[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 15165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6907]


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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.

Treatment Improvement Protocol Evaluation: Addiction Technology 
Transfer Center Study

    New--The ATTC Study is a special study under the ongoing TIPs 
Evaluation Project. Since 1993, SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse 
Treatment (CSAT) has published 36 Treatment Improvement Protocols, or 
TIPs, which provide consensus-based 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.
    A qualitative study, the ATTC study will elicit data related to 
assessing both actual use, and usefulness, of TIPs, TAPs and other CSAT 
products in developing curricula and other knowledge application 
products for ATTCs. Data will be collected through intensive interviews 
with both ATTC faculty and curriculum developers at six of the 13 
ATTCs. Purposive sampling will be used to identify appropriate 
participants; ATTC Directors will recommend faculty/curriculum 
developers for participation. Prior to the interview process, faculty 
and curriculum developers will be asked to complete a brief 
questionnaire. 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 
participation in a study introduction phone call (15 minutes); written 
responses to a brief questionnaire, including mailing it back to the 
contractor (30 minutes); and subsequent participation in an indepth 
interview (1\1/2\ hours). Burden attributed to the ATTC Directors of 
the six selected ATTCs includes time spent assisting the study team 
with background information, site visit coordination, and identifying 
and discussing possible participants for interviews.

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                                                      No. of        Responses/        Hours/
                                                    respondents     respondent       response      Burden hours
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Faculty/Curriculum Developers...................              90               1           *2.25          202.50
ATTC Directors..................................               6               1            0.50            3.00
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    Total.......................................              96  ..............  ..............         205.50
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*includes travel time.

    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, DC 
20503.

    Dated: March 15, 2000.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMSHA.
[FR Doc. 00-6907 Filed 3-20-00; 8:45 am]
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