[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 200 (Tuesday, October 16, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52226-52227]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-22446]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for Office 
of Management and Budget (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: State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis Grant Program 
Mid-Year and End-Year Performance Reports--(OMB No. 0930-0378)--in Use 
Without OMB Approval

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA) is authorized under Section 1003 of the 21st Century Cures 
Act, as amended, to support a grant program, for up to 2 years, that 
addresses the supplemental activities pertaining to opioids currently 
undertaken by the state agency or territory and will support a 
comprehensive response to the opioid epidemic.
    SAMHSA received approval from OMB in September 2017 to collect 
performance data from Opioid State Targeted Response (STR) grantees 
(OMB No. 0930-0378). However, SAMHSA omitted a data collection table 
(Table E) in the original OMB request. This data table is currently in 
use by Opioid STR grantees, who are reporting Table E data to SAMHSA on 
a semi-annual basis. In order to correct this violation, SAMHSA is now 
seeking OMB approval for a new data collection package that includes 
not only the instruments originally approved by OMB in September 2017, 
but also this additional data collection table. It is important for 
SAMHSA to continue to collect this information in order to assess the 
impact of funding from the Opioid STR program on increasing access to 
prevention strategies, as well as treatment and recovery services that 
address the opioid crisis. Additionally, this data will provide SAMHSA 
with critical information to effectively manage the Opioid STR program, 
to help states and territories adopt, or scale-up, effective practices 
and policies, and to help prepare to implement the new State Opioid 
Response grant program.
    The primary purpose of the Opioid STR program is to address the 
opioid crisis by increasing access to treatment, reducing unmet 
treatment need, and reducing opioid overdose related deaths through the 
provision of prevention, treatment and recovery activities for opioid 
use disorder (OUD) (including prescription opioids as well as illicit 
drugs such as heroin).
    There are 57 (states and jurisdictions) award recipients in this 
program. All funded states and jurisdictions are asked to report on 
their implementation and performance through an online data collection 
system. Award recipients report performance on the following measures 
specific to this program: Number of people who receive OUD treatment, 
number of people who receive OUD recovery services, number of providers 
implementing medication-assisted treatment, and the number of OUD 
prevention and treatment providers trained, to include nurse 
practitioners, physician assistants, as well as physicians, nurses, 
counselors, social workers, case managers, etc. This information is 
collected at the mid-point and conclusion of each grant award year. 
Additionally, each award recipient

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describes the purposes for which the grant funds received were expended 
and the activities implemented under this program.

                                                Annualized Estimated Burden Hours for the Progress Report
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                                                                                         Number of                      Average  burden
                             Respondent                                 Number of      responses per        Total        per  response    Total  burden
                                                                       respondents       respondent       responses        (in hours)         hours
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State and Jurisdictions............................................              57                2              114              8.5              969
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by November 15, 2018 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.
[FR Doc. 2018-22446 Filed 10-15-18; 8:45 am]
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