terrorism,
outbreaks of disease, and other public health emergencies.
Office of the Director (CGC1). (1) Plans, directs, and evaluates
the activities of the division; (2) develops goals and objectives and
provides national leadership and guidance in public health preparedness
policy formulation and program planning and development; (3) ensures
multidisciplinary collaboration in State and local public health
preparedness activities; (4) provides leadership and guidance in the
development of training and educational programs; (5) coordinates the
development of guidelines and standards to ensure ongoing, effective
public health preparedness programs and their evaluations; (6) oversees
the creation of programmatic materials, and ensures appropriate
clearance of these materials; (7) assists in the preparation of
speeches and Congressional testimony on State and local cooperative
agreements and State and local preparedness for the division director,
the center director, and other public health officials; (8) monitors
divisional resource allocation and utilization in relation to State and
local preparedness projects; (9) provides technical consultation and
assistance to State and local health departments, community planning
groups, and non-governmental and other prevention partners in
operational aspects of public health preparedness.
Program Services Branch (CGCB). (1) Provides technical consultation
and assistance to State and local health departments in operational
aspects of public health preparedness, through coordination with
multiple agency components; (2) facilitates linkages with public health
preparedness programs at Federal, State, and local levels to ensure
their readiness to respond to a terrorist event or other public health
threats or emergencies; (3) monitors activities of cooperative
agreement projects to assure program objectives and key performance
indicators are achieved; (4) identifies and resolves problems in
project areas through on-site program reviews; (5) identifies and
promotes CDC recommendations, promising practices, and lessons learned;
(6) conducts and coordinates technical reviews and provides funding
recommendations related to cooperative agreement activities; (7)
provides supervision for State and local public health preparedness
field staff; (8) facilitates coordination within State/local project
areas regarding preparedness activities with other program partners.
Outcome Monitoring and Evaluation Branch (CGCC). (1) Collaborates
and consults with CDC staff, other Public Health Service agencies,
State and local health departments, and other groups and organizations
involved in preparedness activities to develop performance goals and
indicators for readiness; (2) summarizes and synthesizes the
preparedness research literature to derive research priorities and
specify the characteristics of effective preparedness interventions;
(3) conducts evaluation research activities to evaluate the
effectiveness and impact of preparedness strategies and programs and
development of both process and outcome measures that preparedness
programs can use to assess their ongoing performance; (4) collects,
analyzes, interprets and applies information to identify gaps in State
and local public health preparedness; (5) disseminates guidance and
recommendations in coordination with other OTPER/CDC coordinating
centers and coordinating offices, centers and staff offices, partners
and stakeholders to improve State and local preparedness; (6) monitors
State and local achievement of public health preparedness performance
measures; (7) develops and maintains a real-time management information
system to monitor projects funded by the State and Local Preparedness
Cooperative Agreement requirements.
Division of Strategic National Stockpile (CGE). The Division of
Strategic National Stockpile (DSNS) delivers critical medical assets to
the site of a national emergency. The Strategic National Stockpile
(SNS) is a national repository of antibiotics, chemical antidotes,
vaccines, antitoxins, life-support medications, intravenous
administration and airway maintenance supplies, and medical/surgical
items. It is designed to re-supply State and local public health
agencies in the event of a biological and/or chemical terrorism
incident anywhere, at anytime within the U.S. The DSNS ensures the
availability and rapid deployment of the SNS and supports, guides, and
advises
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on efforts by State and local governments to effectively manage and use
SNS assets that may be deployed. The DSNS stands ready for immediate
deployment to any U.S. location in the event of a terrorist attack
using a biological or chemical agent, or in response to any natural or
technological disaster as National Command Authority may direct.
Office of the Director (CGEI). (1) Conducts the executive planning
and management of the division; (2) plans strategies and methods for
educating the public health and emergency response communities about
the SNS and its effective use; (3) represents the SNS in State, local,
and federally sponsored exercises to test community response to
chemical/nerve agent or bioterrorism event; (4) provides technical
assistance to leaders in State and local governments in their planning
and preparations to effectively manage and use SNS assets; (5) directs
and monitors a comprehensive strategy for managing and executing the
critical systems in operating a successful commercial good
manufacturing practice compliance program; (6) supports and maintains
an intragovernmental committee to advise CDC Director on SNS formulary;
(7) provides medical, pharmaceutical, and scientific oversight of the
SNS formulary.
