[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 142 (Monday, July 25, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44340-44341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-18759]



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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: The Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative National 

Evaluation (OMB No. 0930-0297)--Revision



    SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) will conduct a 

study to evaluate the relationships between different grantee 

characteristics and implementation strategies to outcomes at the 

project, school, and student level. Data collected by this study will 

facilitate an examination of contextual



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factors and inform those who hope to improve the effectiveness of 

partnerships and implementation efforts under the grant and lead to 

improved outcomes for communities, schools, and students. The three 

agencies sponsoring the SS/HS Initiative (the U.S. Department of Health 

and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. 

Department of Justice) may also choose to incorporate aggregate results 

from collected data in journal articles, scholarly presentations, and 

congressional testimony referring to the outcomes of the SS/HS grant 

program.

    Data collection activities involve the administration of four 

separate surveys (a Baseline Assessment Survey, a Project-Level Survey, 

a School-Level Survey, and a Staff School Climate Survey) and a Site 

Visit Protocol for individuals involved with the SS/HS Initiative at 

the local grantee level. Respondents will submit their responses for 

all surveys via Qualtrics, a third-party, online Web-based survey 

platform, except for the Site Visit Protocol, which will be 

administered on site with grantees.

    The estimated burden for data collection is 5,732 hours across a 

total of 28,125 participants. Using median hourly wage estimates 

reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2009 National 

Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, and a loading rate of 25%, 

the estimated total cost to respondents is $207,343. A breakdown of 

these estimates is presented in Table 1 below.



                      Table 1--Elements of Annualized Hour-Cost Burden of Data Collection *

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                                                    Anticipated

             Instrument description                  number of     Responses per   Average hours   Total annual

                                                    respondents     respondent     per response     hour burden

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Site Visit Protocol.............................             100               1           9                 900

Baseline Assessment Survey......................              25               1            .67               17

Partnership Inventory...........................             400               1           0.25              100

Project-Level Survey............................             100               1           0.42               42

School-Level Survey.............................           2,300               1           0.45            1,725

Staff School Climate Survey.....................          25,200               1           0.117           2,948

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    Total.......................................          28,125  ..............  ..............           5,732

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* Number of respondents based on an estimated annual average of 100 grantees. Baseline Assessment Survey

  administered only to grantees in the 2011-2013 cohorts. School-Level Survey estimates based on an average of

  23 schools per grant. Staff School Climate Survey estimates based on 252 respondents per grantee. Average

  hours per response based on previous evaluation and pilot tests.



    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 

information collection should be sent by August 24, 2011 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: 202-395-7285.



     Dated: July 18, 2011.

Elaine Parry,

Director, Office of Management, Technology and Operations.

[FR Doc. 2011-18759 Filed 7-22-11; 8:45 am]

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