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0920–0728). As CDC works with state,
territorial and local health departments
to develop and implement new
information technologies to submit
these data through NNDSS, burden will
also increase as the public health
departments commit resources to
implementing the new technologies.
However, over the next 3 years, as the
new automated electronic systems are
implemented, burden will be decreased.
The estimated annual burden is 28,340
hours.

application and replaces parts of three
other OMB applications, burden
estimates have been adjusted to
incorporate burden estimates from the
other four applications. The estimates
are adjusted for the increased number of
conditions reported to NNDSS, the
expansion of core data elements, and
the inclusion of more disease-specific
tables. These changes have increased
the burden estimates in this application
in comparison with the burden
estimates in the 2010 NNDSS/NEDSS
OMB application (OMB Control No.

participating public health departments
also submit data elements which are
specific to each condition. With the
coordination with other CDC programs
conducting surveillance on notifiable
conditions, this application includes
disease-specific tables for 68 diseases.
The 2010 NNDSS OMB application
included disease-specific data elements
for only 14 of those conditions.
Because this information collection
request includes case notifications that
were not part of the 2010 NNDSS/
NEDSS application, replaces one

ESTIMATES OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

States ...............................................................................................................
Territories .........................................................................................................
Cities ................................................................................................................

50
5
2

52
52
52

10
5
10

26000
1300
1040

Total ..........................................................................................................

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28,340

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.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–13–0916]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations

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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 LeRoy Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
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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
Evaluation of Core Violence and
Injury Prevention Program (Core
VIPP)—Revision—(0920–0916,
Expiration 1/13/2014)—National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Injuries and their consequences,
including unintentional and violencerelated injuries, are the leading cause of
death for the first four decades of life,
regardless of gender, race, or
socioeconomic status. More than
179,000 individuals in the United States
die each year as a result of unintentional
injuries and violence, more than 29
million others suffer non-fatal injuries
and over one-third of all emergency
department (ED) visits each year are due
to injuries. In 2000, injuries and
violence ultimately cost the United
States $406 billion, with over $80
billion in medical costs and the
remainder lost in productivity. Most

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events that result in injury and/or death
from injury could be prevented if
evidence-based public health strategies,
practices, and policies were used
throughout the nation.
CDC’s National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is
committed to working with their
partners to promote action that reduces
injuries, violence, and disabilities by
providing leadership in identifying
priorities, promoting tools, and
monitoring effectiveness of injury and
violence prevention and to promote
effective strategies for the prevention of
injury and violence, and their
consequences. One tool NCIPC will use
to accomplish this is the Core Violence
and Injury Prevention Program (Core
VIPP). This program funds state health
departments (SHDs) to build their
capacity to disseminate, implement, and
evaluate evidence-based/best practice
programs and policies. Although some
states were funded previously through
similar CDC-funded programs, this
evaluation will only consider the
implementation and outcomes of Core
VIPP during the five-year funding
period from August 2011 to July 2016.
The program includes one Basic
Integration Component (BIC) and four
expanded components: Regional
Network Leader (RNLs), Surveillance
Quality Improvement (SQI), Motor
Vehicle Child Injury Prevention Policy
(MVP), and Multi-component
Interventions in Multiple Setting to
Prevent Falls in Older Adults (Falls).
This Core VIPP evaluation only includes
the BIC, RNL, SQI, and MVP

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components. The Falls’ program is being
evaluated separately by the Division of
Unintentional Injury (NCIPC/DUIP).
BIC and the expanded components
are intended to support funded states in
building capacity and achieving health
impact in their states. The key
components of violence and injury
prevention (VIP) capacity for Core BIC
VIPP are defined as: Infrastructure,
Evaluation, Strategies, Collaboration,
and Surveillance. States funded with
the expanded components MVP and SQI
are anticipated to be building increased
capacity for motor vehicle-related policy
strategies and surveillance, respectively.
States funded through the RNL
expanded component are anticipated to
be facilitators of knowledge-sharing in
order to support building VIP
infrastructure for Core-funded and nonCore-funded states in their regions. The
evidence-informed strategies that states
implement as part of Core VIPP are
anticipated to lead to health impact.
CDC requests OMB approval to
continue to collect Core VIPP program
evaluation data for an additional threeyear period. The purpose of the
evaluation is to track states’ progress
toward: (1) Achieving the Performance
Measures identified in the Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA); (2)
Building and/or sustaining their VIP
capacity; and (3) Achieving their focus
area SMART (Specific, Measurable,
Attainable, Reasonable, and Timebound) objectives. The ability of states
to make progress towards their SMART
objectives will serve as a measure of
Core VIPP’s impact on the burden of
violence and injury related morbidity
and mortality in funded states.
The primary data collections methods
will be used in the evaluation include:

