[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 83 (Friday, April 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24973-24974]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10543]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Request for Public Comment: 30 Day; Proposed Collection: 
Evaluation of the Indian Health Service/Bureau of Indian Affairs 
Training Practitioners Project

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed 
information collection projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) has 
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to 
review and approve the information collection listed below. This 
proposed information collection project was published in the January 
14, 1999, Federal Register (65 FR 2417) and allowed 60 days for public 
comment. No public comment was received in response to the notice. The 
purpose of this notice is to allow 30 days for public comment to be 
submitted to OMB.

Proposed Collection

    Title: 09-17-0000, ``Evaluation of the Indian Health Service/Bureau 
of Indian Affairs Training Practitioners Project''.
    Type of Information Collection Request: New collection. Form 
Number: None. Need and Use of Information Collection: The purpose of 
the proposed data collection is to evaluate and assess the overall 
effectiveness of the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Bureau of Indian 
Affairs (BIA) inter-agency sponsored national training project titled, 
``IHS/BIA Training Practitioners in the Assessment and Treatment of 
Adolescent Sexual Perpetrators,'' conducted from 1993-1996 in 18 
American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. The training project 
was established to provide mental health practitioners in AI/AN 
communities specialized training for the provision of mental health 
assessment and treatment services to juvenile sex offenders. The data 
collected is needed to assess respondent satisfaction/dissatisfaction 
with the training project, the clinical success/failure of the training 
on the juvenile sex offenders, the impact of using traditional healing 
treatment services with juvenile sex offenders, and to obtain 
recommendations for future clinical program planning. Affected Public: 
Individuals and households, State, Local or Tribal Government. Type of 
Respondents: Health care providers, juveniles, parent/caretakers, and 
various community members. Please see Table 1 for a listing of data 
collection instruments, estimated number of respondents, number of 
responses per respondent, annual number of responses, average burden 
hour per response, and total annual burden hour.

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                                                     Table 1
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                                                                                Average  burden
 Data collection instruments   Estimated No.   Responses per  Annual  number       hour  per       Total annual
                              of respondents    respondent     of  responses       response*       burden hours
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Practitioner Trainee                     159               1             159  0.50 (30 mins)                79.5
 Questionnaire.
Practitioner Trainee                      16               4              64  0.17 (10 mins)                10.9
 Assessment.
Practitioner Trainee                       8               1               8  1.00 (60 mins)                 8.0
 Interview.
Juvenile/Adult..............              61               1              61  0.50 (30 mins)                30.5
J/A Re-Offense..............              61               1              61  0.17 (10 mins)                10.4
Parent/Caretaker............             122               1             122  0.50 (30 mins)                61.0
Community Key Informant                   24               1              24  1.50 (90 mins)                36.0
 Questionnaire.
Community Key Informant                   24               1              24  1.0 (60 mins)                 24.0
 Interview.
Medical (Treatment and                    61               1              61  0.75 (45 mins)                45.7
 Health Review).
Agency Record Review........              61               1              61  1.00 (60 mins)                61.0
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      Total.................             597                                                              367.0
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*For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.

    There are no Capital Costs, Operating Costs and/or Maintenance 
Costs to report.
    Request for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are 
invited on one or more of the following points: (a) whether the 
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency 
function; (b) whether the IHS processes the information collected in a 
useful and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of the public burden 
estimate (the estimated amount of time needed for individual 
respondents to provide the requested information); (d) whether the 
methodology and assumptions used to determine the estimate are logical; 
(e) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information being collected; and (f) ways to minimize the public burden 
through the use of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Direct Comments to OMB: Send your written comments and suggestions 
regarding the proposed information collection contained in this notice, 
especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated 
response time, to: Office of Management and Budget, Office of 
Regulatory Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for IHS.
    To request more information on the proposed collection or to obtain 
a copy of the data collection instrument(s) and/or instruction(s), 
contact: Mr. Lance Hodahkwen, Sr., M.P.H., IHS Reports Clearance 
Officer, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852.1601, 
or call non-toll free (301) 443-5938 or send via facsimile to (301) 
443-2316, or send your E-mail requests, comments, and return address 
to: [email protected].
    Comment Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection 
are best assured of having their full effect if received on or before 
May 30, 2000.

    Dated: April 11, 2000.
Michael H. Trujillo,
Assistant Surgeon General, Director.
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