[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50027-50028]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24402]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[INFO-96-27]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on 
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. 
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a 
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports 
Clearance Officer on (404) 639-7090.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques for other 
forms of information technology. Send comments to Wilma Johnson, CDC 
Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, Atlanta, GA 
30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

Proposed Projects

    1. An Assessment of Violence Prevention Technical Assistance 
Efforts for State and Local Health Departments--New--This project is 
assessing the needs of state and local health departments for technical 
assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 
violence prevention. The assessment will determine what the health 
departments are currently doing in violence prevention; identify 
violence prevention efforts for which they currently lack resources or 
technical expertise; identify technical assistance they have already 
received from CDC; determine what technical assistance in violence 
prevention they wish from CDC and in what priority they place these 
needs; and recommend to CDC how to modify and use the needs assessment 
developed in this project for future assessments.
    The assessment is focusing on violence committed by youth and 
violence against women and partners, children and the elderly, but also 
includes other areas of violence prevention in which the state and 
local health departments are interested. The study includes the 50 
state health departments and a sample of the health departments of the 
largest cities or metropolitan areas in the United States.
    Data will be collected primarily by telephone interviews, preceded 
by mailed requests for data and written materials, along with a list of 
topics to be covered in the interviews. Analyses will address variation 
in the needs, resources, and priorities for technical assistance in 
violence prevention by region, size of place or state, demographic 
makeup of the population served, age of extant violence prevention 
efforts and other characteristics of the programs. Recommendations will 
be made regarding ways in which CDC can most effectively provide 
technical assistance in violence prevention to different types of state 
and local health departments, especially in view of the priorities set 
by the health departments. There are no cost to the respondents.

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                                                                     Number of     Avg. burden/                 
                   Respondents                       Number of      responses/     response  (in   Total burden 
                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)         (in hrs.)  
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State Health Departments........................              50               1               1              50
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      Total.....................................  ..............  ..............  ..............              50
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    Dated: September 17, 1996.
Wilma G. Johnson,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning And Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-24402 Filed 9-23-96; 8:45 am]
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