[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19595-19596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05775]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-24-24AA]


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 ``Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) 
Program'' 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 
16, 2023 to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. CDC 
received three comments related 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

    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 
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.
    The total annual burden requested by CDC is estimated to be 1,408 
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
                                                                 respondents       respondent       (in hours)
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RPE-funded Health Departments         Annual Performance                   128                1               10
 (State, DC, and Territories),         Report.                             128                1            30/60
 Sexual Assault Coalitions, Tribal    Program Director Survey              128                1            30/60
 Coalitions and their Designated      Lead Evaluator Survey..
 Delegates.
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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. 2024-05775 Filed 3-18-24; 8:45 am]
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