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OMB Control No: 3201-0012	ICR Reference No: 202211-3201-001
Status: Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201909-3201-002
Agency/Subagency: ONDCP	Agency Tracking No: 3201-0012
Title: Drug Free Communities Support Program National Evaluation
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 02/02/2023
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 11/28/2022
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	02/28/2026	36 Months From Approved	02/28/2023
Responses	10,035	0	1,495
Time Burden (Hours)	364,243	0	9,833
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The current package reflects a request for revisions to the 2019 previously approved collection pertaining to the Drug Free Communities Support Program (DFC) and the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) Local Drug Crises Grants program. DFC was created by the Drug Free Communities Act of 1997 (Public Law (P.L. 105-20) and was recently reauthorized again by the SUPPORT Act (P.L. 115-271). Most recently, P.L. 116-74 (2019), updated language in the law (ONDCP Technical Corrections Act of 2019). The DFC authorizing statute (21 USC §§ 1521–1536) provides that community-based coalitions addressing youth substance use can receive Federal grant funds and that the amount of each DFC grant award shall not exceed $125,000 annually. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) Local Drug Crises Grants program was created by the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (P.L. 114-198) as a follow-on grant program for DFC recipients. ONDCP, the lead agency for setting U.S. drug control policy and strategy, provides funding through the DFC Program to build community capacity for preventing and reducing substance abuse among our nation’s youth. ONDCP directs both the DFC and CARA Programs. Since October 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention & Control (NCIPC) provides Government Project Officers (GPO) and grants management support to the grant award recipients. Both ONDCP and GPO contributed to the current OMB packet. DFC has two primary goals: to prevent and reduce youth substance use and to support community coalitions in building capacity to address youth substance use. These goals are addressed by establishing, strengthening, and fostering collaboration among public and private non-profit agencies, as well as Federal, State, local, and tribal governments. As a follow-on to DFC, the CARA grant recipients have similar goals, although with a narrower focus on prevention/reduction in youth substance use of opioids and methamphetamine. Specifically, CARA goals are to enhance the ability of established (current or former DFC program recipients) community organizations to create community-level change to prevent or reduce use of opioids, methamphetamine, and/or prescription drugs (misuse) among youth ages 12-18 and to change the culture and context regarding the acceptability of youth use and misuse of these substances through implementation of a comprehensive community-wide action plan. Ideally both grant programs empower community coalitions to become self-sufficient. The current request pertains to revisions to the DFC & CARA progress reports while the case study protocols and the DFC Coalition Classification Tool (CCT) are largely unchanged. These changes have been determined necessary to facilitate the monitoring and tracking of grant recipient progress while simultaneously improving the quality of data and keeping grant recipient burden to a minimum.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 21 USC 1521–1536 Name of Law: DFC Authorizing Statute
   PL: Pub.L. 107 - 82 all Name of Law: Drug Free Communities Support Program Reathorization Act of 2001
   PL: Pub.L. 105 - 20 all Name of Law: Drug Free Communities Act of 1997
   PL: Pub.L. 115 - 271 all Name of Law: DFC Reauthorized in Support Act
   PL: Pub.L. 116 - 74 all Name of Law: ONDCP Technical Corrections Act of 2019
   PL: Pub.L. 114 - 198 all Name of Law: Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	87 FR 37531	06/17/2022
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	87 FR 58825	09/22/2022
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 2

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
DFC PRA NOVEMBER 2022	Attachment 5_P DFC Progress Report Core Measures_2, Attachment 9_CARA PR and Core Measures 2022, Attachment 7_CCT 2020 Mock-up 2022, Attachment 6_Sample Survey Review Guide_2022, Attachment 4_Proposed Revisions to DFC Progress Re, Attachment 10_Feedback Evaluation Items_2022	Attachment 10_Feedback Evaluation Items_2022 , Attachment 6_Sample Survey Review Guide_2022 , Attachment 5_P DFC Progress Report Core Measures_2022 , Attachment 9_CARA PR and Core Measures 2022 , Attachment 7_CCT 2020 Mock-up 2022 , Attachment 4_Proposed Revisions to DFC Progress Report Core Measures_2022
Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program National Evaluation	Attachment 9, Attachment 4, Attachment 5, Attachment 8, Attachment 6, Attachment 7	Mockup of Progress Report and Core Measures Instrument , Coalition Classification Tool (CCT) Proposed Revisions , Site Visit Protocols , Sample Survey Review Guide , Feedback Evaluation Items , Progress Report and Core Measures - CLEAN

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	10,035	1,495	8,540
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	364,243	9,833	354,410
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The changes identified here for the DFC Progress Report are anticipated to increase burden, although this may be alleviated by reducing reporting to a single annual report. Most notably, coalitions will need to make specific linkages between their implementation of activities and their action plans (i.e., to specific action plan goal/strategy/activity). This will take attention to detail and burden will be higher the more activities a coalition has implemented and/or the larger the number of goals/strategies/activities they have in their action plan. In addition, the diversity and health equity and risk and protective factors sections both have grown significantly. While coalitions should be aware of how to answer these items, it will take additional time to do so. The number of open text items continued to grow in this report, although only a small number of additional fields were added. Some DFC recipients have noted that burden was higher than expected OMB burden, in part due to wanting to tell their stories effectively and in part due to waiting until the end of the period to document activities. Occasionally, transitions in key personnel also impacts burden as new key personnel work to collect data from times when they were not in the role. Our prior estimates were based on coalitions spending approximately 1 hour per month on progress reporting, with some additional time for final edits and review prior to submission. Based on the feedback and the changes, including the shift to a single annual report, we are now estimating burden for the DFC Annual Progress report to be 24 hours. Ideally, coalitions will still spend approximately 1 hour per month on recording ongoing efforts followed by additional year end time to complete and submit the reports. Coalitions who make these efforts will reduce burden occurring all at once, but that is a local decision. Burden will likely be lower for new Year 1 recipients who will report on only six months of effort in their first year, however we have retained the burden estimate for these coalitions as they will be new to the process. The progress report burden includes core measure data collection and reporting burden, although that is only required to occur every two years. The core measures burden is associated with 4 of the 24 hours, although building relationships with the school, parent, and youth sectors participating in the surveys are also part of the ongoing work of coalitions to build capacity. The CARA recipients will be expected to complete a separate progress report, even if they have current DFC funding. Given the much shorter report they complete, mostly indicating yes/no to a range of activities and then describing their work to address opioids/methamphetamine in detail. The anticipated level of burden for the CARA report is not expected to exceed 10 hours annually, including time for core measures data collection at least every two years. For DFC recipients, the annual CCT burden will be approximately two hours annually (an increase from one hour in the prior OMB submission). While most DFC coalitions did not report challenges with completing the CCT in one hour, a small number of coalitions felt that to be thoughtful it took somewhat longer, although not longer than two hours. The burden change reflects this concern. Typically, site visits, whether in-person or virtual, take place over 1-2 days (8-12 hours across a range of participants from the coalition) as well as up to 2 hours for planning the visit. Communities of practice focus groups will take place during 1-3 hour virtual meetings, depending on the topic area. If agreed on by participants, focus groups may also occur during national meetings regularly attended by coalition key personnel. The burden estimates for Progress Reports, the CCT, and the Case Study Interviews are presented in the table below using the 745 FY 2021 DFC grant recipients as number of respondents and the 65 FY 2021 CARA recipients. In

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $2,700,000

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? Yes Part B of Supporting Statement

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Helen Hernandez 202 395-6665 helen_hernandez@ondcp.eop.gov

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