[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 165 (Friday, August 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50380-50381]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16989]


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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 summary 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 (240) 276-1243.

Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) (OMB No. 0930-
0106)--Revision

    The DASIS consists of three related data systems: The Inventory of 
Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS); the National Survey of 
Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), and the Treatment Episode 
Data Set (TEDS). The I-SATS includes all substance abuse treatment 
facilities known to SAMHSA. The N-SSATS is an annual survey of all 
substance abuse treatment facilities listed in the I-SATS. The TEDS is 
a compilation of client-level admission data and discharge data 
submitted by States on clients treated in facilities that receive State 
funds. Together, the three DASIS components provide information on the 
location, scope and characteristics of all known drug and alcohol 
treatment facilities in the United States, the number of persons in 
treatment, and the characteristics of clients receiving services at 
publicly-funded facilities. This information is needed to assess the 
nature and extent of these resources, to identify gaps in services, to 
provide a database for treatment referrals, and to assess demographic 
and substance-related trends in treatment. In addition, SAMHSA and the 
State substance abuse officials participating in SAMHSA's December 2004 
meeting on National Outcome Measures (NOMS) agreed that several NOMS 
data elements to assess the performance of the Substance Abuse

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Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant will be collected in TEDS.
    The request for OMB approval includes a request to conduct the 2006 
N-SSATS survey and the 2006 Mini-N-SSATS. The Mini-N-SSATS is a 
procedure for collecting services data from newly identified facilities 
between main cycles of the survey and will be used to improve the 
listing of treatment facilities in the on-line treatment facility 
Locator. The 2006 N-SSATS questionnaire will include several new items, 
including the addition of nicotine replacement therapy and psychiatric 
medications to the pharmacotherapies list and the addition of new 
services to the list of services provided. The request also includes a 
request to conduct a pretest of the 2007 N-SSATS questionnaire in 2006. 
The 2007 pretest questionnaire will include several changes, including 
the modification of the treatment categories to better reflect the 
practices and terminology currently used in the treatment field; 
modification of the detoxification question, including the addition of 
a follow-up question on whether the facility uses drugs in 
detoxification and for which substances; the addition of questions on 
treatment approaches and behavioral interventions; the addition of a 
question on quality control procedures used by the facility; and, the 
addition of a question on whether the facility accepts ATR vouchers and 
how many annual admissions were funded by ATR vouchers. Following the 
pretest of the 2007 N-SSATS, a separate request for OMB approval will 
be submitted for the 2007 and 2008 N-SSATS, including the Mini-N-SSATS 
for those years.
    The request for OMB approval will also include the addition of 
several new NOMS data elements to the TEDS client-level record. To the 
extent that states already collect the elements from their treatment 
providers, the following elements will be included in the TEDS data 
collection: Number of arrests at admission and at discharge; substances 
used/frequency of use at discharge; employment at discharge; and living 
arrangement at discharge.
    Estimated annual burden for the DASIS activities is shown below:

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                                                     Number of     Responses per     Hours per     Total burden
         Type of respondent and activity            respondents     respondent       response          hours
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States:
    TEDS Admission Data.........................              52               4               6           1,248
    TEDS Discharge Data.........................              40               4               8           1,280
    TEDS Discharge Crosswalks...................               5               1              10              50
    I-SATS Update...............................              56              67             .08             300
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        State subtotal..........................              56  ..............  ..............           2,878
Facilities:.....................................
    I-SATS Update...............................             100               1             .08               8
    Pretest of N-SSATS revisions................             200               1             .17              34
    N-SSATS questionnaire.......................          17,000               1              .2           3,400
    Augmentation screener.......................           1,000               1             .08              80
    Mini-N-SSATS................................             700               1             .13              91
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        Facility subtotal.......................          19,000  ..............  ..............           3,613
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            Total...............................          19,056  ..............  ..............           6,491
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by September 26, 2005 to: SAMHSA 
Desk Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503; due to potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing of mail 
sent through the U.S. Postal Service, respondents are encouraged to 
submit comments by fax to: 202-395-6974.

    Dated: August 12, 2005.
Anna Marsh,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 05-16989 Filed 8-25-05; 8:45 am]
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