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Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 212 / Thursday, November 3, 2005 / Notices
Dated: October 27, 2005.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05–21910 Filed 11–2–05; 8:45 am]
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
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Proposed Project
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
School Associated Violent Death
Surveillance System (0920–0604)—
Reinstatement without change—
National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control (NCIPC), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[60Day–06–0604]
Background and Brief Description
Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
violent deaths during the 1992–99
academic years to establish the true
extent of this highly visible problem.
Despite the important role of schools as
a setting for violence research and
prevention interventions, relatively
little scientific or systematic work has
been done to describe the nature and
level of fatal violence associated with
schools. Until NCIPC conducted the first
nationwide investigation of violent
deaths associated with schools, public
health and education officials had to
rely on limited local studies and
estimated numbers to describe the
extent of school-associated violent
death.
The Division of Violence Prevention
(DVP), National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC)
proposes to maintain a system for the
surveillance of school-associated
homicides and suicides. The system
will rely on existing public records and
interviews with law enforcement
officials and school officials. The
purpose of the system is to (1) estimate
the rate of school-associated violent
death in the United States and (2)
identify common features of schoolassociated violent deaths. The system
will contribute to the understanding of
fatal violence associated with schools,
guide further research in the area, and
help direct ongoing and future
prevention programs.
Violence is the leading cause of death
among young people, and increasingly
recognized as an important public
health and social issue. In 1998, over
3,500 school aged children (5 to 18
years old) in the United States died
violent deaths due to suicide, homicide,
and unintentional firearm injuries. The
vast majority of these fatal injuries were
not school associated. However,
whenever a homicide or suicide occurs
in or around school, it becomes a matter
of particularly intense public interest
and concern. NCIPC conducted the first
scientific study of school-associated
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–4766 and
send comments to Seleda Perryman,
CDC Assistant Reports Clearance
Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74,
Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to
omb@cdc.gov.
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; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
The system will draw cases from the
entire United States in attempting to
capture all cases of school-associated
violent deaths that have occurred.
Investigators will review public records
and published press reports concerning
each school-associated violent death.
For each identified case, investigators
will also interview an investigating law
enforcement official (defined as a police
officer, police chief, or district attorney),
and a school official (defined as a school
principal, school superintendent, school
counselor, school teacher, or school
support staff) who are knowledgeable
about the case in question. Researchers
will request information on both the
victim and alleged offender(s)—
including demographic data, their
academic and criminal records, and
their relationship to one another. They
will also collect data on the time and
location of the death; the circumstances,
motive, and method of the fatal injury;
and the security and violence
prevention activities in the school and
community where the death occurred,
before and after the fatal injury event.
There are no costs to the respondents
other than their time.
ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE
Number of
respondents
Respondents
Number of
responses/
respondents
Average burden/response
(in hours)
Total annual
burden (in
hours)
School Officials ................................................................................................
Policy Officials .................................................................................................
35
35
1
1
60/60
60/60
35
35
Total ..........................................................................................................
70
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Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 212 / Thursday, November 3, 2005 / Notices
Dated: October 28, 2005.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05–21913 Filed 11–2–05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4163–18–P
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–06–0607]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–4766 and
send comments to Seleda Perryman,
CDC Assistant Reports Clearance
Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74,
Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an email to
omb@cdc.gov.
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; and (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. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
System (NIBRS) addresses some of these
deficiencies, but covers less of the
country than SHRS, includes only
homicides, and collects only police
information. Also, the Bureau of Justice
Statistics Reports do not use data that
are more than two years old.
Proposed Project
The National Violent Death Reporting
System-Revision-National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Violence is an important public
health problem. In the United States,
homicide and suicide 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—all
information obtainable from the
standard death certificate. Death
certificates, however, carry no
information about key factors necessary
for prevention such as the victimsuspect relationship or the
circumstances of the deaths. This makes
it impossible to discern anything but the
gross contours of the problem.
Furthermore, death certificates are
typically not available until 20 months
after the completion of a calendar year.
Official publications of national violent
death rates, e.g., those in the Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use
data that are more than two years old.
Public health interventions aimed at a
moving target last seen two years ago
may well miss the mark.
