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II. References 

The following reference has been 

placed on public display in the Division 

of Dockets Management (see 

ADDRESSES), and may be seen between 9 

a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday. 

1. Payne, B.K., C.M. Cheng, O. Govorun, et 

al., ‘‘An Inkblot for Attitudes: Affect 

Misattribution as Implicit Measurement,’’

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 

vol. 89 (3), pp. 277–293, 2005. 

Dated: August 16, 2007. 

Jeffrey Shuren, 

Assistant Commissioner for Policy. 

[FR Doc. E7–16603 Filed 8–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–01–S 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute on Deafness and 

Other Communication Disorders; 

Notice of Closed Meetings 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice 

is hereby given of the following 

meetings. 

The meetings will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Institute on 

Deafness and Other Communication 

Disorders Special Emphasis Panel, T35 Short 

Term Institutionals Research Training. 

Date: September 20, 2007. 

Time: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6120 

Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852 

(Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Stanley C. Oaks, PhD, 

Scientific Review Administrator, Division of 

Extramural Activities, NIDCD, NIH, 

Executive Plaza South, Room 400C, 6120 

Executive Blvd—MSC 7180, Bethesda, MD 

20892–7180, 301–496–8683, so14s@nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Institute on 

Deafness and Other Communication 

Disorders Special Emphasis Panel, Diseases 

of the Vestibular System. 

Date: September 24, 2007. 

Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6120 

Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852 

(Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Christine A. Livingston, 

PhD, Scientific Review Administrator, 

Division of Extramural Activities, National 

Institutes of Health/NIDCD, 6120 Executive 

Blvd.—MSC 7180, Bethesda, MD 20892, 

(301) 496–8683, livingsc@mail.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.173, Biological Research 

Related to Deafness and Communicative 

Disorders, National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: August 14, 2007. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 07–4101 Filed 8–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health 

Services Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

Periodically, the Substance Abuse and 

Mental Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA) will publish a summary of 

information collection requests under 

OMB review, in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). To request a copy of these 

documents, call the SAMHSA Reports 

Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243. 

Project: Independent Evaluation of the 

Community Mental Health Services 

Block Grant Program—NEW 

The Substance Abuse and Mental 

Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA), the Center for Mental 

Health Services (CMHS) administers the 

Community Mental Health Services 

Block Grant (CMHS BG). The 

Community Mental Health Services 

Block Grant was funded by Congress to 

develop community-based systems of 

care for adults with serious mental 

illness (SMI) and children with severe 

emotional disorders (SED), and has been 

the largest Federal program dedicated to 

improving community mental health 

services. States have latitude in 

determining how to spend their funds to 

support services for adults with SMI 

and children with SED. The only 

requirements outlined in the 

authorizing legislation for State receipt 

of CMHS BG funds are provisions to 

increase children’s services, create a 

State mental health planning council, 

and to develop a State mental health 

plan to be submitted to the Secretary of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). The 

State mental health planning council is 

to comprise various State constituents 

including providers, administrators, and 

mental health services consumers. Each 

State plan must: 

• Provide for the establishment and 

implementation of an organized 

community-based system of care for 

individuals with mental illness. 

• Estimate the incidence and 

prevalence of adults with SMI and 

children with SED within the State. 

• Provide for a system of integrated 

services appropriate for the multiple 

needs of children. 

• Provide for outreach to and services 

for rural and homeless populations. 

• Describe the financial and other 

resources necessary to implement the 

plan and describe how the CMHS BG 

funds are to be spent. 

In addition, Congress included a 

maintenance-of-effort (MOE) 

requirement that a State’s expenditures 

for community mental health services 

be no less than the average spent in the 

two preceding fiscal years. 

The CMHS BG received an adequate 

rating on the OMB PART in 2003. 

Clearly in the follow up period to that 

assessment, one of the critical areas that 

must be addressed is the expectation 

that an independent and objective 

evaluation of the program is to be 

carried out initially and at regular 

intervals. In addition, the program 

evaluation has been designed to be of 

high quality, sufficient scope and 

unbiased (with appropriate 

documentation for each of these 

elements). In fact it is in addressing an 

evaluation of the program that critical 

elements of accountability and program 

performance are also identified and 

initially assessed. The rigor of the 

evaluation is seen in how it addresses 

the effectiveness of the program’s 

impact with regard to its mission and 

long term goals. By legislative design 

the CMHS BG Program has previously 

focused on legislative compliance. Now 

it addresses the impact of the program 

nationally, over time, with a view to 

coming to terms with identified program 

deficiencies and the corresponding 

impact of proposed changes. 

In this evaluation, a multi-method 

evaluation approach is being used to 

examine Federal and State performance 

with regard to the CMHS BG and its 

identified goals. This approach 

emphasizes a qualitative and 

quantitative examination of both the 

CMHS BG process (e.g., activities and 

outputs in the logic model) and systemlevel outcomes whereby Federal and 

State stakeholder perspectives on the 

CMHS BG, as captured through semistructured interviews and surveys, are 


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