[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 25, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8559-8562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-4012]


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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: 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:
    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 SPF SIG cohorts receiving 
grants in FY 2004 and FY 2005. This 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 20 Cohort 4 grantees. Since 
the ultimate goal is to fund all eligible jurisdictions, there are no 
control groups at the grantee level. The primary evaluation objective 
is to determine the impact of SPF SIG on the SAMHSA National Outcomes 
Measures (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 and are the main 
focus of this announcement.

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 No. 09300279). 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-response questions. The Strategic Prevention 
Framework Implementation Interview Protocol will be used to assess the 
relationship between SPF

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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 systems, 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
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                                                                                           Burden per                       Number of
             Survey type                 Content description           Respondent          respondent       Number of     responses per    Total burden
                                                                                             (hrs.)        respondents     respondent         (hrs.)
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                                                             Grantee-Level Instrument (GLI)
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Grantee SPF implementation...........  SEW activities; SPF      Grantee................            3.5               36               2            252
                                        activities, including
                                        cultural competence
                                        through all 5 steps.
Grantee Infrastructure...............  Grantee progress over    Grantee................            1.25              36               2             90
                                        time toward
                                        implementation of
                                        these best practices.
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    Total burden.....................  .......................  .......................  ..............  ..............  ..............            342
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        Average annual burden over 4   .......................  .......................  ..............  ..............  ..............             85.5
         Years.
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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 No. 
09300279). 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 individual-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 540 
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 and the responses will be used to 
pre-fill 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 need to 
address monitoring and evaluation items until later in the 
implementation process.

                                                       Community Level Instrument Burden Estimate
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                                                                                           Burden per                       Number of
             Survey type                 Content description           Respondent          respondent       Number of     responses per    Total burden
                                                                                             (hrs.)        respondents     respondent         (hrs.)
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                                                            Community-Level Instrument (CLI)
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                                                                   Reporting Period 1
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Part I, 1-20.........................  Community Contact        Grantee................            1.5               36               1             54
                                        Information.
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Part I, 21-172.......................  Community SPF            Community..............            3.0              540               1          1,620
                                        Activities.
Part II, 1-33........................  Prevention Intervention  Community..............             .67             540               3          1,085.4
                                        Information.
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Part II, 34-138......................  Intervention Type-       Community..............             .33             540               3            534.6
                                        Specific Information.
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    Total burden and cost Period 1...  .......................  Grantee................  ..............  ..............  ..............             54
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                                       .......................  Community..............  ..............  ..............  ..............          3,240
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                                                    CLI Part I Reporting Period 2-4 (Annual Updates)
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Part I, 1-20.........................  Community Contact        Grantee................             .25              36               3             27
                                        Information.
Part I, 21-172.......................  Community SPF            Community..............             .75             540               3          1,215
                                        Activities.
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                                                         Community-Level Instrument (CLI) Burden
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                                                  CLI Part II Reporting Periods 2-8 (Bi-Annual Updates)
Part II, 1-33........................  Prevention Intervention  Community..............             .33             540              21          3,742.2
                                        Information.
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Part II, 34-138......................  Intervention Type-       Community..............             .17             540              21          1,927.8
                                        Specific Information.
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    Total burden and cost: Period 2-8  .......................  Grantee................  ..............  ..............  ..............             27
                                       .......................  Community..............  ..............  ..............  ..............          6,885
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    Total burden and cost over 8       .......................  Grantee................  ..............  ..............  ..............             81
     reporting periods.
                                       .......................  Community..............  ..............  ..............  ..............         10,125
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    Average annual burden and cost     .......................  Grantee................  ..............  ..............  ..............             20.3
     over 4 years.
                                       .......................  Community..............  ..............  ..............  ..............          2,531.3
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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 the other 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 No. 09300230). Local 
evaluators will have the option of selecting one or more additional 
survey items from a standard menu of validated questions not included 
in the NOMs Instruments, based on site-specific targeted program 
outcomes. These optional questions will be added to the NOMs 
Instruments to create site-specific instruments. No site-specific 
instrument created in this fashion will exceed an average completion 
time of 50 minutes.
    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 of the 540 community subrecipients will serve 50 
participants per year in direct-service interventions lasting 30 days 
or more, amounting to 27,000 participants per year.

                                                      Participant Level Instrument Burden Estimate
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                                                                                            Burden per                       Number of
             Survey type                  Content description           Respondent          respondent       Number of     responses per   Total burden
                                                                                              (hrs.)        respondents     respondent        (hrs.)
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                                                           Participant-Level Instrument (PLI)
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Baseline.............................  ........................  Participant............             .83          27,000               4          89,640
Intervention completion..............  ........................  Participant............             .83          22,500               4          74,700
Follow-up............................  ........................  Participant............             .83          18,900               4          62,748
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    Total............................  ........................  .......................            2.5           68,400  ..............  ..............
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        Total burden over 4 Years....  ........................  .......................  ..............  ..............  ..............         227,088
        Average annual burden over 4   ........................  .......................  ..............  ..............  ..............          56,772
         Years.
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Overall SPF-SIG Data Collection

    Across the three instruments, it is estimated that the average 
number of annual respondents will be 36 grantee-level directors, 540 
community-level directors, and 68,400 intervention-level participants. 
The average annual hour burden will be 685.2 hours for the 36 grantee-
level directors (19 hours per grantee director); 2,531.3 hours for the 
540 community-level directors (4.69 hours per community director); and 
56,772 hours for 68,400 intervention-level participants (0.83 hours per 
intervention participant).

                                      All Three Instrument Burden Estimate
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                                                                   Burden per
             Survey type                      Respondent           respondent       Number of      Total burden
                                                                     (hrs.)        respondents        (hrs.)
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GLI..................................  Grantee.................           19.00              36            685.2
CLI..................................  Community...............            4.69             540           2531.3
PLI..................................  Participant.............             .83          68,400         56,772
Average Annual burden................  ........................  ..............          68,976         59,988.5
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    Total burden over 4 Years........  ........................  ..............         275,904        239,954
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by March 27, 2009 to: SAMHSA Desk 
Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management and 
Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503; due to potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing of mail 
sent through the U.S. Postal Service, respondents are encouraged to 
submit comments by fax to: 202-395-6974.

    Dated: February 19, 2009.
Elaine Parry,
Acting Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. E9-4012 Filed 2-24-09; 8:45 am]
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