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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60-Day–22–1275; Docket No. CDC–2022– 

0048] 

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. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 

its continuing effort to reduce public 

burden and maximize the utility of 

government information, invites the 

general public and other federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

a proposed and/or continuing 

information collection, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

This notice invites comment on the 

extension of an information collection 

project titled Promoting Adolescent 

Health through School-Based HIV 

Prevention. CDC will continue to use a 

web-based system to collect data on the 

strategies that funded Local Education 

Agencies (LEAs) are using to meet their 

goals related to three strategies: Delivery 

of sexual health education (SHE) 

emphasizing HIV and other STD 

prevention, increasing adolescent access 

to key sexual health services (SHS), and 

establishing safe and supportive 

environments (SSE) for students and 

staff. 

DATES: CDC must receive written 

comments on or before June 7, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2022– 

0048 by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions 

for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information 

Collection Review Office, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 

Clifton Road NE, MS H21–8, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30329. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

Docket Number. CDC will post, without 

change, all relevant comments to 

regulations.gov. 

Please note: Submit all comments 

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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Information Collection Review Office, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS 

H21–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 

404–639–7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov. 

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 the OMB for approval. To 

comply with this requirement, we are 

publishing this notice of a proposed 

data collection as described below. 

The OMB is particularly interested in 

comments that will help: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the information 

will have practical utility; 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and assumptions 

used; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; 

4. Minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to respond, 

including through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or other 

forms of information technology, e.g., 

permitting electronic submissions of 

responses; and 

5. Assess information collection costs. 

Proposed Project 

Promoting Adolescent Health through 

School-Based HIV Prevention (OMB 

Control No. 0920–1275, Exp. 11/30/ 

2022)—Extension—National Center for 

HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB 

Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Many young people engage in sexual 

behaviors that place them at risk for HIV 

infection, other sexually transmitted 

diseases (STD), and pregnancy. 

According to the 2017 Youth Risk 

Behavior Survey (YRBS), 39.5% of high 

school students in the United States 

have had sexual intercourse and 28.7% 

were currently sexually active. Among 

currently sexually active students, 

46.2% did not use a condom, and 13.8% 

did not use any method to prevent 

pregnancy the last time they had sexual 

intercourse. While the proportion of 

high school students who are sexually 

active has steadily declined, half of the 

20 million new STDs reported each year 

are among young people between the 

ages of 15–24. Young people aged 13– 

24 account for 21% of all new HIV 

diagnoses in the United States, with 

most occurring among 20–24 year-olds. 

Establishing healthy behaviors during 

childhood and adolescence is easier and 

more effective than trying to change 

unhealthy behaviors during adulthood. 

A critical stage that offers valuable 

opportunities for improving adolescent 

health is at school. Schools have direct 

contact with over 50 million students 

for at least six hours a day over 13 key 

years of their social, physical, and 

intellectual development. In addition, 

schools often have staff with knowledge 

of critical health risk and protective 

behaviors and have pre-existing 

infrastructure that can support a varied 

set of healthful interventions. This 

makes schools well-positioned to help 

reduce adolescents’ risk for HIV 

infection and other STDs through sexual 

health education (SHE), access to sexual 

health services (SHS), and safe and 

supportive environments (SSE). 

Since 1987, the Division of 

Adolescent and School Health (DASH) 

in the National Center for HIV, Viral 

Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention of 

the Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), has worked to 

support HIV prevention efforts in the 

Nation’s schools. DASH requests an 

OMB extension to continue to collect 

data from agencies funded under award 

PS18–1807: Promoting Adolescent 

Health through School-Based HIV 

Prevention. PS 18–1807 is currently 

starting year three of data collection, 

and program activities will continue 

through 2023. Funded agencies are local 

education agencies (LEAs), also known 

as school districts. The fundamental 

purposes of PS18–1807 are; (1) to build 

and strengthen the capacity of LEAs and 

their priority schools to contribute 

effectively to the reduction of HIV 

infection and other STD among 

adolescents, and (2) to reduce 

disparities in HIV infection and other 

STD experienced by specific adolescent 

sub-populations. Priority schools are 

middle and high schools within the 

funded LEAs in which youth are at risk 

for HIV infection and other STD. This 

funding supports a multi-component, 

multilevel effort to support youth 

reaching adulthood in the healthiest 

possible way. 


