77218 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 231 / Tuesday, December 1, 2020 / Notices 

Dated: November 25, 2020. 

Lance Robertson, 

Administrator and Assistant Secretary for 

Aging. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26513 Filed 11–30–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4154–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Community Living 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Inventory of Adult 

Protective Services Practices and 

Service Innovations 

AGENCY: Administration for Community 

Living, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Administration for 

Community Living (ACL) is announcing 

an opportunity for the public to 

comment on the proposed collection of 

information listed above. Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the 

PRA), Federal agencies are required to 

publish a notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information, including each proposed 

extension of an existing collection of 

information, and to allow 60 days for 

public comment in response to the 

notice. This survey previously ran a 60- 

day FRN in 83 FR 66276 on 12/26/2018. 

As required under the PRA we are 

providing the public an opportunity to 

comment on any changes or updates 

applied to this IC since the 2018 

publication. We are requesting an 

abbreviated public comment period for 

additional 30-days prior to publication 

of a 30-day FRN and submittal to OMB. 

Any changes to the survey from the 

initial 60-day FRN publication are 

incorporated into the revised version of 

the survey. This notice solicits 

comments on any revisions since the 

initial publication in 2018. This is a 

new information collection 0985-New 

Inventory of Adult Protective Services 

Practices and Service Innovations. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information must be submitted 

electronically by 11:59 p.m. (EST) or 

postmarked by December 31, 2020. 

ADDRESSES: Submit electronic 

comments on the collection of 

information to Stephanie Whittier 

Eliason Stephanie.WhittierEliason@

acl.hhs.gov. Submit written comments 

on the collection of information to 

Administration for Community Living, 

Washington, DC 20201, Attention: 

Stephanie Whittier Eliason 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephanie Whittier Eliason, 

Administration for Community Living, 

Washington, DC 20201, Phone: (202) 

795–7467, Email: 

Stephanie.WhittierEliason@acl.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal 

agencies must obtain approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for each collection of 

information they conduct or sponsor. 

‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined 

in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 

1320.3(c) and includes agency requests 

or requirements that members of the 

public submit reports, keep records, or 

provide information to a third party. 

Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires Federal 

agencies to provide notice in the 

Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, 

before submitting the collection to OMB 

for approval. To comply with this 

requirement, ACL is publishing a notice 

of the proposed collection of 

information set forth in this document. 

With respect to the following 

collection of information, ACL invites 

comments on our burden estimates or 

any other aspect of this collection of 

information, including: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of ACL’s functions, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of ACL’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used 

to determine burden estimates; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques 

when appropriate, and other forms of 

information technology. 

Authority 

The Elder Justice Act of 2009 requires 

the Secretary of the U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services to carry out 

a number of activities related to adult 

protective services (APS) (42 U.S.C. 

1397m–1), including developing and 

disseminating information on APS best 

practices and conducting research 

related to the provision of APS. 

Furthermore, the Elder Justice 

Coordinating Council included as its 

third recommendation for increasing 

federal involvement in addressing elder 

abuse, neglect, and exploitation: 

‘‘develop a national APS system based 

upon standardized data collection and a 

core set of service provision standards 

and best practices.’’ 

Background 

The Administration for Community 

Living (ACL) in the U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS) 

plans to initiate an Inventory of Adult 

Protective Services Practices and 

Service Innovations (APS Practice 

Survey) in early 2021. Under a contract 

with ACL, the National Adult Protective 

Services Technical Assistance Resource 

Center (APS TARC) is conducting a 

national program evaluation of APS 

programs. As part of this evaluation, the 

APS Practice Survey will identify 

barriers to meeting policy mandates, 

and practice innovations and model 

programs that address such barriers and 

community-identified needs. It also 

seeks to identify practice variations in 

the way APS programs serve older 

adults and adults with disabilities. 

The results of the survey will serve to 

advance the field of APS and will be 

useful to many audiences. It will 

provide baseline information regarding 

the status of APS programs and services, 

and the resulting information will help 

states and territories compare their 

program characteristics with those of 

other states and territories. The survey 

will provide a context for other 

researchers examining APS programs. It 

will inform ACL’s efforts to support 

improvement of APS programs through 

activities such as innovation grants. 

Finally, it will inform the APS TARC 

team’s efforts to develop resources to 

enhance APS programs around the 

country. 

This survey has been developed to 

gather information on APS practices 

that is not available from other sources. 

As part of the National Adult 

Maltreatment Reporting System 

(NAMRS), ACL collects descriptive data 

on state and territory agency policies 

through the Agency Component of that 

data collection. 

