2020-01989. Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Application for Participation in Food and Drug Administration Fellowship and Traineeship Programs

AGENCY:

Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 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:

Fax written comments on the collection of information by March 4, 2020.

ADDRESSES:

To ensure that comments on the information collection are received, OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: FDA Desk Officer, Fax: [phone], or emailed to [e-mail]. All comments should be identified with the OMB control number 0910-0780. Also include the FDA docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Amber Sanford, Office of Operations, Food and Drug Administration, Three White Flint North, 10A-12M, 11601 Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 20852, 301-796-8867, [e-mail].

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.

Application for Participation in FDA Fellowship and Traineeship Programs; OMB Control Number 0910-0780—Revision

Sections 1104, 1302, 3301, 3304, 3320, 3361, 3393, and 3394 of Title 5 of the United States Code authorize Federal Agencies to rate applicants for Federal jobs. The proposed information collection involves brief online applications completed by applicants applying to FDA's Fellowship and Traineeship programs. These voluntary online applications will allow the Agency to easily and efficiently elicit and review information from students and healthcare professionals who are interested in becoming involved in FDA-wide activities. The process will reduce the time and cost of submitting written documentation to the Agency and lessen the likelihood of applications being misrouted within the Agency mail system. It will assist the Agency in promoting and protecting the public health by encouraging outside persons to share their expertise with FDA.

In the Federal Register of October 19, 2018 (83 FR 53065), FDA published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the proposed collection of information. Although one comment was received, it wasn't responsive to the four collection of information topics solicited and therefore will not be discussed in this document.

FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as follows:

Table 1—Estimated Annual Recordkeeping Burden ¹

Activity	Number of respondents	Number of responses per respondent	Total annual responses	Average burden per response	Total hours
Medical Device Fellowship Program	250	1	250	1	250
FDA Traineeship Program	1,000	1	1,000	1	1,000
Reagan-Udall Fellowship at FDA	50	1	50	1	50
Total					1,300
1 There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information.

Because FDA is developing two new training programs, Trainee Program and Reagan-Udell Fellowship, our estimated burden for the information collection reflects an overall increase of 2 hours. FDA has removed the Commissioner Fellowship and Regulatory Science Internship Program from this information collection as the programs have been discontinued.

Dated: January 24, 2020.

Lowell J. Schiller,

Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy.