[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 84 (Monday, May 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24537-24538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-10481]


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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. New Information 
Collection Request: 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.

DATES: ONDCP encourages and will accept public comments 60 days after 
the date of this publication.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments in writing within 60 days to Shannon D. 
Weatherly. Facsimile and email are the most reliable means of 
communication. Ms. Weatherly's facsimile number is (202) 395-6841, and 
her e-mail 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, 
Washington, DC 20503. For further information, contact Ms. Weatherly at 
(202) 395-6774.
    Abstract: ONDCP directs the Drug Free Communities (DFC) Program in 
partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. 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.
    Congress mandated an evaluation of the DFC Program to determine 
effectiveness in meeting objectives. In 2009, the DFC Program awarded a 
contract to build upon the results of an earlier evaluation and make 
use of an existing web-based performance system, called the Coalition 
Online Management and Evaluation Tool (COMET) and the Coalition 
Classification Tool (CCT), to gather information from DFC grantees.

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COMET and CCT are being revised to reduce the burden of information 
collection on grantees, increase the quality of the data, and 
facilitate the monitoring and tracking of grantee progress.
    In addition to the information collected from the COMET and CCT 
system, the new evaluation will include a case study component to 
document coalition practices. This element of the evaluation will 
involve interviews with coalition leaders and surveys of coalition 
partners from a number of agencies. Each year, nine DFC grantees will 
be evaluated and the information from the case studies will be shared 
other grantees.
    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 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. Interviews and electronic surveys of Program 
Directors and electronic surveys of selected coalition members will be 
accomplished one time.
    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.
    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) Support an effective grant monitoring mechanism that provides the 
Federal government with the expertise, system, functions, and products 
to collect, analyze, and report data collectively, and (2) regularly 
monitor and measure data in order to demonstrate the progress of the 
DFC program and its grantees.
    Comment Request: ONDCP especially invites comments on: (1) Whether 
the proposed data are proper for the functions of the agency; (2) 
whether the information will have practical utility; (3) the accuracy 
of ONDCP's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions; 
(4) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and, (5) 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: April 26, 2011.
Daniel R. Petersen,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2011-10481 Filed 4-29-11; 8:45 am]
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