Estimates of burden for the survey are
based on previous experience with
evaluation data collections conducted
by the evaluation staff. For the Base
Integration Component (BIC), the State
of the States (SOTS) web-based survey
assessment will be completed by 20
Core Funded State Health Departments
(SHDs) and will take 3 hours to
complete. The SOTS Financial Module
will also be completed by the 20 BIC
funded SHD and will take 1 hour to
complete. The supplemental SOTS
Survey Questions will be completed by
20 BIC funded SHDs and take 1.5 hours
to complete. The BIC telephone
interviews will take 1.5 hours and will
be completed by the 20 Core funded
SHDs. We expect that each of the 20 BIC
funded SHDs will complete three webbased surveys and three telephone
interviews annually during the last
three years of Core funding.
The annual surveys and interviews for
the subcomponents (SQI, RNL, and
MVP) are also detailed below. The
Regional Network Leader (RNL) surveys
will be completed by the five RNL
funded SHDs and will take 1 hour to
complete. The five RNL funded SHDs
will also complete a telephone
interview that will take 1 hour to
complete. The four Surveillance Quality
Improvement (SQI) funded SHDs will
complete a telephone interview that will
take 1 hour to complete. The four Motor
Vehicle Child Injury Prevention Policy
(MVP) SHDs will complete a telephone
interview that will take 1 hour to
complete.
There are no costs to respondents
other than their time.

(1) Interim and Annual Progress
Reports, (2) State of the States (SOTS)
online surveys, (3) Interviews, and (4)
Online surveys related to the Regional
Network Leader component. The
progress reports will track states’
performance measures and the activities
stated in the Core VIPP FOA and
monitor states’ progress toward their
focus area SMART objectives; the SOTS
surveys will be used to measure
grantees’ changes in VIP capacity.
Interviews will be used to provide more
in-depth information about the key
facilitators and barriers states have
encountered while implementing BIC
and the expanded components. The
interviews also provide states the
opportunity to share more specific
information about their experiences
implementing BIC. The online surveys
for RNL will be delivered through the
Regional Network Leaders to assess the
strength and effectiveness of regional
networks to connect states to each other
for peer-to-peer knowledge and
information sharing.
This is a mixed method evaluation,
and data will be collected using a
variety of methods to answer the
evaluation questions. Qualitative and
quantitative data will be collected
through progress reports, surveys, the
health impact tracking tool, and
interviews. Quantitative data will be
analyzed using descriptive statistics.
Qualitative data will be collected
through interviews, which will be
transcribed and analyzed to identify
common themes that emerge.
The table below details the
annualized number of respondents, the
average response burden per interview,
and the total response burden for the
surveys and telephone interviews.

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Form name

Core VIPP Funded SHD Injury Program director.
Core VIPP Funded SHD Injury Program director.
Core VIPP Funded SHD Injury Program management and staff.
Core VIPP Funded SHD Injury Program management and staff.
RNL awardees ..................................

State of the States Survey
(SOTS)—Attachment C.
SOTS Financial Module—Attachment E.
Supplemental SOTS Survey Questions—Attachment F.
BIC Telephone Interview—Attachment D.
RNL Telephone Interview—Attachment G.
RNL Surveys—Attachment H & I .....
SQI Telephone Interview—Attachment G.
MVP Telephone Interview—Attachment D.

