[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 178 (Thursday, September 14, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54298-54300]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-15254]


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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: GPRA Client Outcomes for the Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)--(OMB No. 0930-0208)--
Revision

    The mission of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA) is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency 
of substance abuse and mental health treatment and prevention services 
across the United States. All of SAMHSA's activities are designed to 
ultimately reduce the gap in the availability of substance abuse and 
mental health services and to improve their effectiveness and 
efficiency.
    Data are collected from all SAMHSA discretionary services grants 
and contracts where client/participant outcomes are to be assessed at 
three points (for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT): 
Intake, discharge, and post-intake and for the Center for Substance 
Abuse Prevention (CSAP): Pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 
follow-up). SAMHSA-funded projects are required to submit these data as 
a contingency of their award. The analysis of the data also will help 
determine whether the goal of reducing health and social costs of drug 
use to the public is being achieved.
    The primary purpose of this data collection activity is to meet the 
reporting requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act 
(GPRA) by allowing SAMHSA to quantify the effects and accomplishments 
of SAMHSA programs.
    The burden for the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) will be 
transferred from this data collection to its own separate Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) clearance. The 60-day Federal Register 
Notice for National Outcome Measures (NOMS) for Consumers Receiving 
Mental Health Services was published on Friday, June 9, 2006 (Vol. 71, 
No. 111, p. 33476).
    The burden for the CSAP gradually reduces due to the fact that this 
clearance request only pertains to a continuation of data collection 
for those grantees initially funded prior to FY2006. The new grantees 
(FY2006 and beyond) are approved under the NOMS for CSAP (OMB No. 0930-
0230).
    CSAT has no revisions to the instrument and the data collection 
time will remain the same but there is an increase in the number of 
respondents due to identifying the seven Screening, Brief Intervention, 
and Referral to Treatment program grantees that provide data uploads. 
The estimated annual response burden for this effort is provided in the 
table below:

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                                                        Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden \1-3\
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                                                           Responses per       Total         Hours per      Total hour     Added burden    Total annual
   Center/form/ respondent type    Number of respondents    respondent       responses       response         burden        proportion     burden hours
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                                            CSAP GPRA Participant Outcome Measures for Discretionary Programs
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Participants
    FY2007.......................  7,000................               3          21,000             .33           6,930  ..............           6,930
    FY2008.......................  3,000................               3           9,000             .33           2,970  ..............           2,970
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        CSAP Subtotal............  10,000...............               3          30,000             .33           9,900  ..............           9,900
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        CSAP Annualized Subtotal.  5,000................  ..............          15,000  ..............  ..............  ..............           4,950
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                                              CSAT GPRA Client Outcome Measures for Discretionary Programs
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Clients
    Adults.......................  28,000...............               3          84,000             .33          27,720             .33           9,148
    Adolescents..................  3,900................               4          15,600             .33           5,148             .33           1,699
Screening, Brief Intervention and
 Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)\4\
    Screening Only...............  150,618..............               1         150,618             .10          15,062            0                  0
    Brief Intervention...........  27,679...............               3          83,037             .16          13,286            0                  0
    Brief Tx & Referral to Tx....  9,200................               3          27,600             .33           9,108             .33           3,006
        SBIRT Client Subtotal....  187,497..............  ..............         261,255  ..............          37,456  ..............           3,006
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        Client Subtotal..........  254,497..............  ..............         360,855  ..............  ..............  ..............          13,853
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Data Extract by Grants\5\
    Adult Records................  400 grants...........          70 x 3             210             .16              34  ..............              34
    Adolescent Records...........  73 grants............          53 x 4             212             .16              34  ..............              34
Screening, Brief Intervention and
 Referral to Tx (SBIRT) Records
    Screening Only...............  7 grants.............      21,517 x 1          21,517             .05           1,076  ..............           1,076
    Brief Intervention...........  7 grants.............       3,954 x 3          11,862             .08             949  ..............             949
    Brief Tx & Referral to Tx....  7 grants.............       1,314 x 3           3,942             .16             631  ..............             631
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        Data Extract Subtotal....  480..................  ..............          37,743  ..............  ..............  ..............           2,724
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    Upload\6\....................  5 grants.............  ..............         171,639             (1)              29  ..............              29
        Upload Subtotal\6\.......  5 grants.............  ..............         171,639  ..............  ..............  ..............              29
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        CSAT Subtotal............  219,896..............  ..............         570,237  ..............  ..............  ..............          16,606
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        Total....................  224,896..............  ..............         585,237  ..............  ..............  ..............          21,556
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1. This table represents the maximum additional burden if adult respondents provide three sets of responses/data collections. CSAT adolescent
  respondents are expected to provide four sets of responses/data collections.
2. Added burden proportion is an adjustment reflecting customary and usual business practices programs engage in (e.g., they already collect the data
  items).
3. The minimum wage was used for calculating burden to respondents because employment status and level is variable for respondents normally served by
  these programs. A higher wage was used to calculate the burden for grants whose staff are employed at a higher rate.
4. Screening, Brief Intervention, Treatment and Referral (SBIRT) grant program:
*150,618 Screening Only (SO) respondents complete section A of the GPRA instrument, all of these items are asked during a customary and usual intake
  process resulting in zero burden; and
*27,679 Brief Intervention (BI) respondents complete sections A & B of the GPRA instrument, all of these items are asked during a customary and usual
  intake process resulting in zero burden; and
*9,200 Brief Treatment (BT) & Referral to Treatment (RT) respondents complete all sections of the GPRA instrument.
5. Data Extract by Grants: Grant burden for capturing customary and usual data.
6. Upload: 5 of the 7 SBIRT grants upload data; the other 2 grants conduct direct data entry.
7. 1 hr. per 6,000 records.


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    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: September 5, 2006.
Anna Marsh,
Director, Office of Program Services.
 [FR Doc. E6-15254 Filed 9-13-06; 8:45 am]
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