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1Public Law 109–422. It is assumed Congress 

intended to include the District of Columbia as part 

of the State Report. 

Services (DHHS) is hereby giving notice 

that the Advisory Committee on 

Minority Health (ACMH) will hold a 

meeting. This meeting is open to the 

public. Preregistration is required for 

both public attendance and comment. 

Any individual who wishes to attend 

the meeting and/or participate in the 

public comment session should e-mail 

acmh@osophs.dhhs.gov. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 

5 p.m. and Wednesday, April 7, 2010 

from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Doubletree Hotel, 1515 Rhode Island 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Monica A. Baltimore, Tower Building, 

1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 600, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. Phone: 240– 

453–2882 Fax: 240–453–2883. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with Public Law 105–392, 

the ACMH was established to provide 

advice to the Deputy Assistant Secretary 

for Minority Health in improving the 

health of each racial and ethnic 

minority group and on the development 

of goals and specific program activities 

of the Office of Minority Health. 

Topics to be discussed during this 

meeting will include strategies to 

improve the health of racial and ethnic 

minority populations through the 

development of health policies and 

programs that will help eliminate health 

disparities, as well as other related 

issues. 

Public attendance at the meeting is 

limited to space available. Individuals 

who plan to attend and need special 

assistance, such as sign language 

interpretation or other reasonable 

accommodations, should notify the 

designated contact person at least 

fourteen (14) business days prior to the 

meeting. Members of the public will 

have an opportunity to provide 

comments at the meeting. Public 

comments will be limited to three 

minutes per speaker. Individuals who 

would like to submit written statements 

should mail or fax their comments to 

the Office of Minority Health at least 

seven (7) business days prior to the 

meeting. Any members of the public 

who wish to have printed material 

distributed to ACMH committee 

members should submit their materials 

to the Executive Secretary, ACMH, 

Tower Building, 1101 Wootton 

Parkway, Suite 600, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852, prior to close of 

business March 30, 2010. 

Dated: February 24, 2010. 

Garth N. Graham, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority 

Health, Office of Minority Health, Office of 

Public Health and Science, Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

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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 (SAMHSA) 

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 at (240) 276– 

1243. 

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: Survey of State 

Underage Drinking Prevention Policies 

and Practices—New 

The Sober Truth on Preventing 

Underage Drinking Act (the ‘‘STOP 

Act’’) 1 states that the ‘‘Secretary [of 

Health and Human Services] shall 

* * * annually issue a report on each 

State’s performance in enacting, 

enforcing, and creating laws, 

regulations, and programs to prevent or 

reduce underage drinking.’’ The 

Secretary has delegated responsibility 

for this report to SAMHSA. Therefore, 

SAMHSA is developing a Survey of 

State Underage Drinking Prevention 

Policies and Practices (the ‘‘State 

Survey’’) to provide input for an Annual 

Report on State Underage Drinking 

Prevention and Enforcement Activities 

(the ‘‘State Report’’). 

The STOP Act also requires the 

Secretary to develop ‘‘a set of measures 

to be used in preparing the report on 

best practices’’ and to consider 

categories including but not limited to 

the following: 

Category #1: Sixteen specific 

underage drinking laws/regulations 

enacted at the State level (e.g., laws 

prohibiting sales to minors; laws related 

to minors in possession of alcohol); 

Category #2: Enforcement and 

educational programs to promote 

compliance with these laws/regulations; 

Category #3: Programs targeted to 

youths, parents, and caregivers to deter 

underage drinking and the number of 

individuals served by these programs; 

Category #4: The amount that each 

State invests, per youth capita, on the 

prevention of underage drinking broken 

into five categories: (a) Compliance 

check programs in retail outlets; (b) 

Checkpoints and saturation patrols that 

include the goal of reducing and 

deterring underage drinking; (c) 

Community-based, school-based, and 

higher-education-based programs to 

prevent underage drinking; (d) 

Underage drinking prevention programs 

that target youth within the juvenile 

justice and child welfare systems; and 

(e) Any other State efforts or programs 

that target underage drinking. 

Congress’ purpose in mandating the 

collection of data on State policies and 

programs through the State Survey is to 

provide policymakers and the public 

with currently unavailable but much 

needed information regarding State 

underage drinking prevention policies 

and programs. SAMHSA and other 

Federal agencies that have underage 

drinking prevention as part of their 

mandate will use the results of the State 

Survey to inform Federal programmatic 

priorities. The information gathered by 

the State Survey will also establish a 

resource for State agencies and the 

general public for assessing policies and 

programs in their own State and for 

becoming familiar with the programs, 

policies, and funding priorities of other 

States. 

Because of the broad scope of data 

required by the STOP Act, SAMHSA 

will rely on existing data sources where 

possible to minimize the survey burden 

on the States. SAMHSA will employ 

data on State underage drinking policies 

from the National Institute of Alcohol 

Abuse and Alcoholism’s Alcohol Policy 

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2Note that the number of questions in Sections 

2A is an estimate. This Section asks States to 

identify their programs that are specific to underage 

drinking prevention. For each program identified 

there are six follow-up questions. Based on 

feedback from stakeholders and pilot testers, it is 

anticipated that States will report an average of 

three programs for a total of 18 questions. 