Therefore, the proposed survey will 

not collect any background policy or 

data items. As part of the APS Program 

Evaluation, the APS TARC also 

conducted a detailed examination of 

state APS policies through development 

of individual state policy profiles. The 

profiles were based exclusively on 

extant information sources obtained 

without additional data requests from 

the states. Information on practices 

gathered in this survey will 

complement, but will not duplicate, 

these policy profiles. 


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Finally, the National Adult Protective 

Services Association (NAPSA) 

conducted a survey of State APS 

programs in 2012, and the National 

Association of State Units on Aging and 

Disability (NASUAD) fielded a survey to 

its members, which are not APS 

programs, in January 2018 intended to 

update findings from the NAPSA 2012 

survey. Since the survey replicates the 

original NAPSA survey, the questions in 

it are not focused on APS practice and 

are not directed at the same respondents 

as the proposed survey. As noted, a few 

topics in the original survey overlap 

with the proposed instrument, but the 

wording and focus of the few questions 

on similar topics are different. From this 

analysis, we conclude the proposed APS 

Practice Survey will yield vital 

information on APS practice not 

available from other sources. 

Proposed Collection Efforts 

The APS Practice Survey will collect 

state- and territory-specific practices for 

all aspects of APS casework practice, 

including staffing, intake, investigation, 

service planning and delivery, and 

quality assurance. Across these areas, 

the survey will collect information on 

practices such as community 

partnerships and use of assessment 

tools. 

The APS Practice Survey will be 

administered online using 

SurveyMonkey or a similar commercial 

survey-programming tool. The online 

survey will include data validation 

routines to minimize errors or 

unintentional omissions and will 

include appropriate skip patterns to 

reduce burden. Respondents will be 

state and territory APS agencies, 

including APS agencies in the District of 

Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern 

Marianas Islands, Virgin Islands, and 

American Samoa. No personally 

identifiable information will be 

collected. 

A pilot version of The APS Practice 

Survey was tested in nine (9) diverse 

states between July and September 

2017. Following their pretest of the 

survey instrument, pilot respondents 

participated in focus groups in which 

they provided recommendations on data 

collection procedures, views on the 

availability of data being requested, and 

estimates of the burden to each state and 

territory for completion of the survey. It 

is assumed that nearly every state and 

territory will participate and that time to 

develop a response will be similar to the 

experience of states during the pilot test. 

ACL has calculated the following 

burden estimates based on the results of 

the survey pilot test. 

To review and comment on the 

proposed data collection, please visit 

the ACL public input site at https://

www.acl.gov/about-acl/public-input. 

Estimated Program Burden 

ACL estimates the annual burden 

associated with this collection of 

information as follows: 

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

APS Practice Survey ....................................................................................... 56 1 3.50 196 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 196. 

Dated: November 25, 2020. 

Lance Robertson, 

Administrator and Assistant Secretary for 

Aging. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26514 Filed 11–30–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4154–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2020–N–1671] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for Office of 

Management and Budget Review; 

Comment Request; Good Laboratory 

Practice for Nonclinical Laboratory 

Studies 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA or Agency) is 

announcing that a proposed collection 

of information has been submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Submit written comments 

(including recommendations) on the 

collection of information by December 

31, 2020. 

ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on 

the information collection are received, 

OMB recommends that written 

comments be submitted to https://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. The OMB 

control number for this information 

collection is 0910–0119. Also include 

the FDA docket number found in 

brackets in the heading of this 

document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Domini Bean, Office of Operations, 

Food and Drug Administration, Three 

White Flint North, 10A–12M, 11601 

Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 

20852, 301–796–5733, PRAStaff@

fda.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA 

has submitted the following proposed 

collection of information to OMB for 

review and clearance. 

Good Laboratory Practice for 

Nonclinical Laboratory Studies—21 

CFR Part 58 

OMB Control Number 0910–0119— 

Extension 

Sections 409, 505, 512, and 515 of the 

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 

(21 U.S.C. 348, 355, 360b, and 360e) and 

related statutes require manufacturers of 

food additives, human drugs and 

biological products, animal drugs, and 

medical devices to demonstrate the 

safety and utility of their product by 

submitting applications to FDA for 

research or marketing permits. Such 

applications contain, among other 

important items, full reports of all 

studies done to demonstrate product 

safety in man and/or other animals. In 

order to ensure adequate quality control 

for these studies and to provide an 

adequate degree of consumer protection, 

the Agency issued good laboratory 

practice (GLP) regulations for 

nonclinical laboratory studies in part 58 

(21 CFR part 58). The regulations 

specify minimum standards for the 

proper conduct of safety testing and 

contain sections on facilities, personnel, 

equipment, standard operating 

procedures (SOPs), test and control 

articles, quality assurance, protocol and 

conduct of a safety study, records and 

reports, and laboratory disqualification, 


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