Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

AGENCY:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION:

Notice with comment period.

SUMMARY:

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 information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program. The RPE Program is designed to assess how recipients are improving prevention infrastructure, implementing, and evaluating prevention strategies to expand efforts to prevent sexual assault, and using data to inform prevention action.

DATES:

CDC must receive written comments on or before December 15, 2023.

ADDRESSES:

You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC–2023–0083 by either of the following methods:

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.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 www.regulations.gov.

Please note: Submit all comments through the Federal eRulemaking portal ( www.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; Telephone: 404–639–7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.

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

Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program—New—National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

Sexual violence (SV) is a major public health problem, one in three women and one in four men experienced sexual violence involving physical contact during their lifetimes. Nearly one in five women and one in 38 men have experienced completed or attempted rape. Sexual violence starts early: one in three female and one in four male rape victims experienced it for the first time between 11–17 years old. The Rape Prevention and Education Program (RPE) provides funding to health departments and sexual violence coalitions in all 50 States, the District of Columbia (DC), and U.S. Territories, as well as up to 10 Tribal coalitions. CDC will collect data from RPE Program recipients to assess how recipients are improving prevention infrastructure, implementing, and evaluating prevention strategies to expand efforts to prevent sexual assault, and using data to inform prevention action.

Recipients will have an opportunity to: (1) continue to build program and partner capacity to facilitate and monitor the implementation of SV prevention programs, practices, and policies; (2) continue to support State and Territorial health departments' implementation of community-and societal-level programs, practices, and policies to prevent SV; (3) continue to support the implementation of data-driven, comprehensive, evidence-based SV primary prevention strategies, and approaches focused mainly on health equity; and (4) continuously conduct data to action activities to inform changes or adaptations to existing SV strategies or on selected and implemented additional strategies.

RPE Program recipients or designated delegates will submit data annually into an online data system. Recipients will monitor and report progress on their goals, objectives, and activities, as well as relevant information on the implementation of their prevention strategies, outcomes, evaluation, and State action plan. Information will be collected via online web-based survey software. Descriptive analyses ( e.g., frequencies and crosstabs) will be performed on numeric or categorical data, and content analyses ( e.g., categorization) on open-ended or text data. Information to be collected will provide crucial data for program performance monitoring and provide CDC with the capacity to respond in a timely manner to requests for information about the program from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the White House, Congress, and other sources. Information to be collected will also strengthen CDC's ability to monitor awardee progress, provide data-driven technical assistance, and disseminate the most current surveillance data on unintentional and intentional injuries.

CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 1,408 annualized burden hours. There are no direct costs to respondents other than their time to participate.