[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 26 (Thursday, February 7, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2514-2516]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-01334]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60-Day-19-0604; Docket No. CDC-2018-0119]
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 effort to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or
continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed
information collection project titled ``School-Associated Violent
Deaths Surveillance System (SAVD.'' The U.S. Department of Education
(DOE) requested assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)/National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC) to establishing an ongoing surveillance
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system of school-associated violent deaths (SAVD) in the United States
in order to track and monitor school-associated violence, particularly
homicides and suicides that occur in schools on an ongoing basis.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before April 8, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2018-
0119 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments
to Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments 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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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 the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submissions of responses.
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
School Associated Violent Death Surveillance System ((0920-0604,
expiration 05/31/2019)--Revision--National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Division of Violence Prevention (DVP), National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) proposes to maintain a system for
the surveillance of school-associated homicides and suicides. The
system relies on existing public records and interviews with law
enforcement officials and school officials. The purpose of the system
is to (1) estimate the rate of school-associated violent death in the
United States and (2) identify common features of school-associated
violent deaths. The system will contribute to the understanding of
fatal violence associated with schools, guide further research in the
area, and help direct ongoing and future prevention programs.
Violence is the leading cause of death among young people, and
increasingly recognized as an important public health and social issue.
In 2016, over 3,600 school-aged children (5 to 18 years old) in the
United States died of violent deaths due to suicide, homicide, and
unintentional firearm injuries. The vast majority of these fatal
injuries were not school associated. However, whenever a homicide or
suicide occurs in or around school, it becomes a matter of particularly
intense public interest and concern. NCIPC conducted the first
scientific study of school-associated violent deaths (SAVD) during the
1992-99 academic years to establish the true extent of this highly
visible problem. Despite the important role of schools as a setting for
violence research and prevention interventions, relatively little
scientific or systematic work has been done to describe the nature and
level of fatal violence associated with schools. Until NCIPC conducted
the first nationwide investigation of violent deaths associated with
schools, public health and education officials had to rely on limited
local studies and estimated numbers to describe the extent of school-
associated violent death.
SAVD is an ongoing surveillance system that draws cases from the
entire United States in an attempt to capture all cases of school-
associated violent deaths that have occurred. Investigators review
public records and published press reports concerning each school-
associated violent death. For each identified case, investigators also
contact the corresponding law enforcement agency and speak with an
official in order to confirm or reject the case as an SAVD, and to
request a copy of the official law enforcement report for confirmed
SAVD cases. In past years, investigators would interview an
investigating law enforcement official (defined as a police officer,
police chief, or district attorney), and a school official (defined as
a school principal, school superintendent, school counselor, school
teacher, or school support staff) who were knowledgeable about the case
in question; however, moving forward, the interviews with these
respondents will be eliminated, and instead CDC study personnel will
abstract data from law enforcement reports to enter using a Data
Abstraction Tool. Data to be abstracted from the law enforcement report
include the following: Information on both the victim and alleged
offender(s)-- including demographic data, their criminal records, and
their relationship to one another; the time and location of the
incident precipitating the fatality; the circumstances, motive, and
method of the fatal injury; and the security and violence prevention
activities in the school and community where the death occurred, before
and after the fatal injury event. The revised data collection process
eliminating the use of telephone interviews will reduce respondents'
burden greatly.
All data are secured through the use of technical, physical, and
administrative controls. Hard copies of data are kept under lock and
key in secured offices, located in a secured facility that can be
accessed only by presenting the appropriate credentials. Digital data
are password protected and then stored (and backed up routinely) onto a
secure Local Area Network that can only be accessed by individuals who
have been appropriately authorized. Study data are reported in the
aggregate, such that no individual case can be identified from the
reports.
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There are no costs to the respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden Total burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response hours (in
respondents respondent (in hours) hours)
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Law Enforcement Officer....... Law Enforcement 50 1 5/60 4
Case
Confirmation
Script.
Letter to Local 50 1 15/60 13
Law Enforcement
Officials.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 17
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Acting Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2019-01334 Filed 2-6-19; 8:45 am]
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