[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 191 (Thursday, October 2, 2014)]
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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.

Project: Common Data Platform (CDP)--NEW

    The Common Data Platform (CDP) includes new instruments for the 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The 
CDP will replace separate data collection instruments used for 
reporting Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) 
measures: The TRansformation ACcountability (TRAC) Reporting System 
(OMB No. 0930-0285) used by the Center for Mental Health Services 
(CMHS); the Prevention Management Reporting and Training System 
(PMRTS--OMB No. 0930-0279) used by the Center for Substance Abuse 
Prevention (CSAP); and the Services Accountability and Improvement 
System (SAIS--OMB No. 0930-0208) used by the Center for Substance Abuse 
Treatment (CSAT).
    The CDP will also include two grantee-level data collection forms 
approved by consensus of offices and Centers within SAMHSA as well as 
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): the Infrastructure, 
Prevention, and Mental Health Promotion (IPP) Form used by a subset of 
CMHS grantees and the Aggregate Tool used by CSAT's Addiction 
Technology Transfer Center (ATCC) grantees.
    Approval of this information collection will allow SAMHSA to 
continue to meet Government Performance and Results Modernization Act 
of 2010 (GPRAMA) reporting requirements and analyses of the data will 
help SAMHSA determine whether progress is being made in achieving its 
mission. The primary purpose of this data collection system is to 
promote the use of common data elements among SAMHSA grantees and 
contractors. The common elements were recommended by consensus among 
SAMHSA Centers and Offices. Analyses of these data will allow SAMHSA to 
quantify effects and accomplishments of its discretionary grant 
programs which are consistent with the OMB-approved GPRA measures and 
address goals and objectives outlined in the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy's Performance Measures of Effectiveness and the SAMHSA 
Strategic Initiatives.
    The CDP will be a real-time, performance management system that 
captures information on substance abuse treatment and prevention and 
mental health services delivered in the United States. A wide range of 
client and program information will be captured through CDP for 
approximately 3,000 grants (2,224 for CMHS; 642 for CSAT; 122 for CSAP; 
and 33 for HIV Continuum of Care). Substance abuse treatment 
facilities, mental health service providers, and substance abuse 
prevention programs will submit their data in real-time or on a monthly 
or a weekly basis to ensure that the CDP is an accurate, up-to-date 
reflection on the scope of services delivered and characteristics of 
the clients.
    In order to carry out section 1105(a) (29) of GPRA, SAMHSA is 
required to prepare a performance plan for its major programs of 
activity. This plan must:
     Establish performance goals to define the level of 
performance to be achieved by a program activity;
     Express such goals in an objective, quantifiable, and 
measurable form;
     Briefly describe the operational processes, skills and 
technology, and the human, capital, information, or other resources 
required to meet the performance goals;
     Establish performance indicators to be used in measuring 
or assessing the relevant outputs, service levels, and outcomes of each 
program activity;
     Provide a basis for comparing actual program results with 
the established performance goals; and
     Describe the means to be used to verify and validate 
measured values.
    This CDP data collection supports the GPRAMA, which requires 
overall organization management to improve agency performance and 
achieve the mission and goals of the agency through the use of 
strategic and performance planning, measurement, analysis, regular 
assessment of progress, and use of performance information to improve 
the results achieved. Specifically, this

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data collection will allow SAMHSA to have the capacity to report on a 
consistent set of performance measures across its various grant 
programs that conduct each of these activities.
    SAMHSA's legislative mandate is to increase access to high quality 
substance abuse and mental health prevention and treatment services and 
to improve outcomes. Its mission is to reduce the impact of substance 
abuse and mental illness on America's communities. SAMHSA's vision is 
to provide leadership and devote its resources--programs, policies, 
information and data, contracts and grants--toward helping the Nation 
act on the knowledge that:
     Behavioral health is essential for health;
     Prevention works;
     Treatment is effective; and
     People recover from mental and substance use disorders.
