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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) will publish a summary of
information collection requests under
OMB review, in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35). To request a copy of these
documents, call the SAMHSA Reports
Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243.
Project: Survey of State Underage
Drinking Prevention Policies and
Practices—(OMB No. 0930–0316)—
Revision
The Sober Truth on Preventing
Underage Drinking Act (the ‘‘STOP
Act’’) (Pub. L. 109–422, reauthorized in
2016 by Pub. L. 114–255) states that the
‘‘Secretary [of Health and Human
Services] shall . . . annually issue a
report on each state’s performance in
enacting, enforcing, and creating laws,
regulations, and programs to prevent or
reduce underage drinking.’’ The
Secretary has delegated responsibility
for this report to SAMHSA. Therefore,
SAMHSA has developed a Survey of
State Underage Drinking Prevention
Policies and Practices (the ‘‘State
Survey’’) to provide input for the stateby-state report on prevention and
enforcement activities related to
underage drinking component of the
Annual Report to Congress on the
Prevention and Reduction of Underage
Drinking (‘‘Report to Congress’’).
The STOP Act also requires the
Secretary to develop ‘‘a set of measures
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to be used in preparing the report on
best practices’’ and to consider
categories including but not limited to
the following:
Category #1: Sixteen specific
underage drinking laws/regulations
enacted at the state level (e.g., laws
prohibiting sales to minors; laws related
to minors in possession of alcohol).
Note that ten additional policies have
been added to the Report to Congress
pursuant to Congressional
appropriations language or the
Secretary’s authority granted by the
STOP Act;
Category #2: Enforcement and
educational programs to promote
compliance with these laws/regulations;
Category #3: Programs targeted to
youths, parents, and caregivers to deter
underage drinking and the number of
individuals served by these programs;
Category #4: The amount that each
state invests, per youth capita, on the
prevention of underage drinking broken
into five categories: (a) Compliance
check programs in retail outlets; (b)
Checkpoints and saturation patrols that
include the goal of reducing and
deterring underage drinking; (c)
Community-based, school-based, and
higher-education-based programs to
prevent underage drinking; (d)
Underage drinking prevention programs
that target youth within the juvenile
justice and child welfare systems; and
(e) Any other state efforts or programs
that target underage drinking.
Congress’ purpose in mandating the
collection of data on state policies and
programs through the State Survey is to
provide policymakers and the public
with otherwise unavailable but much
needed information regarding state
underage drinking prevention policies
and programs. SAMHSA and other
Federal agencies that have underage
drinking prevention as part of their
mandate use the results of the State
Survey to inform federal programmatic
priorities, as do other stakeholders,
including community organizations.
The information gathered by the State
Survey has established a resource for
state agencies and the general public for
assessing policies and programs in their
own state and for becoming familiar
with the programs, policies, and
funding priorities of other states.
Because of the broad scope of data
required by the STOP Act, SAMHSA
relies on existing data sources where
possible to minimize the survey burden
on the states. SAMHSA uses data on
state underage drinking policies from
the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism’s Alcohol Policy
Information System (APIS), an
authoritative compendium of state
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alcohol-related laws. The APIS data is
augmented by SAMHSA with original
legal research on state laws and policies
addressing underage drinking to include
all of the STOP Act’s requested laws
and regulations (Category #1 of the four
categories included in the STOP Act, as
described above, page 2).
The STOP Act mandates that the State
Survey assess ‘‘best practices’’ and
emphasize the importance of building
collaborations with federally recognized
tribal governments (‘‘tribal
governments’’). It also emphasizes the
importance at the federal level of
promoting interagency collaboration
and to that end established the
Interagency Coordinating Committee on
the Prevention of Underage Drinking
(ICCPUD). SAMHSA has determined
that to fulfill the Congressional intent, it
is critical that the State Survey gather
information from the states regarding
the best practices standards that they
apply to their underage drinking
programs, collaborations between states
and tribal governments, and the
development of state-level interagency
collaborations similar to ICCPUD.
SAMHSA has determined that data on
Categories #2, #3, and #4 mandated in
the STOP Act (as listed on page 2)
(enforcement and educational programs;
programs targeting youth, parents, and
caregivers; and state expenditures) as
well as states’ best practices standards,
collaborations with tribal governments,
and state-level interagency
collaborations are not available from
secondary sources and therefore must be
collected from the states themselves.
The State Survey is therefore necessary
to fulfill the Congressional mandate
found in the STOP Act. Furthermore,
the uniform collection of these data
from the states over the last seven years
has created a valuable longitudinal
dataset, and the State Survey’s renewal
is vital to maintaining this resource.
