11544 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 38 / Monday, February 27, 2012 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day-12–12EK] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send 

comments to Kimberly Lane, CDC 

Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton 

Road, MS D–74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or 

send an email to omb@cdc.gov. 

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; and (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. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Process and Intermediate Outcome 

Evaluation of ‘‘Teenage Pregnancy 

Prevention: Integrating Services, 

Programs, and Strategies through 

Community-Wide Initiatives’’—New— 

National Center for Chronic Disease 

Prevention and Health Promotion 

(NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

In 2010, among Western 

industrialized nations, the United States 

had the highest rate of births among 

teens ages 15–19 years. Although the 

evidence strongly suggests that teenage 

pregnancy is a multifaceted problem 

stemming from interrelated internal and 

external factors, pregnancy prevention 

programs have typically focused on one 

factor (e.g., sex education or abstinence 

education). Several recent reviews have 

emphasized that multi-component 

approaches to teen pregnancy 

prevention, which are implemented at 

the local level, may offer the greatest 

potential in teenage pregnancy 

prevention. Multi-component 

approaches may include a combination 

of clinic services, sexuality education 

programs, job readiness training, 

academic tutoring, mentoring, and life 

skills training. 

In his budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 

2010, President Obama proposed a new 

Teenage Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) 

Initiative to address the high teen 

pregnancy and birth rates by replicating 

evidence-based models and testing 

innovative strategies. On December 16, 

2009, the President signed the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 

(Pub. L. 111–117). Division D Title II of 

the Act provides $110,000,000 for 

making competitive contracts and grants 

to public and private entities to fund 

medically accurate and age appropriate 

programs that reduce teen pregnancy. It 

also includes some of the Federal costs 

associated with administering and 

evaluating such projects. 

As part of this initiative, CDC released 

two funding opportunity 

announcements (FOAs) related to 

innovative evidence-based teenage 

pregnancy prevention programs: (1) 

DP10–1009, Teenage Pregnancy 

Prevention: Integrating Services, 

Programs, and Strategies Through 

Community-Wide Initiatives and (2) 

DP10–1025, Reducing Teen Pregnancy 

Through Family Planning: Integrating 

Services, Programs, and Strategies 

Through Community-Wide Initiatives. 

CDC is currently providing funding to 

nine state and community awardees, 

and five national organizations, to 

examine innovative, evidence-based 

teenage pregnancy prevention programs. 

Efforts are focused in communities with 

high rates of teen pregnancy in underserved African American and Latino 

youth. Components of these efforts 

include (1) implementing evidencebased or evidence-informed prevention 

programs; (2) linking teens to quality 

health services; (3) educating 

stakeholders (parents, community 

leaders, and other constituents) about 

relevant evidence-based or evidenceinformed strategies to reduce teen 

pregnancy; and (4) supporting the 

sustainability of the community-wide 

teen pregnancy prevention effort 

through capacity building and improved 

coordination of services. 

Upon receiving OMB approval, CDC 

proposes to collect the information 

needed to conduct a process and 

intermediate outcome evaluation of 

these efforts for the next three years of 

this five year TPP initiative. Using a 

repeat cross-sectional design, the 

information collection and evaluation 

plan will systematically document 

capacity building within funded 

communities over time and the extent to 

which communities implemented multicomponent, community-wide initiative 

activities as planned. Respondents for 

the nine state and community awardees 

will include the project director/ 

coordinator for each site, evaluators, 

and other program staff. In addition, to 

gain a variety of perspectives, 

information will be requested from 

multiple community and clinical 

partners associated with each state or 

community awardee (e.g., program 

implementers and core advisory group 

members). Information collected from 

these respondents will include needs 

assessments and selected costs of 

participating in the TPP initiative. 

Finally, CDC will collect information 

about the training and technical 

assistance needs of state and community 

awardees, and national organizations, 

which have been funded to support 

community-wide TPP activities. 

Specifically, the following 

information will be collected: the needs 

of nine project directors/coordinators 

will be assessed; the estimated burden 

for this yearly assessment is 7 hours. 

