[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 19 (Tuesday, January 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4273-4274]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-357]


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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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