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DASH will continue to use a webbased system to collect data on the 

strategies that LEAs are using to meet 

their goals. Strategies include helping 

LEAs and priority schools deliver SHE 

emphasizing HIV and other STD 

prevention; increasing adolescent access 

to key SHS; and establishing SSE for 

students and staff. To track funded LEA 

progress and evaluate the effectiveness 

of program activities, DASH will collect 

a mix of process and outcome measure 

data. LEAs will complete process 

measures that will assess the extent to 

which planned program activities have 

been implemented and lead to feasible 

and sustainable programmatic 

outcomes. Process measures include 

items on school health policy and 

practice assessment and training and 

technical assistance received from nongovernmental partner organizations. 

Outcome measures assess whether 

funded activities at each site are leading 

to intended outcomes including public 

health impact of systemic change in 

schools. The measures tailored to each 

PS18–1807 strategy (i.e., SHE, SHS, 

SSE) drove the development of 

questionnaires. 

Respondents are the same 25 LEAs 

funded under PS18–1807. LEAs will 

continue to complete the questionnaires 

semi-annually using the Program 

Evaluation and Reporting System 

(PERS), an electronic web-based 

interface specifically designed for this 

data collection. Each LEA has a unique 

login to the system and has access to 

technical assistance to ensure they can 

use the system easily. To provide timely 

feedback to LEAs and DASH staff for 

accountability and optimal use of funds, 

the requested dates for data reflect the 

Office of Financial Resources deadlines. 

DASH anticipates that semi-annual 

information collection will continue 

after the current OMB approval time 

frame ends on November 30, 2022. With 

this extension, additional data 

collection will be conducted at two time 

points, November 1, 2022–March 1, 

2023 and May 1, 2023–September 1, 

2023. 

The estimated burden per response is 

approximately 2–26 hours. This 

estimate includes time for LEAs to 

gather information at the district and 

priority school-levels. Annualizing this 

collection over five years of this project 

results in an estimated annualized 

burden of 1,750 hours per year and a 

total of 3,500 hours for the requested 

two-year extension across all funded 

LEAs. 

Funded LEAs are required to allocate 

at least 6% of their NOFO award to 

support evaluation activities ranging 

from $15,000 to $21,000. Use of these 

funds is discretionary, including for 

collection of process and outcome 

measures. Funded LEAs are required to 

spend at least 6% of their award to 

support evaluation activities, including 

time to gather and enter data into the 

online performance and evaluation 

reporting system. 

CDC requests OMB approval for an 

estimated 1,750 annual burden hours. 

There are no costs to respondents other 

than their time to participate. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

LEA ................................................... Funded District Questionnaire ......... 25 2 2 100 

Priority School Questionnaire .......... 25 2 26 1,300 

District Assistance Questionnaire .... 25 2 7 350 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,750 

Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Lead, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of Science, 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07522 Filed 4–7–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60-Day–22–0980; Docket No. CDC–2022– 

0045] 

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. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 

its continuing effort to reduce public 

burden and maximize the utility of 

government information, invites the 

general public and other federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

a continuing information collection, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. This notice invites 

comment on a proposed information 

collection project titled National 

Environmental Assessment Reporting 

System (NEARS). This project is 

designed to collect data from foodborne 

illness outbreak environmental 

assessments routinely conducted by 

local, state, territorial, or tribal food 

safety programs during outbreak 

investigations. 

DATES: CDC must receive written 

comments on or before June 7, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2022– 

0045, by either of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions 

for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information 

Collection Review Office, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 

Clifton Road NE, MS H21–8, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30329. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

Docket Number. CDC will post, without 

change, all relevant comments to 

regulations.gov. 

Please note: Submit all comments 

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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Information Collection Review Office, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS 

H21–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 

404–639–7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal agencies 


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