[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34959-34960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-14198]


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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

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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 (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: Projects for Assistance in Transition From 
Homelessness (PATH) Program Annual Report (OMB No. 0930-0205)--Revision

    The Center for Mental Health Services awards grants each fiscal 
year to each of the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from allotments authorized 
under the PATH program established by Public Law 101-645, 42 U.S.C. 
290cc-21 et seq., the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance 
Amendments Act of 1990 (section 521 et seq. of the Public Health 
Service (PHS) Act). Section 522 of the PHS Act requires that the 
grantee States and Territories must expend their payments under the Act 
solely for making grants to political subdivisions of the State, and to 
non-profit private entities (including community-based veterans' 
organizations and other community organizations) for the purpose of 
providing services specified in the Act. Available funding is allotted 
in accordance with the formula provision of section 524 of the PHS Act.
    This submission is for a revision of the current approval of the 
annual grantee reporting requirements. Section 528 of the PHS Act 
specifies that not later than January 31 of each fiscal year, a funded 
entity will prepare and submit a report in such form and containing 
such information as is determined necessary for securing a record and 
description of the purposes for which amounts received under section 
521 were expended during the preceding fiscal year and of the 
recipients of such amounts and determining whether such amounts were 
expended in accordance with statutory provisions.
    The proposed changes to the PATH Annual Report Survey are as 
follows:
1. Format
    To create a PATH report that is easier to read, the formatting has 
been modified to be more table driven. In addition, the language has 
been made more concise. Although the online form and report is close in 
flow to the previous report, it is necessary to thoroughly read all 
reporting instructions to insure proper data entry.
2. Estimated Counts
    The new PATH report does not include entry of estimated counts. 
Only actual counts should be entered.
3. Homelessness Management Information System (HMIS) Data Integration
    The Data section of the report is expected to be propagated from 
the local HMIS when providers use HMIS. This includes client counts, 
services, referrals, and demographics. This data will be automatically 
aggregated from client-level data.
4. Demographic Responses
    In order to facilitate integration of PATH data into HMIS, all data 
responses have been modified to fully align with valid HMIS responses. 
For example, the ``Hispanic'' response has been separated from ``Race'' 
and placed in ``Ethnicity.''
5. Additional Data Items
    The PATH report now tracks demographic data for persons contacted, 
as well as those enrolled. For services and referrals, in addition to 
gathering the number of enrolled persons receiving the service or 
referral, there is a total count of the number of times that particular 
service was provided or referral made.
6. Voluntary Outcome Measures
    The data previously entered as voluntary outcome measures has now 
been moved to the referral section of the report and are no longer 
considered ``voluntary.''
    The estimated annual burden for these reporting requirements is 
summarized in the table below.

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                                              Number of        Responses/        Burden per
               Respondents                   respondents       respondent     response  (hrs.)    Total burden
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States..................................                56                 1                19             1,064
Local provider agencies.................               503                 1                34            17,102
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    Total...............................               559  ................  ................            18,166
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    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 8-1099. One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 or email a copy 
to [email protected]. Written comments must be received before 
60 days after the date of the publication in the Federal Register.

Summer King,
Statistician.
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