[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 24 (Thursday, February 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5961-5962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2823]


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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 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 on (301) 443-0525.
    Proposed Project: Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs) Evaluation 
Project--New--Since 1992, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment 
(CSAT) has published 25 Treatment Improvement Protocols which provide 
administrative and clinical practice guidance to the substance abuse 
treatment field. CSAT plans to conduct an evaluation study to determine 
the impact of TIPs. The first phase of the evaluation, the 
Retrospective Study, will examine the impact of TIPs published by CSAT 
as of September 1998. Surveys of four distinct target audiences of 
interest to CSAT will be conducted including Single State Agency 
Directors, directors of substance abuse treatment facilities listed in 
the most recent Uniform Facilities Data Set (UFDS) database, clinical 
directors of treatment facilities listed in the UFDS database, and 
frontline clinicians/counselors working in facilities listed in the 
UFDS database. Measures will include organization characteristics and 
outcomes associated with the following variables: awareness, receipt, 
and reading of TIPs; perceived utility of TIPs; and the impact of TIPs 
on changing substance abuse treatment practices. The estimated 
annualized burden is summarized below.

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                                                                      No. of                                    
                                                      No. of        responses/        Hours/       Total burden 
                                                    respondents     respondent       response          hours    
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Single State Agency Directors...................              56               2            0.50              56
Facility Directors..............................             408               2            0.42             343
Clinical Directors..............................             408               2            0.42             343
Counselors......................................             408               2            0.42             343
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      Total.....................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,085
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    Proposed Project: State Treatment Needs Assessment Studies--New--
SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), as part of its 
State Treatment and Needs Assessment Program (STNAP), awards contracts 
to States to conduct studies for the purpose of determining the need 
and demand for substance abuse treatment within each State. In order to 
receive funds from the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block 
Grant, States must submit in their annual block grant applications an 
assessment of service needs Statewide, at the sub-state level, and for 
specified population groups (as required by Section 1929 of the Public 
Health Service Act). Most States plan to conduct an adult telephone 
household survey to collect information on needed treatment for 
substance abuse/dependence. In addition, many States plan to conduct a 
variety of more focused studies which will collect data on treatment 
need in special populations, including adolescents, pregnant women, 
injecting drug users, American Indians, arrestees and other criminal 
justice populations. The estimated annualized burden for the State 
needs assessment studies over the next three years is presented below.

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                                                      No. of                                                    
                                      No. of        responses/    Hours/response   Total burden     Annualized  
                                    respondents     respondent                         hours       burden hours 
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Adult Household Telephone                                                                                       
 Surveys........................          54,400               1             0.5          27,200           9,067
Adolescent Surveys..............          25,800               1             0.5          12,900           4,300
Criminal justice populations....           9,050               1             1.0           9,050           3,017
Medicaid recipients.............           7,800               1             0.5           3,900           1,300
Other population groups.........           8,100               1             1.0           8,100           2,700
Treatment providers.............             255               1             1.0             255              85
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      Total.....................  ..............  ..............  ..............          61,405          20,469
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    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

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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.
    Send comments to Deborah Trunzo, 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: January 30, 1998.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 98-2823 Filed 2-4-98; 8:45 am]
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