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To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276– 1243. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of information are 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. Proposed Project: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) Program (OMB No. 0930–0279) Revision SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is responsible for the evaluation instruments of the Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) Program. The program is a major national initiative designed to: (1) Prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse, including childhood and underage drinking; (2) reduce substance abuse related problems in communities; and, (3) build prevention capacity and infrastructure at the State/territory/Tribe and community levels. Five steps comprise the SPF: E:\FR\FM\22AUN1.SGM 22AUN1 49692 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 164 / Friday, August 22, 2008 / Notices Step 1: Profile population needs, resources, and readiness to address needs and gaps. Step 2: Mobilize and/or build capacity to address needs. Step 3: Develop a comprehensive strategic plan. Step 4: Implement evidence-based prevention programs, policies, and practices. Step 5: Monitor, evaluate, sustain, and improve or replace those that fail. An evaluation team is currently implementing a multi-method, quasiexperimental evaluation of the first two Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved SPF SIG cohorts receiving their first year grant awards in FY 2004 and FY 2005. This is known as the Cohort 1 and 2 Cross-Site Evaluation Study, OMB–0930–0279. This 60-Day Notice invites comment on granteelevel, community-level, and participantlevel data collection instruments designed for the cross-site evaluation of 16 Cohort 3 grantees receiving grants in FY 2006 and a yet-undetermined number of Cohort 4 grantees to be funded in the near future. Since the ultimate goal is to fund all eligible jurisdictions, there are no control groups at the grantee level. The purpose of cross-site evaluation is to measure the impact of community-funded grantees versus non-funded communities on SAMHSA’s NOMs. Data collected at the grantee, community, and participant levels using the three instruments will be combined in an analysis that investigates the relationship, if any, between the SPF process and substance use outcomes at individual and community levels. The instruments will be included in an OMB review package submitted immediately after the expiration of the comment period. Grantee-Level Data Collection Two instruments were developed for assessing grantee-level effects. Both instruments are guides for interviews that will be conducted by the grantees’ evaluators twice over the life of the SPF SIG award. These instruments are modified versions of those used in the SPF SIG Cohort 1 and 2 Cross-Site Evaluation Study (OMB–0930–0279). The total burden of the original instruments has been reduced by deleting several questions and replacing the majority of open-ended questions with multiple-choice questions. The Strategic Prevention Framework Implementation Interview Protocol will be used to assess the relationship between SPF implementation and change in the NOMs. The Infrastructure Instrument will capture data to assess infrastructure change and to test the relationship of this change to outcomes. Prevention infrastructure refers to the organizational features of the system that delivers prevention services, including all procedures related to planning, data management, workforce development, intervention implementation, evaluation and monitoring, financial management, and sustainability. The estimated annual burden for grantee-level data collection is outlined below: GRANTEE LEVEL INSTRUMENT BURDEN ESTIMATE Number of responses per respondent Number of respondents Burden per respondent (hrs.) Total burden (hrs.) Content description SPF Implementation .......................... SEW activities, indicators for each SPF step, including cultural competence, throughout all five steps. Assessment of a State’s progress over time toward the implementation of these best practices. 32 3 2 192 State Infrastructure ............................ 32 3 3 288 Total Burden ............................... Average Annual Burden Over Three Years. jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES Interview guide .......................................................... .......................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ 15 5 480 160 Community-Level Data Collection (Revision) The Community-Level Instrument is a two-part, Web-based survey for capturing information about SPF SIG implementation at the subrecipient community level. The instrument is a modified version of the one in use in the SPF SIG Cohorts 1 and 2 Cross-Site Evaluation Study (OMB–0930–0279). The total burden of the original instrument was reduced by deleting several questions. Part 1 of the instrument focuses on the five SPF SIG steps and efforts to ensure cultural competency throughout the SPF SIG process. Part 2 will capture data on the specific intervention(s) implemented at the community level, VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:12 Aug 21, 2008 Jkt 214001 including both individually-focused and environmental prevention strategies. Part 2 is a modular instrument that includes separate subforms for each of the eight different intervention types. This part will be completed for each intervention implemented during the reporting period, selecting only those subforms that apply to the interventions being reported. Community partners receiving SPF SIG awards will be required to complete the entire online survey once and enter updates every six months, using a secure password system. The estimated annual burden for community-level data collection is displayed in the next table. Note that the total burden assumes an average of 15 community-level subrecipients per PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 grantee (a total of 480 respondents), an average of three distinct interventions implemented by each community, and two survey updates per year. Additionally, some questions will be addressed only once during the data collection process and these prior responses will populate subsequent updates. As community partners work through the SPF steps, they will report only on step-related activities. For example, needs assessment activities will likely precede monitoring and evaluation activities. Thus, respondents will answer questions related to needs assessment in the first few reports but will not address monitoring and evaluation items until later in the implementation process. E:\FR\FM\22AUN1.SGM 22AUN1 49693 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 164 / Friday, August 22, 2008 / Notices COMMUNITY LEVEL INSTRUMENT BURDEN ESTIMATE Average burden per response (hrs.) Content description Survey section Number of respondents Number of responses per respondent Total burden (hrs.) Reporting Period 1 Part I, 1–235 ............................ Part II, 1–44 ............................. Part II, 45–280 ......................... Community Partner Activities Prevention Intervention Information. Intervention-Type-Specific Information. 39.5 1.3 480 480 1 3 1896 1872 12.6 480 3 0.91 0.2 480 480 5 15 2184 1440 0.15 480 15 1080 ................................................ .............................. ............................ ............................ 9076.8 ................................................ .............................. ............................ ............................ 3025.6 604.8 Reporting Periods 2–6 (updates) Part I, 1–235 ............................ Part II, 1–44 ............................. Part II, 45–280 ......................... Total Burden Over Six Reporting Periods. Average Annual Burden Over Three Years. Community Partner Activities Prevention Intervention Information. Intervention-Type-Specific Information. Participant-Level Data Collection (New Section) Participant-level data will be collected from all participants in direct service programs which last 30 days or more. Two instruments will be used for this purpose, one for participants aged 12–17 (youth instrument) and another for participants aged 18 or older (adult instrument). The core sections of the two instruments will be the CSAP NOMs Adult and Youth Programs Survey Forms (OMB–0930–0230). The participant-level instruments will be administered to each participant at program entry, program exit, and six months after program exit. The following burden estimation is based on the assumption that each subrecipient community will serve 50 participants per year in direct-service interventions lasting 30 days or more, amounting to 12,000 participants per year. PARTICIPANT LEVEL INSTRUMENT BURDEN ESTIMATE Number of respondents per year Survey type Burden per respondent (hrs.) Total annual burden (hrs.) Baseline ........................................................................................................................... Exit ................................................................................................................................... Followup ........................................................................................................................... 12,000 10,800 8,400 0.83 0.83 0.83 9,960 8,964 6,972 Total .......................................................................................................................... Average Annual Burden over Three Years .............................................................. ............................ ............................ 2.49 ............................ 25,896 8,632 Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, Room 7–1044, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 and e-mail her a copy at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice. Dated: August 14, 2008. Elaine Parry, Acting Director, Office of Program Services. [FR Doc. 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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

