Attachment 7 Federal Register Notice 2008

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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 26, 2008 / Notices

Dated: August 18, 2008.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8–19728 Filed 8–25–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–08–08BN]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–5960 and
send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar,
CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer,
1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta,
GA 30333 or send an e-mail to
[email protected].
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)

the impact of its products which will
ultimately benefit the public’s health.

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.

Methodology
The target audience will be limited to
customers who request and receive CDC
products. Customer participation in the
evaluation is completely voluntary.
Names of customers will not be
collected. The only personal
information collected will relate to
professional discipline, job duties, and
experience working with public health
topics. No sensitive data (e.g., age, race,
or gender) will be collected. The
evaluation data will be collected using
a combination of methodologies
including:
1. Response cards via mail: Each
product that is sent out will include a
one page response card along with a
self-addressed and stamped envelope.
Customers can then voluntarily choose
whether to return the response card.
2. E-mail announcements: Products
are released to customers via an e-mail
announcement that includes a link to
the electronic version of the product
plus a link to a Web-based evaluation.
Customers can then voluntarily choose
whether to complete the evaluation.
3. Web-based assessments: Products
are available on-line in an electronic
format. Each product Web page will
include a link to a Web-based
evaluation. Customers can then
voluntarily choose whether to complete
the evaluation.
The information being collected will
not impose a cost burden on the
respondents beyond that associated
with their time to provide the required
data.

Proposed Project
Voluntary Product Satisfaction and
Usability Assessment—New—National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Executive Order 12862 directs Federal
agencies that provide services directly
to the public to survey customers to
determine the kind and quality of
services they need and their level of
satisfaction with existing services.
CDC releases a number of new
products each year to its customers, a
diverse group that includes health care
providers, researchers, public health
practitioners, policymakers, and the
general public. The term product is
broadly defined to include publications,
Web pages, podcasts, e-cards, CD–
ROMs, and videos. At present, there is
no mechanism for evaluating whether
these products are meeting customer
needs.
CDC is requesting a 3-year generic
clearance in order to better evaluate its
products. Obtaining feedback from
customers on a regular, on-going basis
will help ensure that customers find
CDC products to be useful. This type of
evaluation will allow CDC to maximize

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

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Evaluation method

Number of
responses per
respondent

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Response cards ...............................................................................................
E-mail Assessments ........................................................................................
Web-Based Assessments ................................................................................

50,000
60,000
432,000

1
1
1

10 60
10 60

⁄
⁄
10⁄60

8,333
10,000
72,000

Total ..........................................................................................................

542,000

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90,333

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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 26, 2008 / Notices
Dated: August 18, 2008.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8–19729 Filed 8–25–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request Proposed
Projects
Title: Regional Partnership Grant
(RPG) Program Data Collection.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: On September 30, 2007,
the Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), Children’s Bureau,
awarded multi-year grants to 53 regional
partnership grantees (RPG5) to improve
the safety, permanency and well-being
of children affected by
methamphetamine or other substance
abuse who have been removed or are atrisk of removal from their homes. The
Child and Family Services Improvement
Act of 2006, the authorizing legislation
for the RPG program, required that a set
of performance indicators be established
to periodically assess the grantees’
progress on achieving outcomes. The
legislation mandated that these
performance indicators be developed
through a consultative process involving

ACS, the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA), and representatives of the
State or Tribal agencies who are
members of the regional partnerships.
The final set of RPG performance
indicators was approved by ACS and
disseminated to the funded grantees in
January 2008. It includes a total of 23
indicators across four outcome domains:
Child/youth (9 indicators), adult (7
indicators), family/relationship (5
indicators), and regional partnership/
service capacity (2 indicators). It also
includes a core set of child and adult
demographic elements that will provide
important context needed to properly
analyze, explain and understand the
outcomes. No other national data
collection measures these critical child,
adult, family, and RPG outcomes
specifically for these children and
families. The data also will have
significant implications for policy and
program development for child wellbeing programs nationwide.
To minimize reporting burden, many
of the data elements are already being
collected by counties and States in order
to report Federally mandated data for
the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis
and Reporting System (AFCARS), the
Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) and
the National Outcome Measures
(NOMs); in addition, all States
voluntarily submit data for the Federal
National Child Abuse and Neglect Data
System (NCANDS). Therefore, most
child welfare data elements included in

the RPG performance measures can be
found in a State’s automated case
management system, which is often a
Federally funded Statewide Automated
Child Welfare Information System
(SACWIS). If the State elects to
implement a SACWIS, the system is
expected to be a comprehensive
automated case management tool that
meets the needs of all staff involved in
foster care and adoption case
management. A SACWIS is required to
support reporting of data to AFCARS
semi-annually, and annually to
NCANDS. AFCARS reports information
on all children in foster care, while
NCANDS reports information on State
child maltreatment reports. TEDS
admission and discharge data are
collected by State substance abuse
agencies according to their own
information systems for monitoring
substance abuse treatment admissions
and transmitted monthly or quarterly to
the SAMHSA contractor.
As a result of prior Federal
government reporting requirements,
States are already collecting several data
elements needed by the RPGs. The RPGs
can download information from these
existing systems to obtain data to
monitor their program outcomes,
thereby reducing the amount of primary
data collection needed.
Beginning in year two, grantees will
submit a data file with their required
indicator data, according to their final
set of indicators, every six months.
Respondents: RPG Grantees.

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
respondents

Instrument

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State, local, or Tribal Government ..................................................................
Private Sector ..................................................................................................

Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 18,603.
In compliance with the requirements
of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the
Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment
on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above.
Copies of the proposed collection of
information can be obtained and
comments may be forwarded 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. E-mail address:

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[email protected]. All requests
should be identified by the title of the
information collection.
The Department specifically requests
comments on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or

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Number of
responses
per respondent

Average
burden hours
per response

2
2

175.50
175.50

Total burden
hours
10,881
7,722

other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to
comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Dated: August 18, 2008.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance, Officer.
[FR Doc. E8–19562 Filed 8–25–08; 8:45 am]
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