83 FR 28003 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request

Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of information
collection requests under OMB review, in compliance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request a copy of these
documents, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.

Project: Survey of State Underage Drinking Prevention Policies and
Practices--(OMB No. 0930-0316)--Revision

The Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (the ``STOP
Act'') (Pub. L. 109-422, reauthorized in 2016 by Pub. L. 114-255)
states that the ``Secretary [of Health and Human Services] shall . . .
annually issue a report on each state's performance in enacting,
enforcing, and creating laws, regulations, and programs to prevent or
reduce underage drinking.'' The Secretary has delegated responsibility
for this report to SAMHSA. Therefore, SAMHSA has developed a Survey of
State Underage Drinking Prevention Policies and Practices (the ``State
Survey'') to provide input for the state-by-state report on prevention
and enforcement activities related to underage drinking component of
the Annual Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of
Underage Drinking (``Report to Congress'').
The STOP Act also requires the Secretary to develop ``a set of
measures to be used in preparing the report on best practices'' and to
consider categories including but not limited to the following:
Category #1: Sixteen specific underage drinking laws/regulations
enacted at the state level (e.g., laws prohibiting sales to minors;
laws related to minors in possession of alcohol). Note that ten
additional policies have been added to the Report to Congress pursuant
to Congressional appropriations language or the Secretary's authority
granted by the STOP Act;
Category #2: Enforcement and educational programs to promote
compliance with these laws/regulations;
Category #3: Programs targeted to youths, parents, and caregivers
to deter underage drinking and the number of individuals served by
these programs;
Category #4: The amount that each state invests, per youth capita,
on the prevention of underage drinking broken into five categories: (a)
Compliance check programs in retail outlets; (b) Checkpoints and
saturation patrols that include the goal of reducing and deterring
underage drinking; (c) Community-based, school-based, and higher-
education-based programs to prevent underage drinking; (d) Underage
drinking prevention programs that target youth within the juvenile
justice and child welfare systems; and (e) Any other state efforts or
programs that target underage drinking.
Congress' purpose in mandating the collection of data on state
policies and programs through the State Survey is to provide
policymakers and the public with otherwise unavailable but much needed
information regarding state underage drinking prevention policies and
programs. SAMHSA and other Federal agencies that have underage drinking
prevention as part of their mandate use the results of the State Survey
to inform federal programmatic priorities, as do other stakeholders,
including community organizations. The information gathered by the
State Survey has established a resource for state agencies and the
general public for assessing policies and programs in their own state
and for becoming familiar with the programs, policies, and funding
priorities of other states.
Because of the broad scope of data required by the STOP Act, SAMHSA
relies on existing data sources where possible to minimize the survey
burden on the states. SAMHSA uses data on state underage drinking
policies from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's
Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS), an authoritative compendium
of state

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alcohol-related laws. The APIS data is augmented by SAMHSA with
original legal research on state laws and policies addressing underage
drinking to include all of the STOP Act's requested laws and
regulations (Category #1 of the four categories included in the STOP
Act, as described above, page 2).
The STOP Act mandates that the State Survey assess ``best
practices'' and emphasize the importance of building collaborations
with federally recognized tribal governments (``tribal governments'').
It also emphasizes the importance at the federal level of promoting
interagency collaboration and to that end established the Interagency
Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD).
SAMHSA has determined that to fulfill the Congressional intent, it is
critical that the State Survey gather information from the states
regarding the best practices standards that they apply to their
underage drinking programs, collaborations between states and tribal
governments, and the development of state-level interagency
collaborations similar to ICCPUD.
SAMHSA has determined that data on Categories #2, #3, and #4
mandated in the STOP Act (as listed on page 2) (enforcement and
educational programs; programs targeting youth, parents, and
caregivers; and state expenditures) as well as states' best practices
standards, collaborations with tribal governments, and state-level
interagency collaborations are not available from secondary sources and
therefore must be collected from the states themselves. The State
Survey is therefore necessary to fulfill the Congressional mandate
found in the STOP Act. Furthermore, the uniform collection of these
data from the states over the last seven years has created a valuable
longitudinal dataset, and the State Survey's renewal is vital to
maintaining this resource.
The State Survey is a single document that is divided into four
sections, as follows:
(1) Enforcement programs to promote compliance with underage
drinking laws and regulations (as described in Category #2 above, page
2);
(2) Programs and media campaigns targeted to youth, parents, and
caregivers to deter underage drinking (as described in Category #3
above, page 2);
(3) State interagency collaboration to implement prevention
programs and media campaigns, state best-practice standards, and
collaborations with tribal governments (as described above, page 4);
(4) The amount that each state invests on the prevention of
underage drinking in the categories specified in the STOP Act (see
description of Category #4, above, page 2) and descriptions of any
dedicated fees, taxes, or fines used to raise these funds.
The number of questions in each section is as follows:

