[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 26, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48805-48806]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-17603]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-16-0995; Docket No. CDC-2016-0071]


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 ``National 
Network of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinical Prevention Training 
Centers (NNPTC): Evaluation''. The purpose of this study is to improve 
sexually transmitted disease care in the United States.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before September 26, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0071 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.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

    National Network of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinical 
Prevention Training Centers (NNPTC): Evaluation--OMB No. 0920-0995, 
Expiration: 10/31/2016--Revision--National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral 
Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of 
HIV/AIDS Prevention requests a revision and 3-year approval of the 
currently approved information collection request that comprises the 
NNPTC Abbreviated Health Professional Application for Training (NNPTC 
Abbreviated HPAT). The NNPTC Abbreviated HPAT will continue to serve as 
the official training application form used for training activities 
conducted by the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Prevention Training 
Centers' (PTCs) grantees funded by the (CDC).
    The PTCs are funded by CDC/Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) to 
provide training and capacity-building that includes information, 
training, technical assistance and technology transfer.
    The PTCs offer classroom and experiential training, web-based 
training, clinical consultation, and capacity building assistance to 
maintain and enhance the capacity of health care professionals to 
control and prevent STDs and HIV. The NNPTC Abbreviated HPAT is used to 
monitor and evaluate performance and reach of grantees that offer STD 
and HIV prevention training, training assistance, and capacity building 
assistance to physicians, nurses, disease intervention specialists, 
health educators, etc.
    The 4,500 respondents (who will engage in a total of 11,769 
respondent instances) represent an average of the number of health 
professionals trained by PTC grantees during 2015. The evaluation 
instruments collect data on the impact of the training by the NNPTC. 
The revision of this data collection is necessary to assess and 
evaluate the performance of the grantees in delivering training and to 
standardize training registration processes across the PTCs. The NNPTC 
Abbreviated HPAT allows CDC grantees to use a single instrument when 
collecting demographic data from its training and capacity building 
participants, regarding their: (1) Occupations, professions, and 
functional roles; (2) principal employment settings; (3) location of 
their work settings; and (4) programmatic and population foci of their 
work. The NNPTC Abbreviated HPAT takes approximately 3 minutes to 
complete. This data collection provides CDC with information to 
determine whether the training grantees are reaching their target 
audiences in terms of provider type, the types of organizations in 
which participants

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work, the focus of their work and the population groups and geographic 
areas served.
    The evaluation instruments are used to assess training and 
capacity-building outcomes (knowledge, confidence, intention to use 
information, actual changes made as a result of training) immediately 
after and again 90 days after training events. The evaluation 
instruments vary based on the type of training offered and take between 
approximately 16 minutes to complete (for intensive multi-day 
trainings) to 2 minutes to complete (for short didactic or webinar 
sessions).
    The CDC's Funding Opportunity Announcement PS 14-1407, NNPTC, 
requires the collection of national demographic information on 
grantees' trainees and national evaluation outcomes.
    There are no costs to respondents other than their time. The 
estimated annualized burden hours for this data collection are 502 
hours.

                                         Estimates of Annualized Burden
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of        Number        burden per     Total burden
      Type of respondent            Form name       respondents    responses per   response (in        hours
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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Healthcare Professionals......  NNPTC                      4,500               1            3/60             225
                                 Abbreviated
                                 Health
                                 Professional
                                 Application for
                                 Training (HPAT).
Healthcare Professionals......  Intensive                    116               1           16/60              31
                                 Complete Post-
                                 Course
                                 Evaluation.
                                Intensive                     36               1           10/60               6
                                 Complete Long-
                                 Term Evaluation.
Healthcare Professionals......  Intensive-                   166               1           10/60              28
                                 Didactic Post-
                                 Course
                                 Evaluation.
                                Intensive-                    58               1            7/60               7
                                 Didactic Long-
                                 Term Evaluation.
Healthcare Professionals......  Practicum Post-               70               1            4/60               5
                                 Course
                                 Evaluation.
                                Practicum Long-               20               1            3/60               1
                                 Term Evaluation.
Healthcare Professionals......  Wet Mount Post-               40               1            3/60               2
                                 Course
                                 Evaluation.
                                Wet Mount Long-               15               1            2/60               1
                                 Term Evaluation.
Healthcare Professionals......  STD Tx                       548               1            6/60              55
                                 Guidelines
                                 Complete Post-
                                 Course
                                 Evaluation.
                                STD Tx                       180               1            5/60              15
                                 Guidelines
                                 Complete Long-
                                 Term Evaluation.
Healthcare Professionals......  Short Guidelines             500               1            3/60              25
                                 Post-Course
                                 Evaluation.
                                Short Guidelines             160               1            3/60               8
                                 Long-Term
                                 Evaluation.
Healthcare Professionals......  Basic Post-                  150               1            2/60               5
                                 Course
                                 Evaluation.
                                Basic Long-Term               50               1            2/60               2
                                 Evaluation.
Healthcare Professionals......  Immediate Post-            4,500               1            1/60              75
                                 Course email
                                 invitation.
Healthcare Professionals......  3 Month Long-                660               1            1/60              11
                                 Term email
                                 invitation.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             502
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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. 2016-17603 Filed 7-25-16; 8:45 am]
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