[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 75 (Tuesday, April 19, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23186-23188]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08298]


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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

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information on the proposed projects or to obtain a copy of the 
information collection plans, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer 
on (240) 276-0361.
    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: Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental 
Illness (PAIMI) Final Rule, 42 CFR Part 51 (OMB No. 0930-0172)--
Extension

    These regulations meet the directive under 42 U.S.C. 10826(b) 
requiring the Secretary to promulgate final regulations to carry out 
the PAIMI Act (42 U.S.C. 10801 et seq.). The regulations contain 
information collection requirements. The Act authorizes funds to 
support activities on behalf of individuals with significant (severe) 
mental illness (adults) or significant (severe) emotional impairment 
(children/youth) as defined by the Act at 42 U.S.C. 10802(4) and 
10804(d). Only entities designated by the governor of each State, 
including the American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, 
District of Columbia (Mayor), and the tribal councils of the American 
Indian Consortium (the Hopi Tribe and the Navajo Nation located in the 
Four Corners region of the Southwest), to protect and advocate the 
rights of persons with developmental disabilities are eligible to 
receive PAIMI Program grants [ibid at 42 U.S.C. at 10802(2)]. These 
grants are based on a formula prescribed by the Secretary [ibid at 42 
U.S.C. at 10822(a)(1)(A)].
    On January 1, each eligible state protection and advocacy (P&A) 
system is required to prepare an annual PAIMI Program Performance 
Report (PPR). Each annual PPR describes a P&A system's activities, 
accomplishments and expenditures to protect the rights of individuals 
with mental illness supported with payments from PAIMI program 
allotments during the most recently completed fiscal year. Each P&A 
system transmit a copy of its annual report to the Secretary (via 
SAMHSA) and to the State Mental Health Agency where the system is 
located per the PAIMI Act at 42 U.S.C. 10824(a). Each annual PPR must 
provide the Secretary with the following information:
     The number of (PAIMI-eligible) individuals with mental 
illness served;
     A description of the types of activities undertaken;
     A description of the types of facilities providing care or 
treatment to which such activities are undertaken;
     A description of the manner in which the activities are 
initiated;
     A description of the accomplishments resulting from such 
activities;
     A description of systems to protect and advocate the 
rights of individuals with mental illness supported with payments from 
PAIMI program allotments;
     A description of activities conducted by states to protect 
and advocate such rights;
     A description of mechanisms established by residential 
facilities for individuals with mental illness to protect such rights;
     A description of the coordination among such systems, 
activities, and mechanisms;
     Specification of the number of public and nonprofit P&A 
systems established with PAIMI program allotments; and
     Recommendations for activities and services to improve the 
protection and advocacy of the rights of individuals with mental 
illness and a description of the need for such activities and services 
that were not met by the state P&A systems established under the PAIMI 
Act due to resource or annual program priority limitations.
    Each PAIMI grantee's annual PPR must include a separate section, 
prepared by its PAIMI Advisory Council (PAC), that describes the 
council's activities and its assessment of the state P&A system's 
operations per the PAIMI Act at 42 U.S.C. 10805(7).
    In 2017, SAMHSA included the annual PAIMI PPR in the Web-based 
Block Grant Application System (WebBGAS). WebBGAS, SAMHSA's electronic 
data system, is used to collect grantee information for the following 
reasons:

    (1) To meet the OMB requirements for data collection for 
mandatory (formula) grant programs;
    (2) To comply with the annual program reporting requirements of 
the PAIMI Act, 42 U.S.C. 10801 et seq. and the PAIMI Rules 42 CFR 
part 51;
    (3) To simplify the submission of PAIMI Program data by the 
state P&A systems;
    (4) To meet the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) 
requirements;
    (5) To comply with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) 
evaluation recommendations that SAMHSA obtain information that 
closely measures the actual outcomes of the programs it funds;
    (6) To reduce the grantee data collection burden by removing 
information that did not facilitate evaluation of a PAIMI grantee's 
programmatic and financial management systems;
    (7) To provide immediate access to the PAIMI program data used 
to prepare a section of the Secretary's biennial report to the 
President, Congress, and National Council on Disability in 
accordance with the Developmental Disabilities Assistance Act of 
2000 at 42 U.S.C. 15005. Reports of the Secretary;
    (8) To improve SAMHSA's ability to create reports, analyze 
trends, and provide timely feedback to the P&A grantees when PPR 
revisions are needed.

    On June 12, 2020, OMB approved SAMHSA's PPR and Advisory Council 
Report (Control No. 0930-0169, Expiration Date June 30, 2023). The 
burden estimate for the annual state P&A system reporting requirements 
for these regulations is as follows:

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                                                                                    Burden per
                 42 CFR citation                     Number of     Responses per     response      Total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent        (hrs.)          burden
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51.8(a)(2) Program Performance Report...........              57               1              20       \1\ 1,140
51.8(a)(8) Advisory Council Report..............              57               1              10         \1\ 570
51.10 Remedial Actions: Corrective Action Plans                5               2               8              80
 Implementation Status Report...................               5               3               2              30
51.23(c) Reports, materials and fiscal data                   57               1               1              57
 provided to the PAC............................
51.25(b)(2) Grievance Procedures................              57               1              .5            28.5
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    Total.......................................              57  ..............            41.5           195.5
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\1\ Burden hours associated with these reports are approved under OMB Control No. 0930-0169.

    Send comments to Carlos Graham, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15E57-A, Rockville, MD 20857 OR email him a 
copy at [email protected]. Written comments should be 
received by June 21, 2022.

Carlos Graham,
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-08298 Filed 4-18-22; 8:45 am]
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