Section 1: 38 questions
Section 2A: 15 questions
Section 2B: 12 questions
Section 2C: 10 questions
Section 2D: 10 questions
Total: 85 questions

Note that the number of questions in Section 2A is an estimate.
This section asks states to identify up to 10 programs that are
specific to underage drinking prevention. For each program identified
there are three follow-up questions. Based on the average number of
programs per state reported in the Survey's seven year history, it is
anticipated that states will report an average of five programs for a
total of 15 questions.
It is anticipated that most respondents will actually respond to
only a subset of this total. The Survey is designed with ``skip
logic,'' which means that many questions will only be directed to a
subset of respondents who report the existence of particular programs
or activities.
This latest version of the Survey has been revised as follows:

1. Part 2, Section A: Programs

a. A question about underage drinking prevention programs has been
eliminated. Previously, states were asked to define each program by
whether it was aimed at the ``general population'' or a ``specific
countable population (e.g., at-risk high school students).'' This
question was not misinterpreted by some respondents, leading to
inconsistent data. It was not uncommon for states to provide specific
population numbers for a program they had previously defined as being
aimed at the general population. For this reason, it is being
eliminated.
b. Questions about the specific number of different populations
(youth, parents, and caregivers) served by each prevention program have
been reformatted as follows:
i. Definitions of each population category have been deleted from
the introduction to Part 2, Section A and have been incorporated into
the subsequent questions about each program, making it easier for
respondents to answer these questions without referring back to the
introduction.
ii. For the sake of efficiency, three separate questions about type
of population served by each program have been collapsed into one
question.
c. References to ``media campaigns'' have been added to the
introduction of this section to encourage respondents to include these
among the prevention programs listed in their responses. As noted in
the following description to changes in Part 2, Section B, the survey
is being amended to evaluate awareness of, and participation in the
national media campaign mandated by the STOP Act.

2. Part 2. Section B: Collaborations and Best Practices

a. New questions about the national media campaign to reduce
underage drinking aimed at adults (as mandated by the STOP Act) have
been added. The questions are intended to:
i. Evaluate awareness of and participation in the national media
campaign, ``Talk. They Hear You.'' (TTHY), including questions about
the commitment of state resources and funding to this effort. The STOP
Act requires evaluation of the national media campaign, which is
largely conducted by other survey instruments. However, adding a
question on the campaign here is an efficient way to gather state-level
data for the analysis.
ii. Determine whether the states participate in other media
campaigns intended to reduce underage drinking.
iii. Expand the scope of the Survey to include social marketing or
counter-advertising efforts in the effort to reduce underage drinking.
Currently, the Survey includes a question about whether states have
programs to measure or reduce youth exposure to alcohol advertising and
marketing. This question will remain, but the new questions will
capture proactive efforts to counter this advertising and marketing.
No additional time burden should be placed on the respondents, as
the added questions are balanced by the deletion of others, with a
small net reduction in the total number of questions. All questions
continue to ask only for readily available data.
To ensure that the State Survey obtains the necessary data while
minimizing the burden on the states, SAMHSA has conducted a lengthy and
comprehensive planning process. It sought advice from key stakeholders
(as mandated by the STOP Act) including hosting multiple stakeholders
meetings, conducting two field tests with state officials likely to be
responsible for completing the State Survey, and investigating and
testing various State Survey formats, online delivery systems, and data
collection methodologies.
Based on these investigations, SAMHSA collects the required data

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using an online survey data collection platform (SurveyMonkey). Links
to the four sections of the survey are distributed to states via email.
The State Survey is sent to each state governor's office and the Office
of the Mayor of the District of Columbia. Based on the experience from
the last seven years of administering the State Survey, it is
anticipated that the state governors will designate staff from state
agencies that have access to the requested data (typically state
Alcohol Beverage Control [ABC] agencies and state Substance Abuse
Program agencies). SAMHSA provides both telephone and electronic
technical support to state agency staff and emphasizes that the states
are only expected to provide data that is readily available and are not
required to provide data that has not already been collected. The
burden estimate below takes into account these assumptions.
The estimated annual response burden to collect this information is
as follows:

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Number of Responses/ Burden/ Annual burden
Instrument respondents respondent response (hrs) (hrs)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
State Questionnaire......................... 51 1 17.7 902.7
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by July 16, 2018 to the SAMHSA
Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). To ensure timely receipt of
comments, and to avoid potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing
of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commenters are encouraged
to submit their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. Although commenters are encouraged to send
their comments via email, commenters may also fax their comments to:
202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: Office of Management
and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive
Office Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.

