[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 243 (Thursday, December 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66381-66382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33011]


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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 for opportunity for public comment on proposed information 
requests, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA) will publish periodic summaries of each proposed collection of 
information. To request a copy of these documents, contact the SAMHSA 
Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-8005.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is 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 through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.
    Proposed Project: The 1997 Sample Survey of Mental Health 
Organizations and General Hospitals with Separate Psychiatric 
Services--Revision of the Inventory of Mental Health Organizations and 
General Hospital Mental Health Services (IMHO/GHMHS). The survey will 
be conducted in two phases. Phase I will be a brief two page inventory 
consisting of two forms--one for all organizations that provide mental 
health treatment services and the other for all managed behavioral 
health care organizations. Phase II will be a sample survey of 3,800 
organizations drawn from the universe of organizations providing mental 
health treatment services identified in the first phase. The sample 
survey will use a more comprehensive, but very similar form to the one 
used in the 1994 IMHO/GHMHS. The organizational data to be collected 
include ownership and management, client/patient

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demographics, revenues and expenditures, and staffing. The dataset 
produced will be used to provide national statistical estimates and 
will be the basis of the National Directory of Mental Health Services. 
The annual burden estimate is as follows:

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                                                                           Annual                               
                                                                          number of      Average                
                                                            Number of     responses     hours per      Annual   
                                                           respondents       per        response    burden hours
                                                                         respondent                             
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Phase I.................................................       10,559             1          0.23         2,478 
    Specialty Mental Health Organizations...............       (3,235)           (1)       (00.20)         (647)
    General Hospitals with Psychiatric Services.........       (1,374)           (1)       (00.25)         (343)
    General Hospitals to be screened for Psychiatric                                                            
     Services...........................................       (4,080)           (1)       (00.25)       (1,020)
    Community Residential Organizations.................       (1,275)           (1)       (00.25)         (319)
    Managed Care Organizations..........................         (595)           (1)       (00.25)         (149)
Phase II (Sample Survey)................................        3,229             1           2.0         6,939 
    Specialty Mental Health Organizations...............       (2,267)           (1)        (02.0)       (4,534)
    General Hospitals with Psychiatric Services.........         (962)           (1)        (02.5)       (2,405)
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      Total.............................................       13,788   ............  ............        9,417 
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    Send comments to Beatrice Rouse, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. 
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

    Dated: December 12, 1997.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 97-33011 Filed 12-17-97; 8:45 am]
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