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This information collection request (ICR) facilitates agency initiation and conduct of the investigation of fatigue and fatigue management in land-based Oil and Gas Extraction (OGE) workers in the United States. Collection of information may help a) identify occupational and non-occupational determinants of fatigue in OGE workers; b) identify worker and organizational factors to consider when developing and implementing fatigue management strategies in the OGE industry; and c) describe how fatigue mitigation strategies are currently being used in the onshore OGE industry.

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The main goal of the National Firefighter Registry (NFR), according to the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018, is, “to develop and maintain a voluntary registry of firefighters to collect relevant health and occupational information of such firefighters for purposes of determining cancer incidence.” This Non-Substantive Change Request is submitted for the following reason(s): 1) Modification of R/E question to follow the recently released Statistical Policy Directive 15 (SPD-15) Standard in the NFR Enrollment Questionnaire; 2) Removal of three questions in the Enrollment Questionnaire that are being asked exclusively in the User Profile; and 3) Modification of Sex question to conform to EO 14168. There is no change to the burden hours approved for this data collection.

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The goal of this information collection request (ICR) is to collect Annual Progress Report (APR) performance monitoring data via the web-based Cooperative Agreement Management Platform (CAMP). This APR data helps monitor the grantees under Grants for Injury Control Research Centers (ICRC). CDC/NCIPC is submitting a Change Request to revise/remove questions to better align the information collection request with the priorities and Orders issued by the current administration. There are no anticipated changes to the currently approved burden hours.

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This information collection is designed to collect the MDN and response-specific data as needed, for confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of any disease or condition that is the subject of an emergency response at CDC. During an emergency response, CDC uses case data to inform actions that need to be taken at all levels of public health and by the public. State, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health departments and CDC need to exchange data on confirmed, probable, and suspected cases rapidly. Timely notification of cases from STLT to CDC is critical to provide situational awareness at the federal level to support decision making, particularly for public health threats. This change request involves adhering to recent executive orders.

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The primary objective of NHBS-BHBA is to conduct mixed-methods behavioral surveillance among populations at high risk for HIV in selected geographic areas of interest to assess: 1) risk behaviors and social determinants of health for HIV infection, 2) HIV testing behaviors and treatment, 3) HIV seroprevalence and incidence, and 4) exposure to, use of, and impact of HIV prevention services. Through this project, funded state health departments for NHBS-BHBA will work with local entities to collect surveillance data to understand HIV risk, especially in areas or populations with limited information. Non-Substantive Change Request submitted to modify package documents for compliance with recently issued EOs. There is no change anticipated to the burden hours.

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The Office of Population Affairs (OPA), in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), requests a new clearance for the collection of performance measures specifically for new FY2023 Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program grantees. In FY2023, OPA expects to award 5-year TPP cooperative agreements to up to 96 organizations across three Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs). Collection of performance measures is a requirement of all TPP awards and is included in the NOFOs. The data collection will allow OPA to comply with federal accountability and performance requirements, inform stakeholders of grantee progress in meeting TPP program goals, provide OPA with metrics for monitoring FY2023 TPP grantees, and facilitate individual grantees’ continuous quality improvement efforts within their projects. OPA requests clearance for three years.

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The ACE Investigations focus on performing rapid epidemiological assessments to assist state, regional, local, or tribal health departments (the requesting agencies) to respond to or prepare for acute chemical releases. States use the information to 1. Characterize exposure and acute health effects of respondents exposed, 2. Identify needs (i.e. medical and basic) of those exposed during the releases to aid in planning interventions in the community, 3. Assess the impact of the incidents on health services use and share lessons learned for use in planning for chemical incidents.

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This request by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is to extend approval of the generic clearance for Reviewer Recruitment Forms with no changes (note that burden estimates have been updated to reflect ongoing collections and estimated future burden, but the purpose and use of this generic have not changed). ACF may recruit reviewers for a variety of different activities and each program office within ACF has a slightly different needs for information about reviewer applicants for different activities. This overarching generic clearance allows ACF to request slightly different information from potential reviewers, yet the individual forms serve the same general function. The abbreviated clearance process of the generic clearance allows program offices to gather a suitable pool of candidates within the varied time periods available for reviewer recruitment. The forms submitted under this umbrella generic are and will be voluntary, low-burden and uncontroversial. Information will be collected electronically unless specified otherwise in an individual generic information collection (GenIC) request.

