[Federal Register: March 30, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 61)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on proposed
collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration will publish periodic summaries of proposed
projects. To request more information on the proposed projects or to
obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call the SAMHSA
Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-7978.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of
information are 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
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) 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.
Proposed Project
Protocols for the Cross-Site Evaluation of the State Incentive
Grant (SIG) Program (OMB No. 0930-0226, Revision)--SAMHSA's Center for
Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is charged with evaluating the State
Incentive Cooperative Agreements for Community-Based Action, or State
Incentive Grant (SIG) Program. States receiving SIG funds are to: (1)
Coordinate, leverage and/or redirect, as appropriate, all substance
abuse prevention resources within the State that are directed at
communities, families, schools, and workplaces, and (2) develop a
revitalized, comprehensive State-wide prevention strategy aimed at
reducing drug use by youth. The ultimate aim of the SIG Program is to
prevent substance abuse among youths, ages 12 to 17, and also young
adults, age 18-25. To date, the 41 States, along with the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, that have received SIG
grants are required to implement at the community level a range of
substance abuse, community-based prevention programs and strategies, at
least half of which meet the specifications of sound scientific
research findings, such as the National Registry of Effective Programs.
CSAP awarded about $3 million per year for three years to each of five
States in FY 1997 (Cohort I), fourteen States in FY 1998 (Cohort II),
one State and the District of Columbia in FY 1999 (Cohort III), seven
states in FY 2000 (Cohort IV), eight states and Puerto Rico in FY 2001
(Cohort V), four states in FY 2002 (Cohort VI) and two states and the
Virgin Islands in FY 2003 (Cohort VII).
CSAP is conducting a national, cross-site evaluation of the SIG
Program, consisting of a process and an outcome evaluation. The outcome
evaluation will address two questions: (1) ``Has the SIG Program had an
impact on youth substance abuse?'' and (2) ``How do SIG States differ
in their impact on youth substance abuse?'' These questions will be
addressed primarily using the CSAP core measures, a data collection
activity already approved by the Office or Management and Budget (OMB)
under control number 0930-0230. In addition to the core measures, data
already being collected by SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and
Health (NSDUH; OMB No. 0930-0110) will be examined.
The process evaluation will focus on three questions: (1) ``Did
States attain the SIG Program's two main goals of coordinated funding
streams and revitalized comprehensive prevention strategies and how
were these goals attained?'' (2) ``What other substance abuse
prevention programming has the State implemented?'' and (3) ``Did SIGs
meet the criterion of supporting science-based programs fifty percent
of the time, and what array of prevention activities were supported?''
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Three instruments are needed to collect process information about
SIG activities at the State, community, and program levels: (1) A Final
Report Protocol; (2) a SIG Community Site Visit Protocol; and (3) a SIG
Community Telephone Interview Protocol. The Final Report Protocol will
be used to collect data across the spectrum of activities associated
with the SIG effort in the State. The areas captured by the Final
Report Protocol are outlined in the Conceptual Framework utilized by
the SIG States and cross-site evaluation team, and include the
following topics: GOAMS (goals, objectives, accomplishments, and
milestones), contextual conditions, SIG mobilization, system
characteristics and dynamics, collaborative strategies or activities,
immediate outcomes, systems change, sub-recipient characteristics and
dynamics, sub-recipient planning and science-based prevention
interventions, sub-recipient immediate local outcomes, long-term
outcomes, possible rival explanations, and learned lessons.
The community site visits will be conducted in randomly selected
sample of sub-recipient communities in Cohorts I-III that have
submitted pre-post matched outcome data that includes comparison data.
The SIG Community Site Visit Protocol will collect data at the sub-
recipient and program levels on the following topics: degree of
monitoring by the State, selection processes of interventions,
evaluation strategies, technical assistance provided by the State,
level of guidance by the State in program selection, and evaluation.
The sampling frame for the telephone interviews will include all
active sub-recipients in Cohorts I-V that are collecting outcome data
at the intervention level. Sub-recipient communities selected for site
visits will be excluded from the sampling frame. The SIG Community
Telephone Interview Protocol will collect data on the processes for
selection and implementation of interventions and the approach to
evaluation of these interventions.
OMB approval has been received for the process evaluation in the
first four cohorts (N=28 states) and for states to submit previously
collected outcome data for secondary analysis. This request will add
the more recently funded SIG jurisdictions (Cohorts V-VII) to the
process evaluation (N=16 states) and address the burden on states
(Cohorts VI-VII) to submit previously collected outcome data (N=23
states). Included in this request are revised burden estimates based on
actual experience, and a request for an extension of the period of OMB
approval for the SIG cross-site evaluation by three years.
Estimated annual burden is as follows:
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Number of Responses per Hours per Annual burden
Instrument respondents respondent response hours
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SIG Final Report Protocol:
Evaluators.................................. 16 1 200 3,200
Project Directors........................... 16 1 40 640
Key Informants.............................. 32 1 4 128
SIG Community Site Visits in 8 States:
State contacts.............................. 8 1 1 8
Subrecipient contacts....................... 10 1 1 10
Site visit interviews (10 per site)......... 80 1 1 80
SIG Community Telephone Interviews:
Telephone Interviews........................ 81 1 2 162
Community outcome data (23 States).............. 23 2 8 368
TOTAL....................................... .............. .............. .............. 4,596
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Send comments to Nancy Pearce, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: March 23, 2004.
Anna Marsh,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 04-6984 Filed 3-29-04; 8:45 am]
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