[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.
[FR Doc. 2020-04726 Filed 3-6-20; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4163-18-P