Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 118 / Monday, June 22, 2009 / Notices 29493 

Dated: June 15, 2009. 

Jeffrey Shuren, 

Associate Commissioner for Policy and 

Planning. 

[FR Doc. E9–14501 Filed 6–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–01–S 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of the 

Infant Adoption Awareness Training 

Program for Projects Initially Funded in 

Fiscal Year 2006–NEW. 

OMB No.: New Collection. 

Description: The Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), Childrens 

Bureau (CB), will conduct the Cross-Site 

Evaluation of the Infant Adoption 

Awareness Training Program (IAATP). 

Title XII, subtitle A, of the Childrens 

Health Act of 2000 (CHA) authorizes the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services to make Infant Adoption 

Awareness Training grants available to 

national, regional, and local adoption 

organizations for the purposes of 

developing and implementing programs 

that train the staff of public and nonprofit private health service 

organizations to provide adoption 

information and referrals to pregnant 

women on an equal basis with all other 

courses of action included in nondirective counseling of pregnant 

women. Participants in the training 

include individuals who provide 

pregnancy or adoption information and 

those who will provide such services 

after receiving the training, with Title X 

(relating to voluntary family planning 

projects), section 330 (relating to 

community health centers, migrant 

health centers, and centers serving 

homeless individuals and residents of 

public housing), and CHA-funded 

school-based health centers, receiving 

priority to receive the training. A total 

of six organizations were awarded 

IAATP funding in 2006. 

Section 1201(a)(2)(A) of the IAATP 

legislation requires grantees to develop 

and deliver trainings that are consistent 

with the Best Practice Guidelines for 

Infant Adoption Awareness Training. 

The IAATP guidelines address training 

goals, basic skills, curriculum and 

training structure. A complete 

description of the guidelines is available 

at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/ 

programs_fund/discretionary/iaatp.htm. 

In addition, grantees are required to 

conduct local evaluation of program 

outcomes and participate in the national 

evaluation of the extent to which IAATP 

training objectives are met. The Infant 

Adoption Awareness Training Program: 

Trainee Survey is the primary data 

collection instrument for the national 

cross-site evaluation. Respondents will 

complete the survey prior to receiving 

training and approximately 90 days after 

the training to assess the extent to 

which trainees demonstrate sustained 

gains in their knowledge about 

adoption, and to determine the impact 

of the training on their subsequent work 

with pregnant women. 

1. Do health care workers who 

participate in the IAATP training: 

Demonstrate enhanced knowledge, 

attitudes, skills, and behaviors with 

respect to adoption counseling 

following completion of the program? 

Provide adoption information to 

pregnant women on an equal basis with 

other pregnancy planning options? 

Demonstrate enhanced awareness of 

community adoption-related resources 

and refer expectant mothers to them as 

needed? 

2. Are trainees more confident about 

discussing all three pregnancy planning 

options (parenting, abortion, and 

adoption) in a non-directive counseling 

style than they were prior to 

participating in the training? Cross-site 

evaluation data will be collected on an 

annual basis throughout the five-year 

funding period. Pre-test and follow-up 

versions of the survey are expected to 

require approximately 10 to 15 minutes 

to complete. Estimated response time 

for the follow-up survey includes time 

for respondents to access the Web-based 

survey, complete the survey online, and 

electronically submit the survey. 

Respondents will not need to 

implement a recordkeeping system or 

compile source data in order to 

complete the survey. Where possible, 

fields in the follow-up version of the 

survey will be pre-filled with static data 

from the respondents pre-test (e.g., 

demographics, agency type) in order to 

further expedite completion of the 

survey and minimize respondent 

burden. 

Respondents: Infant Adoption 

Awareness Program Trainees. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of respondents 

Number of responses per 

respondent 

Average burden hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

IAATP: Trainee Survey Pre-Test Administration ............................................. 1,200 1 0.15 180 

IAATP: Trainee Survey Follow-Up Administration ........................................... 1,200 1 0.10 120 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 300. 

Additional Information 

Copies of the proposed collection may 

be obtained by writing to the 

Administration for Children and 

Families, Office of Administration, 

Office of Information Services, 370 

L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, 

DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance 

Officer. All requests should be 

identified by the title of the information 

collection. E-mail address: 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

OMB Comment 

OMB is required to make a decision 

concerning the collection of information 

between 30 and 60 days after 

publication of this document in the 

Federal Register. Therefore, a comment 

is best assured of having its full effect 

if OMB receives it within 30 days of 

publication. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

directly to the following: 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Paperwork Reduction Project, Fax: 202– 

395–6974, Attn: Desk Officer for the 

Administration for Children and 

Families. 


