21758 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 84 / Tuesday, May 1, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[Program Announcement 01079]

Cooperative Agreement for the

Development of State-Level

Surveillance Systems, Enhancement of

Epidemiologic Practice, and the

Development of Epidemiologic

Training Programs for State Health

Agencies; Notice of Availability of

Funds

A. Purpose

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 2001

funds for a cooperative agreement for

the development of state-level

surveillance systems, enhancement of

epidemiologic practice, and the

development of epidemiologic training

programs for state health agencies.

B. Eligible Applicants

Assistance will be provided only to

the Council of State and Territorial

Epidemiologists (CSTE). No other

applications are solicited. Because of

the professional appointments and

technical expertise with tribal, state,

territorial and local health agencies,

through its membership, CSTE is

uniquely capable of applying

epidemiologic principles to disease,

environmental, and injury problems at

the national, state, and local levels, and

when states are directly affected. No

other organization has the scientific and

technical expertise to carry out this

project.

C. Availability of Funds

Approximately $3,000,000 is available

in FY 2001 to fund this award. Funds

will be allocated to individually

described and budgeted projects or

activities which will comprise the

overall cooperative agreement.

Individual projects are expected to

range from $100,000 to $625,000. It is

expected that the award will be made on

or about September 30, 2001, and will

be made for a 12 month budget period

within a project period of up to five

years.

D. Where To Obtain Additional

Information

Business management technical

assistance may be obtained from: Mattie

Jackson, Grants Management Specialist,

Grants Management Branch,

Procurement and Grants Office, Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention 2920

Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta,

GA 30341–4146, Telephone number:

770–488–2696, Email address:

mij3@cdc.gov.

Program technical assistance may be

obtained from: Maryan D. Reynolds,

Public Health Advisor 1600 Clifton

Road, Mailstop D–18, Atlanta, GA

30333, Telephone number: 404–639–

4240, Email address: mdk0@cdc.gov.

Dated: April 25, 2001.

John L. Williams,

Director, Procurement and Grants Office,

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC).

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BILLING CODE 4163–18–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

Proposed Information Collection

Activity: Comment Request

Proposed Projects

Title: Head Start Impact Study.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: The Administration on

Children, Youth and Families (ACYF),

Administration for Children and

Families (ACF) of the Department of

Health and Human Services (DHHS) is

requesting comments on plans to

conduct the Head Start Impact Study.

This study is being conducted under

contract with Westat, Inc. (with the

Urban Institute, American Institutes for

Research, and Decision Information

Resources as their subcontractors)

(#282–00–0022) to collect information

for determining, on a national basis,

how Head Start affects the school

readiness of children participating in

the program as compared to children

not enrolled in Head Start and to

determine under which conditions Head

Start works best and for which children.

The Head Start Impact Study involves

ten waves of data collection. The first

two waves will occur during the field

test in fall 2001 and spring 2002. The

field test will involve approximately

600 first time enrolled three- and fouryear old preschool children across eight

grantee/delegate agencies representing

different community contexts. The

children participating will be randomly

assigned to either a Head Start group

(that receives Head Start program

services) or a comparison group (that

does not receive Head Start services but

may enroll in other available services

selected by their parents or be cared for

at home). Waves three through ten will

involve data collection for the full-scale

study. The Head Start Impact Study is

a longitudinal study that will involve

approximately 5,000–6,000 first time

enrolled three- and four-year old

preschool children across an estimated

75 nationally representative grantee/

delegate agencies (in communities

where there are more eligible children

and families than can be served by the

program). Data collection for the fullscale study will begin in fall 2002 and

extend through spring 2006 with child

assessments, conducted in the fall and

spring of the Head Start years and in the

spring of the kindergarten and first

grade years and parent interviews

conducted in the fall and spring of each

year. Interviews/surveys with program

staff/care providers, and quality of care

assessments will be conducted in the

spring of each year.

This schedule of data collection is

necessitated by the mandate in Head

Start’s 1998 reauthorization (Coates

Human Services Amendments of 1998,

PL 05–285) that DHHS conduct research

to determine, on a national level, the

impact of Head Start on the children it

serves.

Respondents: Individuals or

households, Head Start Agencies, school

districts, and other child care providers.

Annual Burden Estimates: Estimated

Response Burden for Respondents to the

Head Start Impact Study—fall 2001,

spring 2002, fall 2002, spring 2003, fall

2003, spring 2004, fall 2004, spring

2005, fall 2005, and spring 2006.

Instrument Number of respondents

Number of responses per

respondent

Average burden hours per

response

Total burden

hours

Year 1 (fall 2001):

Parent Interviews ...................................................................................... 600 1 1.00 600

Child Assessments ................................................................................... 600 1 0.66 400

Year 1 (spring 2002):

Parent Interviews ...................................................................................... 540 1 1.00 540

Child Assessments ................................................................................... 540 1 0.66 360