[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.
[FR Doc. 2023-23340 Filed 10-20-23; 8:45 am]
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