RNL awardees ..................................
SQI awardees ...................................
MVP awardees ..................................
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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. 2013–19271 Filed 8–8–13; 8:45 am]

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[CDC–2013–0016; NIOSH 129–A]

National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) Personal
Protective Technology (PPT) Program;
Framework Document for the
Healthcare Worker Personal Protective
Equipment Action Plan
The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC),
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of draft document for
public comment.
AGENCY:

The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
announces the availability of a
document titled ‘‘Framework for Setting
the NIOSH PPT Program Action Plan for
Healthcare Worker Personal Protective
Equipment: 2013–2018’’, now available
for public comment at http://
www.regulations.gov.
DATES: Public comment period:
Comments must be received by Friday,
September 13, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by CDC–2013–0016 and
Docket Number NIOSH–129–A, by
either of the two following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: NIOSH Docket Office, Robert
A. Taft Laboratories, MS–C34, 4676
Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio
45226.
Instructions: All information received
in response to this notice must include
the agency name and docket number
(CDC–2013–0016; NIOSH–129–A). All
relevant comments received will be
posted without change to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. All
electronic comments should be
formatted as Microsoft Word. Please
make reference to CDC–2013–0016 and

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The
NIOSH personal protective technology
(PPT) program publishes and
periodically updates its research agenda
on personal protective equipment (PPE)
for healthcare workers. The research
agenda or action plan describes the near
term and long term strategy for the PPT
program’s research and intervention,
standards development, and
information dissemination program to
improve the efficacy and effectiveness
of PPE used in healthcare settings. Since
the healthcare worker PPE action plan
was last updated in 2010 (revision 4),
several reports have been published that
provide updated national priorities
related to PPE for healthcare workers.
For example, in 2011, the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) published a report
entitled Preventing Transmission of
Pandemic Influenza and Other Viral
Respiratory Diseases: Personal
Protective Equipment for Healthcare
Personnel Update 2010 that assessed the
nation’s progress on improving PPE for
healthcare personnel exposed to
infectious respiratory diseases and made
recommendations to address research
gaps (to access this document please go
to http://www.regulations.gov).
The NIOSH PPT program has started
the process to update the PPE for
healthcare workers action plan for
2013–2018. A framework document
titled ‘‘Framework for Setting the
NIOSH PPT Program Action Plan for
Healthcare Worker Personal Protective
Equipment: 2013–2018’’ has been
drafted to:
1. Identify proposed
‘‘recommendations’’ and ‘‘activities’’ to
use in an updated healthcare worker
PPE action plan;
2. Compare current NIOSH intramural
and extramural program activities
versus the proposed recommendations
and activities;
3. Propose an overarching strategy for
NIOSH PPT program management to
prioritize among competing
recommendations, activities, and future
action steps; and
4. Outline the process planned for
seeking stakeholder input on what
‘‘action steps’’ should be taken by
NIOSH and the NIOSH PPT program to
address the recommendations.
Comments are sought in three specific
areas:
1. Proposed use of the 2011 IOM
report recommendations as the basis for

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Docket Number NIOSH–129–A. Access
to any prior background documents or
previous comments received please go
to NIOSH Docket 129 (http://
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the 12 overarching recommendations
and 36 activities in next revision of the
action plan;
2. Proposed use of improving
healthcare worker PPE compliance as
the overarching goal for prioritization;
and
3. Specific actions that NIOSH and
the NIOSH PPT program should take to
address the proposed recommendations
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Ronald E. Shaffer, Senior Scientist,
NIOSH NPPTL Office of the Director at
[email protected], telephone (412) 386–
4001, fax (412) 386–6617.
Dated: August 2, 2013.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
Announcement of Requirements and
Registration for Million Hearts®
Hypertension Control Challenge
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

Award Approving Official: Thomas R.
Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, and
Administrator, Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) located
within the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) announces the
launch of the Million Hearts®
Hypertension Control Challenge on
August 9, 2013. The challenge will be
open until September 9, 2013.
Million Hearts® is a national initiative
to prevent 1 million heart attacks and
strokes by 2017. Achieving this goal
means that 10 million more Americans
must have their blood pressure under
control. Million Hearts® is working to
control high blood pressure through
clinical approaches, such as using
health information technology to its
fullest potential and integrating teambased approaches to care, as well as
community approaches, such as
strengthening tobacco control, and
lowering sodium consumption.
To support improved blood pressure
control, HHS/CDC is announcing the
Million Hearts® Hypertension Control

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