    In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on proposed 
collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration (SAMHSA) will publish periodic summaries of 
proposed projects. To request more information on the proposed projects 
or to obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call the 
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of 
information are 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.

Proposed Project: Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant 
(SPF SIG) Program (OMB No. 0930-0279) Revision

    SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is 
responsible for the evaluation instruments of the Strategic Prevention 
Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) Program. The program is a 
major national initiative designed to: (1) Prevent the onset and reduce 
the progression of substance abuse, including childhood and underage 
drinking; (2) reduce substance abuse related problems in communities; 
and, (3) build prevention capacity and infrastructure at the State/
territory/Tribe and community levels.
    Five steps comprise the SPF:

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    Step 1: Profile population needs, resources, and readiness to 
address needs and gaps.
    Step 2: Mobilize and/or build capacity to address needs.
    Step 3: Develop a comprehensive strategic plan.
    Step 4: Implement evidence-based prevention programs, policies, and 
practices.
    Step 5: Monitor, evaluate, sustain, and improve or replace those 
that fail.
    An evaluation team is currently implementing a multi-method, quasi-
experimental evaluation of the first two Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) approved SPF SIG cohorts receiving their first year grant 
awards in FY 2004 and FY 2005. This is known as the Cohort 1 and 2 
Cross-Site Evaluation Study, OMB-0930-0279. This 60-Day Notice invites 
comment on grantee-level, community-level, and participant-level data 
collection instruments designed for the cross-site evaluation of 16 
Cohort 3 grantees receiving grants in FY 2006 and a yet-undetermined 
number of Cohort 4 grantees to be funded in the near future. Since the 
ultimate goal is to fund all eligible jurisdictions, there are no 
control groups at the grantee level. The purpose of cross-site 
evaluation is to measure the impact of community-funded grantees versus 
non-funded communities on SAMHSA's NOMs.
    Data collected at the grantee, community, and participant levels 
using the three instruments will be combined in an analysis that 
investigates the relationship, if any, between the SPF process and 
substance use outcomes at individual and community levels. The 
instruments will be included in an OMB review package submitted 
immediately after the expiration of the comment period.

