[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 129 (Thursday, July 5, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31398-31399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-14375]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration


Statement of Organizations, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

AGENCY: Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, Center for Food Safety 
and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Statement of Organizations, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority.
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that it has 
reorganized the Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine (OFVM), Center 
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) by establishing the new 
Office of Executive Programs (OEP); realigning OFVM's Office of 
Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network along with 
its Prevention Staff and Response Staff under CFSAN; and retitling the 
Office of Regulations, Policy, and Social Science (ORPSS) to the Office 
of Regulations and Policy (ORP). With the retitling to ORP, the 
Regulations and Special Government Employee Management Staff was 
retitled to the Regulations Development Staff, and the Government 
Information Staff was established. This reorganization resulted in the 
abolishment of OFVM's Executive Secretariat Staff, CFSAN's Office of 
the Center Director's (OCD) Executive Operations Staff, and the 
Division of Social Sciences under the former ORPSS. This new 
organizational structure was approved by the Acting Secretary of Health 
and Human Services and applicable on December 7, 2017.

FOR FUTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Domanski, Associate Director 
for Management, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of 
Foods and Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, 5001 
Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20740, 240-402-2471.
    I. Part D, Chapter D-B, (Food and Drug Administration), the 
Statement of Organizations, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for 
the Department of Health Human Services (35 FR 3685, February 25, 1970; 
60 FR 56605, November 9, 1995; 64 FR 36361, July 6, 1999; 72 FR 50112, 
August 30, 2007; 74 FR 41713, August 18, 2009; and 76 FR 45270, July 
28, 2011) is amended to reflect the realigning of functions and 
personnel from OFVM's abolished Executive Secretariat Staff and CFSAN 
OCD's Executive Operations Staff to the newly established OEP, which 
will strengthen OFVM's capacity to coordinate across the various 
components of the Foods and Veterinary Medicine Program and better meet 
the day-to-day needs of its senior leadership. CORE is now reflected 
under CFSAN to facilitate greater collaboration, coordination, and 
leveraging of resources. ORP formalizes previous informal programs 
clarifying staff allocation, management, and leadership for internal 
and external stakeholders. This reorganization is explained in Staff 
Manual Guides 1160.1, 1230A.1, 1231.10, 1231.19, 1231.22, 1231.23, and 
1241.1.
    FDA, OFVM and CFSAN have been restructured as follows:
    DJJ Organization. OFVM is headed by the Deputy Commissioner for 
Foods and Veterinary Medicine and includes the following organizational 
units:

Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine (DJJ)
Communications and Public Engagement Staff (DJJ1)
Office of Resource Planning and Strategic Management (DJJA)
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (DJJH) Center for 
Veterinary Medicine (DJJV)

    DJJH Organization. CFSAN is headed by the Center Director and 
includes the following organizational units:

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (DJJH)
Office of the Center Director (DJJHA)
Office of Management (DJJHB)
Office of Analytics and Outreach (DJJHC)
Office of Food Safety (DJJHD)
Office of Cosmetics and Colors (DJJHE)
Office of Regulatory Science (DJJHF)
Office of Food Additive Safety (DJJHG)
Office of Compliance (DJJHH)
Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment (DJJHI)
Office of Regulations and Policy (DJJHJ)
Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling (DJJHK)
Office of Dietary Supplement Programs (DJJHL)
Office of Executive Programs (DJJHM)
Office of Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network (DJJHN)

     DJJHJ Organization. ORP is headed by the Office Director and 
includes the following organizational units:

Office of Regulations and Policy (DJJHJ)
Regulations Development Staff (DJJHJ1)
Government Information Staff (DJJHJ2)

     DJJHM Organization. OEP is headed by the Office Director and 
includes the following organizational unit:

Office of Executive Programs (DJJHM)

     DJJHN Organization. CORE is headed by the Office Director and 
includes the following organizational units:

Office of Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network (DJJHN)
Prevention Staff (DJJHN1)
Response Staff (DJJHN2)

    I. Delegations of Authority. Pending further delegation, 
directives, or orders by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, all 
delegations and redelegations

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of authority made to officials and employees of affected organizational 
components will continue in them or their successors pending further 
redelegations, provided they are consistent with this reorganization.
    II. Electronic Access. Persons interested in seeing the completed 
Staff Manual Guide can find it on FDA's Webs site at: http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ReportsManualsForms/StaffManualGuides/default.htm.

(Authority: 44 U.S.C. Sec.  3101.)

    Dated: June 28, 2018.
Alex M. Azar II,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-14375 Filed 7-3-18; 8:45 am]
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