[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 230 (Monday, December 1, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71131-71132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-28273]
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OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
Paperwork Reduction Act; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
AGENCY: Office of National Drug Control Policy.
ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for comments. Revision of Currently
Approved Collection: Drug-Free Communities Support Program National
Evaluation.
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SUMMARY: The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) intends to
submit the following information collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget for review and approval under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
DATES: ONDCP encourages and will accept public comments on or before 60
days after the date of this publication.
ADDRESS: Address all comments in writing within 60 days to Helen
Hernandez. Facsimile and email are the most reliable means of
communication. Ms. Hernandez's facsimile number is (202) 395-6641, and
her email address is [email protected]. Mailing address is:
Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control
Policy, Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program, 750 17th Street
NW., Washington, DC 20503. For further information, contact Ms.
Hernandez at 202-395-6665.
Abstract: ONDCP administers the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support
Program in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention (CSAP). The DFC Program has two primary goals: To reduce
youth substance abuse, and to support community anti-drug coalitions by
establishing, strengthening, and fostering collaboration among public
and private agencies.
Under reauthorization legislation (21 U.S.C. 1702), Congress
mandated evaluation of the DFC Program to determine its effectiveness
in meeting objectives. In 2009, a contract was awarded to evaluate the
DFC Program which used an existing web-based performance system, called
the
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Coalition Online Management and Evaluation Tool (COMET) and the
Coalition Classification Tool (CCT), to gather information from DFC
grantees. The COMET data collection system will be used for FY 2014 DFC
grantees and SAMHSA CSAP's Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking
Reauthorization Act (``STOP Act'') grantees. (STOP Act data collection
is authorized and required by 42 U.S.C. 290bb-35b and Section 519B of
the Public Health Service Act).
ONDCP will be awarding a contract for a DFC grant oversight system
at the end of 2014, following a competitive request for proposals
process. Currently, DFC grantees interact with multiple separate
systems. ONDCP plans to have a newly improved grant oversight system
with a data collection platform, which will replace the current COMET
system. The development and implementation of the DFC grant system will
strengthen ONDCP's continued oversight of the DFC program. The data
collected will have minimal substantive changes compared to what is
currently collected and the system for data collection is intended to
be more user friendly to reduce the burden on grantees. For FY 2015 and
2016 grantees, ONDCP/DFC expects a similar data collection system to be
fully functional for DFC data collection and STOP Act data collection.
ONDCP's Drug Free Communities office will continue to utilize the
case study protocols previously approved by OMB to document coalition
practices, successes and challenges. Approximately nine DFC grantees
are selected each year to highlight in the case studies. The
information from the case studies will be used to illustrate not only
what works to reduce drug use in a community setting, but also how and
why it works.
Type of Information Collection: Web-based data collection, surveys
and interviews of DFC and Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking
(STOP) Act grantees.
Title: Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program National
Evaluation.
Frequency: Semi-annually by DFC and STOP Act Program Directors via
COMET, and annually for DFC Program Directors and selected coalition
members via the CCT. Case study interviews and electronic surveys of
Program Directors and electronic surveys of selected coalition members
will be accomplished one time. ONDCP plans to award a contract for the
new data collection system at the end of 2014. For FY 2015 and 2016
grantees, ONDCP/DFC expects a similar data collection system to be
fully functional for DFC data collection and STOP Act data collection.
Affected Public: DFC and STOP Act grantees.
Estimated Burden: ONDCP expects that the time required to complete
each semi-annual report via COMET will be approximately five hours, and
each CCT report will take approximately one hour to complete. Face to
face interviews will take 1.5-2 hours and surveys will take
approximately .25 hours each to complete. The estimated total amount of
time required by all respondents over one year, including Program
Directors and grantees to complete COMET, CCT, surveys, and interviews,
is 9,680 hours. ONDCP estimates that DFC grantees will spend
approximately the same amount or less when using the new DFC data
collection system.
Goals: ONDCP intends to use the data of the DFC National Evaluation
to assess the DFC Program's effectiveness in preventing and reducing
youth substance use. Two primary objectives of the evaluation are to:
(1) Regularly monitor, measure and analyze data in order to report on
the progress of the DFC program and its grantees on program goals, and
(2) providing technical assistance support to DFC grantees in
effectively collecting and submitting data and in understanding the
role of data in driving local coalition efforts.
Comment Request: ONDCP especially invites comments on: Whether the
proposed data are proper for the functions of the agency; whether the
information will have practical utility; the accuracy of ONDCP's
estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the methodology and assumptions; ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be
collected; and, ways to ease the burden on proposed respondents,
including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. Comments will be accepted for sixty days.
Dated: November 25, 2014.
Daniel S. Rader,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2014-28273 Filed 11-28-14; 8:45 am]
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