Grantee-Level Data Collection

    Two instruments were developed for assessing grantee-level effects. 
Both instruments are guides for interviews that will be conducted by 
the grantees' evaluators twice over the life of the SPF SIG award. 
These instruments are modified versions of those used in the SPF SIG 
Cohort 1 and 2 Cross-Site Evaluation Study (OMB-0930-0279). The total 
burden of the original instruments has been reduced by deleting several 
questions and replacing the majority of open-ended questions with 
multiple-choice questions. The Strategic Prevention Framework 
Implementation Interview Protocol will be used to assess the 
relationship between SPF implementation and change in the NOMs. The 
Infrastructure Instrument will capture data to assess infrastructure 
change and to test the relationship of this change to outcomes.
    Prevention infrastructure refers to the organizational features of 
the system that delivers prevention services, including all procedures 
related to planning, data management, workforce development, 
intervention implementation, evaluation and monitoring, financial 
management, and sustainability. The estimated annual burden for 
grantee-level data collection is outlined below:

                                                        Grantee Level Instrument Burden Estimate
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                             Number of      Burden per
               Interview guide                            Content description                Number of     responses per    respondent     Total burden
                                                                                            respondents     respondent        (hrs.)          (hrs.)
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SPF Implementation...........................  SEW activities, indicators for each SPF                32               3               2             192
                                                step, including cultural competence,
                                                throughout all five steps.
State Infrastructure.........................  Assessment of a State's progress over                  32               3               3             288
                                                time toward the implementation of these
                                                best practices.
                                                                                         ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total Burden.............................  .........................................  ..............  ..............              15             480
    Average Annual Burden Over Three Years...  .........................................  ..............  ..............               5             160
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Community-Level Data Collection (Revision)

    The Community-Level Instrument is a two-part, Web-based survey for 
capturing information about SPF SIG implementation at the subrecipient 
community level. The instrument is a modified version of the one in use 
in the SPF SIG Cohorts 1 and 2 Cross-Site Evaluation Study (OMB-0930-
0279). The total burden of the original instrument was reduced by 
deleting several questions.
    Part 1 of the instrument focuses on the five SPF SIG steps and 
efforts to ensure cultural competency throughout the SPF SIG process. 
Part 2 will capture data on the specific intervention(s) implemented at 
the community level, including both individually-focused and 
environmental prevention strategies. Part 2 is a modular instrument 
that includes separate subforms for each of the eight different 
intervention types. This part will be completed for each intervention 
implemented during the reporting period, selecting only those subforms 
that apply to the interventions being reported. Community partners 
receiving SPF SIG awards will be required to complete the entire online 
survey once and enter updates every six months, using a secure password 
system. The estimated annual burden for community-level data collection 
is displayed in the next table. Note that the total burden assumes an 
average of 15 community-level subrecipients per grantee (a total of 480 
respondents), an average of three distinct interventions implemented by 
each community, and two survey updates per year. Additionally, some 
questions will be addressed only once during the data collection 
process and these prior responses will populate subsequent updates. As 
community partners work through the SPF steps, they will report only on 
step-related activities. For example, needs assessment activities will 
likely precede monitoring and evaluation activities. Thus, respondents 
will answer questions related to needs assessment in the first few 
reports but will not address monitoring and evaluation items until 
later in the implementation process.

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                                                       Community Level Instrument Burden Estimate
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                                                                                  Average burden                         Number of
              Survey section                       Content  description            per response        Number of       responses per      Total burden
                                                                                      (hrs.)          respondents       respondent           (hrs.)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                   Reporting Period 1
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Part I, 1-235.............................  Community Partner Activities......              39.5                480                 1             1896
Part II, 1-44.............................  Prevention Intervention                          1.3                480                 3             1872
                                             Information.
Part II, 45-280...........................  Intervention-Type-Specific                      12.6                480                 3              604.8
                                             Information.
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                                                             Reporting Periods 2-6 (updates)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Part I, 1-235.............................  Community Partner Activities......               0.91               480                 5             2184
Part II, 1-44.............................  Prevention Intervention                          0.2                480                15             1440
                                             Information.
Part II, 45-280...........................  Intervention-Type-Specific                       0.15               480                15             1080
                                             Information.
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    Total Burden Over Six Reporting         ..................................  .................  ................  ................             9076.8
     Periods.
    Average Annual Burden Over Three Years  ..................................  .................  ................  ................             3025.6
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Participant-Level Data Collection (New Section)

    Participant-level data will be collected from all participants in 
direct service programs which last 30 days or more. Two instruments 
will be used for this purpose, one for participants aged 12-17 (youth 
instrument) and another for participants aged 18 or older (adult 
instrument). The core sections of the two instruments will be the CSAP 
NOMs Adult and Youth Programs Survey Forms (OMB-0930-0230).
    The participant-level instruments will be administered to each 
participant at program entry, program exit, and six months after 
program exit. The following burden estimation is based on the 
assumption that each subrecipient community will serve 50 participants 
per year in direct-service interventions lasting 30 days or more, 
amounting to 12,000 participants per year.

                                  Participant Level Instrument Burden Estimate
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                                                                Number of        Burden per
                        Survey type                         respondents  per     respondent       Total annual
                                                                  year             (hrs.)        burden  (hrs.)
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Baseline..................................................            12,000              0.83             9,960
Exit......................................................            10,800              0.83             8,964
Followup..................................................             8,400              0.83             6,972
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
    Total.................................................  ................              2.49            25,896
    Average Annual Burden over Three Years................  ................  ................             8,632
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    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 7-1044, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 and e-mail her 
a copy at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments should be 
received within 60 days of this notice.

    Dated: August 14, 2008.
Elaine Parry,
Acting Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. E8-19484 Filed 8-21-08; 8:45 am]
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