3Note that the number of questions in Section 2B 

is an estimate. This Section asks States to identify 

their programs that are related to underage drinking 

prevention. For each program identified there are 

two follow-up questions. Based on feedback from 

stakeholders and pilot testers, it is anticipated that 

States will report an average of three such programs 

for a total of six questions. 

Information System (APIS), an 

authoritative compendium of State 

alcohol-related laws. The APIS data will 

be augmented by SAMHSA with 

original legal research on State laws and 

policies addressing underage drinking 

to include all of the STOP Act’s 

requested laws and regulations 

(Category #1 of the four categories 

included in the STOP Act, as described 

above, page 2). 

The STOP Act mandates that the State 

Survey assess ‘‘best practices’’ and 

emphasize the importance of building 

collaborations with Federally 

Recognized Tribal Governments (‘‘Tribal 

Governments’’). It also emphasizes the 

importance at the Federal level of 

promoting interagency collaboration 

and to that end established the 

Interagency Coordinating Committee on 

the Prevention of Underage Drinking 

(ICCPUD). SAMHSA has determined 

that to fulfill the Congressional intent, it 

is critical that the State Survey gather 

information from the States regarding 

the best practices standards that they 

apply to their underage drinking 

programs, collaborations between States 

and Tribal Governments, and the 

development of State-level interagency 

collaborations similar to ICCPUD. 

SAMHSA has determined that data on 

Categories #2, #3, and #4 mandated in 

the STOP Act (as listed on page 2) 

(enforcement and educational programs; 

programs targeting youth, parents, and 

caregivers; and State expenditures) as 

well as States’ best practices standards, 

collaborations with Tribal Governments, 

and State-level interagency 

collaborations are not available from 

secondary sources and therefore must be 

collected from the States themselves. 

The State Survey will therefore be 

necessary to fulfill the Congressional 

mandate found in the STOP Act. 

The State Survey is a single document 

that is divided into four sections, as 

follows: 

(1) Enforcement of underage drinking 

prevention laws; 

(2) Underage drinking prevention 

programs, including data on State best 

practices standards and collaborations 

with Tribal Governments; 

(3) State interagency collaborations 

used to implement the above programs; 

and 

(4) Estimates of the State funds 

invested in the categories specified in 

the STOP Act (see description of 

Category #4, above, page 2) and 

descriptions of any dedicated fees, taxes 

or fines used to raise these funds. 

The number of questions in each 

Section is as follows: 

Section 1: 29 questions 

Section 2A: 18 questions 2

Section 2B: 6 questions 3

Section 2C: 6 questions 

Section 3: 12 questions 

Section 4: 19 questions 

TOTAL: 90 Questions 

It is anticipated that respondents will 

actually respond to only a subset of this 

total. This is because the survey is 

designed with ‘‘skip logic,’’ which 

means that many questions will only be 

directed to a subset of respondents who 

report the existence of particular 

programs or activities. 

To ensure that the State Survey 

obtains the necessary data while 

minimizing the burden on the States, 

SAMHSA has conducted a lengthy and 

comprehensive planning process. It has 

sought advice from key stakeholders (as 

mandated by the STOP Act) including 

hosting an all-day stakeholders meeting, 

conducting two field tests with State 

officials likely to be responsible for 

completing the State Survey, and 

investigating and testing various State 

Survey formats, online delivery systems, 

and data collection methodologies. 

Based on these investigations, 

SAMHSA has decided to collect the 

required data using an online survey 

instrument over an 8-week period. The 

State Survey will be sent to each State 

Governor’s office and the Office of the 

Mayor of the District of Columbia, for a 

total of 51 survey respondents. Based on 

the feedback received from stakeholders 

and field pilot testers, it is anticipated 

that the State Governors will designate 

staff from State agencies that have 

access to the requested data (typically 

State Alcohol Beverage Control [ABC] 

agencies and State Substance Abuse 

Program agencies). SAMHSA will 

provide both telephone and online 

technical support to State agency staff 

and will emphasize that the States are 

only expected to provide data that is 

readily available and are not required to 

provide data that has not already been 

collected. The burden estimate below 

takes into account these assumptions. 

The estimated annual response 

burden to collect this information is as 

follows: 

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Responses/ 

respondent 

Burden/ 

response 

(hrs) 

Annual burden 

(hrs) 

State Questionnaire ......................................................................................... 51 1 17.7 902.7 

Send comments to Summer King, 

SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 

Room 7–1044, One Choke Cherry Road, 

Rockville, MD 20857 and e-mail a copy 

to summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. 

Written comments should be received 

within 60 days of this notice. 

Dated: February 19, 2010. 

Elaine Parry, 

Director, Office of Program Services. 

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Services 

[Document Identifier CMS–576A] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services, HHS. 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services (CMS), Department of Health 

and Human Services, is publishing the 

following summary of proposed 

collections for public comment. 

Interested persons are invited to send 

comments regarding this burden 

estimate or any other aspect of this 

collection of information, including any 

of the following subjects: (1) The 

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