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Respondents Number of

respondents

Number of

responses/

Respondent

Avg. burden/

response

(in hrs.)

Sample Adult ................................................................................................................................ 10,037 1 .806

Dated: February 12, 1997.

Wilma G. Johnson,

Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning

And Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork

Reduction Act Review

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of

information collection requests under

review by the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

Chapter 35). To request a copy of these

requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance

Office on (404) 639–7090. Send written

comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human

Resources and Housing Branch, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235;

Washington, DC 20503. Written

comments should be received within 30

days of this notice.

The following requests have been

submitted for review since the last

publication date on February 11, 1997.

Proposed Project

1. Feasibility Study of a State and

Local Area Integrated Telephone

Survey—New—This is a request to

conduct a feasibility study in five States

of an integrated survey to collect broad

State-based health and health-related

data using two existing and ongoing

data collection systems, the National

Immunization Survey (NIS) and the

National Health Interview Survey

(NHIS) (0920–0214). The purpose of this

project is to demonstrate the potential

for using random-digit-dialing (RDD)

methods to sample households for

Computer Assisted Telephone

Interviews (CATI) to produce quick

turnaround State-level estimates on

issues such as health status, access to

care, health insurance coverage, and

utilization of services for monitoring

and tracking changes in the health care

system. As health care markets respond

to new incentives and States gain

increasing responsibility for

administering health and welfare

programs, State level data are being

recognized as increasingly important to

the public health and health policy

community. While considerable

population-based data are available at

the national level, there is a variable

amount at the State level.

The proposed strategy of building on

two established systems provides

several advantages. It is less costly than

establishing a new system; the proposed

questions have been thoroughly tested;

and implementation can occur rapidly.

In the NIS, interviews are conducted on

a random sample of telephone

households to produce vaccination

coverage estimates for children 19 to 35

months of age for all 50 states, the

District of Columbia, and 27 urban

areas. The NIS CATI system offers a

mechanism for rapid data collection and

for expansion to establish a more broad

based system to monitor and track

changes in health status, the health care

system, and welfare reform at the State

level. In addition, since the design for

the NIS requires screening 20

households to identify a single

household with an age eligible child, a

potential cost effective opportunity

exists to make use of the large

probability sample of telephone

numbers for other emerging health care

issues. The NHIS is a continuous

general purpose national health survey

in which face-to-face interviews are

conducted to measure health

characteristics of the U.S. civilian

noninstitutionalized population. Use of

an abbreviated set of questions from the

NHIS for the proposed integrated

telephone survey will allow for

standardization of the questionnaire

across States and will allow

comparisons with national data. In

addition, the quality of the estimates

developed from the telephone survey

can be improved with adjustments for

nontelephone households using

information from the NHIS on telephone

and nontelephone households.

The long term strategy is to build an

integrated and coordinated data

collection mechanism that can be both

standardized for State and national

comparisons and customized for Statespecific needs. The total annual burden

is 17,000 reflecting an average of the

two years assuming coverage of 5 areas

in 1997 and 78 areas in 1998.

Respondents No. of respondents

No. of responses/respondent

Average

burden/response (in

hrs.)

Total burden (in hrs.)

1997

Noninstitutionalized household population in 5 States .................................................... 5,500 1 0.33 1,833

1998

Noninstitutionalized household population in 50 States or substate areas ..................... 55,000 1 0.33 18,333

Noninstitutionalized household population in 28 substate areas 31,000 1 0.33 10,333
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Dated: February 10, 1997.

Wilma G. Johnson,

Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning

and Evaluation, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC).

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Grants for Intimate Partner Violence

Prevention Research Notice of

Availability of Funds for Fiscal Year

1997

Introduction

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces

applications are being accepted for

Intimate Partner Violence Prevention

Research Grants for fiscal year (FY)

1997. The CDC is committed to

achieving the health promotion and

disease prevention objectives of Healthy

People 2000, a national activity to

reduce morbidity and mortality and

improve the quality of life. This

announcement is related to the priority

area of Violent and Abusive Behavior.

(To order a copy of Healthy People

2000, see the section Where to Obtain

Additional Information.)

Authority

This program is authorized under

Sections 301, 391, 392, 393 and 394 of

the Public Health Service Act, as

amended (42 U.S.C. 241, 280b, 280b–1,

280b–1a, and 280b–3). Program

regulations are set forth in Title 42 CFR,

Part 52.

