[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10624-10625]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-04431]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-0493; Docket No. CDC-2016-0022]


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 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 the 2017 and 2019 
National Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS). The goal of the study is 
to assess priority health-risk behaviors related to the major 
preventable causes of mortality, morbidity, and social problems among 
both youth and adults in the United States. CDC is requesting a 3-year 
approval to reinstate with change the data collection for the National 
YRBS.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before May 2, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0022 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

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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

    2017 and 2019 National Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (OMB Control No. 
0920-0493)--Reinstatement with change--National Center for HIV/AIDS, 
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The purpose of this request is to obtain OMB approval to reinstate 
with change, the data collection for the National Youth Risk Behavior 
Survey (YRBS), a school-based survey that has been conducted biennially 
since 1991. OMB approval for the 2013 YRBS and 2015 YRBS expired 
September 30, 2015 (OMB Control No. 0920-0493). CDC seeks a three-year 
approval to conduct the YRBS in Spring 2017 and Spring 2019. Minor 
changes incorporated into this reinstatement request include: An 
updated title for the information collection to accurately reflect the 
years in which the survey will be conducted, minor changes to the data 
collection instrument, and a reclassification of urban status for 
schools based on a different variable now present in the commercially 
available sampling frame.
    The YRBS assesses priority health risk behaviors related to the 
major preventable causes of mortality, morbidity, and social problems 
among both youth and young adults in the United States. Data on health 
risk behaviors of adolescents are the focus of approximately 65 
national health objectives in Healthy People 2020, an initiative of the 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The YRBS provides 
data to measure 20 of the health objectives and 1 of the Leading Health 
Indicators established by Healthy People 2020. In addition, the YRBS 
can identify racial and ethnic disparities in health risk behaviors. No 
other national source of data measures as many of the Healthy People 
2020 objectives addressing adolescent health risk behaviors as the 
YRBS. The data also will have significant implications for policy and 
program development for school health programs nationwide.
    In Spring 2017 and Spring 2019, the YRBS will be conducted among 
nationally representative samples of students attending public and 
private schools in grades 9-12. Information supporting the YRBS also 
will be collected from state-, district-, and school-level 
administrators and teachers. The table below reports the number of 
respondents annualized over the 3-year project period.
    There are no costs to respondents except their time. The total 
estimated annualized burden hours are 7,822.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondent            Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)         hours
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State Administrators..........  State-level                   17               1           30/60               9
                                 Recruitment
                                 Script for the
                                 Youth Risk
                                 Behavior Survey.
District Administrators.......  District-level                80               1           30/60              40
                                 Recruitment
                                 Script for the
                                 Youth Risk
                                 Behavior Survey.
School Administrators.........  District-level               133               1           30/60              67
                                 Recruitment
                                 Script for the
                                 Youth Risk
                                 Behavior Survey.
Teachers......................  Data Collection              435               1           15/60             109
                                 Checklist for
                                 the Youth Risk
                                 Behavior Survey.
Students......................  Youth Risk                10,129               1           45/60           7,597
                                 Behavior Survey.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           7,822
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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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