[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 93 (Monday, May 17, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26703-26704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10330]


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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Application Package for AmeriCorps Program Life Cycle 
Evaluation--Opioid Recovery Coach Model Bundled Evaluation

AGENCY: The Corporation for National and Community Service.

ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Corporation for National and Community Service, operating as 
AmeriCorps, is proposing a new information collection.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the individual and office 
listed in the ADDRESSES section by July 16, 2021.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by the title of the 
information collection activity, by any of the following methods:
    (1) By mail sent to: AmeriCorps, Attention Lily Zandniapour, 250 E 
Street SW, Washington, DC 20525.
    (2) By hand delivery or by courier to the AmeriCorps mailroom at 
the mail address given in paragraph (1) above, between 9:00 a.m. and 
4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.
    (3) Electronically through www.regulations.gov.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available 
to the public through regulations.gov. For this reason, please do not 
include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as 
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you send 
an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and 
included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and 
made available on the internet. Please note that responses to this 
public comment request containing any routine notice about the 
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comment 
that may be made available to the public, notwithstanding the inclusion 
of the routine notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Xiaodong Zhang, 703-251-0883, or by 
email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title of Collection: AmeriCorps Program Life Cycle Evaluation--
Opioid Recovery Coach Model Bundled Evaluation.
    OMB Control Number: TBD. Type of Review: New.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Grantees, beneficiaries, and peer 
recovery coaches.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 434 respondents.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 188 hours.
    Abstract: The purpose of this evaluation is to study questions 
regarding grantees' use of the peer recovery coach model and better 
determine how effective the model is at increasing individuals' 
recovery capital, increasing attendance of health services, and 
decreasing incidence of substance use as well as on the peer recovery 
coaches and grantee organizations. The research questions for this 
evaluation are:
    1. Determine what recovery coach models look like (activity, 
setting, modality, etc.).
    2. Describe promising practices and challenges in implementing 
these models.
    3. Measure the effectiveness of the recovery coach model in 
improving outcomes for grantee organizations, recovery coaches, and 
beneficiaries.
    AmeriCorps will conduct a bundled evaluation of grantees that are 
implementing opioid recovery coaching models. Bundling allows 
AmeriCorps to combine a group of small programs across different 
funding streams with similar program models and intended outcomes into 
a single evaluation. Spanning 27 months, the evaluation will work with 
14 grantees to examine program design, implementation, and outcomes 
using surveys, interviews, and focus groups with a wide range of 
stakeholders, including grantee staff, volunteers who support the peer 
recovery coach model, beneficiaries, and staff at organizations which 
partner with grantees. This is a new information collection.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for OMB approval. Comments are invited 
on: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the 
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether 
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents, including through the use of automated 
collection techniques or

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other forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or 
start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of 
services to provide information. Burden means the total time, effort, 
or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, 
retain, disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. 
This includes the time needed to review instructions; to develop, 
acquire, install and utilize technology and systems for the purpose of 
collecting, validating and verifying information, processing and 
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to 
train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of 
information, to search data sources, to complete and review the 
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the 
information. All written comments will be available for public 
inspection on regulations.gov.

    Dated: May 12, 2021.
Lily Zandniapour,
Research and Evaluation Manager.
[FR Doc. 2021-10330 Filed 5-14-21; 8:45 am]
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