[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 111 (Friday, June 9, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33475-33476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-8989]


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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 (SAMHSA) 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 (240) 276-1243.
    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: Drug and Alcohol Services Information System 
(DASIS)--(OMB No. 0930-0106)--Revision

    The request for OMB approval will be a supplement to the full DASIS 
request approved on November 8, 2005, and will be submitted in 
accordance with the Terms of Clearance in that 2005 OMB Notice of 
Action. The supplemental submission will request extension and revision 
of DASIS, including approval to revise and conduct the National Survey 
of Substance Abuse Treatment Services

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(N-SSATS) following a pretest of the 2007 questionnaire changes. The 
request will revise only the N-SSATS-related portion of the DASIS data 
collection. There will be no changes to the other DASIS components.
    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.
    The request for OMB approval will include changes to the N-SSATS 
survey and the Mini-N-SSATS. The Mini-N-SSATS is a procedure for 
collecting services data from newly identified facilities between main 
cycles of the N-SSATS survey and will be used to improve the listing of 
treatment facilities in the on-line treatment facility Locator. The 
request will include the following changes to the 2007 N-SSATS 
questionnaire, as refined by the pretest findings: 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 
clinical practices; 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. The request will also include 
changes to the Mini-N-SSATS questionnaire to add a question on 
treatment approaches, to modify the treatment categories to reflect 
more current practices and terminology, and to ask whether the facility 
accepts ATR vouchers. The remaining sections of the N-SSATS 
questionnaires will remain unchanged except for minor modifications to 
wording. The request for OMB approval will include a change in burden 
hours to include the full three years of N-SSATS and mini-N-SSATS data 
collection, now that the N-SSATS pretest has been completed. Also, the 
burden hours for the pretest are being dropped.
    No significant changes are expected in the other DASIS activities.
    The estimated annual burden for the DASIS activities is as follows:


    Note --only the estimates for N-SSATS-related activities are 
changing.


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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\1\.......................              56  ..............  ..............           2,878
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Facilities:
    I-SATS update...............................             100               1             .08               8
    N-SSATS questionnaire.......................          17,000               1             .67          11,390
    Augmentation screener.......................           1,000               1             .08              80
    Mini-N-SSATS................................             700               1             .42             294
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        Facility Subtotal.......................          19,000  ..............  ..............          11,772
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            Total...............................          19,056  ..............  ..............          14,650
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\1\ The burden for the listed State activities is unchanged from the currently approved level. Only the burden
  for N-SSATS and Mini-N-SSATS is changing, and the burden for the N-SSATS pretest, which is now complete, has
  been removed.

    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 7-1044, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857. Written 
comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

    Dated: June 1, 2006.
Anna Marsh,
Director, Office of Program Services.
 [FR Doc. E6-8989 Filed 6-8-06; 8:45 am]
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