[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 69 (Thursday, April 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19913-19914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-08012]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-14-14OE]


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 404-639-7570 or 
send comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, 
GA 30333 or send an email to [email protected].
    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 or other 
forms of information technology. Written comments should be received 
within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    Monitoring and Reporting System for the Rape Prevention and 
Education Program Awardees--NEW--National Center for Injury Prevention 
and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Sexual violence is a major public health problem. According CDC's 
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS, 
OMB 0920-0822), in the United States, nearly 1 in 5 women and 
1 in 71 men have been raped in their lifetime, while 1 in 2 women and 1 
in 5 men have experienced severe sexual violence victimization other 
than rape at some point in their lives, with the majority of 
victimization starting early in life. According to NISVS, approximately 
80% of female victims experienced their first rape before the age of 25 
and almost half experienced the first rape before age 18. Among male 
victims, 28% were first raped when they were 10 year old or younger. 
NISVS also found that early sexual victimization increases women's risk 
of adult victimization: Approximately 35% of women who were raped as 
minors were also raped as adults compared to 14% of women without an 
early rape history.
    State health departments and the community-based organizations 
funded to implement sexual violence prevention strategies have 
variable, often low, levels of capacity and infrastructure to engage in 
program improvement and systematically collect data about sexual 
violence as well as the prevention strategies they are implementing. 
Historically, some health departments and funded community-based 
organizations have not had adequate resources to support a full-time 
staff person to deliver and implement prevention strategies. 
Additionally, while sexual violence prevention practitioners have 
undergone a sea change and expanded their focus from raising awareness 
of the problem to implementing primary prevention strategies, improved 
implementation based on best-available practices in prevention is still 
needed.
    CDC, through the Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program, 
supports sexual violence prevention by implementing primary prevention 
strategies using a public health approach and effective prevention 
principles. The current cooperative agreement will advance this goal by 
supporting RPE funded organizations to implement sexual violence 
prevention strategies that adhere to general principles of effective 
prevention strategies. These principles include: Addressing modifiable 
risk and protective factors for perpetration and victimization, 
addressing multiple levels of the social ecology, emphasizing primary 
prevention, having sufficient dosage or intensity, being culturally 
relevant, being developed and implemented with stakeholders and based 
on best available evidence. Additionally, it aims to improve program 
evaluation infrastructure and capacity at the state level.
    In order to accomplish these goals, the program strategy involves 
the focused implementation of three main components:
    [cir] Component 1--Implementation and program evaluation of sexual 
violence (SV) prevention strategies using a public health approach 
(this includes expectations that program evaluation activities are 
conducted at the state level.
    [cir] Component 2--Provision of Training and Technical Assistance 
to RPE funded organizations on the implementation of SV prevention 
strategies.
    [cir] Component 3--Participation in program support activities.
    The primary outcome of interest is the improved ability of RPE 
funded organizations to use the public health approach and effective 
prevention principles to implement and evaluate sexual violence 
prevention strategies.
    CDC seeks a 3-year Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval 
to collect information electronically from awardees funded under the 
RPE cooperative agreement. Information will be collected from RPE 
awardees through an electronic data management information system; the 
Rape Prevention and Education Management Information System (RPE-MIS). 
The RPE-MIS will be used to collect information about the staffing 
resources dedicated by each awardee, as well as partnerships with 
external organizations. The RPE-MIS requires awardees to define their 
program objectives in action-oriented SMART (Specific, Measurable, 
Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Framed) format, identify their target 
population and associated strategies citing the best available evidence 
and data sources, establish the link between their objectives, chosen 
strategies and the target population, and provide quantifiable 
performance measures associated with the chosen strategies. Information 
collected through the RPE-MIS will be used to inform performance 
monitoring, and program evaluation.
    Anticipated respondents are a maximum of 55 awardees for the RPE 
Program. All respondents will be state and territorial health 
departments or designated personnel from their partner sexual assault 
coalitions. The time commitments for data entry and training are 
greatest during the initial population of the RPE-MIS, typically in the 
first six months of implementation. Estimated burden for the first-time 
population of the RPE-MIS is fifteen hours. Annual Reporting is 
estimated at three hours per respondent.

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    There are no costs to respondents other than their time.

                                   Estimated Annualized Burden to Respondents
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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State and Territorial Health    RPE-MIS: Initial              55               1              15             825
 Departments or Sexual Assault   population.
 Coalition Designee.
                                RPE-MIS: Annual               55               1               3             165
                                 reporting.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             990
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Leroy A. 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. 2014-08012 Filed 4-9-14; 8:45 am]
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