Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[INFO-96-27]

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 the CDC Reports

Clearance Officer on (404) 639-7090.

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 for other

forms of information technology. Send comments to Wilma Johnson, CDC

Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, Atlanta, GA

30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this

notice.

Proposed Projects

1. An Assessment of Violence Prevention Technical Assistance

Efforts for State and Local Health Departments--New--This project is

assessing the needs of state and local health departments for technical

assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in

violence prevention. The assessment will determine what the health

departments are currently doing in violence prevention; identify

violence prevention efforts for which they currently lack resources or

technical expertise; identify technical assistance they have already

received from CDC; determine what technical assistance in violence

prevention they wish from CDC and in what priority they place these

needs; and recommend to CDC how to modify and use the needs assessment

developed in this project for future assessments.

The assessment is focusing on violence committed by youth and

violence against women and partners, children and the elderly, but also

includes other areas of violence prevention in which the state and

local health departments are interested. The study includes the 50

state health departments and a sample of the health departments of the

largest cities or metropolitan areas in the United States.

Data will be collected primarily by telephone interviews, preceded

by mailed requests for data and written materials, along with a list of

topics to be covered in the interviews. Analyses will address variation

in the needs, resources, and priorities for technical assistance in

violence prevention by region, size of place or state, demographic

makeup of the population served, age of extant violence prevention

efforts and other characteristics of the programs. Recommendations will

be made regarding ways in which CDC can most effectively provide

technical assistance in violence prevention to different types of state

and local health departments, especially in view of the priorities set

by the health departments. There are no cost to the respondents.

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Number of Avg. burden/

Respondents Number of responses/ response (in Total burden

respondents respondent hrs.) (in hrs.)

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State Health Departments........................ 50 1 1 50

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Total..................................... .............. .............. .............. 50

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Dated: September 17, 1996.

Wilma G. Johnson,

Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning And Evaluation, Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

[FR Doc. 96-24402 Filed 9-23-96; 8:45 am]

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