[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 125 (Friday, July 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35294-35295]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14223]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-21-21GA Docket No. CDC-2021-0061]


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 proposal to 
allow CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB 
Prevention (NCHHSTP), Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) 
to conduct a research information collection project titled ``Teen and 
Parents Surveys of Health (TAPS)''. This project serves to inform the 
CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health's (DASH) key school-
based programmatic strategies of improving family- and school-level 
protective factors, bolstering health education, and increasing 
adolescent access to quality health services.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before August 31, 2021.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2021-
0061 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: 404-639-7118; 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;
    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; and
    5. Assess information collection costs.

Proposed Project

    Teen and Parents Surveys of Health (TAPS)--New--National Center for 
HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National 
Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), 
Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) requests approval for 
``Teen and Parent Surveys of Health (TAPS)'' through an existing online 
panel using NORC at the University of Chicago's AmeriSpeaks panel. 
Documenting health-related risk behaviors and experiences and health 
outcomes of young people through routine surveillance is a critical 
component of DASH's prevention efforts. Another component of DASH's 
efforts to improve adolescent health is observational research to 
inform its school-based programmatic strategies. This type of research 
serves to inform priority settings and sub-populations for intervention 
as well as specific intervention strategies. TAPS data will allow DASH 
to refine existing strategies for funded school district partners to 
improve the quality of their programs and services to prevent HIV, 
other STDs, and pregnancy among adolescents, as well as improve mental 
health, sexual health and other adolescent health outcomes (e.g., 
substance use, violence victimization). Data will be used to inform 
DASH's key school-based programmatic strategies of improving family- 
and school-level protective factors, bolstering health education, and 
increasing adolescent access to quality health services. This 
observational research complements and extends DASH's ongoing 
surveillance efforts through the Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillances 
System (YRBSS) (OMB Control No. 0920-0493, Exp. 11/30/2023), which 
provides key national estimates of adolescent health risk behaviors and 
health outcomes, by providing a deeper dive into individual, family, 
and school factors that positively associate with adolescent behaviors 
and health outcomes. Collecting this observational data provides the 
opportunity to examine untested associations of protective factors, 
health education experiences, and health service use (immediate 
outcomes of DASH strategies) with mental health, sexual health, and 
substance use outcomes.
    CDC requests approval for an estimated 1,378 annual burden hours. 
There are no costs to respondents other than their time to participate.

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                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       (in hrs)        (in hrs)
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Parents/Caregivers of 15-17     Adult/Caregiver            2,634               1           20/60             878
 year olds.                      Survey.
Adolescent 15-17 year olds....  Adolescent                   900               1           20/60             300
                                 Survey.
Adolescent 18-19 year olds....  Adolescent                   600               1           20/60             200
                                 Survey.
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    Totals....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,378
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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. 2021-14223 Filed 7-1-21; 8:45 am]
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