80 FR 13878 - Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day Comment Request; Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery (NIDA)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 51 (March 17, 2015)
National Institutes of Health
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 51 (March 17, 2015)
| Page Range | 13878-13879 | |
| FR Document | 2015-06087 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 51 (Tuesday, March 17, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 13878-13879] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-06087] [[Page 13878]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day Comment Request; Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery (NIDA) SUMMARY: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the information collection listed below. This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register Volume 79, No. 250, on December 31, 2014, page 78875, and allowed 60-days for public comment. No public comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, revised or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory Affairs, OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-6974, Attention: NIH Desk Officer. Comment Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days of the date of this publication. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To obtain a copy of the data collection plans and instruments, submit comments in writing, or request more information on the proposed project, contact: Genevieve deAlmeida, Project Clearance Liaison, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892-9557, or call non- toll-free number (301) 594-6802, or Email your request, including your address to: dealmeig@nida.nih.gov. Formal requests for additional plans and instruments must be requested in writing. Proposed Collection: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery (NIDA), 0925-0655, Expiration Date 3/31/2015, EXTENSION, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Need and Use of Information Collection: The information collected under this clearance will be qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback information--their perceptions, experiences and expectations of services, issues with service, to focus attention on areas where communication, training or changes in operations might improve delivery of products or services. The information will be useful and will allow for collaborative and actionable communications between the Agency and its customers and stakeholders, and will contribute directly to improving the programs and management of them. The information will not yield data that can be generalized to the overall population. The information may also be formative for the purpose of developing a concept for a new service program or dissemination program. The collections may still be eligible for submission for other generic mechanisms designed to yield quantitative results. The primary objectives are to obtain feedback on programs from customers and stakeholders, that would help make positive changes to the programs, or to assist in developing a new program or dissemination initiative, or to test medical tools and devices for usability, feasibility, and pilot testing of survey questionnaires for understandability. Data collection methods to be used in these studies include web-based and mailed surveys, focus groups, interviews with small groups, ad hoc collections at Conferences. The findings will provide valuable information to assist in improving programs that serve the public, and in developing good tools and devices to serve the public. OMB approval is requested for 3 years. NIDA will only submit a collection for approval under this generic clearance if it meets the following conditions:The collections are voluntary; The collections are low-burden for respondents (based on considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or burden-hours per respondent) and are low-cost for both the respondents and the Federal Government; The collections are non-controversial and do not raise issues of concern to other Federal agencies; Any collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions from respondents who have experience with the program or may have experience with the program in the near future; Personally identifiable information (PII) is collected only to the extent necessary and is not retained; Information gathered will be used only internally for general service improvement and program management purposes and is not intended for release outside of the agency; Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of substantially informing influential policy decisions; and Information gathered will yield qualitative information; the collections will not be designed or expected to yield statistically reliable results or used as though the results are generalizable to the population of study. Feedback collected under this generic clearance provides useful information, but it does not yield data that can be generalized to the overall population. This type of generic clearance for qualitative information will not be used for quantitative information collections that are designed to yield reliably actionable results, such as monitoring trends over time or documenting program performance. Such data uses require more rigorous designs that address: The target population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame, the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior to fielding the study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative results. As a general matter, information collections will not result in any new system of records containing privacy information and will not ask questions of a sensitive nature, such as sexual behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, and other matters that are commonly considered private. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number. OMB approval is requested for 3 years. There are no costs to respondents other than their time. The total estimated annualized burden hours are 1,560. [[Page 13879]] Estimated Annualized Burden Hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Type of collection Number of frequency per Hours per Total hours respondents response response ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Customer outcomes and usability testing......... 900 1 40/60 600 Customer Satisfaction and needs assessment 600 1 40/60 400 survey......................................... Focus Groups.................................... 130 1 1 130 Small Discussion Groups......................... 130 1 1 130 Pilot Testing of instruments for applicability 450 1 40/60 300 among diverse populations...................... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: March 11, 2015. Genevieve deAlmeida, Project Clearance Liaison, NIDA, NIH. 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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Annual
Number of Hours per
Type of collection frequency per Total hours
respondents response
response
Customer outcomes and usability testing ........................................................ 900 1 40/60 600
Customer Satisfaction and needs assessment survey ................................... 600 1 40/60 400
Focus Groups .................................................................................................. 130 1 1 130
Small Discussion Groups ................................................................................. 130 1 1 130
Pilot Testing of instruments for applicability among diverse populations ....... 450 1 40/60 300
Dated: March 11, 2015. veterinary medicine, optometry, the legislative intent of the program, the
Genevieve deAlmeida, pharmacy, allied health, podiatric programmatic purpose related to income
Project Clearance Liaison, NIDA, NIH. medicine, nursing, and chiropractic; level, as well as the age and
[FR Doc. 2015–06087 Filed 3–16–15; 8:45 am] public or private nonprofit schools circumstances of the participant, will
BILLING CODE 4140–01–P which offer graduate programs in apply these low-income standards to the
behavioral health and mental health individual student to determine
practice; and other public or private eligibility, as long as he or she is not
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND nonprofit health or education entities to listed as a dependent on the tax form of
HUMAN SERVICES assist the disadvantaged to enter and his or her parent(s). Each program
graduate from health professions and announces the rationale and choice of
Health Resources and Services nursing schools. Some programs methodology for determining low-
Administration provide for the repayment of health income levels in program guidance.
