Public Comment

Rasberry, Catherine N. (CDC/OID/NCHHSTP)
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Bonds, Constance (CDC/OID/NCHHSTP)
Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:16 AM
Rasberry, Catherine N. (CDC/OID/NCHHSTP); Robin, Leah (CDC/OID/NCHHSTP)
0920-14YI: public comment on federal register power mad out of control spending CDC - not
helping America at all - deserves a f minus grade - they want to control everybodys body in
their demented way

Catherine, here is one public comment.

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From: Burroughs, Kennya L. (CDC/OD/OADS) On Behalf Of OMB-Comments (CDC)
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:08 AM
To: Bonds, Constance (CDC/OID/NCHHSTP)
Subject: FW: public comment on federal register power mad out of control spending cdc - not helping america at all deserves a f minus grade - they want to control everybodys body in their demented way

One non-substantive comment received. CDC’s standard response was sent.

From: Jean Public [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 3:35 PM
To: OMB-Comments (CDC); [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]
Subject: Fw: public comment on federal register power mad out of control spending cdc - not helping america at all deserves a f minus grade - they want to control everybodys body in their demented way
:
you use perctnages in a totally misleading way so that the public thinks most young American men are engaging in male
on male sex. which is certainly not true. you seem to be misleading the American public with percentage and not hard
numbers. this spending is out of control. the risks of gay sex are very well known and that they bring on diseases is also
well known. it is time that those who engage in risky sex take charge of their own health care costs in addition, there is
obamacare for them to fall back on. its time to cut the spending on this program, which has gotten completely out of
control. its time for those who bring this disease on themselves pay the costs of health from that disease. cut the budget
by 75% for this work. I do not support the huge budgets for this risk anymore. this comment is for the public record.
please receipt. jean public

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 14, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27615-27617]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [http://www.gpo.gov/]
[FR Doc No: 2014-11039]
----------------------------------------------------------------------DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-14-14YI]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
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Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to
LeRoy Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send
an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. 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; (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; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Assessing School-centered HIV/STD Prevention Efforts in a Local
Education Agency--New--Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH),
National
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Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
HIV infections remain high among young men who have sex with men.
The estimated number of new HIV infections increased between 2008 and
2010 both overall and among MSM ages 13 to 24. Furthermore, sexual risk
behaviors associated with HIV, other sexually transmitted disease
(STD), and pregnancy often emerge in adolescence. For example, 2011
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) data revealed 47.4% of
U.S. high school students reported having had sex, and among those who
had sex in the previous three months, 39.8% reported having not used a
condom during last sexual intercourse. In addition, 2001-2009 YRBSS
data revealed high school students identifying as gay, lesbian, and
bisexual and those reporting sexual contact with both males and females
were more likely to engage in sexual risk-taking behaviors than
heterosexual students.
Given the disproportionate risk for HIV among YMSM ages 13-24, it
is important to find ways to reach the younger youth (i.e., ages 13-19)
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in this range to decrease sexual risk behaviors and increase healthpromoting behaviors such as routine HIV testing. Schools provide one
opportunity for this. United States Census Bureau data suggests that
because schools enroll more than 22 million teens (ages 14-19) and
often have existing health and social services infrastructure, schools
and their staff members are well-positioned to connect youth to a wide
range of needed services, including housing assistance, support groups,
and sexual health services such as HIV testing. As a result, CDC's DASH
has focused a number of HIV and STD prevention efforts on strategies
that can be implemented in or centered around schools.
The CDC requests a 3-year OMB approval to conduct a new information
collection entitled, ``Assessing School-Centered HIV/STD Prevention
Efforts in a Local Education Agency''. The information collection uses
a self-administered paper-pencil questionnaire, the Youth Health and
School Climate Questionnaire, to conduct in-depth assessment of HIV and
STD prevention efforts that are taking place in one local education
agency (LEA) funded by CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health
(DASH) under strategy 4 (School-Centered HIV/STD Prevention for Young
Men Who Have Sex with Men) of PS13-1308: Promoting Adolescent Health
through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention and School-Based Surveillance.
This data collection will provide data and reports for the funded LEA,
and will allow the LEA to identify areas of the program that are
working well and other areas that will need additional improvement. In
addition, the findings will allow CDC to determine the potential impact
of currently recommended strategies and make changes to those
recommendations if necessary. The questionnaire will include questions
on the following topics: demographic information; HIV and STD risk
behaviors; use of HIV and STD health services; experiences at school,
including school connectedness, harassment and bullying, homophobia,
support of LGBTQ students; sexual orientation; receipt of referral for
HIV and STD prevention health services; and health education.
This data collection system involves administration of a paper-andpencil questionnaire to seven high schools that are participating in
the HIV/STD prevention project of a local education agency that is
funded with support from CDC's PS13-1308. The Youth Health and School
Climate Questionnaire will be administered to approximately 16,500
students across the seven schools in the years 2014 and 2016. These
data collection points coincide with the initiation of project
activities and the mid-way points of the PS13-1308 cooperative
agreement. We anticipate that each year of data collection will yield
data from up to 16,500 high school students in grades 9 through 12 at
the selected school.
Although some students may take the questionnaire in multiple
years, this is not a longitudinal design and students' responses will
not be tracked across the years. No personally identifiable information
will be collected.
All students' parents will receive parental consent forms that
provide them with an opportunity to opt their children out of the
study. In addition, each student will be given an assent form that
explains he or she may choose not to take the questionnaire or may skip
any questions in the questionnaire with no penalty. Participation is
completely voluntary.
The estimated burden per response ranges from 35-45 minutes. This
variation in burden is due to the slight variability in skip patterns
that may occur with certain responses and variations in the reading
speed of students. The burden estimates presented here are based on the
assumption of a 40-minute response time per response. Students in the
12th grade in fall 2014 will complete the questionnaire only once. It
is estimated that students in the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade will
complete the questionnaire in fall of 2014 and again in the spring of
2016 when they will be 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students. In
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addition, students who are in the 9th grade in spring of 2016 will also
complete the questionnaire. Annualizing this collection over three
years results in an estimated annualized burden of 11,000 hours for
respondents. There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
Table A.12-1--Estimated Annualized Burden to Respondents
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Number of Average burden
Respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per per response Total burden
respondents
respondent
(in hours)
(in hours)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Students in the grades 9-12. Youth Health
16,500
1
40/60
11,000
and School
Climate
Questionnaire.
-----------------------------------------------------------------Total................... ............... ............... ............... ...............
11,000
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LeRoy 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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