The State Survey is a single document
that is divided into four sections, as
follows:
(1) Enforcement programs to promote
compliance with underage drinking
laws and regulations (as described in
Category #2 above, page 2);
(2) Programs and media campaigns
targeted to youth, parents, and
caregivers to deter underage drinking (as
described in Category #3 above, page 2);
(3) State interagency collaboration to
implement prevention programs and
media campaigns, state best-practice
standards, and collaborations with tribal
governments (as described above, page
4);
(4) The amount that each state invests
on the prevention of underage drinking
in the categories specified in the STOP
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Act (see description of Category #4,
above, page 2) and descriptions of any
dedicated fees, taxes, or fines used to
raise these funds.
The number of questions in each
section is as follows:
Section 1: 38 questions
Section 2A: 15 questions
Section 2B: 12 questions
Section 2C: 10 questions
Section 2D: 10 questions
Total: 85 questions
Note that the number of questions in
Section 2A is an estimate. This section
asks states to identify up to 10 programs
that are specific to underage drinking
prevention. For each program identified
there are three follow-up questions.
Based on the average number of
programs per state reported in the
Survey’s seven year history, it is
anticipated that states will report an
average of five programs for a total of 15
questions.
It is anticipated that most respondents
will actually respond to only a subset of
this total. The Survey is designed with
‘‘skip logic,’’ which means that many
questions will only be directed to a
subset of respondents who report the
existence of particular programs or
activities.
This latest version of the Survey has
been revised as follows:
1. Part 2, Section A: Programs
a. A question about underage drinking
prevention programs has been
eliminated. Previously, states were
asked to define each program by
whether it was aimed at the ‘‘general
population’’ or a ‘‘specific countable
population (e.g., at-risk high school
students).’’ This question was not
misinterpreted by some respondents,
leading to inconsistent data. It was not
uncommon for states to provide specific
population numbers for a program they
had previously defined as being aimed
at the general population. For this
reason, it is being eliminated.
b. Questions about the specific
number of different populations (youth,
parents, and caregivers) served by each
prevention program have been
reformatted as follows:
i. Definitions of each population
category have been deleted from the
introduction to Part 2, Section A and
have been incorporated into the
subsequent questions about each
program, making it easier for
respondents to answer these questions
without referring back to the
introduction.
ii. For the sake of efficiency, three
separate questions about type of
population served by each program have
been collapsed into one question.
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c. References to ‘‘media campaigns’’
have been added to the introduction of
this section to encourage respondents to
include these among the prevention
programs listed in their responses. As
noted in the following description to
changes in Part 2, Section B, the survey
is being amended to evaluate awareness
of, and participation in the national
media campaign mandated by the STOP
Act.
2. Part 2. Section B: Collaborations and
Best Practices
a. New questions about the national
media campaign to reduce underage
drinking aimed at adults (as mandated
by the STOP Act) have been added. The
questions are intended to:
i. Evaluate awareness of and
participation in the national media
campaign, ‘‘Talk. They Hear You.’’
(TTHY), including questions about the
commitment of state resources and
funding to this effort. The STOP Act
requires evaluation of the national
media campaign, which is largely
conducted by other survey instruments.
However, adding a question on the
campaign here is an efficient way to
gather state-level data for the analysis.
ii. Determine whether the states
participate in other media campaigns
intended to reduce underage drinking.
iii. Expand the scope of the Survey to
include social marketing or counteradvertising efforts in the effort to reduce
underage drinking. Currently, the
Survey includes a question about
whether states have programs to
measure or reduce youth exposure to
alcohol advertising and marketing. This
question will remain, but the new
questions will capture proactive efforts
to counter this advertising and
marketing.
No additional time burden should be
placed on the respondents, as the added
questions are balanced by the deletion
of others, with a small net reduction in
the total number of questions. All
questions continue to ask only for
readily available data.
To ensure that the State Survey
obtains the necessary data while
minimizing the burden on the states,
SAMHSA has conducted a lengthy and
comprehensive planning process. It
sought advice from key stakeholders (as
mandated by the STOP Act) including
hosting multiple stakeholders meetings,
conducting two field tests with state
officials likely to be responsible for
completing the State Survey, and
investigating and testing various State
Survey formats, online delivery systems,
and data collection methodologies.
