Notice2021-20607
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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September 23, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 182 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52918-52919]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20607]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on proposed
collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA) will publish periodic summaries of
proposed projects. To request more information on the proposed projects
or to obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call the
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer at (240) 276-0361 or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ceadafbca2a1bde0a9bcafa6afa38ebdafa3a6bdafe0a6a6bde0a9a1b8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fa999b88969589d49d889b929b97ba899b9792899bd4929289d49d958c">[email protected]</span></a>.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of
information are 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) 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 the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Proposed Project: Survey of State Underage Drinking Prevention
Policies, Programs, and Practices
(OMB No. 0930-0316)--Extension
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, Programs, and Practices
(the ``State Survey'') to provide input for the state-by-state report
on prevention and enforcement activities related to the 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, programs, and practices 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 policies, programs,
practices, 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 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 establishes 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, use of social
marketing or counter-advertising campaigns, 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 ten 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:
Section 1: Enforcement programs to promote compliance with underage
drinking laws and regulations (as described in Category #2);
Section 2A: Programs and media campaigns targeted to youth,
parents, and caregivers to deter underage drinking (as described in
Category #3 above);
Sections 2B and 2C: State interagency collaboration to implement
prevention programs and media campaigns, state best-practice standards,
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collaborations with tribal governments (as described above);
Section 2D: 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) 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 ten 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 State Survey's ten-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 State 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.
No changes in content are proposed for the current version of the
Survey. Note that the title of the survey has been modified from
``Survey of State Underage Drinking Prevention Policies and Practices''
to ``Survey of State Underage Drinking Prevention Policies, Programs,
and Practices'' to better reflect the subjects addressed by the State
Survey questions.
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
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 ten 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 expected to
provide data from existing state databases and other data sources
available to them. 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)
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State Survey................................ 51 1 17.7 902.7
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Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a> . Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
Carlos Graham,
Social Science Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2021-20607 Filed 9-22-21; 8:45 am]
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