Logistics Branch (CGEB). (1) Operationally defines requirements
once they are established by the Office of the Director and the intra-
governmental committee on the SNS formulary and ratified by CDC; (2)
manages the procurement of medical materiel to meet requirements
through the CDC Federal procurement partner for the DSNS; (3) manages
and tracks the expenditure of DSNS funds for the procurement, storage,
and transport of medical materiel assets; (4) supervises the storage of
the SNS 12-hour Push Packages; (5) manages the development and
oversight of contracts for Stockpile Managed Inventory (SMI) and Vendor
Managed Inventory (VMI) with commercial manufacturers and distributors
of medical materiel; (6) manages the rotation of freshness-dated
products in the 12-hour Push Packages, in SMI, and in VMI; (7)
coordinates the physical security and safety of SNS assets with all
storage sites; (8) provides logistics expertise for the Technical
Advisory Response Unit (TARU), in full exercises or upon a Federal
deployment of the SNS that will accompany the SNS to the scene of the
chemical/nerve agent or bioterrorism event as well as for the team
staffing the DSNS Operations Center; (9) coordinates the recovery of
unused SNS assets deployed in an actual chemical/nerve agent or
bioterrorism event, including the recovery of SNS air cargo containers;
(10) maintains the capacity to transport any and all SNS assets by
overseeing contractual arrangements with commercial cargo carrier
partners; (11) stores and maintains vaccines, therapeutic blood
products, and antitoxins in selected repositories designated for
managing and shipping these and other special medical countermeasures.
Program Preparedness Branch (CGEC). (1) Supervises the development,
refinement, and dissemination of guidance for CDC project areas to plan
for the management and use of deployed SNS assets and for building
necessary infrastructure; (1) analyzes overall development needs of
personnel in State/local SNS Preparedness Programs and creates,
implements, directs, reviews, and manages training and other
developmental activities designed to meet those needs; (3) manages
coordination with project area officials on the planning and execution
of both tabletop and full exercises to test the function teams and the
entire contingent organization created for SNS preparedness; (4)
collaborates with the Division of State and Local Readiness in COTPER
by providing support for their responsibilities as project officers
relative to the SNS Preparedness component of the CDC Bioterrorism
Preparedness cooperative agreement; (5) evaluates readiness of each of
the 62 CDC Bioterrorism Preparedness project areas to effectively
manage and use deployed SNS assets; (6) plans, designs and prepares
SNS-related communications and educational materials in support of
State/local SNS Preparedness Programs; (7) provides health
communication products before, during, and after an event to assist
State/local SNS Preparedness Program personnel and other public health
officials deal with the public; (8) serves as the DSNS point of contact
for collaboration with various Federal agencies and nongovernmental
organizations (e.g., Association of State and Territorial Health
Organizations, National Association of City and County Health
Officials) on programmatic initiatives and issues affecting State/local
SNS preparedness; (9) reviews and comments on SNS-specific components
of applications submitted for CDC Bioterrorism Preparedness cooperative
agreements; (10) collaborates with the DSNS Response Branch on the
CHEMPACK project, and other special projects, to ensure smooth
implementation and successful ongoing performance; (11) develops, in
collaboration with various contractors, the Department of Defense, and
universities, models for use by Project Areas in implementing elements
of the SNS Program.
Program Coordination Branch (CGED). (1) Interfaces with external
agencies and organizations with interest and involvement in SNS
activities and information; (2) manages the development of program
policies and procedures and performance of periodic analysis of
existing policies to assess compliance and requirements; (3) supervises
the SNS Training Steering Committee that identifies, prioritizes,
coordinates, and recommends internal and external training needs and
events; (4) supervises the Stockpile Configuration Management Board
that reviews, reconciles, and adjusts SNS package and kit design and
contents to maintain consistency with medical, scientific, resource,
and end user requirements; (5) manages day-to-day execution of a
commercial good manufacturing practice compliance program in support of
the Director; (6) supervises all aspects of asset (material and
personnel) safeguarding and protection; (7) manages development,
testing, implementation, training, and operation of the DSNS unique
information management systems and technology; (8) manages the DSNS
internal review program; (9) provides project management for new
missions and initiatives within the DSNS.
