[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 34 (Wednesday, February 21, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7893-7894]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-2881]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Proposed Collection Comment Request; Monitoring and Evaluation of 
the NIDA Goes Back to School National Dissemination Campaign; Revision

    Summary: In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on 
proposed collection of information, the National Institute on Drug 
Abuse (NIDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will publish 
periodic summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. We are 
publishing a revised version of the notice that we published in the 
Federal Register on January 30, 2006 (72 FR 4273-4274) to reflect a 
correction in the data presented in Table A. In the previous notice, we 
inadvertently calculated the burden totals on the basis of 400 subjects 
for a single year. We should have calculated the burden totals on the 
basis of 400 subjects per each of three study years. Today's notice 
corrects that error.

Proposed Collection

    Title: Monitoring and Evaluation of the NIDA Goes Back to School 
National Dissemination Campaign.
    Type of Information Collection Request: New.
    Need and Use of Information Collection: This is a request for a 
one-time clearance to collect information on the use of the NIDA Goes 
Back to School (NGBTS) dissemination materials that can be requested by 
interested persons from the NIDA Internet site. The

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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) launched an initiative to 
increase awareness of the Institute and its mission to bring the power 
of science to bear on the treatment and prevention of drug abuse and 
addiction. NIDA has been developing science education materials for 
grades K-12 for use by students, teachers, parents, school counselors, 
school health educators, school resources officers, community 
organizers, and state and local government agencies. The number of 
requestors has been an average of 7,500 per year. These large numbers 
indicate that the dissemination reach is considerable. The pattern of 
requests also indicates that the number of requests increases 
dramatically in the early weeks after a dissemination activity is 
launched. The purpose of this information collection is to determine 
the level of use by school personnel and community leaders who request 
the NGBTS materials, and if there is a difference in use level between 
those requestors responding to a campaign activity and those requestors 
who were not reached by campaign activities. The information will 
identify barriers to the use of the materials among these occupational 
groups and the populations they serve. It will help make the materials 
more productive in raising the awareness of the harms from substance 
abuse among children, youth, and parents. It will be used to refine the 
focus of the dissemination activities, so that dissemination resources 
are used more productively. The information will be collected from 
requestors who have requested NIDA NGBTS materials using the requestor 
forms from the NIDA site, from October 2003 to September 2005. All 
information collection in the evaluation will be conducted on-line. The 
estimated total time for a survey is 5 minutes. Prior to the monitoring 
and evaluation study, the information collection instruments will be 
pilot-tested via telephone interview format, with a sample of 8 
individuals who have requested these materials during the chosen study 
years. The surveys will include the following elements: (1) Use of the 
NGBTS materials, (2) Opinion of the NGBTS materials, (3) Respondent 
information on gender, present occupation and its duration, (4) 
Background information on the school or Organization/Community.
    Frequency of Response: This project will be conducted once.
    Affected Public: School personnel, and Community Leaders who have 
requested the NGBTS materials.
    Type of Respondent: School personnel, and Community Leaders who 
have requested the NGBTS materials from the NIDA site.
    Estimated Total Annual Number of Respondents: 400.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Average Burden Hours per Response: .08.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours Requested: 96.0. There are no 
Capital Costs to report. There are no Operating or Maintenance Costs to 
report. The estimated annualized burden is summarized below.

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                                                                                                     Estimated
                                                     Number of     Frequency of       Average      total burden
               Type of respondents                  respondents      response      burden hours        hours
                                                                                   per response      requested
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Requestors--School Personnel....................             600               1            0.08              48
Requestors--Community Leaders...................             600               1            0.08              48
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    Total.......................................            1200  ..............  ..............              96
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    Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the 
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information shall have practical utility; (2) the 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) 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.
    For Further Information Contact: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection 
plans, contact Brian Marquis, Project Officer, National Institute on 
Drug Abuse, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 5216, Bethesda, MD 20892, or 
call non-toll-free number 301-443-1124; fax 301-443-7397; or by e-mail 
to [email protected].
    Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection 
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 60 days 
of the date of this publication.

    Dated: February 9, 2007.
Donna Jones,
Budget Officer & Acting Associate Director for Management, National 
Institute on Drug Abuse.
 [FR Doc. E7-2881 Filed 2-20-07; 8:45 am]
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