[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 230 (Wednesday, November 30, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74066-74067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-30833]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30-Day-12-11IR]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-5960 or send an email to 
[email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-
5806. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this 
notice.

Proposed Project

    Evaluation of Core Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core 
VIPP)--New--National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Injuries and their consequences, including unintentional and 
violence-related injuries, are the leading cause of death for the first 
four decades of life, regardless of gender, race, or socioeconomic 
status. More than 179,000 individuals in the United States die each 
year as a result of unintentional injuries and violence, more than 29 
million others suffer non-fatal injuries and over one-third of all 
emergency department (ED) visits each year are due to injuries. In 
2000, injuries and violence ultimately cost the United States $406 
billion, with over $80 billion in medical costs and the remainder lost 
in productivity.\1\ Most events that result in injury and/or death from 
injury could be prevented if evidence-based public health strategies, 
practices, and policies were used throughout the nation.
    CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is 
committed to working with their partners to promote action that reduces 
injuries, violence, and disabilities by providing leadership in 
identifying priorities, promoting tools, and monitoring effectiveness 
of injury and violence prevention and to promote effective strategies 
for the prevention of injury and violence, and their consequences. One 
tool NCIPC will use to accomplish this is the Core Violence and Injury 
Prevention Program (VIPP). This program funds state health departments 
to build effective delivery systems for dissemination, implementation 
and evaluation of evidence based/best practice programs and policies.
    Core VIPP also focuses on the integration of unintentional injury 
and violence prevention. Unintentional injury and violence prevention 
have many common risk and protective factors for children. In an 
endeavor to promote efforts to prevent child maltreatment, a NCIPC 
priority, CDC is collaborating with the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) regarding the new Affordable Care Act (ACA) 
Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. The state 
health departments funded by the Core VIPP will be required to partner 
with the state agency responsible for administration of the State Home 
Visiting program.
    CDC requests OMB approval to collect program evaluation data for 
Core VIPP over a three-year period. Specifically, CDC will use the Safe 
States Alliance State of the States (SOTS) survey as the template for 
annual evaluation surveys and an annual follow-up telephone interview. 
Both the SOTS and the telephone interviews will be conducted with state 
Violence and Injury Prevention programs directors and staff. This 
approach provides a means to collect standardized, systematic data from 
the Core VIPP grantees for program evaluation and improvement. Topics 
for data collection include: Program evaluation, state injury and 
violence prevention program (IVP) infrastructure, IVP strategies and 
partners, policy strategies, injury surveillance, quality of 
surveillance, and regional network leaders. Part of the requirement for 
receiving Core VIPP funding is for State Injury and Violence Programs 
(SIVPs) to develop and maintain their own evaluation capacity and data 
systems; thus, this data collection is not expected to entail 
significant burdens to respondents.
    Estimates of burden for the survey are based on previous experience 
with evaluation data collections conducted by the evaluation staff. The 
State of the States (SOTS) web-based survey assessment will be 
completed by 28 Core Funded State Health Departments (SHDs) and 22 Non-
Funded SHDs, taking 3 hours to complete. The SOTS Financial Module will 
also be completed by the 28 Core Funded and 22 Non-Funded SHD, taking 1 
hour to complete. The telephone interviews will take 1.5 hours to 
conclude and will be completed by the 28 Core Funded States. We expect 
that each of the 28 Core Funded states will complete three web-based 
surveys and three telephone interviews during the first three years of 
Core funding. It is anticipated that up to 22 unfunded states will 
complete three web-based surveys during the first three years of Core 
funding.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
    The total estimated annual burden hours are 242.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                     Number of       Number of      burden  per
          Type of respondent                    Form name           respondents    responses per   response (in
                                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Core VIPP funded SVIP directors and     State of the States                   28               1               3
 staff.                                  Survey (SOTS).
Core VIPP funded SVIP directors and     SOTS Financial Module...              28               1               1
 staff.
Core VIPP funded VIP directors and      Telephone interview.....              28               1             1.5
 staff.
Non-funded SHD Injury Program           SOTS....................              22               1               3
 management and staff.
Non-funded SHD Injury Program           SOTS Financial Module...              22               1               1
 management and staff.
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    Dated: November 22, 2011.
Daniel Holcomb,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-30833 Filed 11-29-11; 8:45 am]
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