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reviewed weekly by AHRQ. The
delisting was applicable at 12:00
Midnight ET (2400) on July 12, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Both directories can be
accessed electronically at the following
HHS Web site: https://
www.pso.ahrq.gov/listed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eileen Hogan, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ,
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 06N94B,
Rockville, MD 20857; Telephone (toll
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(301) 427–1111; TTY (toll free): (866)
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Background
The Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement Act of 2005, 42 U.S.C.
299b–21 to b–26, (Patient Safety Act)
and the related Patient Safety and
Quality Improvement Final Rule, 42
CFR part 3 (Patient Safety Rule),
published in the Federal Register on
November 21, 2008, 73 FR 70732–
70814, establish a framework by which
hospitals, doctors, and other health care
providers may voluntarily report
information to Patient Safety
Organizations (PSOs), on a privileged
and confidential basis, for the
aggregation and analysis of patient
safety events. The Patient Safety Act
authorizes the listing of PSOs, which are
entities or component organizations
whose mission and primary activity are
to conduct activities to improve patient
safety and the quality of health care
delivery.
HHS issued the Patient Safety Rule to
implement the Patient Safety Act.
AHRQ administers the provisions of the
Patient Safety Act and Patient Safety
Rule relating to the listing and operation
of PSOs. The Patient Safety Rule
authorizes AHRQ to list as a PSO an
entity that attests that it meets the
statutory and regulatory requirements
for listing. A PSO can be ‘‘delisted’’ if
it is found to no longer meet the
requirements of the Patient Safety Act
and Patient Safety Rule, when a PSO
chooses to voluntarily relinquish its
status as a PSO for any reason, or when
a PSO’s listing expires. Section 3.108(d)
of the Patient Safety Rule requires
AHRQ to provide public notice when it
removes an organization from the list of
federally approved PSOs.
AHRQ has accepted a notification
from the Specialty Benchmarks PSO, a
component entity of Market Share, LLC,
PSO number P0113, to voluntarily
relinquish its status as a PSO.
Accordingly, the Specialty Benchmarks
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PSO was delisted effective at 12:00
Midnight ET (2400) on July 12, 2017.
The Specialty Benchmarks PSO has
patient safety work product (PSWP) in
its possession. The PSO will meet the
requirements of section 3.108(c)(2)(i) of
the Patient Safety Rule regarding
notification to providers that have
reported to the PSO and of section
3.108(c)(2)(ii) regarding disposition of
PSWP consistent with section
3.108(b)(3). According to section
3.108(b)(3) of the Patient Safety Rule,
the PSO has 90 days from the effective
date of delisting and revocation to
complete the disposition of PSWP that
is currently in the PSO’s possession.
More information on PSOs can be
obtained through AHRQ’s PSO Web site
at https://www.pso.ahrq.gov.
Sharon B. Arnold,
Deputy Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–17–1048; Docket No. CDC–2017–
0056]
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 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 information collection
project titled ‘‘Assessing Education
Agency Staff Perceptions of School
Climate and Youth Access to Services.’’
This study provides in-depth
assessment of HIV and STD prevention
efforts in three local education agencies
funded by CDC’s Division of Adolescent
and School Health.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 16, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2017–
0056 by any of the following methods:
SUMMARY:
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• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• 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 Leroy A.
Richardson, Information Collection
Review Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
Road NE., MS–D74, Atlanta, Georgia
30329; phone: 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 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
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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.
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Proposed Project
Assessing Education Agency Staff
Perceptions of School Climate and
Youth Access to Services (OMB Control
Number 0920–1048, expiration date 2/
28/2018)—Revision—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, 2015 Youth Risk Behavior
Surveillance System (YRBSS) data
revealed 41.2% of U.S. high school
students reported having had sex, and
among those who had sex in the
previous three months, only 56.9%
reported having used a condom during
last sexual intercourse. In addition,
2015 YRBSS data revealed high school
students identifying as gay, lesbian, and
bisexual were more likely to report
engaging 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
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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 on schools.
However, conducting HIV and STD
prevention work (particularly work that
is designed to specifically meet the
needs of YMSM), can be challenging.
School is not always a welcoming
environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ)
youth. Harassment, bullying, and verbal
and physical assault are often reported,
and 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 CDC requests a one-year OMB
approval for the revision of the
information collection entitled,
‘‘Assessing Education Agency Staff
Perceptions of School Climate and
Youth Access to Services.’’ The
information collection uses 2 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) of PS13–1308: Promoting
Adolescent Health through SchoolBased HIV/STD Prevention and SchoolBased 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. This
revision request involves no changes to
instruments, protocols, or burden
estimates per respondent or per data
collection cycle; however, annualized
burden estimates have technical
changes due to changes in the number
of data collections planned and the
length of clearance requested.
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
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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.
Both the Web-based instrument and
in-person interviews will be
administered in the 2017–2018 school
year as the final data collection in a
series of data collections for the 5-year
PS13–1308 cooperative agreement.
Although some staff may have
participated in previous years’ data
collections, 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 Webbased 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. There are no costs to
respondents other than their time.
For the Web-based instrument, the
estimated burden per response ranges
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
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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.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses
per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
Type of respondents
Form name
School staff .......................................
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.
245
1
25/60
102
245
1
25/60
102
245
1
25/60
102
2
1
1
2
14
1
1
14
28
1
1.5
42
...........................................................
........................
........................
........................
364
School staff .......................................