Fifty state and community awardees 

with submit yearly progress towards 

meeting performance measures; the 

estimated burden for this yearly 

assessment is 200 hours. The needs of 

fifty staff members will be assessed; the 

estimated burden for this yearly 

assessment is 38 hours. Training and 

technical assistance from 50 state and 

community awardees will be assessed; 

the estimated burden for this as-needed 

assessment is 600 hours. The costs of 50 

staff members will be assessed; the 

estimated burden for this as needed 

assessment is 125 hours. The training 

and technical assistance provided by 15 

national organization awardee staff 

members will be assessed; the estimated 

burden for this as needed assessment is 

180 hours. The needs of 50 clinical 

providers will be assessed; the 

estimated burden for this yearly 

assessment is 50 hours. The needs of 

100 program implementation partners 

will be assessed; the estimated burden 

for this yearly assessment is 75 hours. 

The costs of 150 community of and 

clinical partner participants will be 


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assessed; the estimated burden for this 

as needed assessment is 375 hours. The 

costs of sponsored activities for 50 

community and clinical partners; the 

estimated burden for this yearly 

assessment is 125 hours. 

All information can be reported to 

CDC through an interactive web-based 

system, ‘‘iGTO,’’ that awardees can use 

to manage their general organizational 

information and to support and track 

the implementation of strategies to 

prevent teen pregnancy. Respondents 

who prefer not to use the iGTO system 

will be able to export the assessment 

tools, complete them, and return their 

reports to CDC by electronic mail. 

Assessment and performance 

information will be reported to CDC 

annually. In addition, CDC will collect 

information about costs and awardee 

needs for training and technical 

assistance. To ensure high data quality, 

cost information will be submitted as 

soon as it becomes available. CDC 

estimates that each state or community 

awardee will submit 10 cost data reports 

per year. Training and technical 

assistance needs will be reported 

monthly so that CDC can provide 

immediate, targeted technical assistance 

as needed. The assessment information, 

performance measures and training and 

technical assistance information to be 

collected are critical to understanding 

(1) the teen pregnancy prevention needs 

of each target community, (2) quality 

implementation practices associated 

with evidence-based programs and 

contraceptive access, and (3) the impact 

of implemented strategies. 

OMB approval is requested for three 

years. There are no costs to respondents 

other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondent Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(hr) 

Total burden 

(hr) 

State and Community Awardees ...... Project Director/Coordinator Needs 

Assessment.

9 1 45/60 7 

Performance Measure Assessment 

Tool.

50 1 4 200 

Staff Assessment ............................. 50 1 45/60 38 

Training and Technical Assistance 

Tool.

50 12 1 600 

Cost Reporting Form For Sponsored 

Activities.

50 10 15/60 125 

National Organization Awardees ...... Training and Technical Assistance 

Tool.

15 112 ........................ 180 

Community and Clinical Partners ..... Clinical Provider Needs Assessment 

Tool.

50 1 1 50 

Program Implementation Partner 

Needs Assessment Tool.

100 1 45/60 75 

Partner Cost Reporting Form for 

Participants.

150 10 15/60 375 

Cost Reporting Form For Sponsored 

Activities.

50 10 15/60 125 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,775 

Kimberly S. Lane, 

Chief Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–12–12EG] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send 

comments to Kimberly Lane, CDC 

Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton 

Road, MS D–74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or 

send an email to omb@cdc.gov. 

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; and (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. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Use of Smartphones to Collect 

Information about Health Behaviors: 

Feasibility Study—New—National 

Center for Chronic Disease Prevention 

and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Despite the high level of public 

knowledge about the adverse effects of 

smoking, tobacco use remains the 

leading preventable cause of disease and 

death in the U.S., resulting in 

approximately 443,000 deaths annually. 

During 2005–2010, the overall 

proportion of U.S. adults who were 

current smokers declined from 20.9% to 

19.3%. Despite this decrease, smoking 

rates are still well above Healthy People 

2010 targets for reducing adult smoking 


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