[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16020-16021]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05307]


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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) 276-0361.

Project: Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness (PATH) 
Program Annual Report Manual (OMB No. 0930-0205)--Revision

    SAMHSA awards PATH grants each fiscal year to states, the District 
of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, 
American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 
(hereafter referred to as ``states''), from allotments authorized under 
the PATH program established by Public Law 101-645, 42 U.S.C. 290cc-21 
et seq., the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 
1990 [Section 521 et seq. of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act and 
the 21st Century Cures Act (Pub. L. 114-255), hereafter referred to as 
``the Act'']. Section 522 of the Act specifies that states must expend 
their payments

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solely for making grants to political subdivisions of the state, and to 
non-profit private entities (including community-based veterans' 
organizations and other community organizations) for the purpose of 
providing services specified in the Act. Available funding is allotted 
in accordance with the formula provision of Section 524 of the PHS Act. 
This submission is for a revision to the approved PATH Annual Report 
Manual. Section 528 of the Act specifies, not later than January 31 of 
each fiscal year, a funded entity will ``prepare and submit to the 
Secretary a report in such form and containing such information as the 
Secretary determines to be necessary for: (1) securing a record and a 
description of the purposes for which amounts received under Section 
521 were expended during the preceding fiscal year and of the 
recipients of such amounts; and (2) determining whether such amounts 
were expended in accordance with the provisions of this part.''
    The proposed revisions to the PATH 2020 Annual Report Manual are as 
follows: Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Data Standards 
updates.
    When needed, field response options and questions have been updated 
to align with the most recent version of the HMIS Data Standards.
    In July 2022, HUD released updated HMIS programming specifications 
(Version 3.6) for the PATH Annual Report, which changed the 
instructions for counting contacts in questions 12a and 12b. HMIS 
vendors received these programming updates and HUD encouraged them to 
implement the changes by October 1, 2022. When providers run their PATH 
Annual Report in HMIS, it should reflect Version 3.6, including these 
most recent programming changes. In October 2022, SAMHSA launched a new 
PDX website for State Path Contacts (SPCs) and providers, who will use 
the site to enter provider-level data for their PATH Annual Report and 
progress reports. User guides were created to describe the features and 
functions of the new PDX site and provides guidance for reviewing and 
submitting PATH Annual Reports, setting up and reviewing progress 
reports, and accessing PATH resources.
    The requested revisions will not increase the overall burden.
    The estimated annual burden for these reporting requirements is 
summarized in the table below.

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                                                                                    Burden per
                   Respondents                       Number of     Responses per     response      Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        (hrs.)
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States..........................................              56               1              15             840
Local provider agencies.........................             437               1              15           6,555
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    Total.......................................             493  ..............  ..............           7,395
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    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

Alicia Broadus,
Public Health Advisor.
[FR Doc. 2023-05307 Filed 3-14-23; 8:45 am]
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