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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Prevention
[60Day–16–0607; Docket No. CDC–2016–
0087]

Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:

The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing efforts to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, 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. This notice invites
comment on The National Violent Death
Reporting System (NVDRS) to continue
collecting state-based surveillance data
on violent deaths that will provide more
detailed and timely information.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before November 7, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2016–
0087 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.

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Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE.,
MS–D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. All relevant comments
received will be posted without change
to Regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or comments received, go to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment
should be submitted 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 the Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road, NE., MS–D74, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329; phone: 404–639–7570;
Email: [email protected].
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 OMB for
approval. To comply with this
requirement, we are publishing this
notice of a proposed data collection as
described below.
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
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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.
Proposed Project
The National Violent Death Reporting
System (NVDRS), (OMB Control No.
0920–0607, Expiration 10/31/2017)—
Revision—National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Violence is an important public
health problem. In the United States,
suicide and homicide are the second
and third leading causes of death,
respectively, in the 1–34 year old age
group. Unfortunately, public health
agencies do not know much more about
the problem than the numbers and the
sex, race, and age of the victims, or
information obtainable from the
standard death certificate. Death
certificates, however, carry no
information about key facts necessary
for prevention such as the relationship
of the victim and suspect and the
circumstances of the deaths.
Furthermore, death certificates are
typically available 20 months after the
completion of a single calendar year.
Official publications of national violent
death rates, e.g. those in Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use data
that is less than two years old.
Local and Federal criminal justice
agencies such as the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) provide slightly more
information about homicides, but they
do not routinely collect standardized
data about suicides, which are in fact
much more common than homicides.
The FBI’s Supplemental Homicide
Report (SHRs) does collect basic
information about the victim-suspect
relationship and circumstances related
to the homicide. SHRs, do not link
violent deaths that are part of one
incident such as homicide-suicides. It
also is a voluntary system in which
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departments nationwide do not
participate. The FBI’s National Incident
Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
provides slightly more information than
SHRs, but it covers less of the country
than SHRs. NIBRS also only provides
data regarding homicides. Also, the
Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports do
not use data that is less than two years
old.
CDC requests OMB approval in order
to revise its state-based surveillance
system for violent deaths that will
provide more detailed and timely
information. The surveillance system
captures case record information held
by medical examiners/coroners, vital
statistics (i.e., death certificates), and
law enforcement. Data is collected by
each state in the system and entered
into a web system administered by CDC.
Information is collected from these
records about the characteristics of the
victims and suspects, the circumstances

The president has submitted plans to
fund the expansion of the state-based
surveillance system to collect
information in all 50 U.S. states, the
District of Columbia, and U.S.
territories. This revision will allow 10
new state health departments, and 7
territorial governments to be added to
the currently funded 39 state health
departments (Maine and Vermont are
funded as one entity), the health
department of the District of Columbia,
and 1 territorial government, resulting
in a total of 59 states and territories to
be included in the state-based
surveillance system. Violent deaths
include all homicides, suicides, legal
interventions, deaths from
undetermined causes, and unintentional
firearm deaths. The average state will
experience approximately 1,000 such
deaths each year.
There are no costs to respondents
other than their time.

of the deaths, and the weapons
involved. States use standardized data
elements and software designed by CDC.
Ultimately, this information will guide
states in designing, targeting, and
evaluating programs that reduce
multiple forms of violence. Neither
victim’s families nor suspects are
contacted to collect this information; it
all comes from existing records and is
collected by state health department
staff or their subcontractors. The
number of hours per death required for
the public agencies working with
NVDRS states to retrieve and then refile
their records is estimated to be 0.5 hours
per death. Moving forward, we will no
longer include state abstractors’ time
spent abstracting data in our estimates
of public burden for NVDRS because
state abstractors are funded by CDC to
do this work. This significantly reduces
the estimated public burden associated
with NVDRS.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Form name

Public Agencies ................................

NVDRS Web System .......................

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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Number of
respondents

Type of respondent

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
Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
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
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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,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
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
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Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

1,000

Total burden
hours
(in hours)

30/60

29,500

comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Practice Patterns Related to Opioid
Use during Pregnancy and Lactation—
New—National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Over the past decade, the prevalence
of maternal opioid use during
pregnancy has steadily increased. The
use of opioids or other psychoactive
substances, either by illicit abuse or by
nonmedical abuse of prescription
opioids, increases the risks for health
and social problems for both mother and
infant. For example, maternal substance
abuse during pregnancy increases the
risk of preterm birth, low birth weight,
perinatal death, and neonatal abstinence
syndrome (NAS). For many women, and
some at-risk women in particular,
prenatal visits may be the only time
they routinely see a physician. Because
obstetrician-gynecologists (OB/GYNs)
are the principal health care providers
for women, OB/GYNs are well situated
to screen for substance use and to treat
or encourage cessation of substance use
during pregnancy. Thus, it is important

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