[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 15, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2674-2675]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00585]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-14-0916]


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 
(404) 639-7570 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)--Revision--(0920-0916, Expiration 1/13/2014)--National Center for 
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), 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.\1\ 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.
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    \1\ Finkelstein EA, Corso PS, Miller TR, Associates. Incidence 
and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States. New York: 
Oxford University Press; 2006.
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    CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is 
committed to working with their partners to promote actions that reduce 
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 goal is through the use of the 
Core Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core VIPP). This program 
funds state health departments (SHDs) to build their capacity to 
disseminate, implement, and evaluate evidence-based/best practice 
programs and policies. This evaluation will consider the implementation 
and outcomes of Core VIPP during the five-year funding period from 
August 2011 to July 2016. The Core VIPP will support funded states in 
building capacity and achieving health impact in their states. The key 
components of violence and injury prevention (VIP) capacity for Core 
Base Integration Component (BIC) VIPP are defined as: infrastructure, 
evaluation, strategies, collaboration, and surveillance.
    CDC requests OMB approval to continue to collect program evaluation 
data for Core VIPP for an additional three-year period. The purpose of 
the evaluation is to track states' progress toward: (1) Achieving the 
Performance Measures identified in the Funding Opportunity Announcement 
(FOA); (2) building and/or sustaining their VIP capacity; and (3) 
achieving their focus area SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, 
Reasonable, and Time-bound) objectives. The ability of states to make 
progress towards their SMART objectives will serve as a measure of Core 
VIPP's impact on the burden of violence and injury related morbidity 
and mortality in funded states.
    The primary data collections methods will be used in the evaluation 
include: (1) Interim and annual progress reports, (2) online surveys, 
and (3) interviews. The progress reports will track states' performance 
measures and the activities stated in the Core VIPP FOA and monitor 
states' progress toward their focus area SMART objectives; the online 
survey will be used to measure grantees' changes in VIP capacity. 
Interviews will be used to provide more in-depth information about the 
key facilitators and barriers states have encountered while 
implementing their violence prevention programs.
    The table below details the annualized number of respondents, the 
average response burden per interview, and the total response burden 
for the surveys and telephone interviews. 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 20 Core Funded 
State Health Departments (SHDs) and will take 3 hours to complete. The 
SOTS Financial Module will also be completed by the 20 BIC funded SHD 
and will take 1 hour to complete. The supplemental SOTS Survey 
Questions will be completed by 20 BIC funded SHDs and take 1.5 hours to 
complete. The BIC telephone interviews will take 1.5 hours and will be 
completed by the 20 Core funded SHDs.

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    The Regional Network Leader (RNL) surveys will be completed by the 
5 RNL funded SHDs and will take 1 hour to complete a telephone 
interview. The four Surveillance Quality Improvement (SQI) funded SHDs 
will complete a one-hour telephone interview. The four Motor Vehicle 
Child Injury Prevention Policy (MVP) SHDs will complete a telephone 
interview that will take one hour to complete.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time. The total 
estimated annual burden hours are 163.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Type of respondents                   Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs.)
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Core VIPP Funded SHD Injury Program     State of the States                   20               1               3
 director.                               Survey (SOTS)--
                                         Attachment C.
Core VIPP Funded SHD Injury Program     SOTS Financial Module--               20               1               1
 director.                               Attachment E.
Core VIPP Funded SHD Injury Program     Supplemental SOTS Survey              20               1             1.5
 management and staff.                   Questions--Attachment F.
Core VIPP Funded SHD Injury Program     BIC Telephone Interview--             20               1             1.5
 management and staff.                   Attachment D.
RNL awardees..........................  RNL Telephone Interview--              5               1               1
                                         Attachment G.
RNL awardees..........................  RNL Network Satisfaction               5               1               1
                                         Survey--Attachment H.
RNL awardees..........................  RNL Needs Assessment                   5               1               1
                                         Survey--Attachment I.
SQI awardees..........................  SQI Telephone Interview--              4               1               1
                                         Attachment J.
MVP awardees..........................  MVP Telephone Interview--              4               1               1
                                         Attachment K.
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LeRoy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-00585 Filed 1-14-14; 8:45 am]
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