[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 5, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26113-26115]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-11648]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-19-19AUK; Docket No. CDC-2019-0041]
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 Promoting Adolescent Health
through School-Based HIV Prevention. CDC will use a web-based system to
collect data on the strategies that funded Local Education Agencies
(LEAs) are using to meet their goals related to three strategies:
Deliver sexual health education emphasizing HIV and other STD
prevention (SHE); Increase adolescent access to key sexual health
services (SHS); and Establish safe and supportive environments for
students and staff (SSE).
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before August 5, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2019-
0041 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,
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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
Promoting Adolescent Health Through School-Based HIV Prevention--
New--National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Many young people engage in sexual behaviors that place them at
risk for HIV infection, other sexually transmitted diseases (STD), and
pregnancy. According to the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS),
39.5% of high school students in the United States had ever had sexual
intercourse and 28.7% were currently sexually active. Among currently
sexually active students, 46.2% did not use a condom, and 13.8% did not
use any method to prevent pregnancy the last time they had sexual
intercourse. While the proportion of high school students who are
sexually active has steadily declined, half of the 20 million new STDs
reported each year are among young people between the ages of 15 and
24. Young people aged 13-24 account for 21% of all new HIV diagnoses in
the United States, with most occurring among 20-24 year olds.
Establishing healthy behaviors during childhood and adolescence is
easier and more effective than trying to change unhealthy behaviors
during adulthood. A critical area that offers valuable opportunities
for improving adolescent health is at school. Schools have direct
contact with over 50 million students for at least six hours a day over
13 key years of their social, physical, and intellectual development.
In addition, schools often have staff with knowledge of critical health
risk and protective behaviors and have pre-existing infrastructure that
can support a varied set of healthful interventions. This makes schools
well-positioned to help reduce adolescents' risk for HIV infection and
other STD through sexual health education (SHE), access to sexual
health services (SHS), and safe and supportive environments (SSE).
Since 1987, the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) in
the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has
worked to support for HIV prevention efforts in the Nation's schools.
DASH requests OMB approval to collect data over a three-year period
from funded agencies under award PS18-1807: Promoting Adolescent Health
through School-Based HIV Prevention. Funded agencies are local
education agencies (LEAs), also known as school districts. The
fundamental purposes of PS18-1807 are to build and strengthen the
capacity of LEAs and their priority schools to contribute effectively
to the reduction of HIV infection and other STD among adolescents; the
reduction of disparities in HIV infection and other STD experienced by
specific adolescent sub-population. Priority schools are middle and
high schools within the funded LEAs in which youth are at risk for HIV
infection and other STD. This funding supports a multi-component,
multilevel effort to support youth reaching adulthood in the healthiest
possible way.
DASH will use a web-based system to collect data on the strategies
that LEAs are using to meet their goals. Strategies include helping
LEAs and priority schools deliver sexual health education emphasizing
HIV and other STD prevention (SHE); increasing adolescent access to key
sexual health services (SHS); and establishing safe and supportive
environments for students and staff (SSE). To track funded LEA progress
and evaluate the effectiveness of program activities, DASH will be
collecting data using a mix of process and outcome measures. LEAs will
complete process measures that will assess the extent to which planned
program activities have been implemented and lead to feasible and
sustainable programmatic outcomes. Process measures include items on
school health policy and practice assessment and training and technical
assistance received from non-governmental partner organizations.
Outcome measures assess whether funded activities at each site are
leading to intended outcomes including public health impact of systemic
change in schools. The measures tailored to each PS18-1807 strategy
(i.e., SHE, SHS, SSE) drove the development of questionnaires that have
been.
Respondents are 25 LEAs funded under PS18-1807. Local education
agencies will complete the questionnaires semi-annually using the
Program Evaluation and Reporting System (PERS), an electronic web-based
interface specifically designed for this data collection. Each LEA will
receive a unique login to the system and technical assistance to ensure
they can use the system easily. To provide timely feedback to LEAs and
DASH staff for accountability and optimal use of funds, the requested
dates for data reflect the Office of Financial Resources deadlines.
DASH anticipates that semi-annual information collection will begin in
February 2020 and will describe activities conducted during the period
August 2019-July 2022.
The estimated burden per response is approximately 2-26 hours. This
estimate includes time for LEAs to gather information at the district
and priority school-levels. Annualizing this collection over five years
results in an estimated annualized burden of 1,750 hours per year and
5,250 for three years across all funded LEAs. Funded LEAs are required
to allocate at least 6% of their NOFO award to support evaluation
activities ranging from $15,000 to $21,000. Use of these funds is
discretionary, including for collection of process and outcome
measures. Funded LEAs are required to spend at least 6% of their award
to support evaluation activities, including time to gather and
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enter data into the online performance and evaluation reporting system.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in (in hours)
respondent hours)
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LEA........................... Funded District 25 2 2 100
Questionnaire.
Priority School 25 2 26 1,300
Questionnaire.
District 25 2 7 350
Assistance
Questionnaire.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 1,750
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2019-11648 Filed 6-4-19; 8:45 am]
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