[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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