    In order to improve the lives of people within communities, SAMHSA 
has many roles:
     Providing Leadership and Voice by developing policies; 
convening stakeholders; collaborating with people in recovery and their 
families, providers, localities, Tribes, Territories, and States; 
collecting best practices and developing expertise around behavioral 
health services; advocating for the needs of persons with mental and 
substance use disorders; and emphasizing the importance of behavioral 
health in partnership with other agencies, systems, and the public.
     Promoting change through Funding and Service Capacity 
Development. Supporting States, Territories, and Tribes to build and 
improve basic and proven practices and system capacity; helping local 
governments, providers, communities, coalitions, schools, universities, 
and peer-run and other organizations to innovate and address emerging 
issues; building capacity across grantees; and strengthening States', 
Territories', Tribes', and communities' emergency response to 
disasters.
     Supporting the field with Information/Communications by 
conducting and sharing information from national surveys and 
surveillance (e.g., National Survey on Drug Use and Health [NSDUH], 
Drug Abuse Warning Network [DAWN], Behavioral Health Service 
Information System [BHSIS]); vetting and sharing information about 
evidence-based practices (e.g., National Registry of Evidence-based 
Programs and Practices [NREPP]); using the Web, print, social media, 
public appearances, and the press to reach the public, providers (e.g., 
primary, specialty, guilds, peers), and other stakeholders; and 
listening to and reflecting the voices of people in recovery and their 
families.
     Protecting and promoting behavioral health through 
Regulation and Standard Setting by preventing tobacco sales to minors 
(Synar Program); administering Federal drug-free workplace and drug-
testing programs; overseeing opioid treatment programs and 
accreditation bodies; informing physicians' office-based opioid 
treatment prescribing practices; and partnering with other HHS agencies 
in regulation development and review.
     Improving Practice (i.e., community-based, primary care, 
and specialty care) by holding State, Territorial, and Tribal policy 
academies; providing technical assistance to States, Territories, 
Tribes, communities, grantees, providers, practitioners, and 
stakeholders; convening conferences to disseminate practice information 
and facilitate communication; providing guidance to the field; 
developing and disseminating evidence-based practices and successful 
frameworks for service provision; supporting innovation in evaluation 
and services research; moving innovations and evidence-based approaches 
to scale; and cooperating with international partners to identify 
promising approaches to supporting behavioral health.
    Each of these roles complements SAMHSA's legislative mandate. All 
of SAMHSA's programs and activities are geared toward the achievement 
of its mission, and performance monitoring is a collaborative and 
cooperative aspect of this process. SAMHSA will strive to coordinate 
its efforts to further its mission with ongoing performance measurement 
development activities.
    Reports, to be made available on the SAMHSA Web site and by 
request, will inform staff on the grantees' ability to serve their 
target populations and meet their client and budget targets. SAMHSA CDP 
data will also provide grantees with information that can guide 
modifications to their service array. Approval of this information 
collection will allow SAMHSA to continue to meet Government Performance 
and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) reporting requirements that quantify the 
effects and accomplishments of its discretionary grant programs which 
are consistent with OMB guidance.
    Based on current funding and planned fiscal year 2015 notice of 
funding announcements (NOFA), SAMHSA programs will use these measures 
in fiscal years 2015 through 2017.
    CSAP will use CDP measures for the HIV Minority AIDS Initiative 
(MAI), Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIG), 
and Partnerships for Success (PFS).
    CMHS will use the CDP measures to collect client-level data for the 
following programs: Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for 
Children and their Families (CMHI); Healthy Transitions (HT); National 
Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) Community Treatment Centers; 
Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grants (MH SIG); Minority 
AIDS/HIV Services Collaborative Program; Primary and Behavioral Health 
Care Integration (PBHCI); Services in Supportive Housing (SSH); Systems 
of Care (SoC); and Transforming Lives Through Supportive Employment. In 
addition, grantees in the PBHCI program will complete an additional 
data collection tool that is specific to their program.
