[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51330-51331]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24641]


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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.

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental Illness (PAIMI) 
Annual Program Performance Report (OMB No. 0930-0169, Revision)

    The Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness 
(PAIMI) Act, (42 U.S.C. Chapter 1114) authorized funds to support 
protection and advocacy services on behalf of individuals with mental 
illness and severe emotional disturbance who are at risk for abuse and 
neglect and other civil rights violations while under treatment in a 
residential facility. Under the PAIMI Act, formula grant awards are 
made to protection and advocacy (P&A) systems designated by the 
governors of the 50 states and 5 territories, and the District of 
Columbia to ensure that the rights of individuals with mental illness 
and severe emotional disturbance are not violated. The PAIMI Act 
requires P&A systems to file an annual report on their activities and 
accomplishments and to provide in the report information on such topics 
as, numbers of individuals served, types of complaints addressed, the 
number of intervention strategies used to resolve the presenting 
issues. The Act also requires that the P&A Advisory Council also submit 
an annual report that assesses the effectiveness of the services 
provided by P&A systems.
    SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is revising the 
PAIMI Annual Program Performance Report for the following reasons: (1) 
to make it consistent with the revised annual program report format 
used by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, 
Administration on Children and Families; and, (2) to conform to the 
GPRA requirements that the reporting burden to the States be reduced. 
CMHS is making no revisions to the PAIMI Annual Advisory Council 
Report.
    Revisions to the PAIMI Annual Program Performance Report include: 
(1) Deletion of financial expenditure and sub-contractor information, 
which P&A systems are required to submit annually to the SAMHSA Grants 
Management Office; (2) Deletion of items that are more appropriate for 
inclusion in the Guidance for Applicants (GFA), such as PAIMI program 
staff positions, by-laws and policies and procedures; (3) PAIMI staff, 
advisory council and governing board demographic information will be 
reduced to a comprehensive graph format; (4) All ``information not 
available'' statements will be deleted to ensure that P&A systems focus 
on gathering more accurate client data during the intake and referral 
process; (5) Sections such as, PAIMI program mechanisms for public 
comment, individual PAIMI clients, etc. will be reduced to a graph 
format similar to that approved by OMB for use by the Administration on 
Developmental Disabilities, Administration on Children and Families, 
which administers the Protection and Advocacy to the Developmentally 
Disabled (PADD) Program; (6) Case complaints and problems of the 
individuals served by the P&As will be modified to capture more 
accurate information on incidents of abuse, neglect and civil rights 
violations, such as the incidents of seclusion and restraint used in 
the emergency rooms of general hospitals on individuals with mental 
illness, co-occurring disorders and severe emotional disturbance, 
during transport

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to and from a residential treatment facility, etc.; and, (7) Sections 
focused on the types of intervention strategies, public education and 
awareness/training activities used by the P&As on behalf of the clients 
served will be placed in a chart format. The revised format will be 
effective for the report due on January 1, 2001. The annual burden 
estimate is as follows:

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                                                                     Number of
                                                     Number of     responses per     Hours per      Total hour
                                                    respondents     respondent       response         burden
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Annual Program Performance Report...............              56               1              26           1,456
Advisory Council Report.........................              56               1              10             560
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    Total.......................................             112                                           2,016
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Allison Eydt, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C. 
20503.

    Dated: September 15, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 99-24641 Filed 9-21-99; 8:45 am]
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