Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 196 / Tuesday, October 12, 2004 / Notices 60629

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Toxic Substances and 

Disease Registry 

Statement of Organization, Functions, 

and Delegations of Authority 

Part T (Agency for Toxic Substances 

and Disease Registry) of the Statement 

of Organization, Functions, and 

Delegations of Authority of the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (50 FR 25129–25130, dated 

June 17, 1985, as amended most 

recently at 69 FR 86–87, dated January 

2, 2004, is amended to reflect the 

consolidation of the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry budget 

execution functions within the 

Financial Management Office, Office of 

the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

Section T–B, Organization and 

Functions, is hereby amended as 

follows: 

Delete item (5) of the functional 

statement for the Office of the Director 

(TB), and insert the following: (5) 

provides overall programmatic direction 

for planning and management oversight 

of allocated resources, human resource 

management and administrative 

support. 

Delete item (5) of the functional 

statement for the Office of Financial and 

Administrative Services (TB1), and 

insert the following: (5) formulates the 

budget and provides overall 

programmatic direction for planning 

and management oversight of allocated 

resources. 

Delete item (1) of the functional 

statement for the Program Services 

Activity (TB612), Office of the Director 

(TB61), Division of Health Assessment 

and Consultation (TB6), and insert the 

following: (1) Coordiantes the 

development of the Division’s budget 

and provides overall programmatic 

direction for planning and management 

oversight of allocated resources. 

The Chief Operating Officer, CDC, has 

been delegated the authority to sign 

general Federal Register notices for both 

the CDC and ATSDR.

Dated: September 29, 2004. 

William H. Gimson, 

Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC).

[FR Doc. 04–22604 Filed 10–8–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–04–0455X] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

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) 498–1210 or send an 

email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Human 

Resources and Housing Branch, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 

395–6974. Written comments should be 

received within 30 days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Learning from Principal Investigators 

of Research Projects Funded through the 

Extramural Prevention Research 

Program: How Can CDC Best Support 

Participatory Research and the 

Dissemination and Translation of 

Research Findings? — New—Public 

Health Practice Program Office 

(PHPPO), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Two of the current priorities of CDC 

are to (1) substantially increase CDC’s 

extramural public health research 

portfolio and budget and (2) develop a 

more client-oriented or customerfocused approach in all of CDC’s 

activities. As part of its strategy to 

strengthen and expand extramural 

public health research, CDC received 

new money from Congress in 1999 to 

establish an extramural prevention 

research program. This program would 

focus on linking the talents and skills of 

university-based scientists with the 

resources of health departments, 

community-based programs, and 

national organizations in order to try to 

better respond to the health needs of 

individual communities. 

Through its first round, the 

Extramural Prevention Research 

Program (EPRP), then known as the 

Prevention Research Initiative, provided 

$12.5 million in funding annually to 

support 56 three-year research projects 

based in states and localities throughout 

the country. The topics of these research 

projects were as diverse as asthma, 

traumatic brain injuries, tobacco 

control, workplace safety, and health 

disparities. All of the projects were 

community-based, and approximately 

one-third used a participatory approach 

in which, rather than just having 

community members be subjects of the 

research as is the usual case, researchers 

were to engage members of the 

community being studied (i.e., those 

who were expected to be the users of the 

research findings) in the research 

process itself. It is believed that 

engaging the users in the research will 

make it more likely that the research 

undertaken will address their actual 

needs and that they will be more likely 

to apply the research findings. 

Because of this commitment, CDC and 

many other federal and non-federal 

funding agencies are very interested in 

funding participatory research. Yet, 

anecdotal information and findings from 

an evaluation project conducted by CDC 

suggested that funding programs may 

need to adjust their expectations, 

requirements, and communication 

strategies if they want to attract and 

adequately support the conduct of 

participatory research projects, and if 

they want to best support the 

dissemination and translation into 

practice of research findings. Therefore, 

this project will involve conducting 

one-on-one, semi-structured, openended, qualitative interviews with the 

principal investigators of the grants 

funded in the first round of the EPRP in 

order to learn how CDC can best support 

community-based and participatory 

research, and how it can best participate 

in the dissemination and translation of 

the studies’ findings into practice. The 

approximate annualized burden is 36 

hours.

Respondents Number of respondents 

Number of responses/respondent Average burden/response

(in hrs.) 

Principal Investigators funded through the first round of the EPRP who self-report that they 

used a participatory research approach .................................................................................. 30 1 45/60