    CMHS programs that will use the CDP to collect grantee-level IPP 
indicators include: Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education 
(Project AWARE); Circles of Care; Comprehensive Community Mental Health 
Services for Children and their Families (CMHI); Garrett Lee Smith 
Campus Suicide Prevention Program; Garrett Lee Smith State/Tribal 
Suicide Prevention Program; Healthy Transitions Program; Linking 
Actions for Unmet Needs in Children's Mental Health (LAUNCH); National 
Suicide Prevention Lifeline; NCTSI Treatment and Service Centers; NCTSI 
Community Treatment Centers; NCTSI National Coordinating Center; Mental 
Health Transformation Grant Program; Minority AIDS/HIV Services 
Collaborative Program; Minority Fellowship Program; PBHCI; Safe 
Schools/Healthy Students; Services in Supportive Housing; State Mental 
Health Data Infrastructure Grants for Quality Improvement; Statewide 
Consumer Network Grants; Statewide Family Network Grants; Suicide 
Lifeline Crisis Center Follow Up; Systems of Care; Transforming Lives 
Through Supported Employment; Native Connections; Now is the Time: 
Minority Fellowship Program- Youth; Cooperative Agreements to Implement 
the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities Center for Excellence in Behavioral Health; 
and Statewide Peer Networks for Recovery and Resilience.
    CSAT will use the CDP measures with the following programs: 
Assertive Adolescent and Family Treatment (AAFT); Access to Recovery 3 
(ATR3); Adult Treatment Court Collaboratives (ATCC); Enhancing Adult 
Drug Court Services, Coordination and Treatment (EADCS); Offender 
Reentry Program

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(ORP); Treatment Drug Court (TDC); Office of Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention--Juvenile Drug Courts (OJJDP-JDC); Teen Court 
Program (TCP); HIV/AIDS Outreach Program; Targeted Capacity Expansion 
Program for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services (TCE-HIV); 
Addictions Treatment for the Homeless (AT-HM); Cooperative Agreements 
to Benefit Homeless Individuals (CABHI); Cooperative Agreements to 
Benefit Homeless Individuals--States (CABHI- States); Recovery-Oriented 
Systems of Care (ROSC); Targeted Capacity Expansion- Peer to Peer 
(TCE--PTP); Pregnant and Postpartum Women (PPW); Screening, Brief 
Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT); Targeted Capacity 
Expansion (TCE); Targeted Capacity Expansion- Health Information 
Technology (TCE-HIT); Targeted Capacity Expansion Technology Assisted 
Care (TCE-TAC); Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTC); 
International Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (I-ATTC); State 
Adolescent Treatment Enhancement and Dissemination (SAT-ED); Grants to 
Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in Adult Tribal Healing to 
Wellness Courts and Juvenile Drug Courts; and Grants for the Benefit of 
Homeless Individuals--Services in Supportive Housing (GBHI).
    SAMHSA will also use the CDP to collect CMHS client-level measures 
and IPP information from the HIV Continuum of Care program, which is 
funded by CSAP, CMHS, and CSAT.
    SAMHSA uses performance measures to report on the performance of 
its discretionary services grant programs. The performance measures are 
used by individuals at three different levels: the SAMHSA administrator 
and staff, the Center administrators and government project officers, 
and grantees.
    SAMHSA and its Centers will use the data for annual reporting 
required by GPRA, for grantee performance monitoring, for SAMHSA 
reports and presentations, and for analyses comparing baseline with 
discharge and follow-up data. GPRA requires that SAMHSA's report for 
each fiscal year include actual results of performance monitoring. The 
information collected through the CDP will allow SAMHSA to report on 
the results of these performance outcomes. Reporting will be consistent 
with specific SAMHSA performance domains to assess the accountability 
and performance of its discretionary grant programs.

  Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden--Common Data Platform Client Outcome Measures for Discretionary Programs
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                                     Number of     Responses per   Total number    Burden hours    Total burden
      SAMHSA program title          respondents     respondent     of responses    per response        hours
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HIV Continuum of Care (CSAP,                 200               2             400            0.67             268
 CMHS, CSAT funding)--specific
 Form...........................
