[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 172 (Tuesday, September 6, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61217-61218]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-21296]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-16-0607; Docket No. CDC-2016-0087]
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 The National
Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) to continue collecting state-
based surveillance data on violent deaths that will provide more
detailed and timely information.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before November 7, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0087 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.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
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
The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), (OMB Control
No. 0920-0607, Expiration 10/31/2017)--Revision--National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Violence is an important public health problem. In the United
States, suicide and homicide are the second and third leading causes of
death, respectively, in the 1-34 year old age group. Unfortunately,
public health agencies do not know much more about the problem than the
numbers and the sex, race, and age of the victims, or information
obtainable from the standard death certificate. Death certificates,
however, carry no information about key facts necessary for prevention
such as the relationship of the victim and suspect and the
circumstances of the deaths. Furthermore, death certificates are
typically available 20 months after the completion of a single calendar
year. Official publications of national violent death rates, e.g. those
in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use data that is less
than two years old.
Local and Federal criminal justice agencies such as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provide slightly more information about
homicides, but they do not routinely collect standardized data about
suicides, which are in fact much more common than homicides. The FBI's
Supplemental Homicide Report (SHRs) does collect basic information
about the victim-suspect relationship and circumstances related to the
homicide. SHRs, do not link violent deaths that are part of one
incident such as homicide-suicides. It also is a voluntary system in
which some 10-20 percent of police
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departments nationwide do not participate. The FBI's National Incident
Based Reporting System (NIBRS) provides slightly more information than
SHRs, but it covers less of the country than SHRs. NIBRS also only
provides data regarding homicides. Also, the Bureau of Justice
Statistics Reports do not use data that is less than two years old.
CDC requests OMB approval in order to revise its state-based
surveillance system for violent deaths that will provide more detailed
and timely information. The surveillance system captures case record
information held by medical examiners/coroners, vital statistics (i.e.,
death certificates), and law enforcement. Data is collected by each
state in the system and entered into a web system administered by CDC.
Information is collected from these records about the characteristics
of the victims and suspects, the circumstances of the deaths, and the
weapons involved. States use standardized data elements and software
designed by CDC. Ultimately, this information will guide states in
designing, targeting, and evaluating programs that reduce multiple
forms of violence. Neither victim's families nor suspects are contacted
to collect this information; it all comes from existing records and is
collected by state health department staff or their subcontractors. The
number of hours per death required for the public agencies working with
NVDRS states to retrieve and then refile their records is estimated to
be 0.5 hours per death. Moving forward, we will no longer include state
abstractors' time spent abstracting data in our estimates of public
burden for NVDRS because state abstractors are funded by CDC to do this
work. This significantly reduces the estimated public burden associated
with NVDRS.
The president has submitted plans to fund the expansion of the
state-based surveillance system to collect information in all 50 U.S.
states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. This revision
will allow 10 new state health departments, and 7 territorial
governments to be added to the currently funded 39 state health
departments (Maine and Vermont are funded as one entity), the health
department of the District of Columbia, and 1 territorial government,
resulting in a total of 59 states and territories to be included in the
state-based surveillance system. Violent deaths include all homicides,
suicides, legal interventions, deaths from undetermined causes, and
unintentional firearm deaths. The average state will experience
approximately 1,000 such deaths each year.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden Total burden
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per per response hours (in
respondents respondent (in hours) hours)
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Public Agencies............... NVDRS Web System 59 1,000 30/60 29,500
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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. 2016-21296 Filed 9-2-16; 8:45 am]
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