[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 199 (Monday, October 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62859-62861]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22508]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-23-23AA; Docket No. CDC-2022-0122]


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 information 
collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This 
notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project 
titled DELTA Achieving Health Equity through Addressing Disparities 
(AHEAD) Cooperative Agreement Evaluation. This project aims to collect 
information from DELTA AHEAD recipients to assess implementation and 
program impact, and to further understand the facilitators, barriers, 
and other critical factors associated with program activities.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before December 16, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2022-
0122 by either of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.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 www.regulations.gov.
    Please note: Submit all comments through the Federal eRulemaking 
portal (www.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; Telephone: 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

    DELTA Achieving Health Equity through Addressing Disparities 
(AHEAD) Cooperative Agreement Evaluation--New--National Center for 
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC).

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Background and Brief Description

    The goal of this project is to collect monitoring data for 
performance and implementation of the cooperative agreement: Domestic 
Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances 
(DELTA) Achieving Health Equity through Addressing Disparities (AHEAD). 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seeks OMB approval 
for three years for a new information collection request to collect 
information from 22 recipients (State Domestic Violence Coalitions) and 
all 32 sub-recipients (Coordinated Community Response Teams) funded 
through CDC's DELTA AHEAD Program cooperative agreement. CDC will 
collect information from DELTA AHEAD recipients as part of its program 
evaluation to assess the implementation and impact of the Notice of 
Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and further understand the facilitators, 
barriers, and critical factors to implement specific violence 
prevention strategies and conduct program evaluation activities.
    Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a serious, yet preventable 
public health problem that affects millions of people in the United 
States each year. Data from CDC's 2015 National Intimate Partner and 
Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) indicate that about one in four women 
and one in 10 men have experienced contact sexual violence, physical 
violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime 
and reported some form of IPV-related impact. This form of violence 
disproportionately affects marginalized populations in the United 
States. Evidence suggests an increase in new cases and severity of IPV, 
particularly for marginalized groups, during the COVID-19 pandemic 
pointing to the need to adapt IPV prevention strategies during 
shutdowns and other national and global emergencies. Such disparities 
in the risk of IPV are created and maintained through systemic health 
and social inequities. To achieve health equity requires addressing 
root causes (e.g., discrimination and biases in societal values, public 
policy) that differentially disadvantage groups based on 
characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and ability, and are 
often expressed as racism, sexism, and disability discrimination.
    Information to be collected will provide crucial data for program 
performance monitoring and provide CDC with the capacity to respond in 
a timely manner to requests for information about the program from the 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the White House, 
Congress, and other sources. Information to be collected will also 
strengthen CDC's ability to monitor awardee progress, provide data-
driven technical assistance, and disseminate the most current 
surveillance data on unintentional and intentional injuries.
    Monitoring the impact of population-based strategies and 
identifying new insights and innovative solutions to health problems 
are two of the noted public health activities that all public health 
systems should undertake. For NCIPC, these objectives cannot be 
satisfied without the systematic collection of data and information 
from state health departments. The information collection will enable 
the accurate, reliable, uniform, and timely submission to NCIPC of each 
awardee's progress report and injury indicators, including strategies 
and performance measures. Funded recipients are expected to use data to 
identify populations and environments at differential risk for violence 
due to inequitable access to conditions needed for health and safety. 
By increasing equitable access to Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), 
funded recipients reduce risk factors for and/or increase protective 
factors against IPV. Authorized by the Family Violence and Prevention 
Services Act (FVPSA), CDC has funded the DELTA Program since 2002. The 
DELTA program funds State Domestic Violence Coalitions (SDVCs) to 
implement statewide IPV prevention efforts and assist and fund local 
communities to do the same.
    The information collection and reporting requirements have been 
carefully designed to align with and support the specific goals and 
outcomes outlined in the cooperative agreement. This funding 
opportunity includes two funding options. Category A recipients will 
have existing high capacity to implement primary prevention strategies 
and will build upon existing efforts. Category B recipients will focus 
on gathering publicly available data to better understand gaps in IPV 
prevention resources, building capacity to implement and evaluate IPV 
primary prevention in their state and selected communities, and using 
evaluation data for quality improvement.
    Using recipients' annually submitted progress, outcomes, 
performance indicators, and related measures, CDC will aggregate and 
synthesize those data to inform the CDC evaluation of the cooperative 
agreement initiative across all recipients to capture program impact at 
the community and state levels, as well as performance monitoring and 
continuous program improvement. The CDC evaluation will inform and 
highlight the progress and achievements that recipients are making 
toward reducing IPV using community and societal level primary 
prevention approaches in addressing risk and protective factors.
    CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 962 annual burden hours. 
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   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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DELTA AHEAD State Domestic      Annual                        22               4              10             880
 Violence.                       Performance
                                 Report.
Coalition (SDVC) Project Leads  Key Informant                 22               2           30/60              22
                                 Interview--Proj
                                 ect Lead.
DELTA AHEAD SDVC Evaluators...  Key Informant                 22               2           30/60              22
                                 Interview--Eval
                                 uator.
DELTA AHEAD SDVC staff........  Prevention                    22               3           20/60              22
                                 Infrastructure
                                 Assessment.
DELTA AHEAD Coordinated         Sub-recipient                 32               2           15/60              16
 Community Response Team         Survey.
 (CCRT) Staff.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............             962
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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. 2022-22508 Filed 10-14-22; 8:45 am]
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