Based on these investigations,
SAMHSA collects the required data
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using an online survey data collection
platform (SurveyMonkey). Links to the
four sections of the survey are
distributed to states via email. The State
Survey is sent to each state governor’s
office and the Office of the Mayor of the
District of Columbia. Based on the
experience from the last seven years of
administering the State Survey, it is
anticipated that the state governors will
designate staff from state agencies that
have access to the requested data
(typically state Alcohol Beverage
Control [ABC] agencies and state
Substance Abuse Program agencies).
SAMHSA provides both telephone and
electronic technical support to state
agency staff and emphasizes that the
states are only expected to provide data
that is readily available and are not
required to provide data that has not
already been collected. The burden
estimate below takes into account these
assumptions.
The estimated annual response
burden to collect this information is as
follows:
Instrument
Number of
respondents
Responses/
respondent
Burden/
response
(hrs)
Annual
burden
(hrs)
State Questionnaire .........................................................................................
51
1
17.7
902.7
Written comments and
recommendations concerning the
proposed information collection should
be sent by July 16, 2018 to the SAMHSA
Desk Officer at the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). To
ensure timely receipt of comments, and
to avoid potential delays in OMB’s
receipt and processing of mail sent
through the U.S. Postal Service,
commenters are encouraged to submit
their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
Although commenters are encouraged to
send their comments via email,
commenters may also fax their
comments to: 202–395–7285.
Commenters may also mail them to:
Office of Management and Budget,
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, New Executive Office Building,
Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.
Summer King,
Statistician.
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Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Substance Abuse and
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information collection requests under
OMB review, in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
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documents, call the SAMHSA Reports
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Project: ‘‘Talk. They Hear You.’’
Campaign Evaluation: National
Survey—NEW
SAMHSA’s Center for Substance
Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is requesting
approval from the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for a new data
collection, ‘‘Talk. They Hear You.’’
Campaign Evaluation: National Survey.
This collection includes two
instruments:
1. Screener
2. Survey Tool
The national survey is part of a larger
effort to evaluate the impact of the
‘‘Talk. They Hear You.’’ campaign.
These evaluations will help determine
the extent to which the campaign has
been successful in educating parents
and caregivers nationwide about
effective methods for reducing underage
drinking (UAD). The campaign is
designed to educate and empower
parents and caregivers to talk with
children about alcohol. To prevent
initiation of underage drinking, the
campaign targets parents and caregivers
of children aged 9–15, with the specific
aims of:
1. Increasing parent or caregiver
awareness of and receptivity to
campaign messages (knowledge);
2. Increasing parent or caregiver
awareness of underage drinking
prevalence (knowledge);
3. Increasing parent or caregiver
disapproval of underage drinking
(attitudes);
4. Increasing parent or caregiver
knowledge, skills, and confidence in
how to talk to their children about, and
prevent, UAD (attitudes); and
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5. Increasing parent or caregiver
actions to prevent underage drinking by
talking to their children about UAD
(behaviors).
The national survey will target
parents in the base year in 2018, and
then annually in the 4 option years
following that, making this a repeat
cross-sectional research study. The
survey will be based on the survey
originally approved for use in the 2016
impact evaluation, which was designed
to quantify parent and caregiver
awareness of the campaign and
retention of campaign messages, and to
determine whether parents and
caregivers have used the campaign
materials in talking to their children.
SAMHSA will seek to conduct this
research nationwide through online
surveys. The survey will be accessible
via an access link that will be
disseminated to respondents via email.
Respondents will be recruited to
participate in this online survey from a
Qualtrics© panel (which hosts more
than 6 million active panelists), as was
done for the survey pilot conducted in
2016. Researchers will conduct a quotabased sampling approach to maximize
the representativeness of the sample and
will be oversampling the Hispanic
population. This will allow us to
achieve a representative sample of
parents of middle-school-aged children
in the United States across notable
socioeconomic and demographic
variables of interest to the study. This
approach will also allow us to
oversample minority populations, such
as Hispanics, as necessary in order to
achieve the diversity needed to yield a
comprehensive set of opinions,
experiences, and feedback of the ‘‘Talk.
They Hear You.’’ campaign materials
and products.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of information
collection requests under OMB review, in compliance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request a copy of these
documents, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.
Project: Survey of State Underage Drinking Prevention Policies and
Practices--(OMB No. 0930-0316)--Revision
The Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (the ``STOP
Act'') (Pub. L. 109-422, reauthorized in 2016 by Pub. L. 114-255)
states that the ``Secretary [of Health and Human Services] shall . . .
annually issue a report on each state's performance in enacting,
enforcing, and creating laws, regulations, and programs to prevent or
reduce underage drinking.'' The Secretary has delegated responsibility
for this report to SAMHSA. Therefore, SAMHSA has developed a Survey of
State Underage Drinking Prevention Policies and Practices (the ``State
Survey'') to provide input for the state-by-state report on prevention
and enforcement activities related to underage drinking component of
the Annual Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of
Underage Drinking (``Report to Congress'').
