[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 230 (Monday, December 1, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71131-71132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-28273]


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OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY


Paperwork Reduction Act; Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of National Drug Control Policy.

ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for comments. Revision of Currently 
Approved Collection: Drug-Free Communities Support Program National 
Evaluation.

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SUMMARY: The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) intends to 
submit the following information collection request to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review and approval under the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

DATES: ONDCP encourages and will accept public comments on or before 60 
days after the date of this publication.

ADDRESS: Address all comments in writing within 60 days to Helen 
Hernandez. Facsimile and email are the most reliable means of 
communication. Ms. Hernandez's facsimile number is (202) 395-6641, and 
her email address is [email protected]. Mailing address is: 
Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control 
Policy, Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program, 750 17th Street 
NW., Washington, DC 20503. For further information, contact Ms. 
Hernandez at 202-395-6665.
    Abstract: ONDCP administers the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support 
Program in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse 
Prevention (CSAP). The DFC Program has two primary goals: To reduce 
youth substance abuse, and to support community anti-drug coalitions by 
establishing, strengthening, and fostering collaboration among public 
and private agencies.
    Under reauthorization legislation (21 U.S.C. 1702), Congress 
mandated evaluation of the DFC Program to determine its effectiveness 
in meeting objectives. In 2009, a contract was awarded to evaluate the 
DFC Program which used an existing web-based performance system, called 
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Coalition Online Management and Evaluation Tool (COMET) and the 
Coalition Classification Tool (CCT), to gather information from DFC 
grantees. The COMET data collection system will be used for FY 2014 DFC 
grantees and SAMHSA CSAP's Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking 
Reauthorization Act (``STOP Act'') grantees. (STOP Act data collection 
is authorized and required by 42 U.S.C. 290bb-35b and Section 519B of 
the Public Health Service Act).
    ONDCP will be awarding a contract for a DFC grant oversight system 
at the end of 2014, following a competitive request for proposals 
process. Currently, DFC grantees interact with multiple separate 
systems. ONDCP plans to have a newly improved grant oversight system 
with a data collection platform, which will replace the current COMET 
system. The development and implementation of the DFC grant system will 
strengthen ONDCP's continued oversight of the DFC program. The data 
collected will have minimal substantive changes compared to what is 
currently collected and the system for data collection is intended to 
be more user friendly to reduce the burden on grantees. For FY 2015 and 
2016 grantees, ONDCP/DFC expects a similar data collection system to be 
fully functional for DFC data collection and STOP Act data collection.
    ONDCP's Drug Free Communities office will continue to utilize the 
case study protocols previously approved by OMB to document coalition 
practices, successes and challenges. Approximately nine DFC grantees 
are selected each year to highlight in the case studies. The 
information from the case studies will be used to illustrate not only 
what works to reduce drug use in a community setting, but also how and 
why it works.
    Type of Information Collection: Web-based data collection, surveys 
and interviews of DFC and Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking 
(STOP) Act grantees.
    Title: Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program National 
Evaluation.
    Frequency: Semi-annually by DFC and STOP Act Program Directors via 
COMET, and annually for DFC Program Directors and selected coalition 
members via the CCT. Case study interviews and electronic surveys of 
Program Directors and electronic surveys of selected coalition members 
will be accomplished one time. ONDCP plans to award a contract for the 
new data collection system at the end of 2014. For FY 2015 and 2016 
grantees, ONDCP/DFC expects a similar data collection system to be 
fully functional for DFC data collection and STOP Act data collection.
    Affected Public: DFC and STOP Act grantees.
    Estimated Burden: ONDCP expects that the time required to complete 
each semi-annual report via COMET will be approximately five hours, and 
each CCT report will take approximately one hour to complete. Face to 
face interviews will take 1.5-2 hours and surveys will take 
approximately .25 hours each to complete. The estimated total amount of 
time required by all respondents over one year, including Program 
Directors and grantees to complete COMET, CCT, surveys, and interviews, 
is 9,680 hours. ONDCP estimates that DFC grantees will spend 
approximately the same amount or less when using the new DFC data 
collection system.
    Goals: ONDCP intends to use the data of the DFC National Evaluation 
to assess the DFC Program's effectiveness in preventing and reducing 
youth substance use. Two primary objectives of the evaluation are to: 
(1) Regularly monitor, measure and analyze data in order to report on 
the progress of the DFC program and its grantees on program goals, and 
(2) providing technical assistance support to DFC grantees in 
effectively collecting and submitting data and in understanding the 
role of data in driving local coalition efforts.
    Comment Request: ONDCP especially invites comments on: Whether the 
proposed data are proper for the functions of the agency; whether the 
information will have practical utility; the accuracy of ONDCP's 
estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, 
including the validity of the methodology and assumptions; ways to 
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and, ways to ease the burden on proposed respondents, 
including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of 
information technology. Comments will be accepted for sixty days.

    Dated: November 25, 2014.
Daniel S. Rader,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2014-28273 Filed 11-28-14; 8:45 am]
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