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1. What are the best ways to improve 

the quality of life of individuals living 

with SCD? 

2. What strategies or best practices are 

needed to ensure individuals with SCD 

receive comprehensive evidence-based 

health care? If possible, describe 

different strategies needed for children 

and for adults in both healthcare (e.g., 

clinics, hospitals) and non-healthcare 

settings (e.g., education, housing, 

transportation). 

3. What are the barriers to ensuring 

infants identified with SCD through 

newborn screening are receiving 

appropriate follow-up care? What 

strategies or practices best address these 

barriers? 

4. What are the barriers to successful 

transition from pediatric to adult 

serving systems? What strategies are 

available for individuals with SCD to 

receive evidence-based, comprehensive 

care as they transition into adulthood 

(e.g., in clinics, hospitals)? What 

strategies or programs (e.g., community 

health worker programs) have 

successfully transitioned individuals 

with SCD in non-health settings (e.g., 

education, employment, and living 

situations)? 

5. What are the challenges to 

improving the systems of care that 

support individuals with SCD and their 

families across the lifespan more 

broadly? Please share strategies that can 

bridge the gaps between systems that 

address healthcare (e.g., clinics, 

hospitals) and systems that address 

social determinants of health (e.g., 

education, housing, transportation)? 

Respondents can also provide 

additional comments or 

recommendations that are not 

specifically linked to the questions 

above. All responses may, but are not 

required to, identify the individual’s 

name, address, email, telephone 

number, professional or organizational 

affiliation, background or area of 

expertise (e.g., program participant, 

family member, clinician, public health 

worker, researcher, HRSA SCD grantee), 

and topic/subject matter. Information 

obtained as a result of this request for 

information (RFI) may be used by HRSA 

for program planning. Comments in 

response to this RFI may be made 

publicly available, so respondents 

should bear this in mind when making 

comments. HRSA will not respond to 

any individual comments. 

Special Note to Commenters 

Whenever possible, respondents are 

asked to draw their responses from 

objective, empirical, and actionable 

evidence and to cite this evidence 

within their responses. The information 

obtained through this RFI may help 

inform the next iteration of the HRSA 

SCD portfolio of investments. This RFI 

is issued solely for information and 

planning purposes; it does not 

constitute a Request for Proposal, 

applications, proposal abstracts, or 

quotations. This RFI does not commit 

the U.S. Government to contract for any 

supplies or services or make a grant or 

cooperative agreement award. Further, 

HRSA is not seeking proposals through 

this RFI and will not accept unsolicited 

proposals. HRSA will not respond to 

questions about the policy issues raised 

in this RFI. Responders are advised that 

the U.S. Government will not pay for 

any information or administrative costs 

incurred in response to this RFI; all 

costs associated with responding to this 

RFI will be solely at the interested 

party’s expense. Not responding to this 

RFI does not preclude participation in 

any future procurement or program, if 

conducted. 

Maria G. Button, 

Director, Executive Secretariat. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28558 Filed 12–5–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Strategic 

Preparedness and Response 

Request for Information on Hospital 

Preparedness Program Funding 

Formula 

AGENCY: Administration for Strategic 

Preparedness and Response (ASPR), 

U.S. Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

319C–2 of the Public Health Service 

(PHS) Act, the Administration for 

Strategic Preparedness and Response 

(ASPR) distributes Hospital 

Preparedness Program (HPP) 

cooperative agreement funding to 

recipients using a statutorily required 

formula. ASPR is seeking comment on 

the risk component of the HPP funding 

formula to inform potential future 

changes to the formula. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by December 20, 2024. ASPR 

will not reply individually to 

responders but will consider all 

comments submitted by the deadline. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit all responses 

to the following email address: HPP@

hhs.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Hannah, Director, Office of 

Health Care Readiness (OHCR) via 

Jennifer.Hannah@hhs.gov or call: 202– 

245–0722. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HPP is a 

cooperative agreement program that, 

through its support for health care 

coalitions, prepares the nation’s health 

care delivery system to save lives during 

emergencies that exceed the day-to-day 

capacity of health care and emergency 

response systems. HPP is the primary 

source of federal funding for health care 

preparedness and response. HPP 

provides funding to 62 recipients, 

including the governments of all 50 

states, eight U.S. territories and freely 

associated states, the District of 

Columbia, Chicago, New York City, and 

Los Angeles County. For the purposes of 

this Request for Information (RFI), ‘‘the 

health care delivery system’’ refers to all 

organizations and persons whose 

mission is to promote, restore, optimize, 

or maintain health. 

Section 319C–2 of the PHS Act 

requires ASPR to distribute HPP 

funding based on the following factors: 

a required base amount determined by 

the HHS Secretary, a required 

adjustment based on population, and an 

amount based on significant unmet need 

and degree of risk. 

The risk component accounts for 

health care risks and hazards capable of 

creating a surge for the U.S. health care 

delivery system. ASPR calculates the 

health care surge-specific risk 

component using publicly available 

national datasets to account for three 

subcomponents: 


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1. Threat, or the likelihood of a 

particular threat event occurring, 

quantified by the number of events 

occurring within a recipient’s 

jurisdiction (e.g., the ‘‘flood’’ threat 

parameter is comprised of the number of 

flooding events occurring within a 

recipient’s jurisdiction). 