Response Branch (CGEE). (1) Plans and manages response operations
during both day-to-day operations and activation in response to
emergencies; (2) manages continuity of operations of operations centers
to ensure effective response operations should any adversity affect the
capability of the DSNS primary operations center; (3) supervises the
development, coordination, maintenance, and exercise of DSNS response
and deployment plans; (4) manages the planning, coordination, and
conduct of the SNS Technical Advisory Response Unit (TARU) Academy to
train staff for duties on this immediate response team that deploys
with SNS assets; (5) manages the planning, coordination, and conduct of
the SNS Mobile Training Teams to train State and local SNS Preparedness
Program personnel, in collaboration with other DSNS branches and teams;
(6) manages the coordination, planning, and conduct of DSNS
participation and support for Federal, State, and local exercises; (7)
supervises the preparation and readiness of the Technical Advisory
Response Unit (TARU) to respond to emergencies; (8) provides operations
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and communications expertise for the TARU, in full exercises or upon a
Federal deployment of the SNS, that accompanies the SNS to the scene of
the chemical/nerve agent or bioterrorism events.
Division of Select Agents and Toxins (CGF). The Division of Select
Agents and Toxins ensures the safe and secure possession, use,
transfer, and storage of select agents and toxins in the United States
of America. This mission is achieved by establishing, monitoring and
enforcing regulations, and by collaborating with partners from other
agencies and professional associations. To carry out its mission, the
division: (1) Registers all laboratories, institutes and other
facilities that possess select agents or toxins; (2) establish and
maintains a national database of all entities that possess select
agents; (3) receives and review entity applications; (4) inspects
laboratory facilities (entities) to ensure that required bio-safety and
bio-security requirements are met; (5) approves all select agents or
toxin transfers; (6) receives and monitorings all reports on theft,
loss, or release of a select agent or toxin; (7) partners with other
government agencies, public health organizations, and registered
entities to ensure compliance with the Select Agent Regulations; (8)
develops and implements appropriate policies or regulations to ensure
the safety and security of select agents and toxins; (9) issues permits
for the importation of etiologic agents and hosts of vectors of human
diseases.
Division of Emergency Operations (OGG). The Division of Emergency
Operations (DEO) provides operational, administrative and logistical
support to all coordinating centers and coordination offices, centers
and staff officers in respondent to public health events and is CDC's
focal point for the consideration of plans, training (emergency
response) and exercises that are conducted at the national, Federal and
collective CDC level. To carry out it mission, the division: (1)
Oversees the operational, administrative and communications functions
of a state of the art emergency operations center on a 24 hours, 7 days
a week basis; (2) collaborates with lead coordinating centers and
coordination offices, centers and staff offices to deploy personnel,
gathers and prepared situations reports, analyses, and disseminates
information; (3) coordinates the use of resources from the coordination
centers and coordinating offices, centers and staff offices to oversee
the delivery of initial and prolonged emergency management consultative
services to States and localities experiencing public health
emergencies or other Federal and international agencies supporting
them; (4) establishes and monitoring external coordination and
communications with other CDC organization components, including the
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Operations Center,
and other Federal agencies operations centers including the Homeland
Security Operations Center of the Department of Homeland Security, and
other Federal agencies; as appropriate; (5) coordinates the training of
deploying CDC staff and tracks their locations and mission activities
during a deployment; (6) procures and maintains supplies, services and
equipment in response to emergency deployment operations and
coordinates equipment and personnel movement; (7) coordinates and
tracks specimen and other hazardous cargo shipments including all CDC
medical evacuation mission involving the movement of suspected
infectious and contagious patients; (8) provides deployment support of
24 hours a days, 7 ways a week (travel orders, equipment, etc.) and
tracks the expenditure of funds for CDC personnel responding to
emergency deployments; (9) manages the operations and use of the CDC
aircraft; (10) provides a public health logistics capability to respond
to natural and man-made disasters in foreign countries/U.S.
territories.
Dated: July 28, 2005.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
[FR Doc. 05-15798 Filed 8-9-05; 8:45 am]
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