[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 189 (Friday, September 30, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59434-59435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21216]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-22-1275]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted the information 
collection request titled ``Promoting Adolescent Health through School-
Based HIV Prevention'' to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and approval. CDC previously published a ``Proposed Data 
Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations'' notice on 
April 8, 2022, to obtain comments from the public and affected 
agencies. CDC received three comments related to the previous notice. 
This notice serves to allow an additional 30 days for public and 
affected agency comments.
    CDC will accept all comments for this proposed information 
collection project. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly 
interested in comments that:
    (a) 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;
    (b) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected;
    (d) 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 submission of responses; and
    (e) Assess information collection costs.
    To request additional information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call 
(404) 639-7570. Comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Direct 
written comments and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in 
this notice to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management 
and Budget, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 
395-5806. Provide written comments within 30 days of notice 
publication.

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 had never 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

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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. One venue 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 (NCHHSTP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC), has worked to support HIV prevention efforts in the nation's 
schools. CDC requests OMB approval to collect data over a two-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 effectively contribute 
to the reduction of HIV infection and other STD among adolescents; and 
the reduction of 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 STDs. This funding supports a multi-component, 
multilevel effort to support youth reaching adulthood in the healthiest 
possible way.
    CDC will use a web-based system to collect data on the approaches 
that LEAs are using to meet their goals. Approaches include helping 
LEAs and priority schools deliver SHE emphasizing HIV and other STD 
prevention; increasing adolescent access to key SHS; and establishing 
SSEs for students and staff. Given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic 
on schools, these data will also be used to help understand which 
approaches LEAs were able to implement during the pandemic and which 
approaches presented challenges in this context.
    To track LEA progress and evaluate the effectiveness of program 
activities, CDC will collect data using a mix of process and outcome 
measures. Process measures to be completed by all LEAs 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, which will be completed by 
local education agencies, assess whether funded activities at each site 
are leading to intended outcomes including public health impact of 
systemic change in schools. These measures drove the development of 
questionnaires that have been tailored to each LEA's strategies (i.e., 
SHE, SHS, SSE).
    Respondents are the same 25 LEAs that have been 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. CDC 
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 school levels. Annualizing this collection over two years 
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. There are no costs to respondents other than their time to 
participate.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Type of respondents                   Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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Local Education Agencies..............  Funded District                       25               2               2
                                         Questionnaire.
                                        Priority School                       25               2              26
                                         Questionnaire.
                                        District Assistance                   25               2               7
                                         Questionnaire.
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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. 2022-21216 Filed 9-29-22; 8:45 am]
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