[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 111 (Friday, June 9, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37884-37885]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12356]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-23-23AA]


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 ``DELTA Achieving Health Equity through 
Addressing Disparities (AHEAD) Cooperative Agreement Evaluation'' 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 October 17, 2022 to obtain 
comments from the public and affected agencies. CDC received four 
comments 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

    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).

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 (ICR) 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 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

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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 Intimate Partner Violence (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 163 annual burden hours. 
There is no cost 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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DELTA AHEAD State Domestic Violence     Annual Performance                    13               1              10
 Coalition (SDVC) Project Leads.         Report.                              13               1               1
                                        Key Informant Interview--
                                         Project Lead.
DELTA AHEAD SDVC Evaluators...........  Key Informant Interview               13               1               1
                                         Evaluator.
DELTA AHEAD SDVC staff--Category B      Prevention                             3               1           30/60
 Recipients.                             Infrastructure
                                         Assessment.
DELTA AHEAD SDVC Staff--Category A      Health Equity Capacity                10               1           30/60
 Recipients.                             Assessment.
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Public Health 
Ethics and Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2023-12356 Filed 6-8-23; 8:45 am]
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