[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 40 (Thursday, March 2, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12354-12356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-04042]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-17-1014: Docket No. CDC-2017-0012]


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 updated ``CDC 
WORKSITE HEALTH SCORECARD,'' an organizational assessment and planning 
tool designed to help employers identify gaps in their health promotion 
programs and prioritize high-impact strategies for health promotion at 
their worksites.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before May 1, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0012 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

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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

    CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard (HSC) (OMB Control Number 0920-1014, 
expires 4/30/2017)--Revision--National Center for Chronic Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    In the United States, chronic diseases such as heart disease, 
obesity and diabetes are among the leading causes of death and 
disability. Although chronic diseases are among the most common and 
costly health problems, they are also among the most preventable. 
Adopting healthy behaviors--such as eating nutritious foods, being 
physically active and avoiding tobacco use--can prevent the devastating 
effects and reduce the rates of these diseases.
    Employers are recognizing the role they can play in creating 
healthy work environments and providing employees with opportunities to 
make healthy lifestyle choices. To support these efforts, CDC developed 
an online organizational assessment tool called the CDC Worksite Health 
Scorecard.
    The CDC Worksite Health Scorecard is a tool designed to help 
employers assess whether they have implemented evidence-based health 
promotion interventions or strategies in their worksites to prevent 
heart disease, stroke, and related conditions such as hypertension, 
diabetes, and obesity. The revised assessment contains 151 core yes/no 
questions with an additional 20 optional demographic questions divided 
into 19 modules (risk factors/conditions/demographics) that assess how 
evidence-based health promotion strategies are implemented at a 
worksite. These strategies include health promoting counseling 
services, environmental supports, policies, health plan benefits, and 
other worksite programs shown to be effective in preventing heart 
disease, stroke, and related health conditions. Employers can use this 
tool to assess how a comprehensive health promotion and disease 
prevention program is offered to their employees, to help identify 
program gaps, and to prioritize
    The proposed information collection revision supports development, 
validation, and evaluation of the updated CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard 
(HSC), a web-based organizational assessment tool designed to help 
employers identify gaps in their health promotion programs and 
prioritize high-impact strategies for health promotion at their 
worksites (available at http://www.cdc.gov/healthscorecard). HSC users 
will create a user account, complete the online assessment and receive 
an immediate feedback report that summarizes the current status of 
their worksite health program; identifies gaps in current programming; 
benchmarks individual employer results against other users of the 
system; and provides access to worksite health tools and resources to 
address employer gaps and priority program areas.
    The updated HSC includes questions in four new topic areas--Sleep, 
Alcohol & Other Substance Abuse, Cancer, and Musculoskeletal 
Disorders--along with revisions to previously existing questions based 
on supporting evidence. In 2017, CDC will recruit one hundred employers 
(each represented by two knowledgeable employees) to pilot test the 
updated HSC. From the employers that complete the survey, CDC will 
conduct follow-up telephone interviews on a subset of about 15 
employers (each represented by two knowledgeable employees). The 
follow-up telephone interviews will gather general impressions of the 
HSC--particularly the new modules--and also allow for discussion of 
items that presented discrepancies (and items that were left blank) to 
understand the respondent's interpretation and perspective of their 
answers these questions.
    This process will assess the validity and reliability of the 
questions, as well as allow the CDC to gather suggestions for 
additional refinements, where necessary.
    Following this pilot testing, CDC will continue to provide outreach 
to and register approximately 800 employers per year to use the online 
survey HSC in their workplace health program assessment, planning, and 
implementation efforts which is open to employers of all sizes, 
industry sectors, and geographic locations across the country.
    CDC will seek a three-year OMB approval for this information 
collection project. Participation is voluntary and there are no costs 
to respondents other than their time.

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                                        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)      (in hours)
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Employers.....................  CDC Worksite                 800               1           75/60           1,000
                                 Health
                                 Scorecard.
                                CDC Worksite                  32               1               1              32
                                 Health
                                 Scorecard
                                 Cognitive
                                 interview.
                                CDC Worksite                 200               1            5/60              17
                                 Health
                                 Scorecard Pilot
                                 evaluation.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,049
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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. 2017-04042 Filed 3-1-17; 8:45 am]
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