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                                           Client-Level Services Forms
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CSAP:
    HIV-Minority AIDS Initiative          18,041               4          72,164            0.38          27,422
     (MAI)......................
    SPF SIG/Community Level.....             122               4             488            0.38             185
    SPF SIG/Program Level.......             510               4           2,040            0.38             775
    PFS/Community Level.........             550               4           2,200            0.38             836
    PFS/Program Level...........             111               4             444            0.38             169
CMHS:
    Comprehensive Community                3,431               2           6,862            0.45           3,088
     Mental Health Services for
     Children and their Families
     Program (CMHI).............
    HIV Continuum of Care (CoC).           1,500               2           3,000            0.45            1350
    Healthy Transitions (HT)....           1,600               2           3,200            0.45           1,440
    NCTSI Community Treatment              1,856               1           1,856            0.45             835
     Centers (NCTSI)............
    Mental Health Transformation           2,975               1           2,975            0.45           1,339
     State Incentive Grant (MH
     SIG).......................
    Minority AIDS/HIV Services             2,844               2           5,688            0.45           2,560
     Collaborative Program......
    Primary and Behavioral                14,000               2          28,000            0.50          14,000
     Health Care Integration
     (PBHCI)....................
    Services in Supportive                 4,975               2           9,950            0.45           4,478
     Housing (SSH)..............
    Systems of Care (SoC).......           1,164               1           1,164            0.45             524
    Transforming Lives Through             1,500               2           3,000            0.45           1,350
     Supported Employment.......
CSAT:
    Assertive Adolescent and                 303               3             909            0.47             427
     Family Treatment (AAFT)....
    Access to Recovery 3 (ATR3).         239,186               1         239,186            0.47         112,417
    Adult Treatment Court                  1,078               3           3,234            0.47           1,520
     Collaboratives (ATCC)......
    Enhancing Adult Drug Court             4,664               3          13,992            0.47           6,576
     Services, Coordination, and
     Treatment (EADCS CT).......
    Offender Reentry Program               1,843               3           5,529            0.47           2,599
     (ORP)......................
    Treatment Drug Court (TDC)..           5,996               3          17,988            0.47           8,454
    Office of Juvenile Justice               392               3           1,176            0.47             553
     and Delinquency Prevention--
     Juvenile Drug Courts (OJJDP-
     JDC).......................
    Teen Court Program (TCP)....           5,996               3          17,988            0.47           8,454
    HIV/AIDS Outreach Program              4,352               3          13,056            0.47           6,136
     (HIV-Outreach).............
    Targeted Capacity Expansion            4,885               3          14,655            0.47           6,888
     Program for Substance Abuse
     Treatment and HIV/AIDS
     Services (TCE-HIV).........
    Addictions Treatment for              10,636               3          31,908            0.47          14,997
     Homeless (AT-HM)...........
    Cooperative Agreements to              2,702               3           8,106            0.47           3,810
     Benefit Homeless
     Individuals (CABHI)........

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    Cooperative Agreements to                142               3             426            0.47             200
     Benefit Homeless
     Individuals--States (CABHI-
     States)....................
    Recovery-Oriented Systems of             846               3           2,538            0.47           1,193
     Care (ROSC)................
    Targeted Capacity Expansion--            827               3           2,481            0.47           1,166
     Peer to Peer (TCE-PTP).....
    Pregnant and Postpartum                1,719               3           5,157            0.47           2,424
     Women (PPW)................
    Screening Brief Intervention          59,419               3         178,257            0.47          83,781
     Referral and Treatment*
     (SBIRT)....................
    Targeted Capacity Expansion--          5,295               3          15,885            0.47           7,466
     Health Information
     Technology (TCE-HIT).......
    Targeted Capacity Expansion              346               3           1,038            0.47             488
     Technology Assisted Care
     (TCE-TAC)..................
    Addiction Technology                  32,676               3          98,028            0.47          46,073
     Transfer Centers (ATTC)....
    International Addiction                1,789               3           5,367            0.47           2,522
     Technology Transfer Centers
     (I-ATTC)...................
