[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 215 (Monday, November 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60822-60823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29109]


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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) 443-7978.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of 
information are 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.--Use of Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs) 
and Technical Assistance Publications (TAPs) by Faculty and Curriculum 
Developers Associated with the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers 
(ATTCs)--New--The ATTC Study is a special study under the ongoing TIPs 
Evaluation Project. Since 1992, SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse 
Treatment (CSAT) has published 33 Treatment Improvement Protocols, or 
TIPs, which provide administrative and clinical practice guidance to 
the substance abuse treatment field; and 23 Technical Assistance 
Publications (TAPs), which are publications, manuals, and guides 
developed by experts with first-hand experience to offer practical 
responses to emerging issues and concerns in the substance abuse 
treatment field.
    Configured as a mixed methodologies, multi-site case study, the 
ATTC study will elicit process and descriptive data related to 
assessing both actual use, and usefulness, of TIPs and TAPs in 
developing curricula and other knowledge application products for 
ATTCs. Data will be collected through on-site activities at six of the 
13 ATTCs. Those activities will include intensive, on-site interviews 
with both ATTC curriculum developers and faculty/trainers identified by 
directors of the selected ATTC sites and through ``snowball'' sampling 
techniques; additional, brief interviews with curriculum developers and 
faculty/trainers identified by directors of the selected sites and 
through snowball sampling techniques; a brief demographic survey form 
to be filled out by all respondents; list-building/ranking and other 
special techniques, to be incorporated into the more intensive 
interviews; and small group discussions. Measures will be primarily 
descriptive and process, for example, whether, and if so, which, TIPs 
and TAPs have been or are being used in development of ATTC curricula; 
how and to what extent TIPs and TAPs are used; faculty/trainers' and 
curriculum developers' perceptions regarding the advantages and 
disadvantages of using TIPs and TAPs; and their impressions and 
suggestions concerning the content and format of TIPs and TAPs.
    Burden for faculty/trainers and curriculum developers includes 
written responses to a brief demographic questionnaire, including 
faxing or mailing it back (est.10-15 minutes); subsequent participation 
in a brief (\1/2\ hour) or longer one-on-one, semi-structured interview 
(est.1-1 \1/2\ hours), or in a small group discussion on site (1 hour); 
and round-trip travel to the interview/group discussion site. Burden 
attributed to Facility Directors for the 13 ATTCs includes time spent 
assisting the study team before and during the site visit, including 
identifying and discussing possible participants for interviews and 
group discussions. Burden for the National ATTC involves time spent 
assisting the study team in tracking ATTCs' replies to a request for 
information and sample products.

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                                                                    Number. of
                   Respondents                       Number of      responses/    Hours/response   Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent                         hours
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Faculty/trainers................................              54               2         * 1.125             122
Curriculum developers...........................              54               2         * 1.125             122
Facility Director...............................              13               1            .5                 7
National ATTC...................................               1               1           1                   1
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    Total.......................................             122  ..............  ..............             252
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* Includes travel time

    Send comments to Nancy Pearce, 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: November 1, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-29109 Filed 11-5-99; 8:45 am]
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