The National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH), National Institute of Neurological Diseases and
Stroke (NINDS) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), components of the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), created the NIH Neurobiobank
(NBB), a centralized program to coordinate the acquisition,
receipt, storage and dissemination of human brains, related
biospecimens, and associated clinical data, via a federation of
several contracted brain and tissue repository sites. The goal of
this project is to increase the availability of, and access to,
high quality specimens for research in order to understand the
neurological bases of diseases and mental disorders.
There have been changes to the
information collected by the NBB Tissue Access Request Form
(Attachment 1). Based upon a review of the past response rate, NIMH
has updated the number of estimated respondents to 400 from 225.
Given the further streamlining of the form, NIMH estimates the form
will take only 15 minutes to complete. The “Requestor Information”
portion of the request form now asks for the name and email address
for the Principal Investigator if that individual is not the
requestor. The “Research Funding Information” portion of the
request form has been streamlined for the requestors. Additionally,
this portion of the request form now asks if the researched related
to the request is supported by funding from the NIH. If the funding
is NIH-related, the requestor must provide information on whether
the funding is extramural or intramural, which IC it is affiliated
with, and the six-digit project serial number.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.