    State Adolescent Treatment               925               3           2,775            0.47           1,304
     Enhancement and
     Dissemination (SAT-ED).....
    Grants to Expand Substance               240               3             720            0.47             338
     Abuse Treatment Capacity In
     Adult Tribal Healing to
     Wellness Courts and
     Juvenile Drug Courts.......
    Grants for the Benefit of              1,960               3           5,880            0.47           2,764
     Homeless Individuals-
     Services in Supportive
     Housing (GBHI).............
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        Total Services--Client           443,596  ..............         829,710  ..............         383,169
         Level Instruments......
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CMHS Infrastructure, Prevention,
 and Mental Health Promotion
 (IPP) Form:
    Project AWARE...............             120               4             480               2             960
    Circles of Care.............              11               4              44               2              88
    Comprehensive Community                   69               4             276               2             552
     Mental Health Services for
     Children and their Families
     Program (CMHI).............
    Garrett Lee Smith Campus                 123               4             492               2             984
     Suicide Prevention Grant
     Program....................
    HIV Continuum of Care.......              33               4             132               2             264
    Garrett Lee Smith State/                 102               4             408               2             816
     Tribal Suicide Prevention
     Grant Program..............
    Healthy Transitions (HT)....              16               4              64               2             128
    Historically Black Colleges                1               4               4               2               8
     and Universities Center for
     Excellence in Behavioral
     Health.....................
    Linking Actions for Unmet                 54               4             216               2             432
     Needs in Children's Mental
     Health (LAUNCH)............
    National Suicide Prevention                2               4               8               2              16
     Lifeline...................
    NCTSI Treatment & Service                 32               4             128               2             256
     Centers....................
    NCTSI Community Treatment                 81               4             324               2             648
     Centers....................
    NCTSI National Coordinating                2               4               8               2              16
     Center.....................
    Mental Health Transformation              30               4             120               2             240
     Grant......................
    Minority AIDS/HIV Services                17               4              68               2             136
     Collaborative Program......
    Minority Fellowship Program.               9               4              36               2              72
    Primary and Behavioral                    70               4             280               2             560
     Health Care Integration....
    Safe Schools/Healthy                       7               4              28               2              56
     Students Initiative........
    Services in Supportive                     5               4              20               2              40
     Housing....................
    State Mental Health Data                   2               4               8               2              16
     Infrastructure Grants for
     Quality Improvement........
    Statewide Consumer Network                42               4             168               2             336
     Grants.....................
    Statewide Family Network                  53               4             212               2             424
     Grants.....................
    Suicide Lifeline Crisis                   27               4             108               2             216
     Center FUP Grants..........
    Systems of Care.............              31               4             124               2             248
    Transforming Lives Through                 6               4              24               2              48
     Supported Employment.......
    Native Connections..........              20               4              80               2             160
    Now Is the Time: Minority                  5               4              20               2              40
     Fellowship Program-Youth...
    Cooperative Agreements to                  4               4              16               2              32
     Implement the National
     Strategy for Suicide
     Prevention.................
    Statewide Peer Networks for                8               4              32               2              64
     Recovery and Resiliency....
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        Total IPP...............             982  ..............           3,928  ..............           7,856
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CSAP Aggregate Tool:
    Adult Treatment Court                      6               4              24             .25               6
     Collaborative (ATCC).......
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        Total SAMHSA............         444,584  ..............         833,662  ..............         389,901
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Notes:
1. Screening, Brief Intervention, Treatment and Referral (SBIRT) grant program: The estimated number of
  respondents is 10% of the total respondents, 742,740.
2. Numbers may not add to the totals due to rounding.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by November 3, 2014 to the SAMHSA 
Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). To ensure timely receipt of 
comments, and to avoid potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing 
of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commenters are encouraged 
to submit their comments to OMB via email to: 
[email protected]. Although commenters are encouraged to send 
their comments via email, commenters may also fax their comments to: 
202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: Office of Management 
and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive 
Office Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.

Summer King,
Statistician.
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