[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15165-15166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6908]


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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.

Registration Form for the National Registry of Effective Prevention 
Programs

    New--Section 515(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
290bb-21) requires that the Director of SAMHSA's Center for Substance 
Abuse Prevention (CSAP) establish a national data base providing 
information on programs for the prevention of substance abuse and 
specifies that the data base shall contain information appropriate for 
use by public entities and information appropriate for use by nonprofit 
private entities. Since 1994, CSAP has met this responsibility through 
the High Risk Populations Databank on programs for the prevention of 
substance abuse funded by direct CSAP grants. Because relatively few 
direct grants of this type have been issued in recent years, CSAP must 
expand its information collection to include voluntary submission of 
descriptions of effective substance abuse prevention conducted by state 
and local governments, nonprofit entities, and the private sector.
    CSAP has developed a template to enable practitioners who have 
evidence that their program reduces risk factors or increases 
protective factors pertaining to substance abuse to nominate their own 
standardized program for the

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Registry. Each program that is nominated should have been standardized 
(including curriculum manuals, implementation manuals, videotapes, 
etc.), well implemented, and findings should derive from well designed 
research efforts. Program models nominated will be reviewed and rated 
by experts annually to be recommended to the field.
    CSAP will promote selected models by providing funds to support 
development of program materials for dissemination, by connecting 
program developers with organizations able to help in the dissemination 
efforts, and by promoting model programs nationally through CSAP's 
State Incentive Grant recipients and regional Centers for Applied 
Prevention Technology. Annual burden estimates for the Registry are 
shown in the table below.

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                                                      No. of        Responses/        Hours/       Total burden
               Type of submission                   respondents     respondent       response          hours
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Complete........................................             250               1            1.25             313
Abbreviated.....................................              10               1             .25               2
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    Total.......................................             260  ..............  ..............             315
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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, DC 
20503.

    Dated: March 15, 2000.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 00-6908 Filed 3-20-00; 8:45 am]
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