[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 24 (Friday, February 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6270-6272]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02173]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-16MM; Docket No. CDC-2016-0019]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of

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government information, invites the general public and other Federal 
agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or 
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed 
information collection project entitled Performance Monitoring of 
``Working with Publicly Funded Health Centers to Reduce Teen Pregnancy 
among Youth from Vulnerable Populations.'' CDC seeks to collect 
information to monitor performance of three awardees working on teen 
pregnancy prevention project and to determine training and technical 
assistance needs to address any performance issues.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before April 5, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0019 by any of the following methods:
    Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions 
for submitting comments.
    Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review Office, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted 
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.

    Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the 
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the 
address listed above.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires 
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register 
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new 
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of 
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information 
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    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; (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; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services 
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or 
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. 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.

Proposed Project

    Performance Monitoring of ``Working with Publicly Funded Health 
Centers to Reduce Teen Pregnancy among Youth from Vulnerable 
Populations''--New--National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and 
Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    In 2014, the US rate of 24.2 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 was 
the highest of all Western industrialized countries. Access to 
reproductive health services and the most effective types of 
contraception have been shown to reduce the likelihood that teens 
become pregnant. Nevertheless, reviews of recent research and teen 
pregnancy prevention projects, including a collaborative project 
implemented by CDC and the HHS Office of Adolescent Health (2010-2015), 
demonstrate that many health centers serving adolescents do not engage 
in youth-friendly best practices that may enhance access to care and to 
the most effective types of contraception. Furthermore, youth at 
highest risk of experiencing a teen pregnancy are often not connected 
to the reproductive health care that they need, even when they are part 
of a population that is known to be at high risk for a teen pregnancy. 
Significant racial, ethnic and geographic disparities in teen birth 
rates persist and continue to be a focus of public health efforts.
    To address these challenges, CDC is providing funding to three 
organizations to strengthen partnerships and processes that improve 
reproductive health services for teens. CDC's awardees will work with 
approximately 35 publicly funded health centers to implement 
organizational changes and provider training based on best practices in 
adolescent reproductive health care. In addition, awardees will work 
with approximately 30 youth-serving organizations (YSO) to provide 
staff training and develop systematic approaches to identifying youth 
who are at risk for a teen pregnancy and referring those youth to 
reproductive health care services. Finally, awardees will develop 
communication campaigns that increase awareness of the partner health 
centers' services for teens. Activities are expected to result in 
changes to health center and YSO partners' policies, to staff 
practices, and to youth health care seeking and teen pregnancy 
prevention behaviors.
    Although similar activities have been implemented in a variety of 
teen pregnancy prevention projects, the proposed combination of 
efforts, and the incorporation of youth-friendly best practices, have 
not been previously implemented or evaluated. CDC therefore plans to 
collect information needed to assess these efforts. Information will be 
collected from the CDC awardees, the health center and YSO partner 
organizations, and the youth served by the health center partner 
organizations. CDC will use the information to determine the types of 
training and technical assistance that are needed, to monitor whether 
awardees meet objectives related to health center and YSO partners' 
policies and staff practices, to support a data-driven quality 
improvement process for adolescent sexual and reproductive health care 
services and referrals, and to assess whether the project model was 
effective in increasing the utilization of services by youth.
    OMB approval is requested for three years. Participation in the 
organizational

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assessment activities is required for awardees and partner 
organizations. Participation in the Health Center Youth Survey is 
voluntary for youth and will not involve the collection of identifiable 
personal information. There are no costs to respondents other than 
their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                          Average
                                                            Number of      Number of     burden per     Total
           Respondents                   Form name         respondents   responses per    response    burden (in
                                                                          respondent     (in hrs.)      hrs.)
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Awardee.........................  Training and Technical             3              12            2           72
                                   Assistance Tool.
                                  Quarterly Performance              3               3            2           18
                                   Measure Reporting Tool.
                                  Annual Performance                 3               1            6           18
                                   Measure Reporting Tool.
Health Center Project             Quarterly Performance             35               3            2          210
 Coordinator.                      Measure Reporting Tool.
                                  Annual Performance                35               1            4          140
                                   Measure Reporting Tool.
                                  Health Center                     35               1            2           70
                                   Organizational
                                   Assessment.
Health Center Providers.........  Health Center Provider           175               1        30/60           88
                                   Survey.
Youth...........................  Health Center Youth            1,750               1        15/60          438
                                   Survey.
YSO Project Coordinator.........  Quarterly Performance             30               3            1           90
                                   Measure Reporting Tool.
                                  Annual Performance                30               1        75/60           38
                                   Measure Reporting Tool.
                                  Youth Serving                     30               1            1           30
                                   Organization (YSO)
                                   Organizational
                                   Assessment.
YSO Staff.......................  YSO Staff Survey.......          450               1        30/60          225
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    Total.......................  .......................  ...........  ..............  ...........        1,437
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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.
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