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This information collection request (ICR) is for a revision to the umbrella Generic for ACF Program Monitoring Activities. The current expiration date is November 30, 2023. The overall proposed purposes, uses, and scope of the umbrella remain unchanged. The only changes are to the burden estimates, as described in sections A12 and A15. The Generic for ACF Program Monitoring Activities allows Administration for Children and Families (ACF) program offices to collect standardized information from recipients that receive Federal funds to ensure oversight, evaluation, support purposes, and stewardship of Federal funds. The information is necessary to ensure compliance with Federal and programmatic requirements, monitor progress on recipient activities, and determine and respond to recipient needs such as Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA). ACF is primarily a grant-making agency that promotes the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities with partnerships, funding, guidance, T/TA. ACF program offices have evolving monitoring needs, dependent on both internal and external factors, such as but not limited to: current grantee activities, needs; uses of federal funds; changes to aspects of programs based on statutory authority, federal regulations or policy, and/or Congressional appropriations; availability of program office funds for site visits (v. desk monitoring); matters of importance related to national health and safety needs of the public, or other events that lead to program changes. There are times when standardized collections of information would be helpful for program offices as they monitor recipient activities and needs. This generic clearance allows program offices the flexibility to create tailored information collections based on current circumstances and to receive approval for these in a timely manner. This is important to allow for ACF’s: • monitoring of compliance with federal practice, guidelines and requirements, • quick understanding of and remediation to national, regional, and/or site-specific issues, • provision of support as needed, • accurate assessment of the efficiency and efficacy of recipient activities • documentation of promising practice, innovative services, and program strengths • flexible and responsive oversight of federal funds

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This information collection is part of the Assessing and Describing Practice Transitions Among Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Study, which aims to identify and study practices implemented in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency that support evidence-based practice and have the potential to enhance home visiting programming. One of the practices the study identified is the use of coaching to promote caregiver-child interactions and positive caregiving skills. Coaching involves a home visitor providing instructions to the parent or caregiver as they carry out the skill and differs from a common home visiting strategy, modeling, in which home visitors first demonstrate a skill themselves before asking the parent or caregiver to try it. The purpose of this information collection is to better understand, through rapid cycle learning, how MIECHV-funded home visiting programs can implement coaching strategies during home visits.

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OVW developed a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) template and an accompanying Application Guide to assist potential grantees in applying for current OVW programs and related funding opportunities. The NOFO template ensures that all applicants to OVW grant programs and related funding opportunities will be asked to provide uniform information in a consistent manner. OVW developed a NOFO template and an accompanying Application Companion Guide to assist potential applicants with applying to OVW grant programs. The NOFO template ensures that all applicants to OVW grant programs will be asked to provide uniform information in a consistent manner. The information addressed in the NOFO template includes: Application for Federal Assistance; Proposal Abstract; Pre-Award Risk Assessment; Summary Data Sheet; Proposal Narrative; Budget Detail Worksheet and Narrative; Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (if applicable); Disclosure of Process Related to Executive Compensation (if applicable); Memorandum of Understanding; Certification Regarding Compliance with Federal Immigration Law (if applicable); Letter of Nonsupplanting; Confidentiality Notice Form; Disclosure of lobbying Activities (if applicable); Summary of Other Federal Funding (if applicable); Delivery of Legal Assistance Certification (if applicable); and other Program-Specific Items. Each NOFO will then be tailored to address the specific OVW grant program so that identification of eligible applicants, availability of funds, award period, award amount, program scope, other program eligibility requirements; out-of -scope activities, and unallowable costs will be consistent with the statutory requirements and funding amounts authorized for each particular grant program or funding opportunity.

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The goal of the study is to amend one question on our list of potential additional questions to support data collection for a winter 2023/2024 pilot project. There is a continuous need to have no more than four of the additional questions added to the primary instrument at any given time, there is no additional burden to the participant. The responses to these questions will be collected using the same digital questionnaire as the primary instrument. The PRA-approved supporting statement A (SSA) and consent form both indicate the potential for testing for additional pathogens, and the data collected from this additional question is necessary for the interpretation of test results from the pathogens for which are now testing. This change request modifies the collection to adhere to current execute orders.

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The goal of this ongoing monitoring and evaluation is to assess Healthy Start (HS) progress towards meeting its performance goals. Results from monitoring and evaluation efforts will provide actionable evidence to support the improvement, sustainability, replication, and dissemination of the program. The information collected will be used to obtain consistent information across all 100 grantees about HS, its participants, and its outcomes. Respondents include pregnant women and women of reproductive age that were served by HS and HS staff. This revision seeks to reduce the burden of data collection on grantees and program participants, as well as to focus the evaluation more clearly on progress towards meeting performance goals regarding program impact. In the process, this will ensure that collected data is meaningful for monitoring and evaluation, and that previously separate data systems can be streamlined, thus improving efficiency.

