[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 203 (Monday, October 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72760-72762]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-23340]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-24-1329; Docket No. CDC-2023-0085]
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 to comment on a continuing information collection, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites
comment on a proposed information collection project titled Promoting
Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention Reporting
Templates. The data collection is designed to obtain detailed,
specific, and consistent reporting measures to ensure that the Division
of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) can determine the context,
process, and effectiveness of program activities.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before December 22,
2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2023-
0085 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
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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
Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention
Reporting Templates (OMB Control No. 0920-1329, Exp. 3/31/2024)--
Revision--National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requests a
one-year OMB approval to extend and revise the information collection
titled, Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD
Prevention Reporting Templates. PS18-1807 Promoting Adolescent Health
through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention was awarded August 1, 2018 with
a six-year project period. It is funded through the Division of
Adolescent and School Health (DASH).
Health behaviors during adolescence set the stage for behaviors and
health into adulthood. In 2017, 40% of high school students in the US
had ever had sexual intercourse and 29% were currently sexually active.
Among currently sexually active students, 46% did not use a condom, and
14% did not use any method to prevent pregnancy the last time they had
sexual intercourse. In 2016, young people aged 13-24 accounted for an
estimated 21% of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States. Half of
the nearly 20 million new STDs reported each year were among young
people aged 15-24.
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. Schools can help understand and prevent
adolescent risk for HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy. Schools play an
important role in HIV/STD prevention and can influence students' risk
for HIV infection and other STDs through parental engagement, health
education, connection to physical and mental health services, and
connecting youth to each other and important adults.
The PS18-1807 award supports implementation of activities at
multiple levels of the education system to achieve health goals. School
curricula, policies, and services are generally locally determined by
local education agencies (LEA), or local school districts, with
guidance from state education agencies (SEA). LEA and SEA both provide
training, resources, and technical assistance to schools. SEA establish
supportive state environments for local decision making about school
policies and practices. LEA support implementation of school-based
strategies through district level actions and decisions. Recognizing
the importance of locally tailoring approaches, PS18-1807 uses priority
schools within a district, or LEA, as a natural laboratory for working
through program implementation details before scaling up--or
diffusing--activities to all schools in a district. This approach
supports close connections with decision-makers responsible for
educational options and school environments at each of these levels.
Additional support from organizations with specialized expertise and
capacity for national reach will be used to increase the impact of SEA
and LEA strategies. They provide a range of highly trained experts for
professional development and technical assistance to advance HIV/STD
prevention work.
There are separate templates and work plans for Component 1
reporting and for Component 2 reporting. A total of 80 sites will be
filling out the Component 1 reporting template and work plan; 25 sites
will be filling out the Component 2 reporting template and work plans
(required programmatic activities work plan and professional
development work plan). CDC will add one additional question to the
reporting template. The additional question is: ``(If applicable)
Publications: List publications resulting from the project, as well as
plans for further publications.'' The work plan template will not be
modified.
The Component 1 information collection uses a self-administered
reporting template to assess surveillance activities conducted by
recipient education and health agencies funded by CDC/DASH under
Component 1 of PS18-1807 Promoting Adolescent Health through School-
Based HIV/STD Prevention. This data collection will provide DASH with
data to generate internal reports that will identify successful and
problematic surveillance areas. In addition, the information collection
will allow DASH to determine if recipient agencies are completing the
required activities of the NOFO on time, as well as identifying
problems in implementation. With this information, DASH can ascertain
if additional technical assistance is needed to help recipients improve
their surveillance implementation if necessary. The reporting template
will include questions on the following topics: Youth Risk Behavior
Survey completion, and School Health Profiles (Profiles) completion. No
personally identifiable information will be collected.
The Component 2 information collection uses a self-administered
reporting template to assess HIV and STD prevention efforts conducted
by local education agencies (LEA) funded by CDC/DASH under Component 2
of PS18-1807 Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD
Prevention. This data collection will provide DASH with data to
generate internal reports that will identify successful and problematic
programmatic areas. In addition, both information collections will
allow DASH to determine if recipient agencies are completing the
required activities of the NOFO on time, as well as identifying
problems in implementation. With this information, DASH can ascertain
if additional
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technical assistance is needed to help recipients improve their program
implementation if necessary. In addition, the findings continue to
allow CDC to determine the potential impact of currently recommended
strategies and make changes to those recommendations if necessary. DASH
was able to refine and target the technical assistance provided to
recipient agencies to better ensure they completed their work plans and
spent funds according to the original Notice of Funding Opportunity.
The reporting template will include sections on the following topics:
sexual health education (SHE), sexual health services (SHS), safe and
supportive environments (SSE) required and additional activities. No
personally identifiable information will be collected.
The estimated burden per response ranges from eight hours for
Component 1 to 14 hours for Component 2. Recipients will complete the
reporting templates every six months and the work plan templates once a
year under this approval. Annualizing the collection over one year
results in an estimated annualized burden of 3,320 burden hours for
respondents. There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
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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Surveillance Recipients Promoting 80 3 8 1,920
(Program Managers). Adolescent
Health through
School-Based
HIV/STD
Prevention
Component 1
Reporting
Template and
Work Plan.
Local education agency HIV Promoting 25 4 14 1,400
prevention recipients Adolescent
(Program Managers). Health through
School-Based
HIV/STD
Prevention
Component 2
Reporting
Template and
Work Plans
(required
programmatic
activities work
plan and
professional
development
work plan).
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 3,320
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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.
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