[Federal Register: February 8, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 26)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-06-05AG]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-4766 or send an e-mail
to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395-6974.
Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Process Evaluation of the Protocol for Assessing Community
Excellence in Environmental Health--New--National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The CDC, through a cooperative agreement with the National
Association of City and County Health Organizations (NACCHO), developed
and disseminated the Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in
Environmental Health (PACE EH). This document consists of 13 tasks to
engage the community in environmental health planning and assessment
activities. PACE EH seeks to strengthen public health leadership,
promote community collaboration, and encourage environmental justice.
In the long run, PACE EH seeks to establish a new leadership role for
local public health agencies and build sustainable community processes
for decision-making. More than 1,700 copies of a guidebook have been
disseminated to the public and approximately 900 organizations
requested one or more copies for review. Little is known about how each
of the hundreds of potentially interested communities nationwide
evaluates the suitability of the PACE EH methodology to its own
situation. Nor do we know the relative advantages and disadvantages
each community perceives in this methodology compared to other tools
and methods available for conducting environmental health assessments,
nor the range of challenges encountered in implementing the method.
    The purpose of the proposed study is to obtain information from
current and potential PACE EH users that will be used to guide resource
decisions related to its continued support and development. Two data
collection activities are proposed. The first is a Web survey of all
state and local health agencies that requested a copy of the PACE EH
Guidebook. The survey will ask questions about their decision whether
or not to adopt the method. If they did choose to adopt it, the survey
will ask questions about their progress, challenges faced, and impacts
of the method on their agency, the community, and the environment. The
second data collection activity is a one-day site visit to 24 of the
communities that are actively engaged in implementation to conduct
interviews with key staff and community members. These site visits will
provide additional detail about implementation issues and challenges
that are not readily obtained through survey methodology. There is no
cost to respondents other than their time. The total estimated
annualized burden hours are 846.

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                                       Estimate of Annualized Burden Table
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
                     Type of data collection                        respondents    responses per   response (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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PACE EH Requestor Survey........................................             872               1           45/60
PACE EH Participant Interviews..................................             192               1               1
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    Dated: February 1, 2006.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
 [FR Doc. E6-1695 Filed 2-7-06; 8:45 am]

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