[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 4 (Monday, January 8, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 794-796]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-22576]


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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.
    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

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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 (71 FR 
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:

                                                         Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden \1\
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                                             Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per      Total hour     Added burden    Total annual
       Center/form/respondent type          respondents     respondent       responses       response         burden      proportion \2\   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             .72           4,990
  FY2008................................           3,000               3           9,000             .33           2,970             .72           2,138
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        CSAP Subtotal...................          10,000               3          30,000             .33           9,900             .72           7,128
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    CSAP Annualized Subtotal............           5,000  ..............          15,000  ..............  ..............  ..............           3,564
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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): \3\
  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
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        SBIRT Client Subtotal...........         187,497  ..............         261,255  ..............          37,456  ..............           3,006
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    Client Subtotal.....................         219,397  ..............         360,855  ..............  ..............  ..............          13,853
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Data Extract by Grants: \4\
  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 \5\..............................        5 grants  ..............         171,639       1 hr. per              29  ..............              29
                                                                                           6,000 records
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    Upload Subtotal.....................        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  ..............  ..............  ..............         20,170
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NOTES:
1. This table represents the maximum additional burden if adult respondents provide three sets of responses/data and if CSAT adolescent respondents
  provide four sets of responses/data.
2. Added burden proportion is an adjustment reflecting customary and usual business practices programs engage in (e.g., they already collect the data
  items).

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3. 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.
4. Data Extract by Grants: Grant burden for capturing customary and usual data.
5. Upload: 5 of the 7 SBIRT grants upload data; the other 2 grants conduct direct data entry.
6. Estimate based on $5.15 for program staff and $15 for IT staff.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by February 5, 2007 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: December 22, 2006.
Elaine Parry,
Acting Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. E6-22576 Filed 1-5-07; 8:45 am]
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