[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 26 (Tuesday, February 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6368-6369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3087]


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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 list 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 (301) 443-7978.

State Treatment and Needs Assessment Program Studies

    (OMB No. 0930-0186--Revision)--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

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adolescents, pregnant women, American Indians, arrestees and other 
criminal justice populations.
    This submission reflects changes to the previously approved annual 
burden for survey activities in two States previously funded (changes 
to their previously approved survey plans) and in the nine States 
receiving new contracts in FY 1998 that are engaging in primary data 
collection. The burden will be as presented below:

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                                                                      No. of
                                                  Total No. of      responses/    Hours/response    Annualized
                                                   respondents      respondent                     burden hours
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Previous submission............................          75,521              1              0.54          41,093
Decrease:
    (Adolescent Survey not being done).........          -3,000              1              0.55          -1,650
New Activities:
    Household Telephone Surveys................           5,567              1              0.55           3,062
    Criminal justice populations...............           1,423              1               .68             970
    Medicaid recipients........................           1,556              1              0.55             856
    Other population groups....................           2,013              1               .74           1,480
    Treatment providers........................             312              1               .72             226
    Treatment clients..........................             600              2.7             .51             820
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        Total..................................          83,992  ...............  ..............          46,857
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Daniel Chenok, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503.

    Dated: February 2, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-3087 Filed 2-8-99; 8:45 am]
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