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 much
more common within all age groups
than homicides. The FBI’s
Supplemental Homicide Report System
(SHRS) does collect basic information
about the victim-suspect relationship
and circumstances. But, as with death
certificates, SHRS does not link violent
deaths that are part of one incident such
as homicides-suicides. Because it is a
voluntary system, approximately 10–20
percent of police departments
nationwide do not participate. The FBI’s
National Incident Based Reporting
CDC therefore proposes to continue a
state-based surveillance system for
violent deaths that will provide more
detailed and timely information. It taps
into the case records held by medical
examiners/coroners, police, and crime
labs. Data are collected centrally by each
state in the system, stripped of
identifiers, and then sent to the CDC.
Information is collected from these
records about the characteristics of the
victims and suspects, the circumstances
of the deaths, and the weapons
involved. States use standardized data
elements and software designed by CDC.
Ultimately, this information is intended
to guide states in designing programs
that reduce multiple forms of violence.
Neither victim families nor suspects
are contacted to collect information for
The National Violent Death Reporting
System. Data come from existing records
and are collected by state health
department staff or their subcontractors.
Health departments incur an average of
2.5 hours per death in identifying the
deaths from death certificates,
contacting the police and medical
examiners to get copies of or to view the
relevant records, abstracting the records,
various data processing tasks, various
administrative tasks, etc.
The number of state health
departments to be funded may be as
high as 22 by 2009. Seventeen states are
currently funded. NCIPC hopes to
eventually fund all 50 states. Violent
deaths include all homicides, suicides,
legal interventions, deaths from
undetermined causes, and unintentional
firearm deaths. There are 50,000 such
deaths annually among U.S. residents;
thus the average state will experience
approximately 1,000 such deaths each
year.
ESTIMATE OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE
Number of respondents
Number of responses/respondent
Average burden/response
(in hours)
State Health Departments ...............................................................................
22
1,000
2.5
Total ..........................................................................................................
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........................
........................
Respondents
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[FR Doc No: 05-21913]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-06-0604]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-4766
and send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC Assistant Reports Clearance
Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail
to omb@cdc.gov.
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; and (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. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
School Associated Violent Death Surveillance System (0920-0604)--
Reinstatement without change--National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The Division of Violence Prevention (DVP), National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) proposes to maintain a system for
the surveillance of school-associated homicides and suicides. The
system will rely on existing public records and interviews with law
enforcement officials and school officials. The purpose of the system
is to (1) estimate the rate of school-associated violent death in the
United States and (2) identify common features of school-associated
violent deaths. The system will contribute to the understanding of
fatal violence associated with schools, guide further research in the
area, and help direct ongoing and future prevention programs.
Violence is the leading cause of death among young people, and
increasingly recognized as an important public health and social issue.
In 1998, over 3,500 school aged children (5 to 18 years old) in the
United States died violent deaths due to suicide, homicide, and
unintentional firearm injuries. The vast majority of these fatal
injuries were not school associated. However, whenever a homicide or
suicide occurs in or around school, it becomes a matter of particularly
intense public interest and concern. NCIPC conducted the first
scientific study of school-associated violent deaths during the 1992-99
academic years to establish the true extent of this highly visible
problem. Despite the important role of schools as a setting for
violence research and prevention interventions, relatively little
scientific or systematic work has been done to describe the nature and
level of fatal violence associated with schools. Until NCIPC conducted
the first nationwide investigation of violent deaths associated with
schools, public health and education officials had to rely on limited
local studies and estimated numbers to describe the extent of school-
associated violent death.
The system will draw cases from the entire United States in
attempting to capture all cases of school-associated violent deaths
that have occurred. Investigators will review public records and
published press reports concerning each school-associated violent
death. For each identified case, investigators will also interview an
investigating law enforcement official (defined as a police officer,
police chief, or district attorney), and a school official (defined as
a school principal, school superintendent, school counselor, school
teacher, or school support staff) who are knowledgeable about the case
in question. Researchers will request information on both the victim
and alleged offender(s)--including demographic data, their academic and
criminal records, and their relationship to one another. They will also
collect data on the time and location of the death; the circumstances,
motive, and method of the fatal injury; and the security and violence
prevention activities in the school and community where the death
occurred, before and after the fatal injury event. There are no costs
to the respondents other than their time.
Estimate of Annualized Burden Table
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Average burden/ Total annual
Respondents Number of responses/ response (in burden (in
respondents respondents hours) hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
School Officials................................ 35 1 60/60 35
Policy Officials................................ 35 1 60/60 35
-----------------
Total....................................... 70 .............. .............. 70
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Dated: October 28, 2005.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-21913 Filed 11-2-05; 8:45 am]
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