Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 38 / Monday, February 27, 2012 / Notices 11543 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–12–0493] 

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 and 

send comments to Kimberly Lane, CDC 

Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton 

Road, MS–D74, 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 

2013 and 2015 National Youth Risk 

Behavior Surveys (YRBS)(OMB No. 

0920–0493)—Reinstatement with 

change—National Center for Chronic 

Disease Prevention and Health 

Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

The purpose of this request is to 

obtain OMB approval to reinstate with 

change, the data collection for the 

National Youth Risk Behavior Survey 

(YRBS), a school-based survey that has 

been conducted biennially since 1991. 

OMB approval for the 2009 YRBS and 

2011 YRBS expired November 30, 2011 

(OMB no. 0920–0493). CDC seeks a 

three-year approval to conduct the 

YRBS in Spring 2013 and Spring 2015. 

Minor changes incorporated into this 

reinstatement request include: An 

updated title for the information 

collection to accurately reflect the years 

in which the survey will be conducted 

and minor changes to the data collection 

instrument. 

The YRBS assesses priority health risk 

behaviors related to the major 

preventable causes of mortality, 

morbidity, and social problems among 

both youth and young adults in the 

United States. Data on health risk 

behaviors of adolescents are the focus of 

approximately 65 national health 

objectives in Healthy People 2020, an 

initiative of the U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). The 

YRBS provides data to measure 20 of 

the health objectives and 1 of the 

Leading Health Indicators established 

by Healthy People 2020. In addition, the 

YRBS can identify racial and ethnic 

disparities in health risk behaviors. No 

other national source of data measures 

as many of the Healthy People 2020 

objectives addressing adolescent health 

risk behaviors as the YRBS. The data 

also will have significant implications 

for policy and program development for 

school health programs nationwide. 

In Spring 2013 and Spring 2015, the 

YRBS will be conducted among 

nationally representative samples of 

students attending public and private 

schools in grades 9–12. Information 

supporting the YRBS also will be 

collected from state-, district-, and 

school-level administrators and 

teachers. The table below reports the 

number of respondents annualized over 

the 3-year project period. 

There are no costs to respondents 

except their time. The total estimated 

annualized burden hours are 6,215. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondent Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

State Administrators .......................... State-level Recruitment Script for 

the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

17 1 30⁄60 8 

District Administrators ....................... District-level Recruitment Script for 

the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

80 1 30⁄60 40 

School Administrators ....................... School-level Recruitment Script for 

the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

133 1 30⁄60 67 

Teachers ........................................... Data Collection Checklist for the 

Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

400 1 15⁄60 100 

Students ............................................ Youth Risk Behavior Survey ............ 8,000 1 45⁄60 6,000 

Total Burden .............................. ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 6,215 

Kimberly Lane, 

Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

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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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