[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 228 (Friday, November 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74108-74109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30131]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-16FE; Docket No. CDC-2015-0108]
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 efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the
utility of government information, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed
information collection entitled ``Monitoring and Reporting System for
Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Awardees.'' CDC will use the
information collected to monitor cooperative agreement awardees and to
identify challenges to program implementation and achievement of
outcomes.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 26, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2015-
0108 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulation.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS--
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal (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 the Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS--
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 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 OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a
proposed data collection as described below.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-
up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This
includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire,
install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and
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maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to
train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of
information, to search data sources, to complete and review the
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Proposed Project
Monitoring and Reporting System for Rape Prevention and Education
(RPE) Awardees--New--National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
According to CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence
Survey (NISVS), in the United States, nearly 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71
men have been raped in their lifetime, while 1 in 2 women and 1 in 5
men have experienced severe sexual violence victimization other than
rape at some point in their lives. Sexual violence is a major public
health problem, but it is preventable. The majority of victimization
starts early in life with approximately 80% of female victims
experiencing their first rape before the age of 25 and almost half
experiencing their first rape before age 18. CDC's Rape Prevention and
Education Initiative is a national program which funds, through a
cooperative agreement, all 50 state health departments, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, and territories (e.g., Guam, U.S. Virgin
Islands, and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands) to conduct
state- and territorial-wide sexual violence prevention activities.
The current Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Cooperative
Agreement builds on a decade long (2002-2012) investment in the
infrastructure and capacity for sexual violence prevention within state
health departments, state sexual assault coalitions, rape crisis
centers and other community based organizations. Support and guidance
for these programs have been provided through cooperative agreement
funding and technical assistance administered by CDC's National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC).
The goal of this information collection is to receive the needed
data to monitor cooperative agreement programs funded under the Rape
Prevention Education program (CDC-RFA-CE14-1401), for program
monitoring and improvement among funded state health departments.
Data to be collected will provide crucial information for program
performance monitoring and budget tracking, 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. Awardees will
report progress and activity information to CDC on an annual schedule
using an Excel-based fillable electronic templates, pre-populated to
the extent possible by CDC staff, to be submitted via Grant Solutions.
Each awardee will submit an Annual reporting Progress Report Tool and
an Annual reporting Evaluation Plan Tool. In Year 1, each awardee will
have additional burden related to initial collection of the reporting
tools. Initial population of the tools is a one-time activity, after
completing the initial population of the tools, pertinent information
only needs to be updated for each annual report. The same instruments
will be used for all information collection and reporting.
CDC will use the information to monitor each awardee's progress and
to identify facilitators and challenges to program implementation and
achievement of outcomes. Monitoring allows CDC to determine whether an
awardee is meeting performance and budget goals and to make adjustments
in the type and level of technical assistance provided to them, as
needed, to support attainment of their performance measures.
OMB approval is requested for three years. Participation in the
information collection is required as a condition of funding. There are
no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in (in hours)
respondent hours)
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State and Territorial Health Program Report 55 1 7 385
Departments or Sexual Assault Tool (initial
Coalition Designee. collection--Yea
r 1).
Work Plan Tool 55 1 10 550
(initial
collection--Yea
r 1).
Program Report 55 2 3 330
Tool (annual
reporting
collection--Yea
rs 2-3).
Work Plan Tool 55 2 3 330
(annual
reporting
collection--Yea
rs 2-3).
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 1,595
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2015-30131 Filed 11-25-15; 8:45 am]
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