[Federal Register: January 30, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 19)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
The National Institutes of Health
Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Monitoring and Evaluation
of the NIDA Goes Back to School National Dissemination Campaign
Summary: In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on
proposed collection of information, the National Institute on Drug
Abuse (NIDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will publish
periodic summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval.
Proposed Collection: Title: Monitoring and Evaluation of the NIDA
Goes Back to School National Dissemination Campaign. Type of
Information Collection Request: New. Need and Use of Information
Collection: This is a request for a one-time clearance to collect
information on the use of the NIDA Goes Back to School (NGBTS)
dissemination materials that can be requested by interested persons
from the NIDA Internet site. The National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA) launched an initiative to increase awareness of the Institute
and its mission to bring the power of science to bear on the treatment
and prevention of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA has been developing
science education materials for grades K-12 for use by students,
teachers, parents, school counselors, school health educators, school
resources officers, community organizers, and state and local
government agencies. The number of requestors has been an average of
7,500 per year. These large numbers indicate that the dissemination
reach is considerable. The pattern of requests also indicates that the
number of requests increases dramatically in the early weeks after a
dissemination activity is launched. The purpose of this information
collection is to determine the level of use by school personnel and
community leaders who request the NGBTS materials, and if there is a
difference in use level between those requestors responding to a
campaign activity and those requestors who were not reached by campaign
activities. The information will identify barriers to the use of the
materials among these occupational groups and the populations they
serve. It will help make the materials more productive in raising the
awareness of the harms from substance abuse among children, youth, and
parents. It will be used to refine the focus of the dissemination
activities, so that dissemination resources are used more productively.
The information will be collected from requestors who have requested
NIDA NGBTS materials using the requestor forms from the NIDA site, from
October 2003 to September 2005. All information collection in the
evaluation will be conducted on-line. The estimated total time for a
survey is 5 minutes. Prior to the monitoring and evaluation study, the
information collection instruments will be pilot-tested via telephone
interview format, with a sample of 8 individuals who have requested
these materials during the chosen study years. The surveys will include
the following elements: (1) Use of the NGBTS materials, (2) Opinion of
the NGBTS materials, (3) Respondent information on gender, present
occupation and its duration, (4) Background information on the school
or Organization/Community. Frequency of Response: This project will be
conducted once. Affected Public: School personnel, and Community
Leaders who have requested the NGBTS materials. Type of Respondent:
School personnel, and Community Leaders who have requested the NGBTS
materials from the NIDA site. Estimated Total Annual Number of
Respondents: 400. Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
Average Burden Hours per Response: .08. Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours Requested: 32.0. There are no Capital Costs to report. There are
no Operating or Maintenance Costs to report. The estimated annualized
burden is summarized below.
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Average burden Estimated total
Type of respondents Number of Frequency of hours per burden hours
respondents response response requested
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Requesters--School Personnel........ 200 1 0.08 16
Requestors--Community Leaders....... 200 1 0.08 16
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Total........................... 400 ................. ................. 32
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Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information shall have practical utility; (2) the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection
plans, contact Brian Marquis, Project Officer, National Institute on
Drug Abuse, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 5216, Bethesda, MD 20892, or
call non-toll-free number 301-443-1124; fax 301-443-7397; or by e-mail
to bmarquis@/nida.nih.gov.
Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 60-days
of the date of this publication.
Donna Jones,
Budget Officer & Acting Associate Director for Management, National
Institute on Drug Abuse.
[FR Doc. 07-357 Filed 1-29-07; 8:45 am]
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