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Response: GSA will implement
additional certifications and
representations into SAM, as directed
by OMB. At this time, only the
assurances in the SF–424B are being
incorporated.
Comment: One respondent stated that
the SAM registration process is timeconsuming and frustrating for their
foreign-based recipients and they object
to adding another layer to the process.
They further stated that their grants are
usually under $10,000.
Response: Although 2 CFR 25—
Universal Identifier and System for
Award Management, requires that all
entities applying for or receiving federal
awards, including subrecipients of
federal awards, must register in SAM,
there are conditions under which a
federal agency may exempt a foreign
entity from this requirement. 2 CFR
25.110 (d)(2)(ii) allows agencies to
determine the practicality of whether a
‘‘foreign entity applying for or receiving
an award or subaward for a project or
program outside the United States
valued at less than $25,000’’ must
comply with the SAM registration
requirement.
Comment: One respondent stated that
eliminating an agency’s ability to
require certifications and assurances on
their own application is impractical.
Response: Although the standard
governmentwide certifications and
representations will be certified in
SAM, Federal agencies will still be able
to require the submission of agency or
program specific certifications and
representations with applications.
Comment: One respondent stated that
the cost and implementation timeline
considerations for agencies with online
project and grant application systems.
The respondent further stated that they
could not implement system changes by
October 1.
Response: GSA has informed OMB of
this consideration. The implementation
date for entities to begin providing
certifications during their initial
registration and their subsequent annual
re-registration will be no earlier than
January 1, 2019. The full transition to
grant certifications in SAM will not be
completed for a year, since existing
registrants will complete the
certifications in their annual recertification process. Once a recipient
has registered or re-registered, the
Federal agency will be able to download
or print a copy of the entity’s
certification to be entered into the
entity’s grant award file.
C. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 143,334.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
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Total annual responses: 143,334.
Hours per Response: 2.5.
Total Burden Hours: 358,335.
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the System
for Award Management Registration
Requirements for Prime Grant
Recipients, whether it will have
practical utility; whether our estimate of
the public burden of this collection of
information is accurate, and based on
valid assumptions and methodology;
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways in which we can
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, through the use of appropriate
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals:
Requesters may obtain a copy of the
information collection documents in
hard-copy or electronic format. Hard
copy: General Services Administration,
Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB),
1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC
20405, telephone 202–501–4755. Please
cite OMB Control No. 3090–0290,
System for Award Management
Registration Requirements for Prime
Grant Recipients, in all correspondence.
Dated: October 4, 2018.
David A. Shive,
Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[Docket No. CDC–2018–0099]
Draft Guideline: Infection Control in
Healthcare Personnel: Infrastructure
and Routine Practices for
Occupational Infection Prevention and
Control Services
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), in the
Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), announces the
opening of a docket to obtain comment
on the Draft Guideline: Infection Control
in Healthcare Personnel: Infrastructure
and Routine Practices for Occupational
Infection Prevention and Control
SUMMARY:
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Services (Draft Guideline). The Draft
Guideline is an update of two sections
of the Guideline for Infection Control in
Healthcare Personnel, 1998: C. Infection
Control Objectives for a Personnel
Health Service and D. Elements of a
Personnel Health Service for Infection
Control. The updated recommendations
in the Draft Guideline are intended to
facilitate the provision of occupational
infection prevention and control
services to healthcare personnel and to
prevent transmission of infections
between healthcare personnel and
others.
Written comments must be
received on or before December 14,
2018.
DATES:
You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0099, by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Division of Healthcare Quality
Promotion, National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Attn: Docket No. CDC–
2018–0099, HICPAC Secretariat, 1600
Clifton Road NE, Mailstop A07, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329.
Instructions: Submissions via https://
regulations.gov are preferred. All
submissions received must include the
agency name and Docket Number. All
relevant comments received will be
posted without change to https://
regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided. For access to the
docket to read background documents
or comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kendra Cox, Division of Healthcare
Quality Promotion, National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE,
Mailstop A–07, Atlanta, Georgia 30329;
Telephone: (404) 639–4000.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Participation
Interested persons or organizations
are invited to participate by submitting
written views, recommendations, and
data.
Please note that comments received,
including attachments and other
supporting materials, are part of the
public record and are subject to public
disclosure. Comments will be posted on
https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
do not include any information in your
comments or supporting materials that
you consider confidential or
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inappropriate for public disclosure. If
you include your name, contact
information, or other information that
identifies you in the body of your
comments, that information will be on
public display. CDC will review all
submissions and may choose (but is not
required) to redact, or withhold,
submissions containing private or
proprietary information such as Social
Security numbers, medical information,
inappropriate language, or duplicate/
near-duplicate examples of a mass-mail
campaign. CDC will carefully consider
all comments timely submitted in
preparation of the final guideline
Infection Control in Healthcare
Personnel: Infrastructure and Routine
Practices for Occupational Infection
Prevention and Control Services and
may revise the final document as
appropriate.
Background
The Draft Guideline, located in the
‘‘Supporting & Related Material’’ tab of
the docket, updates two sections from
the 1998 Guideline: C. Infection Control
Objectives for a Personnel Health
Service and D. Elements of a Personnel
Health Service for Infection Control.
Those sections described the
infrastructure and routine practices of
Occupational Health Services for
providing occupational infection
prevention and control services to
healthcare personnel.
