[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56457-56458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-23017]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-20-0607; Docket No. CDC-2019-0089]
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 The National Violent Death
Reporting System (NVDRS). The NVDRS is designed to continue collection
of detailed and timely state-based surveillance data on violent deaths.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before December 23,
2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2019-
0089 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: 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-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 Regulations.gov.
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 Jeffrey 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:
[email protected].
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; and
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.
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) (OMB Control
No. 0920-0607, Exp. 11/30/2020)--Revision--National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Violence is an important public health problem. In the United
States, suicide and homicide 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, or information
obtainable from the standard death certificate. Death certificates,
however, carry no information about key facts necessary for prevention,
such as the relationship of the victim and suspect and the
circumstances of the deaths. Furthermore, death certificates are
typically available 20 months after the completion of a single calendar
year. Official publications of national violent death rates, e.g. those
in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use data that is less
than two years old.
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, in fact, much more common than homicides. The
FBI's Supplemental Homicide Report (SHR) does collect basic information
about the victim-suspect relationship and circumstances related to the
homicide. SHRs, do not link violent deaths that are part of one
incident such as homicide-suicides. However, it is a voluntary system
in which some 10-20 percent of police departments nationwide do not
participate. The FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
provides slightly more information than SHRs, but it covers less of the
country. NIBRS also only provides data regarding homicides. The Bureau
of Justice Statistics Reports do not use data that is less than two
years old.
The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), implemented by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a state-based
surveillance system developed to monitor the occurrence of violent
deaths (i.e., homicide, suicide, undetermined deaths, and unintentional
firearm deaths) in the United States (U.S.) by collecting
comprehensive, detailed, useful, and timely data from multiple sources
(e.g., death certificates, coroner/medical examiner reports, law
enforcement reports) into a useable, anonymous database. In 2018, the
NVDRS expanded by adding 10 new states. Now, all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico participate in the system. CDC
requests OMB approval in order to revise its state-based surveillance
system for violent deaths that will allow it to collect more detailed
and timely information. The
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purpose of this revision is three-fold: (1) Implement updates to the
web-based system to improve performance, functionality, and
accessibility, (2) add new data elements to the system and minimal
revisions to the NVDRS coding manual; and (3) modify burden hours to
account for the increase in violent deaths that have occurred in the
U.S. since 2003.
Consequently, these revisions impact the number of responses per
respondent, increasing it from 1,000 (as written in previous OMB
requests) to 1,350, resulting in an increase in the total burden hours
for retrieval of these records from 29,500 to 37,800. NVDRS has always
had the goal to be a nationally representative surveillance system,
operating in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S.
territories. In the previous OMB package, we calculated the number of
respondents to be 56, which included 50 states, the District of
Columbia, and 5 U.S. territory health departments (Puerto Rico, Guam,
American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
(Northern Marianas, U.S. Virgin Islands). Our request is to continue
with the number of respondents at 56, continuing to exclude large local
health departments as an independent respondent in NVDRS. CDC requests
approval for an estimated 37,800 burden hours, annually. There are no
costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
No. of No. responses burden per Total burden
Type of respondent Form name respondents per response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Public Agencies............... Retrieving and 56 1,350 30/60 37,800
refile records
(Att. 6).
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 37,800
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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. 2019-23017 Filed 10-21-19; 8:45 am]
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