[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 61 (Thursday, March 29, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 17190]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7730]



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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: Survey of Organized Consumer Self-Help Entities--
(OMB No. 0930-0214, extension)--The mutual support and self-help 
movement in the United States has mushroomed, and significant numbers 
of mental health consumer-operated businesses and services are 
emerging. Increasingly, these groups, organizations, and business are 
providing support and services to mental health consumers and family 
members as a complement to, or substitution for, traditional mental 
health services. The purposes of this project of SAMHSA's Center for 
Mental Health Services are to estimate the number of these mental 
health groups, organizations, and businesses nationwide and to describe 
their characteristics--structure, types of activities engaged in, 
approaches to well-being and recovery, resources, and linkages to other 
community groups, organizations, and businesses and services, such as 
the mental health service delivery system. The survey will gather 
information from a sample of approximately 3,900 mutual support groups 
and self-help organizations run by and for recipients of mental health 
services and/or their family members and consumer-operated businesses 
and services. Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) will be 
used to conduct interviews with in-scope groups, organizations and 
businesses. This extension will allow for completion of the survey. The 
total response burden estimate is shown below.

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                                                                                      Average
                   Instrument                        Number of      Responses/        burden/      Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent    response (Hrs)       (Hrs)
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Universe Development Contacts...................            2736               1             .17             465
Screener........................................           3,933               1             .17             668
Questionaire....................................           3,933               1             .42           1,652
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           2,785
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    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: March 22, 2001.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 01-7730 Filed 3-28-01; 8:45 am]
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