[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 1, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18252-18253]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-06783]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)


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. To request a copy of these documents, call the SAMHSA 
Reports Clearance Officer at (240) 276-0361.

Project: Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental Illness 
(PAIMI) Annual Program Performance Report (OMB No. 0930-0169)--
Extension

    The Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness 
(PAIMI) Act at 42 U.S.C. 10801 et seq., authorized funds to the same 
protection and advocacy (P&A) systems created under the Developmental 
Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1975, known as the DD 
Act (as amended in 2000, 42 U.S.C. 15001 et seq.]. The DD Act supports 
the Protection and Advocacy for Developmental Disabilities (PADD) 
Program administered by the Administration on Intellectual and 
Developmental Disabilities (AIDD) within the Administration on 
Community Living. AIDD is the lead federal P&A agency. The PAIMI 
Program supports the same governor-designated P&A systems established 
under the DD Act by providing legal-based individual and systemic 
advocacy services to individuals with significant (severe) mental 
illness (adults) and significant (severe) emotional impairment 
(children/youth) who are at risk for abuse, neglect and other rights 
violations while residing in a care or treatment facility.
    In 2000, the PAIMI Act amendments created a 57th P&A system--the 
American Indian Consortium (the Navajo and Hopi Tribes in the Four 
Corners region of the Southwest). The Act, at 42 U.S.C. 10804(d), 
states that a P&A system may use its allotment to provide 
representation to individuals with mental illness, as defined by 
section 42 U.S.C. 10802 (4)(B)(iii) residing in the community, 
including their own home, only, if the total allotment under this title 
for any fiscal year is $30 million or more, and in such cases an 
eligible P&A system must give priority to representing PAIMI-eligible 
individuals, as defined by 42 U.S.C. 10802(4)(A) and (B)(i).
    The Children's Health Act of 2000 (CHA) also referenced the state 
P&A system authority to obtain information on incidents of seclusion, 
restraint and related deaths [see, CHA, Part H at 42 U.S.C. 290ii-1]. 
PAIMI Program formula grants awarded by SAMHSA go directly to each of 
the 57 governor-designated P&A systems. These systems are located in 
each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the American Indian 
Consortium, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin 
Islands.
    The PAIMI Act at 42 U.S.C. 10805(7) requires that each P&A system 
prepare and transmit to the Secretary of The U.S. Department of Health 
and Human Services (HHS), and to the head of its State mental health 
agency a report on January 1. This report describes the activities, 
accomplishments, and expenditures of the system during the most 
recently completed fiscal year, including a section prepared by the 
advisory council (the PAIMI Advisory Council or PAC) that describes the 
activities of the council and its independent assessment of the 
operations of the system.
    SAMHSA proposes minor revisions to its annual PAIMI Program 
Performance Report (PPR), including the advisory council section, at 
this time for the following reasons: (1) The revisions revise the PAIMI 
PPR, as appropriate, for consistency with the annual reporting 
requirements under the PAIMI Act and Rules [42 CFR part 51]; (2) The 
revisions simplify the electronic data entered by state P&A systems; 
(3) SAMHSA will reduce wherever feasible the current reporting burden 
by removing any information that does not facilitate evaluation of the 
programmatic and fiscal effectiveness of a state P&A system; (4) The 
updated electronic version will expedite SAMHSA's ability to prepare 
the biennial report; (5) The updated electronic version will improve 
SAMHSA's ability to generate reports, analyze trends and more 
expeditiously provide feedback to PAIMI programs. This PPR/ACR will be 
effective for the FY 2021 PPR reports due on January 1, 2022.

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    The annual burden estimate is as follows:

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                                                                     Number of
                                                     Number of     responses per     Hours per      Total hour
                                                    respondents     respondent       response         burden
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Program Performance Report......................              57               1              20           1,140
Advisory Council Report.........................              57               1              10             570
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    Total.......................................              57  ..............  ..............           1,710
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by May 1, 2020 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.

Carlos Graham,
Social Science Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2020-06783 Filed 3-31-20; 8:45 am]
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