[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 46 (Monday, March 9, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13651-13653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04726]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-20-20KN; Docket No. CDC-2020-0028]
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/STD Prevention Reporting Templates. The data
collection is designed to obtain detailed, specific, and consistent
reporting to ensure that the Division of Adolescent and School Health
(DASH) can determine the context, process and effectiveness of program
activities.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before May 8, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2020-
0028 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
Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention
Reporting Templates--New--Division of Adolescent and School Health
(DASH), National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
PS18-1807 Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD
Prevention was awarded August 1, 2018 with a five year project period.
It is funded through the Division of Adolescent and School Health.
Health behaviors during adolescence set the stage for behaviors and
health into adulthood. In 2017, 40% of high school students in the US
had never had sexual intercourse and 29% were currently sexually
active. Among currently sexually active students, 46% did not use a
condom, and 14% did not use any method to prevent pregnancy the last
time they had sexual intercourse. In 2016, young people aged 13-24
accounted for an estimated 21% of all new HIV diagnoses in the United
States. Half of the nearly 20 million new STDs reported each year were
among young people aged 15-24.
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. Schools can help understand and
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prevent adolescent risk for HIV, STD and teen pregnancy. Schools play
an important role in HIV/STD prevention. Schools can influence
students' risk for HIV infection and other STD through parental
engagement, health education, connection to physical and mental health
services, and connecting youth to each other and important adults.
The PS18-1807 award supports implementation of activities at
multiple levels of the education system to achieve health goals. School
curricula, policies, and services are generally locally determined by
local education agencies (LEA), or local school districts, with
guidance from state education agencies (SEA). LEA and SEA both provide
training, resources, and technical assistance to schools. SEA establish
supportive state environments for local decision making about school
policies and practices. LEA support implementation of school-based
strategies through district level actions and decisions. Recognizing
the importance of locally tailoring approaches, PS18-1807 uses priority
schools within a district, or LEA, as a natural laboratory for working
through program implementation details before scaling up--or
diffusing--activities to all schools in a district. This approach
supports close connections with decision-makers responsible for
educational options and school environments at each of these levels.
Additional support from organizations with specialized expertise and
capacity for national reach will be used to increase the impact of SEA
and LEA strategies. They provide a range of highly trained experts for
professional development and technical assistance to advance HIV/STD
prevention work.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requests a three-
year OMB approval to conduct three information collections entitled,
Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention
Reporting Templates. There are separate templates and work plans for
Component 1 reporting and for Component 2 reporting. Eighty (80) sites
will be filling out the Component 1 reporting template and work plan;
twenty-five (25) sites will be filling out the Component 2 reporting
template and work plans (required programmatic activities work plan and
professional development work plan).
The Component 1 information collection uses a self-administered
reporting template to assess surveillance activities conducted by
recipient education and health agencies funded by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School
Health under Component 1 of PS18-1807 Promoting Adolescent Health
through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention. This data collection will
provide DASH with data to generate internal reports that will identify
successful and problematic surveillance areas. In addition, the
information collection will allow DASH to determine if recipient
agencies are completing the required activities of the NOFO on time, as
well as identifying problems in implementation. With this information,
DASH can ascertain if additional technical assistance is needed to help
recipients improve their surveillance implementation, if necessary. The
reporting template will include questions on the following topics:
Youth Risk Behavior Survey completion and School Health Profiles
(Profiles) completion. No personally identifiable information will be
collected.
The Component 2 information collection uses a self-administered
reporting template to assess HIV and STD prevention efforts conducted
by local education agencies (LEA) funded by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health under
Component 2 of PS18-1807 Promoting Adolescent Health through School-
Based HIV/STD Prevention. This data collection will provide DASH with
data to generate internal reports that will identify successful and
problematic programmatic areas. In addition, both information
collections will allow DASH to determine if recipient agencies are
completing the required activities of the NOFO on time, as well as
identifying problems in implementation. With this information, DASH can
ascertain if additional technical assistance is needed to help
recipients improve their program implementation, if necessary. In
addition, the findings will allow CDC to determine the potential impact
of currently recommended strategies and make changes to those
recommendations if necessary. The reporting template will include
sections on the following topics: sexual health education (SHE), sexual
health services (SHS), safe and supportive environments (SSE) required
and additional activities. No personally identifiable information will
be collected.
The estimated burden per response ranges from eight hours for
Component 1 to 14 hours for Component 2. Recipients will complete the
reporting templates every six months and the work plan templates once a
year under this approval. Annualizing the collection over one year
results in an estimated annualized burden of 3,320 hours for
respondents. There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Number of responses per Average burden Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents respondent (in per response (in hours)
hours) (in hours)
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Surveillance recipients (Program Managers)..... Promoting Adolescent Health through 80 3 8 1,920
School-Based HIV/STD Prevention
Component 1 Reporting Template and
Work Plan.
Local education agency HIV prevention Promoting Adolescent Health through 25 4 14 1,400
recipients (Program Managers). School-Based HIV/STD Prevention
Component 2 Reporting Template and
Work Plans (required programmatic
activities work plan and professional
development work plan).
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Total...................................... ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 3,320
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Jeffery M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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