[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 198 (Monday, October 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71362-71363]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-22778]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-24-24AA; Docket No. CDC-2023-0083]


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 Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program. The RPE Program is 
designed to assess how recipients are improving prevention 
infrastructure, implementing, and evaluating prevention strategies to 
expand efforts to prevent sexual assault, and using data to inform 
prevention action.

DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before December 15, 
2023.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2023-
0083 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

    Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program--New--National Center 
for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Sexual violence (SV) is a major public health problem, one in three 
women and one in four men experienced sexual violence involving 
physical contact during their lifetimes. Nearly one in five women and 
one in 38 men have experienced completed or attempted rape. Sexual 
violence starts early: one in three female and one in four male rape 
victims experienced it for the first time between 11-17 years old. The 
Rape Prevention and Education Program (RPE) provides funding to health 
departments and sexual violence coalitions in all 50 States, the 
District of Columbia (DC), and U.S. Territories, as well as up to 10 
Tribal coalitions. CDC will collect data from RPE Program recipients to 
assess how recipients are improving prevention infrastructure, 
implementing, and evaluating prevention strategies to expand efforts to 
prevent sexual assault, and using data to inform prevention action.
    Recipients will have an opportunity to: (1) continue to build 
program and partner capacity to facilitate and monitor the 
implementation of SV prevention programs, practices, and policies; (2) 
continue to support State and Territorial health departments' 
implementation of community-and societal-level programs, practices, and 
policies to prevent SV; (3) continue to support the implementation of 
data-driven, comprehensive, evidence-based SV primary prevention 
strategies, and approaches focused mainly on health equity; and (4) 
continuously conduct data to action activities to inform changes or 
adaptations to existing SV strategies or on selected and implemented 
additional strategies.
    RPE Program recipients or designated delegates will submit data 
annually into an online data system. Recipients will monitor and report 
progress on their goals, objectives, and activities, as well as 
relevant information on the implementation of their prevention 
strategies, outcomes, evaluation, and State action plan. Information 
will be collected via online web-based survey software. Descriptive 
analyses (e.g., frequencies and crosstabs) will be performed on numeric 
or categorical data, and content analyses (e.g., categorization) on 
open-ended or text data. Information to be collected will provide 
crucial data for program

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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.
    CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 1,408 annualized burden 
hours. There are no direct 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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RPE-funded Health Departments   Annual                       128               1              10            1280
 (State, DC, and Territories),   Performance                 128               1           30/60              64
 Sexual Assault Coalitions,      Report.                     128               1           30/60              64
 Tribal Coalitions, and their   Program Director
 Designated Delegates.           Survey.
                                Lead Evaluator
                                 Survey.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............            1408
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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. 2023-22778 Filed 10-13-23; 8:45 am]
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