School staff .......................................
District-level Administrators ..............
School-level Administrators ..............
School Staff .......................................
Total ...........................................
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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to allow an additional 30 days for public
comment.
DATES: Comments regarding this
information collection are best assured
of having their full effect if received
within 30-days of the date of this
publication.
Written comments and/or
suggestions regarding the item(s)
contained in this notice, especially
regarding the estimated public burden
and associated response time, should be
directed to the: Office of Management
and Budget, Office of Regulatory Affairs,
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by
fax to 202–395–6974, Attention: Desk
Officer for NIH.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, contact: The Division of
Program Coordination, Planning, and
Strategic Initiatives, OD, NIH, Building
1, Room 260, 1 Center Drive, Bethesda,
MD 20892; or call non-toll-free number
301–402–9852; or email your request,
including your address, to dpcpsi@
od.nih.gov.
ADDRESSES:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day
Comment Request Chimpanzee
Research Use Form (Office of the
Director)
AGENCY:
National Institutes of Health,
HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for review
and approval of the information
collection listed below. This proposed
information collection was previously
published in the Federal Register on
June 2, 2017 (82 FR 25609) and allowed
60 days for public comment. The NIH
received no requests to view the form
and one comment expressing the
opinion that chimpanzee research
should be discontinued but did not
receive any public comments on the
form itself. The purpose of this notice is
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The Office
of the Director, National Institutes of
Health, may not conduct or sponsor,
and the respondent is not required to
respond to, an information collection
that has been extended, revised, or
implemented on or after October 1,
1995, unless it displays a currently valid
OMB control number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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In compliance with Section
3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request for review and
approval of the information collection
listed below.
Proposed Collection: Chimpanzee
Research Use Form, 0925–0705,
Extension Division of Program
Coordination, Planning, and Strategic
Initiatives (DPCPSI), Office of the
Director (OD), National Institutes of
Health (NIH).
Need and Use of Information
Collection: The purpose of this form is
to obtain information needed by the NIH
to assess whether the proposed research
satisfies the agency’s policy for
permitting only noninvasive research
involving chimpanzees. The NIH will
consider the information submitted
through this form prior to the agency
making funding decisions or otherwise
allowing the research to begin.
Completion of this form is a mandatory
step toward receiving NIH support or
approval for non-invasive research
involving chimpanzees. The NIH does
not fund any research involving
chimpanzees proposed in new or other
competing projects (renewals or
revisions) unless the research is
consistent with the definition of
‘‘noninvasive research,’’ as described in
the ‘‘Standards of Care for Chimpanzees
Held in the Federally Supported
Chimpanzee Sanctuary System’’ (42
CFR part 9). See NOT–OD–16–095 at
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-17-1048; Docket No. CDC-2017-0056]
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.
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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 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 information
collection project titled ``Assessing Education Agency Staff
Perceptions of School Climate and Youth Access to Services.'' This
study provides in-depth assessment of HIV and STD prevention efforts in
three local education agencies funded by CDC's Division of Adolescent
and School Health.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before October 16, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0056 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
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 Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
Road NE., MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 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 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
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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.
Proposed Project
Assessing Education Agency Staff Perceptions of School Climate and
Youth Access to Services (OMB Control Number 0920-1048, expiration date
2/28/2018)--Revision--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,
2015 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) data revealed
41.2% of U.S. high school students reported having had sex, and among
those who had sex in the previous three months, only 56.9% reported
having used a condom during last sexual intercourse. In addition, 2015
YRBSS data revealed high school students identifying as gay, lesbian,
and bisexual were more likely to report engaging 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
on schools.
However, conducting HIV and STD prevention work (particularly work
that is designed to specifically meet the needs of YMSM), can be
challenging. School is not always a welcoming environment for lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Harassment,
bullying, and verbal and physical assault are often reported, and 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 CDC requests a one-year OMB approval for the revision of the
information collection entitled, ``Assessing Education Agency Staff
Perceptions of School Climate and Youth Access to Services.'' The
information collection uses 2 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) 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. This revision
request involves no changes to instruments, protocols, or burden
estimates per respondent or per data collection cycle; however,
annualized burden estimates have technical changes due to changes in
the number of data collections planned and the length of clearance
requested.
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.
Both the Web-based instrument and in-person interviews will be
administered in the 2017-2018 school year as the final data collection
in a series of data collections for the 5-year PS13-1308 cooperative
agreement. Although some staff may have participated in previous years'
data collections, 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-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. There are no costs
to respondents other than their time.
For the Web-based instrument, the estimated burden per response
ranges from 60-90 minutes, depending on whether the respondent is a
district-level administrator, a school-level administrator, or another
school staff member. The burden estimates
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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.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in (in hours)
respondent hours)
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School staff.................. Web-based 245 1 25/60 102
instrument for
Broward County
Public Schools.
School staff.................. Web-based 245 1 25/60 102
instrument for
Los Angeles
Unified School
District.
School staff.................. Web-based 245 1 25/60 102
instrument for
San Francisco
Unified School
District.
District-level Administrators. School Climate 2 1 1 2
Index Interview
Guide for
District-level
Administrators.
School-level Administrators... School Climate 14 1 1 14
Index Interview
Guide for
School-level
Administrators.
School Staff.................. School Climate 28 1 1.5 42
Index Interview
Guide for
School Staff.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 364
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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.
[FR Doc. 2017-17402 Filed 8-16-17; 8:45 am]
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