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This request is for continued approval of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Performance Measurement Information System. HRSA uses performance information to demonstrate program accountability and continuously monitor and provide oversight to MIECHV Program awardees. The information is also used to provide quality improvement guidance and technical assistance to awardees and help inform the development of early childhood systems at the national, state, and local level. HRSA is seeking to continue to collect information on demographic, service utilization, and select clinical indicators for participants enrolled in home visiting services and a set of standardized performance and outcome indicators that correspond with the statutorily identified benchmark areas. This information will be used to demonstrate awardees’ compliance with legislative and programmatic requirements. It will also be used to monitor and provide continued oversight for awardee performance and to target technical assistance resources to awardees.

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In 2012, CDC/OSH obtained OMB approval of a generic clearance to support the development of tobacco-related health messages (Message Testing for Tobacco Communication Activities (MTTCA), OMB No. 0920-0910). The MTTCA clearance has been used to obtain OMB approval for a variety of message testing activities. CDC is requesting OMB approval to extend the generic MTTCA clearance for three years. CDC will continue to use the MTTCA clearance to develop and test messages and materials for current and future phases of the ACA-funded media campaign, as well as OSH's ongoing programmatic initiatives including, but not limited to, the Media Campaign Resource Center, reports from the Office of the Surgeon General, and other communication efforts and materials. The MTTCA generic clearance may also be used to facilitate the development of tobacco-related health communications of interest for CDC collaborative efforts with other federal partners including, but not limited to, the Food and Drug Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Cancer Institute. The MTTCA clearance is sufficient to test tobacco related messages developed by CDC. No modification is requested for information collection activities or methodology. Non-Subsantive Change Request is submitted to modify questions in previously approved GenIC for compliance with recently issued EOs. There is no change to burden hours.

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OMB approved the impact and implementation studies and instruments for the OPRE Study, Supporting Youth to be Successful in Life (SYSIL) on July 27, 2021 (OMB #0970-0574). Baseline data collection with youth for the impact study began in September 2021. Data collection for the 6-month and 12-month follow-up surveys began in April 2022 and October 2022, respectively. The first round of check-in calls began late 2022 and is complete. The second round of check-in calls began February 2024 and is complete. The first round of interviews and focus groups began May 2022 and is complete. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

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On March 17, 2023, we received OMB approval to conduct a descriptive case study for the Culture of Continuous Learning Project: Case Study (OMB #0970-0605). The purpose of this project is to document the factors that contribute to the feasibility of implementing the Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) quality improvement methodology in Head Start and child care centers. The OMB-approved information collection includes: (1) implementation materials (e.g., worksheets); (2) key informant interviews; (3) focus groups with key staff, teachers, and parents; and (4) surveys with administrators, teachers, staff, and parents. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

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The authorization to require a Lead Agency in the State or Territory administering a Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program to submit a plan using the Preprint form is contained in the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (CCDBG Act), 42 U.S.C 9858 as amended by the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014, Public Law 113-186. To be eligible to receive funds under this program, Section 658E of the CCDBG Act, 42 U.S.C. 9858c, a State or Territory shall prepare and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary shall require by rule, including a CCDF Plan (OMB 0970-0114) that meets the requirements of Section 658E(c) of the CCDBG Act, 42 U.S.C. 9858c(c). OCC provides State/Territory Lead Agencies with the CCDF Preprint (ACF Form 118) as a useful tool to guide the development and submission of their Plans. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

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The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is a system designed to accumulate, exchange, and integrate relevant information and resources among private and public stakeholders to support local and national efforts to protect patients and promote healthcare safety. Specifically, the data is used to determine the magnitude of various healthcare-associated adverse events and trends in the rates of these events among patients and healthcare workers with similar risks. The data will be used to detect changes in the epidemiology of adverse events resulting from new and current medical therapies and changing risks. This Change Request is submitted to adhere to recent EOs and includes another minor change.Emergency Justfication:Emergency Processing is requested to add three (3) additional pathogens of concern to the NHSN (OMB Control No. 0920-0666) data collection: Influenza A (H5), Marburg, and Oropouche. This requested update in disease surveillance will illustrate which patient populations are being affected by these pathogens and the potential need for additional healthcare infection prevention and control. Since this form is collecting data on hospitalized patients, the update will also help inform on the severity of illness a high consequence pathogen is causing as well as what region(s) of the country are affected. Data collection is vital to ensure that local and state authorities are supported to prepare for and respond to emerging outbreaks.

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The PMHCA Program aims to promote behavioral health integration into pediatric primary care by supporting the development of state, regional, and tribal pediatric mental health care teleconsultation access programs. The PMHCA Program supports pediatric health professionals (HPs) in their delivery of high-quality and timely screening, assessment, treatment, and referrals for children and adolescents with behavioral health conditions through the provision of teleconsultation, care coordination support/navigation (e.g., resource identification and referrals), and training and education. Additionally, the PMHCA Program focuses on achieving health equity related to racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities in access to care, especially in rural and other underserved areas.