[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 155 (Friday, August 10, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39766-39767]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-17126]


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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 at (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.

Project: Minority AIDS Initiative-Management Reporting Tools (MAI-MRTs)

OMB No. 0930-0357--Revision

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is requesting 
from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the 
revision of Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) monitoring tools, which 
includes both youth and adult questionnaires as well as the quarterly 
progress report. This revision includes the inclusion of new cohorts, 
substantial revisions to the youth and adult questionnaires, updates to 
the data used to estimate response rates and expected numbers of 
participants by service duration (see Table 1 below).
    The cohorts of grantees funded by the MAI and included in this 
clearance request are:

 Capacity Building Initiative (CBI) 2015
 Capacity Building Initiative (CBI) 2016
 Capacity Building Initiative (CBI) 2017
 Capacity Building Initiative (CBI) 2018
 Prevention Navigators 2017
 Secretary's Minority AIDS Initiative Fund (SMAIF) 2018

    The target population for the CBI grantees will be at-risk minority 
adolescents and young adults. All MAI grantees are expected to report 
their monitoring data using SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework 
(SPF) and to target minority populations, as well as other high risk 
groups residing in communities of color with high prevalence of 
Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS. The primary objectives of the monitoring 
tools include:

 Assess the success of the MAI in reducing risk factors and 
increasing protective factors associated with the transmission of the 
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and other 
sexually-transmitted diseases (STD).
 Measure the effectiveness of evidence-based programs and 
infrastructure development activities such as: Outreach and training, 
mobilization of key stakeholders, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS 
counseling and education, testing, referrals to appropriate medical 
treatment and/or other intervention strategies (i.e., cultural 
enrichment activities, educational and vocational resources, social 
marketing campaigns, and computer-based curricula).
 Investigate intervention types and features that yield the 
best outcomes for specific population groups.
 Assess the extent to which access to health care was enhanced 
for population groups and individuals vulnerable to behavioral health 
disparities residing in communities targeted by funded interventions.
 Assess the process of adopting and implementing the SPF with 
the target populations.

    Revisions to the monitoring tools include the following:

Quarterly Progress Report (QPR)

 Removed Numbers Served, HIV Testing, VH Testing, VH 
Vaccination, and Referrals for Services Not Funded by MAI funds from 
the Implementation Section. These data will be collected via the 
participant level
 Added opioid items to lists for targeted outcome measures, 
name of direct services list, indirect services--environmental strategy 
list and environmental strategy purpose
 Added Promising Approaches and Innovations Section (2 
questions)
 Added upload screen for Final Evaluation Report (for closeout 
grantees only) tool

    The following two tools have been added to this data collection, 
but were approved under OMB No. 0930-0347 with the exception of the new 
items listed below. Items that were removed are due to their not being 
central to the evaluation.

Adult Questionnaire

 Aligned questions with the Center for Substance Abuse 
Treatment (CSAT)/Center for Mental Health Service (CMHS) tools & the 
Rapid HIV Hepatitis Form, where possible
 Removed some demographic questions related to language, 
education, employment status, health,

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military details, and relationship status
 Removed some knowledge & attitude questions about peer 
behavior & how they feel about it, sex refusal skills, & HIV knowledge
 Removed some behavior questions related to other tobacco 
products, electronic vapor products, synthetic marijuana, mental 
health, and experience with alcohol use.
 Added opioid drug questions
 Added questions to capture details on the intervention and the 
referrals to the record management section (completed by grantee staff)

Youth Questionnaire

    In addition to all items listed above, on the youth questionnaire, 
SAMHSA also removed non-essential questions related to:

 Interest in school & feelings about ethnic identity
 Relationships with parents or guardians
 Friend substance abuse and sexual behavior
 Exposure to prevention education messages

    The following two tools have been deleted from this data 
collection:

 Indirect Service Outcomes (ISO)
 HIV Testing Retrospective Reporting Tool

                                  Table 1--Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden
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                                    Number of     Responses per        Total         Hours per     Total burden
  Type of respondent activity      respondents      respondent       responses       response          hours
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Quarterly Progress Report......             155                4             620               4           2,480
Adult level questionnaire......          12,000                2          24,000             .20           4,800
Youth questionnaire............           3,000                2           6,000             .20             600
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    Total......................          15,155  ...............          30,620  ..............           7,880
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    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15E57-B, Rockville, Maryland 20857, OR email a 
copy to [email protected]. Written comments should be received 
by October 9, 2018.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2018-17126 Filed 8-9-18; 8:45 am]
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