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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 231 / Tuesday, December 1, 2020 / Notices
Dated: November 25, 2020.
Lance Robertson,
Administrator and Assistant Secretary for
Aging.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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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
Administration for Community
Living, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 60day 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
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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
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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
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.
Submit written comments
(including recommendations) on the
collection of information by December
31, 2020.
DATES:
Dated: November 25, 2020.
Lance Robertson,
Administrator and Assistant Secretary for
Aging.
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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.
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.
SUMMARY:
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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.
ADDRESSES:
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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
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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.
In
compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA
has submitted the following proposed
collection of information to OMB for
review and clearance.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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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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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.
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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 [email protected].
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: [email protected].
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:
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Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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APS Practice Survey......................... 56 1 3.50 196
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 196.
Dated: November 25, 2020.
Lance Robertson,
Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging.
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