[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 68 (Friday, April 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20866-20867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07522]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60-Day-22-1275; Docket No. CDC-2022-0048]


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 the extension of 
an information collection project titled Promoting Adolescent Health 
through School-Based HIV Prevention. CDC will continue to 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: Delivery of sexual health education (SHE) emphasizing 
HIV and other STD prevention, increasing adolescent access to key 
sexual health services (SHS), and establishing safe and supportive 
environments (SSE) for students and staff.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before June 7, 2022.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2022-
0048 by either 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 H21-8, 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 H21-8, 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;
    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

    Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV Prevention 
(OMB Control No. 0920-1275, Exp. 11/30/2022)--Extension--National 
Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), 
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 have 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 15-24. 
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 stage 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 STDs 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, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention of 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has worked to 
support HIV prevention efforts in the Nation's schools. DASH requests 
an OMB extension to continue to collect data from agencies funded under 
award PS18-1807: Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV 
Prevention. PS 18-1807 is currently starting year three of data 
collection, and program activities will continue through 2023. Funded 
agencies are local education agencies (LEAs), also known as school 
districts. The fundamental purposes of PS18-1807 are; (1) 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, and (2) to reduce disparities in HIV infection and 
other STD experienced by specific adolescent sub-populations. 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.

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    DASH will continue to 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 SHE emphasizing HIV and other 
STD prevention; increasing adolescent access to key SHS; and 
establishing SSE for students and staff. To track funded LEA progress 
and evaluate the effectiveness of program activities, DASH will collect 
a mix of process and outcome measure data. 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.
    Respondents are the same 25 LEAs funded under PS18-1807. LEAs will 
continue to 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 has 
a unique login to the system and has access to 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 continue after the current OMB approval time frame ends on 
November 30, 2022. With this extension, additional data collection will 
be conducted at two time points, November 1, 2022-March 1, 2023 and May 
1, 2023-September 1, 2023.
    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 
of this project results in an estimated annualized burden of 1,750 
hours per year and a total of 3,500 hours for the requested two-year 
extension 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 enter data into the online performance and 
evaluation reporting system.
    CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 1,750 annual burden 
hours. There are no costs to respondents other than their time to 
participate.

                                        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. 2022-07522 Filed 4-7-22; 8:45 am]
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