The STOP Act also requires the Secretary to develop ``a set of
measures to be used in preparing the report on best practices'' and to
consider categories including but not limited to the following:
Category #1: Sixteen specific underage drinking laws/regulations
enacted at the state level (e.g., laws prohibiting sales to minors;
laws related to minors in possession of alcohol). Note that ten
additional policies have been added to the Report to Congress pursuant
to Congressional appropriations language or the Secretary's authority
granted by the STOP Act;
Category #2: Enforcement and educational programs to promote
compliance with these laws/regulations;
Category #3: Programs targeted to youths, parents, and caregivers
to deter underage drinking and the number of individuals served by
these programs;
Category #4: The amount that each state invests, per youth capita,
on the prevention of underage drinking broken into five categories: (a)
Compliance check programs in retail outlets; (b) Checkpoints and
saturation patrols that include the goal of reducing and deterring
underage drinking; (c) Community-based, school-based, and higher-
education-based programs to prevent underage drinking; (d) Underage
drinking prevention programs that target youth within the juvenile
justice and child welfare systems; and (e) Any other state efforts or
programs that target underage drinking.
Congress' purpose in mandating the collection of data on state
policies and programs through the State Survey is to provide
policymakers and the public with otherwise unavailable but much needed
information regarding state underage drinking prevention policies and
programs. SAMHSA and other Federal agencies that have underage drinking
prevention as part of their mandate use the results of the State Survey
to inform federal programmatic priorities, as do other stakeholders,
including community organizations. The information gathered by the
State Survey has established a resource for state agencies and the
general public for assessing policies and programs in their own state
and for becoming familiar with the programs, policies, and funding
priorities of other states.
Because of the broad scope of data required by the STOP Act, SAMHSA
relies on existing data sources where possible to minimize the survey
burden on the states. SAMHSA uses data on state underage drinking
policies from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's
Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS), an authoritative compendium
of state
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alcohol-related laws. The APIS data is augmented by SAMHSA with
original legal research on state laws and policies addressing underage
drinking to include all of the STOP Act's requested laws and
regulations (Category #1 of the four categories included in the STOP
Act, as described above, page 2).
The STOP Act mandates that the State Survey assess ``best
practices'' and emphasize the importance of building collaborations
with federally recognized tribal governments (``tribal governments'').
It also emphasizes the importance at the federal level of promoting
interagency collaboration and to that end established the Interagency
Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD).
SAMHSA has determined that to fulfill the Congressional intent, it is
critical that the State Survey gather information from the states
regarding the best practices standards that they apply to their
underage drinking programs, collaborations between states and tribal
governments, and the development of state-level interagency
collaborations similar to ICCPUD.
SAMHSA has determined that data on Categories #2, #3, and #4
mandated in the STOP Act (as listed on page 2) (enforcement and
educational programs; programs targeting youth, parents, and
caregivers; and state expenditures) as well as states' best practices
standards, collaborations with tribal governments, and state-level
interagency collaborations are not available from secondary sources and
therefore must be collected from the states themselves. The State
Survey is therefore necessary to fulfill the Congressional mandate
found in the STOP Act. Furthermore, the uniform collection of these
data from the states over the last seven years has created a valuable
longitudinal dataset, and the State Survey's renewal is vital to
maintaining this resource.
The State Survey is a single document that is divided into four
sections, as follows:
(1) Enforcement programs to promote compliance with underage
drinking laws and regulations (as described in Category #2 above, page
2);
(2) Programs and media campaigns targeted to youth, parents, and
caregivers to deter underage drinking (as described in Category #3
above, page 2);
(3) State interagency collaboration to implement prevention
programs and media campaigns, state best-practice standards, and
collaborations with tribal governments (as described above, page 4);
(4) The amount that each state invests on the prevention of
underage drinking in the categories specified in the STOP Act (see
description of Category #4, above, page 2) and descriptions of any
dedicated fees, taxes, or fines used to raise these funds.
The number of questions in each section is as follows:
Section 1: 38 questions
Section 2A: 15 questions
Section 2B: 12 questions
Section 2C: 10 questions
Section 2D: 10 questions
Total: 85 questions
Note that the number of questions in Section 2A is an estimate.