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29494 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 118 / Monday, June 22, 2009 / Notices 

Dated: October 1, 2008. 

Janean Chambers, 

Reports Clearance Officer. 

Editorial Note: This document was 

received in the Office of the Federal Register 

on June 17, 2009. 

[FR Doc. E9–14543 Filed 6–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–01–P 

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. 

Proposed Project: Rapid HIV Testing 

Clinical Information Form for the 

Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) for 

Ethnic and Racial Minorities at Risk for 

Substance Use and HIV/AIDS— 

Reinstatement 

The Substance Abuse and Mental 

Health Services Administration’s 

(SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse 

Treatment (CSAT), is requesting an 

OMB review and approval of the 

Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) Rapid 

HIV Testing Clinical Information Form 

that will be utilized for ethnic and racial 

minority groups at risk for substance use 

and HIV/AIDS that are served by 

CSAT’s TCE–HIV grantees. The MAI 

Rapid HIV Testing Clinical Information 

Form would allow SAMHSA/CSAT to 

collect essential clinical information 

that will be used for quality assurance, 

quality performance, and product 

monitoring on approximately 30,000 

rapid HIV test kits to be provided to 

ethnic and racial minority communities 

at no cost to the recipient provider 

organizations. The MAI Rapid HIV 

Testing Clinical Information Form 

would support quality of care, provide 

adequate clinical and product 

monitoring, and provide appropriate 

safeguards against fraud, waste and 

abuse of Federal funds. SAMHSA’s 

approach would avoid unnecessary 

delay in informing any person 

potentially adversely affected by a test 

kit recall or public health advisory. This 

program is authorized under section 509 

of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act 

[42 U.S.C. 290bb–2]. 

The goals of SAMHSA’s MAI 

initiative are to: (1) Increase the access 

by racial and ethnic minority 

communities to HIV testing, prevention, 

care, and treatment services; (2) 

implement strategies and activities 

specifically targeted to the highest risk 

and hardest-to-serve populations; (3) 

reduce the stigma associated with HIV/ 

AIDS screening through outreach and 

education, and (4) establish 

collaborations or opportunities for 

programs and/or activities to be 

integrated. 

The target populations for the 

initiative are African Americans, 

Hispanic/Latinos, and other racial and 

ethnic minorities that are 

disproportionately impacted by the twin 

epidemics of HIV/AIDS and substance 

abuse. Since 1981 approximately 1.7 

million people are estimated to have 

been infected with HIV in the U.S., and 

more than 1.1 million are estimated to 

be living with HIV/AIDS today. Racial 

and ethnic minorities have been 

disproportionately affected by HIV/ 

AIDS, and represent the majority of new 

AIDS cases (70%), new HIV infections 

(54%), prevalent HIV/AIDS cases (65%), 

and AIDS deaths (72%) (CDC, 2006). 

African Americans have been especially 

affected by HIV/AIDS. More than half of 

all new HIV infections and half of new 

AIDS diagnoses occur in African 

Americans despite their accounting for 

approximately 12% of the U.S. 

population. A similar impact exists 

among Latinos, who represent 14% of 

the U.S. population but account for 20% 

of estimated AIDS diagnoses. Together, 

Asian/Pacific Islanders and American 

Indian/Alaska Natives represent 1%– 

2% of new AIDS diagnoses. 

The spread of HIV disease in the 

United States has been partly fueled by 

the use of illicit drugs. Injection drug 

use (IDU) is directly related to HIV 

transmission through the sharing of 

drug equipment. According to CDC’s 

latest report on 2006 rates, IDUs 

accounted for 12 percent of estimated 

new HIV infections. CDC’s historical 

trend analysis indicates that new 

infections have declined dramatically in 

this population over time and confirm 

the substantial evidence to date of 

success in reducing HIV infections 

among IDUs. Despite these declines, 

rates of HIV and AIDS continue to rise 

among certain groups including men 

who have sex with men, high risk 

heterosexual women and ethnic and 

racial minority groups due to non-IDU 

drugs and alcohol that interfere with 

judgment about sexual and other types 

of behaviors. 

The estimated hour burden is 

presented in the following table: 

Form Number of 

respondents 

Responses/ 

respondent 

Hours/ 

response 

Total hour burden 

Hourly wage 

cost 

($) 

Total hour cost 

$) 

MAI Rapid HIV Testing Clinical Information Form (at Entry) .............................. 20,000 1 .133 2,660 30.00 79,800 

MAI Rapid HIV Testing Clinical Information Form (second test) ........................ 4,000 1 .133 532 30.00 15,960 

Total .................................................. 20,000 ........................ ........................ 3,192 ........................ 95,760 


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