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notice.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
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
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Proposed Project
Assessing Education Agency Staff
Perceptions of School Climate and
Youth Access to Services—New—
Division of Adolescent and School
Health (DASH), National Center for
HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Prevention, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
HIV infections remain high among
young men who have sex with men
(YMSM). 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) in this
range to decrease sexual risk behaviors
and increase health-promoting
behaviors such as routine HIV testing.
Schools provide one opportunity for
this. 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.
However, conducting HIV and STD
prevention work (particularly work that
is designed to specifically meet the
needs of YMSM), can be challenging.
According to research, school is not
always a welcoming environment for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and
questioning (LGBTQ) youth.
Harassment, bullying, and verbal and
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such unsupportive environments and
victimization among LGBT youth are
associated with a variety of negative
outcomes, including truancy, substance
use, poor mental health, HIV and STD
risk, and even suicide.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) requests a three-year
OMB approval to conduct a new
information collection entitled,
‘‘Assessing Education Agency Staff
Perceptions of School Climate and
Youth Access to Services.’’ The
information collection uses two
separate, but complementary,
information collections to conduct
assessment of HIV and STD prevention
efforts that are taking place in three
local education agencies (LEA) funded
by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Division of
Adolescent and School Health (DASH)
under strategy 4 (School-Centered HIV/
STD Prevention for Young Men Who
Have Sex with Men (YMSM) 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
LEAs, and will allow the LEAs 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 first information collection will
involve collecting information from a
total of up to 735 LEA employees in 3
LEAs through a Web-based instrument
tailored to each LEA. The instrument
will include items that ask education
agency staff about professional
development, referral practices,
community linkages/partners, school
climate for LGBTQ youth, school
policies and practices, and staff comfort
levels in helping address the health
needs of YMSM.
The second information collection
will be conducted in only 1 LEA
(Broward County Public Schools) and is
designed to provide an in-depth
assessment of one LEA as a way to
supplement the Web-based data
collection with more detailed
information. This information collection
will involve in-person interviews with
up to 44 LEA employees (2 district level
employees, and up to 6 school level
employees in each of 7 schools) to learn
about six domains that can impact
school climate: Policy, practice,
programs, professional development,
place, and pedagogy.

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from 60–90 minutes, depending on
whether the respondent is a districtlevel administrator, a school-level
administrator, or another school staff
member. The burden estimates
presented here are based on the
assumption of a 1-hour response time
per district-level and school-level
administrator response and a 1.5-hour
response time per school staff member
response. The estimated annualized
burden of this data collection is 58
hours for respondents.
There are no costs to respondents
other than their time.
The two information collections
combine for a total estimated
annualized burden of 367 hours for
respondents.

based instrument or participate in the
interviews with no penalty and no
impact on their job or relationship with
the LEA. Participation is completely
voluntary.
For the Web-based instrument, the
estimated burden per response ranges
from 20–25 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 respondents. The
burden estimates presented here are
based on the assumption of a 25-minute
response time per response. The
estimated annualized burden of this
data collection is 306 hours for
respondents.
For the Web-based instrument, the
estimated burden per response ranges

Both the Web-based instrument and
in-person interviews will be
administered in 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. Although some
staff may participate in the data
collection in multiple years, this is not
a longitudinal design and individual
staff member responses will not be
tracked across the years. No personally
identifiable information will be
collected.
All school staff members will receive
informed consent forms prior to
participation in the information
collection. The consent form explains
the study and also explains participants
may choose not to complete the Web-

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Web-based instrument for Broward County Public Schools.
Web-based instrument for Los Angeles Unified
School District.
Web-based instrument for San Francisco Unified School District.
School Climate Index Interview Guide for District-level Administrators.
School Climate Index Interview Guide for
School-level Administrators.
School Climate Index Interview Guide for School
Staff.

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School staff ....................
District-level Administrators.
School-level Administrators.
School Staff ...................
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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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Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
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the proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address any of the
following: (a) 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; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
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other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and (e) Assess information
collection costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to [email protected]. Written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the items contained in this notice
should be directed to the Attention:
CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or
by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Requirements for the Importation of
Nonhuman Primates into the United
States—Revision—(expiration date:
4/30/2016)—National Center for
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Global
Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ),

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