Eligible Applicants

Eligible applicants include all nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Thus

State and local health departments,

State and local governmental agencies,

universities, colleges, research

institutions, and other public and

private organizations, including small,

minority and/or woman-owned

businesses are eligible for these research

grants. Current holders of CDC injury

control research projects are eligible to

apply.

Smoke-Free Workplace

CDC strongly encourages all grant

recipients to provide a smoke-free

workplace and to promote the non-use

of all tobacco products, and Public Law

103–227, the Pro-Children Act of 1994,

prohibits smoking in certain facilities

that receive Federal funds in which

education, library, child care, health

care, and early childhood development

services are provided to children.

Availability of Funds

Approximately $750,000 is expected

to be available to fund 3–4 injury

research grants in the area of intimate

partner violence. The specific program

priorities for these funding

opportunities are outlined with

examples in this announcement under

the section, ‘‘Programmatic Priorities.’’

It is expected that the awards will begin

on or about September 1, 1997, and will

be made for a 12-month budget period

within a project period of up to three

years. Funding may not exceed

$250,000 per year (including both direct

and indirect costs). Grant applications

that request more than the $250,000 per

year cap will be returned to the

investigator as non-responsive. Funding

availability may vary and is subject to

change.

Continuation awards within the

project period will be made on the basis

of satisfactory progress demonstrated by

investigators at work-in-progress

monitoring workshops, the achievement

of workplan milestones reflected in the

continuation application, and the

availability of Federal funds. In

addition, continuation awards will be

eligible for increased funding to offset

inflationary costs depending upon the

availability of funds.

Use of Funds: Prohibition on Use of

CDC Funds for Certain Gun Control

Activities. The Departments of Labor,

Health and Human Services, and

Education, and Related Agencies

Appropriations Act, 1997 specifies that:

None of the funds made available for

injury prevention and control at the

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention may be used to advocate or

promote gun control.

Anti-Lobbying Act requirements

prohibit lobbying Congress with

appropriated Federal monies.

Specifically, this Act prohibits the use

of Federal funds for direct or indirect

communications intended or designed

to influence a Member of Congress with

regard to specific Federal legislation.

This prohibition includes the funding

and assistance of public grassroots

campaigns intended or designed to

influence Members of Congress with

regard to specific legislation or

appropriation by Congress.

In addition to the restrictions in the

Anti-Lobbying Act, CDC interprets the

new language in the CDC’s 1997

Appropriations Act to mean that CDC’s

funds may not be spent on political

action or other activities designed to

affect the passage of specific Federal,

State, or local legislation intended to

restrict or control the purchase or use of

firearms.

Background and Definitions

A. Background

Intimate partner violence is a major

public health problem. Although men

are at much greater risk of fatal injury

due to interpersonal violence, women

are at much higher risk of nonfatal

injuries due to intimate partner

violence. National surveys estimate that

approximately 2 million women each

year are battered by an intimate partner,

and crime data from the Federal Bureau

of Investigation (FBI) record about 1,500

murders of women by husbands or

boyfriends each year. The Bureau of

Justice Statistics reports that women

sustained about 3.8 million assaults and

500,000 rapes a year in 1992 and 1993:

More than 75 percent of these violent

acts were committed by an intimate, a

husband, ex-husband, boyfriend, or exboyfriend. Studies estimate that

between 13 and 25 percent of all U.S.

women will experience rape in their

lifetimes.

These numbers are thought to be

underestimates of the actual number of

American women assaulted by intimate

male partners.

The total extent and severity of

violence-related nonfatal injuries is

unknown, but an increasing portion of

the nation’s health care and

rehabilitation systems’ resources are

devoted to attending to victims of

violence. Intimate partner violence

(including rape, physical battering, and

psychological abuse) are associated with

a host of both short-and long-term

problems, including physical injury and

illness, psychological symptoms, and

death. The consequences extend far

beyond the individual female victims,

affecting their children, families,

friends, and society as well.

Opportunities to understand and

prevent intimate partner violencerelated injuries and reduce their effects

are available. Maximizing these

opportunities for prevention requires a

broad approach, incorporating many

disciplines that heretofore have not

been an integral part of public health

efforts. Many of these opportunities and

research priorities are discussed in

Injury Control in the 1990s: A National

Plan for Action. Atlanta: Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, 1993

and Healthy People 2000. Additional

background information can be found in

the following suggested readings:

Understanding Violence Against

Women, Violence and the Public’s

Health, Understanding and Preventing

Violence, and Violence in America: A

Public Health Approach. (To receive

information on these reports see the