Summer King,
Statistician.
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response to a variety of bacterial Subcommittee Population Science, categories including but not limited to
infections, including S. pneumoniae Epidemiology and Disparities meeting the following:
and S. aureus. on June 25, 2018, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Category #1: Sixteen specific
This notice is made in accordance will be held at the Gaithersburg Marriott underage drinking laws/regulations
with 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR part 404. Washingtonian Center in Salons A and enacted at the state level (e.g., laws
The prospective exclusive patent B. The National Cancer Advisory Board prohibiting sales to minors; laws related
commercialization license will be Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Global Cancer to minors in possession of alcohol).
royalty bearing and may be granted Research meeting on June 25, 2018, 7:30 Note that ten additional policies have
unless within fifteen (15) days from the p.m. to 9:00 p.m., will be held at the been added to the Report to Congress
date of this published notice, the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian pursuant to Congressional
National Institute of Allergy and Center in Salon C. appropriations language or the
Infectious Diseases receives written Secretary’s authority granted by the
Dated: June 11, 2018.
evidence and argument that establishes STOP Act;
Melanie J. Pantoja, Category #2: Enforcement and
that the grant of the license would not
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory educational programs to promote
be consistent with the requirements of Committee Policy.
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commercialization license. In response
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comments or objections. Comments and Services Administration
objections, other than those in the form check programs in retail outlets; (b)
of a license application, will not be Checkpoints and saturation patrols that
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submitted in response to this Notice Community-based, school-based, and
will be presumed to contain business Periodically, the Substance Abuse and higher-education-based programs to
confidential information, and any Mental Health Services Administration prevent underage drinking; (d)
(SAMHSA) will publish a summary of Underage drinking prevention programs
release of information in these license
information collection requests under that target youth within the juvenile
applications will be made only as
OMB review, in compliance with the justice and child welfare systems; and
required and upon a request under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. (e) Any other state efforts or programs
Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C.
chapter 35). To request a copy of these that target underage drinking.
552. Congress’ purpose in mandating the
documents, call the SAMHSA Reports
Dated: June 11, 2018. Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243. collection of data on state policies and
Suzanne M. Frisbie, programs through the State Survey is to
Deputy Director, Technology Transfer and Project: Survey of State Underage provide policymakers and the public
Intellectual Property Office, National Institute Drinking Prevention Policies and with otherwise unavailable but much
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Practices—(OMB No. 0930–0316)— needed information regarding state
[FR Doc. 2018–12838 Filed 6–14–18; 8:45 am] Revision underage drinking prevention policies
BILLING CODE 4140–01–P The Sober Truth on Preventing and programs. SAMHSA and other
Underage Drinking Act (the ‘‘STOP Federal agencies that have underage
Act’’) (Pub. L. 109–422, reauthorized in drinking prevention as part of their
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 2016 by Pub. L. 114–255) states that the mandate use the results of the State
HUMAN SERVICES ‘‘Secretary [of Health and Human Survey to inform federal programmatic
Services] shall . . . annually issue a priorities, as do other stakeholders,
National Institutes of Health report on each state’s performance in including community organizations.
enacting, enforcing, and creating laws, The information gathered by the State
National Cancer Institute; Amended
regulations, and programs to prevent or Survey has established a resource for
Notice of Meeting
reduce underage drinking.’’ The state agencies and the general public for
Notice is hereby given of a change in Secretary has delegated responsibility assessing policies and programs in their
the meeting of the joint meeting of the for this report to SAMHSA. Therefore, own state and for becoming familiar
National Cancer Advisory Board and SAMHSA has developed a Survey of with the programs, policies, and
NCI Board of Scientific Advisors, June State Underage Drinking Prevention funding priorities of other states.
26, 2018, 8:30 a.m. to June 27, 2018, Policies and Practices (the ‘‘State Because of the broad scope of data
12:00 p.m., National Cancer Institute Survey’’) to provide input for the state- required by the STOP Act, SAMHSA
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Shady Grove, 9609 Medical Center by-state report on prevention and
Drive, Conference Room TE 406/408, enforcement activities related to possible to minimize the survey burden
Rockville, MD 20850 which was underage drinking component of the on the states. SAMHSA uses data on
published in the Federal Register on Annual Report to Congress on the state underage drinking policies from
June 05, 2018, 83 FR 26069. Prevention and Reduction of Underage the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse
This meeting notice is being amended Drinking (‘‘Report to Congress’’). and Alcoholism’s Alcohol Policy
to update the meeting locations for the The STOP Act also requires the Information System (APIS), an
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using an online survey data collection anticipated that the state governors will states are only expected to provide data
platform (SurveyMonkey). Links to the designate staff from state agencies that that is readily available and are not
four sections of the survey are have access to the requested data required to provide data that has not
distributed to states via email. The State (typically state Alcohol Beverage already been collected. The burden
Survey is sent to each state governor’s Control [ABC] agencies and state estimate below takes into account these
office and the Office of the Mayor of the Substance Abuse Program agencies). assumptions.
District of Columbia. Based on the SAMHSA provides both telephone and The estimated annual response
experience from the last seven years of electronic technical support to state burden to collect this information is as
administering the State Survey, it is agency staff and emphasizes that the follows:

Burden/ Annual
Number of Responses/
Instrument response burden
respondents respondent (hrs) (hrs)

State Questionnaire ......................................................................................... 51 1 17.7 902.7

Written comments and documents, call the SAMHSA Reports 5. Increasing parent or caregiver
recommendations concerning the Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243. actions to prevent underage drinking by
proposed information collection should talking to their children about UAD
Project: ‘‘Talk. They Hear You.’’
be sent by July 16, 2018 to the SAMHSA (behaviors).
Campaign Evaluation: National
Desk Officer at the Office of Information The national survey will target
Survey—NEW
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of parents in the base year in 2018, and
Management and Budget (OMB). To SAMHSA’s Center for Substance then annually in the 4 option years
ensure timely receipt of comments, and Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is requesting following that, making this a repeat
to avoid potential delays in OMB’s approval from the Office of Management cross-sectional research study. The
receipt and processing of mail sent and Budget (OMB) for a new data survey will be based on the survey
through the U.S. Postal Service, collection, ‘‘Talk. They Hear You.’’ originally approved for use in the 2016
commenters are encouraged to submit Campaign Evaluation: National Survey. impact evaluation, which was designed
their comments to OMB via email to: This collection includes two to quantify parent and caregiver
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. instruments: awareness of the campaign and
Although commenters are encouraged to 1. Screener retention of campaign messages, and to
send their comments via email, 2. Survey Tool determine whether parents and
commenters may also fax their caregivers have used the campaign
comments to: 202–395–7285. The national survey is part of a larger materials in talking to their children.
Commenters may also mail them to: effort to evaluate the impact of the SAMHSA will seek to conduct this
Office of Management and Budget, ‘‘Talk. They Hear You.’’ campaign. research nationwide through online
Office of Information and Regulatory These evaluations will help determine surveys. The survey will be accessible
Affairs, New Executive Office Building, the extent to which the campaign has via an access link that will be
Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503. been successful in educating parents disseminated to respondents via email.
and caregivers nationwide about Respondents will be recruited to
Summer King, effective methods for reducing underage participate in this online survey from a
Statistician. drinking (UAD). The campaign is Qualtrics© panel (which hosts more
[FR Doc. 2018–12865 Filed 6–14–18; 8:45 am] designed to educate and empower than 6 million active panelists), as was
BILLING CODE 4162–20–P parents and caregivers to talk with done for the survey pilot conducted in
children about alcohol. To prevent 2016. Researchers will conduct a quota-
initiation of underage drinking, the based sampling approach to maximize
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND campaign targets parents and caregivers the representativeness of the sample and
HUMAN SERVICES of children aged 9–15, with the specific will be oversampling the Hispanic
aims of: population. This will allow us to
Substance Abuse and Mental Health 1. Increasing parent or caregiver
Services Administration achieve a representative sample of
awareness of and receptivity to parents of middle-school-aged children
campaign messages (knowledge); in the United States across notable
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB 2. Increasing parent or caregiver socioeconomic and demographic
Review; Comment Request awareness of underage drinking variables of interest to the study. This
prevalence (knowledge); approach will also allow us to
Periodically, the Substance Abuse and 3. Increasing parent or caregiver oversample minority populations, such
Mental Health Services Administration disapproval of underage drinking as Hispanics, as necessary in order to
(SAMHSA) will publish a summary of (attitudes); achieve the diversity needed to yield a
information collection requests under 4. Increasing parent or caregiver comprehensive set of opinions,
OMB review, in compliance with the knowledge, skills, and confidence in experiences, and feedback of the ‘‘Talk.
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Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. how to talk to their children about, and They Hear You.’’ campaign materials
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these prevent, UAD (attitudes); and and products.

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83 FR 28003 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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