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Form Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

PIF ........................................................................................ 94,641 1 94,641 0.2 18,928.2 

Total .............................................................................. 94,641 ........................ 94,641 ........................ 18,928.2 

The estimated annual burden to 

AETCs is as follows: 

Form Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Event Record ....................................................................... 16,417 1 16,417 0.2 3,283 

Aggregate Data Set ............................................................. 12 2 24 32 768 

Total .............................................................................. 16,429 ........................ 16,441 ........................ 4,051 

The total burden hours are 22,979.2. 

Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 

Karen Matsuoka, Human Resources and 

Housing Branch, Office of Management 

and Budget, New Executive Office 

Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 

20503. 

Dated: January 24, 2007. 

Caroline Lewis, 

Acting Associate Administrator for 

Administration and Financial Management. 

[FR Doc. E7–1438 Filed 1–29–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

National Advisory Council on the 

National Health Service Corps; Notice 

of Meeting 

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463), notice is hereby given 

of the following meeting: 

Name: National Advisory Council on the 

National Health Service Corps. 

Dates and Times: March 8, 2007, 2 p.m.–

5 p.m.; March 9, 2007, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; and 

March 10, 2007, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 

Place: Embassy Suites DC Convention 

Center, 900 10th Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20001. 

Status: The meeting will be open to the 

public. 

Agenda: The Council will be finalizing a 

report outlining some recommendations for 

the National Health Service Corps Program. 

Discussions will be focused on the impact of 

these recommendations on the program 

participants, communities served by these 

clinicians and in the administration of the 

program. 

For Further Information Contact: Tira 

Patterson, Division of National Health 

Service Corps, Bureau of Health Professions, 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration, Parklawn Building, Room 

8A–55, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 

20857; e-mail: TPatterson@hrsa.gov; 

telephone: 301–594–4140. 

Dated: January 24, 2007. 

Caroline Lewis, 

Acting Associate Administrator for 

Administration and Financial Management. 

[FR Doc. E7–1439 Filed 1–29–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Indian Health Service 

[Funding Announcement Number: HHS–

2007–IHS–HPDP1–0001] 

Office of Clinical and Preventive 

Services Chronic Care Collaborative 

Announcement Type: Cooperative 

Agreement. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Number: 

93.443. 

Intended Recipient: Institute for 

Healthcare Improvement. 

Award Amount: $600,000 for year 1; 

$800,000 for years 2 and 3. 

Application Deadline: February 1, 

2007. 

Authorities: Snyder Act, 25 U.S.C. 13, 

Public Health Service (PHS) Act, 42 

U.S.C. 301(a). 

I. Purpose 

In this cooperative agreement, the 

Indian Health Service (IHS) will work 

closely with the Institute for Healthcare 

Improvement (IHI) on innovating and 

testing new designs of care delivery 

systems, leveraging results for 

thousands of patients, and creating a 

system-wide emphasis on improvement. 

The IHI’s senior leaders and faculty will 

work closely with the senior leadership 

team of the Indian health care system to 

design an improvement strategy to meet 

the following agreed upon aims: 

To test adaptations and innovations in 

chronic conditions management in the 

IHS. 

• To develop a strategy for spreading 

the lessons learned to all IHS sites as 

well as Tribal and urban sites. 

• To create a more robust 

improvement infrastructure. 

• To nurture the image of the IHS as 

an innovator in healthcare by 

publicizing successes. 

Leadership is the critical driver for 

change and the IHI will work with the 

IHS, Tribal and Urban health programs 

leadership to build a culture and 

structure to support improved levels of 

performance in the delivery of health 

care. The IHI and the IHS will work 

collaboratively to build new models of 

care and care processes, with the intent 

of disseminating such learning and 

‘‘best practices’’ throughout the Indian 

health care system. The IHS will have 

the opportunity to showcase the results 

of this work by publishing them on 

shared websites as well as in jointly 

authored publications. 

II. Justification 

The IHI is a non-profit organization 

that is leading improvement in health 

care throughout the world. IHI has 

unparalleled experience and expertise 

in working with health systems that care 

for underserved populations to improve 

the quality of care for their patients and 

build capacity for continuing 

improvement. IHI developed and 

employs a Breakthrough Series 

methodology (Learning Model 

Collaborative) to provide programmatic 

guidance and focus through coordinated 

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and sharing of lessons learned. They are 

world leaders in this area and have 

worked with other programs in similar 

settings to improve chronic illness 

systems of care for underserved and 

vulnerable populations, including the 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration/Bureau of Primary 

Health Care’s health center program for 

eight years. The IHI’s intellectual capital 

and operational capacity are essential to 

the IHS. The IHI has the resources and 

access to an international network of 

experts in the area of chronic disease 

management and implementing chronic 

care models in various settings. Most 

other improvement agencies and 

organizations focus on specific steps 

and methodologies while IHI takes a 

much more comprehensive and strategic 

approach to improvement. Over the past 

15 years they have become the 

recognized world leader in system 

change in healthcare. They have moved 

beyond the specifics of software into 

process development using a variety of 

techniques to make the best use of 

technologies and existing organizational 

capabilities. Their methodologies 

include improvement advisors who act 

as peer to peer coaches for organizations 

implementing change. This personal 

approach and the IHI’s considerable 

expertise are critical to expand existing 

Indian Country efforts, where personal 

connection and effective relationships 

are often the difference between project 

success and failure. 

This single source cooperative 

agreement will allow IHS to expedite 

learning from their organization as well 

as expedite access to IHI’s vast network 

of strategic partners. 

III. Award Information 

Type of Awards: Cooperative 

Agreement. 

Estimated Funds Available: The 

award is for three years. For year one 

$600,000 is available and for years two 

and three—$800,000 is available for 

each year for a continuation award. 

Award under this announcement is 

subject to availability of funds. 

Anticipated Number of Awards: One 

single source award will be made under 

the Program. 

Project Period: February 16, 2007–

February 15, 2010. 

Award Amount: $600,000 in year 1; 

$800,000 in years 2 and 3. 

For information regarding the 

notification, please contact: Candace M. 

Jones, MPH, National Programs 

(NPABQ), 5300 Homestead Road, NE., 

Albuquerque, NM 87110, 505–248–4961 

or candace.jones@ihs.gov. 

Electronic Submission: The preferred 

method for receipt of applications is 

electronic submission through 

Grants.gov. Please refer to the following 

links for complete application 

instructions: applicant package may be 

found in Grants.gov (www.grants.gov) or 

http://www.ihs.gov/ 

NonMedicalPrograms/gogp/ 

gogplfund.asp. 

Dated: January 18, 2007. 

Robert G. McSwain, 

Deputy Director, Indian Health Service. 

[FR Doc. 07–386 Filed 1–29–07; 8:45 am] 

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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 pilottested 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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