professions or nursing education loans The Secretary annually adjusts the
‘‘Low-Income Levels’’ Used for Various for disadvantaged students. low-income levels based on the
Health Professions and Nursing The Secretary defines a ‘‘low-income Department’s poverty guidelines and
Programs Authorized in Titles III, VII, family/household’’ for programs makes them available to persons
and VIII of the Public Health Service included in Titles III, VII, and VIII of the responsible for administering the
Act Public Health Service Act as having an applicable programs. The Department’s
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services annual income that does not exceed 200 poverty guidelines are based on poverty
Administration, HHS. percent of the Department’s poverty thresholds published by the U.S. Bureau
ACTION: Notice. guidelines. A family is a group of two of the Census, adjusted annually for
or more individuals related by birth, changes in the Consumer Price Index.
SUMMARY: The Health Resources and marriage, or adoption who live together. The income figures that follow have
Services Administration (HRSA) is On June 26, 2013, in U.S. v. Windsor, been updated to reflect the Department’s
updating income levels used to identify 133 S. Ct. 2675 (2013), the Supreme 2015 poverty guidelines as published in
a ‘‘low-income family’’ for the purpose Court held that section 3 of the Defense 80 FR 3236 (January 22, 2015).
of determining eligibility for programs of Marriage Act, which prohibited
that provide health professions and federal recognition of same-sex spouses LOW-INCOME LEVELS BASED ON THE
nursing training to individuals from and same-sex marriages, was 2015 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE
disadvantaged backgrounds. These unconstitutional. In light of this 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE
various programs are authorized in decision, please note that in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Titles III, VII, and VIII of the Public determining eligibility for these
Health Service Act. programs, same-sex marriages and same- Persons in family/household * Income level **
The Department periodically sex spouses will be recognized on equal
publishes in the Federal Register low- terms with opposite-sex marriages and 1 ............................................ 23,540
income levels to be used by institutions opposite-sex spouses, regardless of 2 ............................................ 31,860
receiving grants and cooperative where the couple resides. This approach 3 ............................................ 40,180
agreements in order to determine is consistent with a post-Windsor policy 4 ............................................ 48,500
individual eligibility for programs of treating same-sex marriages on the 5 ............................................ 56,820
providing training for (1) disadvantaged 6 ............................................ 65,140
same terms as opposite sex marriages to 7 ............................................ 73,460
individuals, (2) individuals from the greatest extent reasonably possible. 8 ............................................ 81,780
disadvantaged backgrounds, or (3) Thus, a ‘‘family or household’’ includes
individuals from low-income families. same-sex spouses that are legally For families with more than 8 persons, add
$8,320 for each additional person.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Many married in a jurisdiction that recognizes
health professions and nursing grant same-sex marriage regardless of whether
and cooperative agreement awardees the same-sex spouses live in a LOW-INCOME LEVELS BASED ON THE
use the low-income levels to determine jurisdiction that recognizes same-sex 2015 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
whether potential program participants marriage or a jurisdiction that does not ALASKA
mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
are from an economically disadvantaged recognize same-sex marriage as well as
background and would be eligible to the family members that result from Persons in family/household * Income level **
participate in the program, as well as to such same sex-marriage. 1 ............................................ 29,440
determine the amount of funding the Most HRSA programs use the income 2 ............................................ 39,840
individual receives. Federal agencies of a student’s parents to compute low- 3 ............................................ 50,240
generally make awards to: Accredited income status. However, a ‘‘household’’ 4 ............................................ 60,640
schools of medicine, osteopathic may potentially be only one person. 5 ............................................ 71,040
medicine, public health, dentistry, Other HRSA programs, depending upon 6 ............................................ 81,440
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| Contact | To obtain a copy of the data collection plans and instruments, submit comments in writing, or request more information on the proposed project, contact: Genevieve deAlmeida, Project Clearance Liaison, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892-9557, or call non- toll-free number (301) 594-6802, or Email your request, including your | |
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