Once finalized, the Draft Guideline is
intended for use by the leaders and staff
of Occupational Health Services and the
administrators and leaders of healthcare
organizations in order to facilitate the
provision of occupational infection
prevention and control services to
healthcare personnel.
Since 2015, the Healthcare Infection
Control Practices Advisory Committee
(HICPAC) has worked with national
partners, academicians, public health
professionals, healthcare providers, and
other partners to develop this Draft
Guideline as a recommendation for CDC
to update sections of the 1998
Guideline. HICPAC includes
representatives from public health,
infectious diseases, regulatory and other
federal agencies, professional societies,
and other stakeholders.
The draft recommendations in this
Draft Guideline are informed by a
systematic literature review of articles
published in peer-reviewed journals or
repositories of systematic reviews; and a
review of occupational infection
prevention and control guidelines,
regulations, and standards. This Draft
Guideline is not, and once finalized will
not be, a federal rule or regulation;
instead its purpose, as discussed above,
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will be to facilitate the provision of
occupational prevention and control
services to healthcare personnel.
Dated: October 10, 2018.
Sandra Cashman,
Executive Secretary, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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0098]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comment on a
proposed information collection project
titled One Health Harmful Algal Bloom
System (OHHABS). The OHHABS is a
voluntary reporting system available to
state and territorial public health
departments and their designated
environmental health or animal health
partners. It collects data on individual
human and animal cases of illnesses
from harmful algal bloom (HAB)associated exposures, as well as
environmental data about HABs.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before December 14,
2018.
SUMMARY:
You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0098 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE, MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. CDC will post, without
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change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments through
the Federal eRulemaking portal
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
To request
more information on the proposed
project or to obtain a copy of the
information collection plan and
instruments, contact Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone:
404–639–7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (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. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
One Health Harmful Algal Bloom
System (OHHABS)—Extension—
National Center for Emerging and
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID),
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[Docket No. CDC-2018-0099]
Draft Guideline: Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel:
Infrastructure and Routine Practices for Occupational Infection
Prevention and Control Services
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), announces the opening
of a docket to obtain comment on the Draft Guideline: Infection Control
in Healthcare Personnel: Infrastructure and Routine Practices for
Occupational Infection Prevention and Control Services (Draft
Guideline). The Draft Guideline is an update of two sections of the
Guideline for Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel, 1998: C.
Infection Control Objectives for a Personnel Health Service and D.
Elements of a Personnel Health Service for Infection Control. The
updated recommendations in the Draft Guideline are intended to
facilitate the provision of occupational infection prevention and
control services to healthcare personnel and to prevent transmission of
infections between healthcare personnel and others.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before December 14,
2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2018-
0099, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Attn: Docket No. CDC-2018-0099, HICPAC
Secretariat, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop A07, Atlanta, Georgia
30329.
Instructions: Submissions via https://regulations.gov are preferred.
All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket
Number. All relevant comments received will be posted without change to
https://regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.
For access to the docket to read background documents or comments
received, go to https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kendra Cox, Division of Healthcare
Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road
NE, Mailstop A-07, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; Telephone: (404) 639-4000.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Participation
Interested persons or organizations are invited to participate by
submitting written views, recommendations, and data.
Please note that comments received, including attachments and other
supporting materials, are part of the public record and are subject to
public disclosure. Comments will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, do not include any information in your
comments or supporting materials that you consider confidential or
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inappropriate for public disclosure. If you include your name, contact
information, or other information that identifies you in the body of
your comments, that information will be on public display. CDC will
review all submissions and may choose (but is not required) to redact,
or withhold, submissions containing private or proprietary information
such as Social Security numbers, medical information, inappropriate
language, or duplicate/near-duplicate examples of a mass-mail campaign.
CDC will carefully consider all comments timely submitted in
preparation of the final guideline Infection Control in Healthcare
Personnel: Infrastructure and Routine Practices for Occupational
Infection Prevention and Control Services and may revise the final
document as appropriate.
Background
The Draft Guideline, located in the ``Supporting & Related
Material'' tab of the docket, updates two sections from the 1998
Guideline: C. Infection Control Objectives for a Personnel Health
Service and D. Elements of a Personnel Health Service for Infection
Control. Those sections described the infrastructure and routine
practices of Occupational Health Services for providing occupational
infection prevention and control services to healthcare personnel.
Once finalized, the Draft Guideline is intended for use by the
leaders and staff of Occupational Health Services and the
administrators and leaders of healthcare organizations in order to
facilitate the provision of occupational infection prevention and
control services to healthcare personnel.
Since 2015, the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory
Committee (HICPAC) has worked with national partners, academicians,
public health professionals, healthcare providers, and other partners
to develop this Draft Guideline as a recommendation for CDC to update
sections of the 1998 Guideline. HICPAC includes representatives from
public health, infectious diseases, regulatory and other federal
agencies, professional societies, and other stakeholders.
The draft recommendations in this Draft Guideline are informed by a
systematic literature review of articles published in peer-reviewed
journals or repositories of systematic reviews; and a review of
occupational infection prevention and control guidelines, regulations,
and standards. This Draft Guideline is not, and once finalized will not
be, a federal rule or regulation; instead its purpose, as discussed
above, will be to facilitate the provision of occupational prevention
and control services to healthcare personnel.
Dated: October 10, 2018.
Sandra Cashman,
Executive Secretary, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2018-22377 Filed 10-12-18; 8:45 am]
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