[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 138 (Thursday, July 18, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42946-42947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-17218]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: HHS-OS-19060-30D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of 
Health and Human Services, has submitted an Information Collection 
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR is for a new collection. 
Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be 
provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public on 
this ICR during the review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before August 19, 
2013.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or via 
facsimile to (202) 395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information Collection Clearance 
staff, [email protected] or (202) 690-6162.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the Information Collection Request Title 
and the document identifier HHS-OS-19060-30D for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Living Healthier, Living 
Longer Program Evaluation.
    Abstract: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the 
Office of Women's Health, (OWH)

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Coordinating Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender 
(LGBT) Issues has prioritized the collection of health data on LGBT 
populations. In response, OWH funded an initiative to ``identify and 
test effective and innovative ways of reducing obesity in lesbian and 
bisexual women''. This initiative will include nutritional and physical 
activity counseling and activities, and will be implemented in New York 
City. It will be tailored to bisexual and lesbian women forty years and 
over. Evaluation of the initiative will address the following 
questions: (1) Does a healthy weight intervention based on the 
individual and the social environment improve health and reduce weight 
of older lesbian and bisexual women; and, (2) If the intervention does 
improve health and/or reduce weight, what attributes of the 
intervention contributed to this success? Information will be gathered 
and analyzed in an effort to identify and understand the effects of 
this healthy weight intervention and to inform the applicability of the 
intervention to other sites across the United States. The project is 
scheduled for one year.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Addresses barriers to 
health for the LB community, and promotes overall health and wellbeing. 
The intervention will incorporate community-identified weight loss/risk 
reduction needs of this population. Following the completion of the 
surveys and interventions, collected data will be used to develop 
increased health-related services and activities for LB women, web-
based tools and materials for LB women, increased community recreation 
resources inclusive of sexual minority women.
    Likely Respondents: Lesbian and bi-sexual women forty years of age 
and older.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information, and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for 
this ICR are summarized in the table below.

                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                      Average
                                     Number of       Number of      burden per
            Form name               respondents    responses per   response (in         Total burden hours
                                                    respondent        hours)
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Baseline Survey.................              40               1           15/60  600/60
                                                                                  (10 hours).
Study Completion Survey.........              40               1          15/60.  600/60
                                                                                  (10 hours).
Pedometer Profile...............              40               1            2/60  80/60
                                                                                  (1 hour).
Health Screen (physical                       40               3           10/60  1,200/60
 measurement).                                                                    (20 hours).
Health History Questionnaire....              40               1           12/60  480/60
                                                                                  (8 hours).
Focus Group (study midpoint)....              40               1               1  40 hours.
Focus Group (study completion)..              40               1               1  40 hours.
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    Total.......................  ..............  ..............  ..............  129 hours.
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Keith A. Tucker,
Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-17218 Filed 7-17-13; 8:45 am]
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