This section asks states to identify up to 10 programs that are
specific to underage drinking prevention. For each program identified
there are three follow-up questions. Based on the average number of
programs per state reported in the Survey's seven year history, it is
anticipated that states will report an average of five programs for a
total of 15 questions.
It is anticipated that most respondents will actually respond to
only a subset of this total. The Survey is designed with ``skip
logic,'' which means that many questions will only be directed to a
subset of respondents who report the existence of particular programs
or activities.
This latest version of the Survey has been revised as follows:
1. Part 2, Section A: Programs
a. A question about underage drinking prevention programs has been
eliminated. Previously, states were asked to define each program by
whether it was aimed at the ``general population'' or a ``specific
countable population (e.g., at-risk high school students).'' This
question was not misinterpreted by some respondents, leading to
inconsistent data. It was not uncommon for states to provide specific
population numbers for a program they had previously defined as being
aimed at the general population. For this reason, it is being
eliminated.
b. Questions about the specific number of different populations
(youth, parents, and caregivers) served by each prevention program have
been reformatted as follows:
i. Definitions of each population category have been deleted from
the introduction to Part 2, Section A and have been incorporated into
the subsequent questions about each program, making it easier for
respondents to answer these questions without referring back to the
introduction.
ii. For the sake of efficiency, three separate questions about type
of population served by each program have been collapsed into one
question.
c. References to ``media campaigns'' have been added to the
introduction of this section to encourage respondents to include these
among the prevention programs listed in their responses. As noted in
the following description to changes in Part 2, Section B, the survey
is being amended to evaluate awareness of, and participation in the
national media campaign mandated by the STOP Act.
2. Part 2. Section B: Collaborations and Best Practices
a. New questions about the national media campaign to reduce
underage drinking aimed at adults (as mandated by the STOP Act) have
been added. The questions are intended to:
i. Evaluate awareness of and participation in the national media
campaign, ``Talk. They Hear You.'' (TTHY), including questions about
the commitment of state resources and funding to this effort. The STOP
Act requires evaluation of the national media campaign, which is
largely conducted by other survey instruments. However, adding a
question on the campaign here is an efficient way to gather state-level
data for the analysis.
ii. Determine whether the states participate in other media
campaigns intended to reduce underage drinking.
iii. Expand the scope of the Survey to include social marketing or
counter-advertising efforts in the effort to reduce underage drinking.
Currently, the Survey includes a question about whether states have
programs to measure or reduce youth exposure to alcohol advertising and
marketing. This question will remain, but the new questions will
capture proactive efforts to counter this advertising and marketing.
No additional time burden should be placed on the respondents, as
the added questions are balanced by the deletion of others, with a
small net reduction in the total number of questions. All questions
continue to ask only for readily available data.
To ensure that the State Survey obtains the necessary data while
minimizing the burden on the states, SAMHSA has conducted a lengthy and
comprehensive planning process. It sought advice from key stakeholders
(as mandated by the STOP Act) including hosting multiple stakeholders
meetings, conducting two field tests with state officials likely to be
responsible for completing the State Survey, and investigating and
testing various State Survey formats, online delivery systems, and data
collection methodologies.
Based on these investigations, SAMHSA collects the required data
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using an online survey data collection platform (SurveyMonkey). Links
to the four sections of the survey are distributed to states via email.
The State Survey is sent to each state governor's office and the Office
of the Mayor of the District of Columbia. Based on the experience from
the last seven years of administering the State Survey, it is
anticipated that the state governors will designate staff from state
agencies that have access to the requested data (typically state
Alcohol Beverage Control [ABC] agencies and state Substance Abuse
Program agencies). SAMHSA provides both telephone and electronic
technical support to state agency staff and emphasizes that the states
are only expected to provide data that is readily available and are not
required to provide data that has not already been collected. The
burden estimate below takes into account these assumptions.
The estimated annual response burden to collect this information is
as follows:
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Number of Responses/ Burden/ Annual burden
Instrument respondents respondent response (hrs) (hrs)
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State Questionnaire......................... 51 1 17.7 902.7
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by July 16, 2018 to the SAMHSA
Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). To ensure timely receipt of
comments, and to avoid potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing
of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commenters are encouraged
to submit their comments to OMB via email to:
[email protected]. Although commenters are encouraged to send
their comments via email, commenters may also fax their comments to:
202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: Office of Management
and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive
Office Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.
Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2018-12865 Filed 6-14-18; 8:45 am]
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