2. Vulnerability, or a community’s or 

communities’ access to health care 

services and surge capacity (or lack 

thereof), quantified by proportion-based 

public health metrics (e.g., the ‘‘health 

care access’’ vulnerability parameter is 

comprised of the number of staffed 

hospital beds per capita by recipient). 

3. Consequence, or the potential 

negative impacts associated with a 

particular threat/hazard occurring, 

quantified by the historic number of 

casualties per event associated with 

each threat/hazard (e.g., the ‘‘flood’’ 

consequence parameter captures the 

expected number of casualties 

associated with a flooding event). 

Information Requested 

Please reference the tables found at 

https://aspr.hhs.gov/ 

HealthCareReadiness/HPP/Pages/ 

rfi.aspx to answer the following 

questions. 

(1) What, if any, feedback do you have 

regarding the current datasets? For 

example, are there any current datasets 

you recommend retiring? Please specify 

why and if you would recommend any 

replacements. 

(2) What, if any, additional datasets 

would you recommend including in the 

risk calculation? Please specify the data 

source and associated risk 

subcomponent (i.e., threat, 

vulnerability, consequence). You may 

recommend adding one of the ‘‘potential 

datasets’’ included in the tables found at 

https://aspr.hhs.gov/HealthCare

Readiness/HPP/Pages/rfi.aspx and/or 

suggest new datasets for consideration. 

(3) What, if any, additional 

considerations would you recommend 

including in the calculation of risk (e.g., 

threats that are not included in the 

current datasets)? Please also include 

datasets that can be used to measure 

these factors. 

You may address as many or as few 

questions as you choose. You may 

provide additional feedback relevant to 

the HPP funding formula. When 

responding, please identify the 

corresponding question. Datasets used 

for the risk calculation must be national 

in scope and either publicly available or 

readily available to the federal 

government. 

This RFI is for planning purposes 

only and should not be construed as a 

policy, solicitation for applications, or 

as an obligation on the part of the 

government to provide support for any 

ideas in response to it. ASPR will use 

the information submitted in response 

to this RFI at its discretion and will not 

provide comments to any of your 

submissions. The government is under 

no obligation to acknowledge receipt of 

the information received or provide 

feedback with respect to any 

information submitted. No proprietary, 

classified, confidential, or sensitive 

information should be included in a 

response. The contents of all 

submissions may be made available to 

the public in the future. Submitted 

materials should therefore be publicly 

available or be able to be made public. 

The Administrator and Assistant 

Secretary for Preparedness and 

Response of ASPR, Dawn O’Connell, 

having reviewed and approved this 

document, authorizes Adam DeVore, 

who is the Federal Register liaison, to 

electronically sign this document for 

purposes of publication in the Federal 

Register. 

Adam DeVore, 

Federal Register Liaison, Administration for 

Strategic Preparedness and Response. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28740 Filed 12–5–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health 

Services Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

Periodically, the Substance Abuse and 

Mental Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA) will publish a summary of 

information collection requests under 

OMB review, in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). To request a copy of these 

documents, email the SAMHSA Reports 

Clearance Officer at samhsapra@

samhsa.hhs.gov. 

Project: SAMHSA Unified Client-Level 

Performance Reporting Tool (SUPRT)— 

(OMB No. 0930–NEW) 

SAMHSA is the agency within the 

U.S. Department of Health and Human 

Services that leads public health efforts 

to advance the behavioral health of the 

nation. SAMHSA is seeking approval for 

the new SAMHSA Unified Performance 

Reporting Tool (SUPRT) which will (1) 

combine and align the existing clientlevel performance instrument for the 

SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse 

Treatment (CSAT) and National 

Outcomes Measures (NOMs) instrument 

for the SAMHSA Center for Mental 

Health Services (CMHS), and (2) create 

a two-component tool that will allow for 

a client (or caregiver) self-administered 

questionnaire (called SAMHSA Unified 

Performance Reporting Tool (SUPRT)– 

C: Client or Caregiver Form or ‘SUPRT– 

C’) and a grantee completion of 

administrative data (called SAMHSA 

Unified Performance Reporting Tool 

(SUPRT)–A: Administrative Report or 

‘SUPRT–A’). The revisions also allow 

for the client portion to move from 

interviewer-administered to selfadministered with the aim of potentially 

reducing burden and increasing 

reporting accuracy. 

SUPRT will allow SAMHSA to (1) 

continue to meet Government 

Performance and Results Modernization 

Act (GPRAMA) of 2010 reporting 

requirements; (2) reduce the scope and 

associated burden of questions requiring 

responses directly from clients; (3) 

standardize questions across programs 

wherever possible; and, (4) elicit 

programmatic information that will help 

to assess the impact of discretionary 

grant programs on the achievement of 

SAMHSA’s 2023–2026 Strategic Priority 

Area goals and objectives. 

Furthermore, this effort is designed to 

align performance reporting 

requirements with other parts of the 

Federal Statistical System. For example, 


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