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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
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 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.

SUMMARY:

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

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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: [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 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

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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

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.

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.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

LEA ...................................................

Funded District Questionnaire .........
Priority School Questionnaire ..........
District Assistance Questionnaire ....

25
25
25

2
2
2

2
26
7

100
1,300
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.
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[60-Day–22–0980; Docket No. CDC–2022–
0045]

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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public

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CDC must receive written
comments on or before June 7, 2022.

DATES:

AGENCY:

SUMMARY:

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.

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.

ADDRESSES:

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• 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: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal agencies

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