Notice2021-13437
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
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Published
June 24, 2021
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Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
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 a proposed information collection project titled "School-Associated Violent Deaths Surveillance System (SAVD)."
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 119 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33298-33299]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-13437]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-21-0604; Docket No. CDC-2021-0057]
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 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 a proposed
information collection project titled ``School-Associated Violent
Deaths Surveillance System (SAVD).''
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before August 23, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2021-
0057 by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a>. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
<bullet> Mail: Jeffery M. Zirger, 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments
to <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a>.
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 Jeffery M. Zirger, Information Collection
Review Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
Road NE, MS-D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#204f4d42604344430e474f56"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bbd4d6d9fbd8dfd895dcd4cd">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
School Associated Violent Death Surveillance System (OMB No. 0920-
0604, expiration 07/31/2022)--Revision--National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC),
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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 relies 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 2016, over 3,600 school-aged children (five 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 (SAVD) 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.
SAVD is an ongoing surveillance system that draws cases from the
entire United States in an attempt to capture all cases of school-
associated violent deaths that have occurred. Investigators review
public records and published press reports concerning each school-
associated violent death. For each identified case, investigators also
contact the corresponding law enforcement agency and speak with an
official in order to confirm or reject the case as an SAVD, and to
request a copy of the official law enforcement report for confirmed
SAVD cases.
In past years, investigators would 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 were knowledgeable about the case in
question; however, moving forward, the interviews with these
respondents will be eliminated, and instead CDC study personnel will
abstract data from law enforcement reports to enter using a Data
Abstraction Tool. Data to be abstracted from the law enforcement report
include the following: Information on both the victim and alleged
offender(s)--including demographic data, their criminal records, and
their relationship to one another; the time and location of the
incident precipitating the fatality; 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. The revised data collection process
eliminates the use of telephone interviews and will greatly reduce
respondents' burden.
This is a revision request for the currently approved ``School-
Associated Violent Deaths Surveillance System'' (SAVD; OMB No. 0920-
0604, expiration 07/31/2022). CDC seeks to (1) collect the majority of
the data on school-associated violent deaths through the National
Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), (2) eliminate the use of
abstraction of law enforcement reports through the SAVD, and (3)
transition to abstraction of published press reports by SAVD study
staff. The overall burden for the collection of school-associated
violent deaths will be increased by six hours. Data collection will
transition entirely to the NVDRS once cases from 2020 are fully
abstracted and there is the capability for nationwide coverage of the
collection of school-associated violent deaths through NVDRS. All data
are secured using technical, physical, and administrative controls.
Hard copies of data are kept under lock and key in secured offices,
located in a secured facility that can be accessed only by presenting
the appropriate credentials. Digital data are password protected and
then stored (and backed up routinely) onto a secure Local Area Network
that can only be accessed by individuals who have been appropriately
authorized. Study data are reported in the aggregate, such that no
individual case can be identified from the reports.
CDC requests approval for an estimated 23 annual burden hours.
There are no costs to the respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Type of respondent Form name Number of responses per Response Total burden
respondents respondent burden (hours) hours
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Public Agencies............... Retrieving and 45 1 30/60 23
refiling
records.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 23
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2021-13437 Filed 6-23-21; 8:45 am]
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