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202212-0920-002CF
Active 12/31/2025
HHS/CDC 3145-0271
3145-0271 202211-3145-002
Standard Application Process Portal
RCF New
 Approved without change   12/06/2022
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 12/06/2022
The Standard Application Process (SAP) Portal is a single web-based common application for the public to request access to confidential data assets from federal statistical agencies and units. [Agency] requests approval to collect information from the public as part of the Standard Application Process Portal. The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (44 U.S.C. 3583) mandates that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) establish a standard application process (SAP) for requesting access to certain confidential data assets. While the adoption of the SAP is required for statistical agencies and units designated under CIPSEA, it is recognized that other agencies and organizational units within the Executive branch may benefit from the adoption of the SAP to accept applications for access to confidential data assets. The SAP is to be a process through which agencies, the Congressional Budget Office, State, local, and Tribal governments, researchers, and other 6 individuals, as appropriate, may apply to access confidential data assets held by a federal statistical agency or unit for the purposes of developing evidence. With the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy (ICSP) as advisors, CDC/NCHS is working with the SAP Project Management Office (PMO) and with OMB to implement the SAP. The SAP Portal is to be a single web-based common application to request access to confidential data assets from federal statistical agencies and units. To complete an application in the SAP Portal, applicants enter their personal, contact, and institutional information, as well as the personal, contact, and institutional information of all individuals on their research team, including name, address, email address, telephone, professional affiliation, and citizenship. Applicants also provide summary information about their proposed project, to include project title, duration, funding, timeline, and other details including the data asset(s) they are requesting and any proposed linkages to data not listed in the SAP data catalog, including non-federal data sources. Applicants then enter detailed information regarding their proposed project, including a project abstract, research question(s), literature review, project scope, research methodology, project products, and anticipated output. Applicants must demonstrate a need for confidential data, outlining why their research question cannot be answered using publicly available information. Many applicants will be academic research faculty or students at U.S. universities or other types of research institutions. Other applicants are likely to include analysts at nonprofit organizations. Approved applicants using confidential data can provide insights on how statistical agencies and units may improve the quality of the data collected or acquired; identify shortcomings of current data collection programs, and data processing methods; document new data needs; and develop methods to address survey nonresponse or improve statistical weights.
US Code: 44 USC 3583 Name of Law: Foundations for Evidence-based Policymaking Act of 2018
 $100,000
Jeffrey Zirger 404 639-7118 wtj5@cdc.gov

IC Title Status Responses Hours Dollars Document Type Form No. Form Name
Standard Application Process Portal 110 110 3,861 Form and Instruction SAP Standard Application Process Portal - Research Team Questions
Form and Instruction SAP SAP Project Proposal Questions
Other

  Total Approved Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 110 0 0 110 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 110 0 0 110 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 3,861 0 0 3,861 0 0

Yes
Miscellaneous Actions
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CDC requests use of RCF - Standard Application Process Portal