[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 6 (Monday, January 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1634-1635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-488]
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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 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 on (301) 443-7978.
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: Projects for Assistance in Transition from
Homelessness (PATH) Annual Report--New--The Center for Mental Health
Services awards grants each fiscal year to each of the States, the
District of
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Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam,
American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
from allotments authorized under the PATH program established by Public
Law 101-645, 42 USC 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). Section 522 of the PHS Act requires that the
grantee States and Territories must expend their payments under the Act
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 will be for approval of the annual grantee
reporting requirements. Section 528 of the PHS Act specifies that not
later than January 31 of each fiscal year, a funded entity will prepare
and submit a report in such form and containing such information as is
determined necessary for securing a record and 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 determining whether such amounts were expended in accordance with
statutory provisions.
The estimated annualized burden for these reporting requirements is
summarized below.
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Number of Average
Number of responses/ burden/ Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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States.................................................. 56 1 72 4,032
Local provider agencies and counties.................... 358 1 46 16,468
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Total............................................... 414 ............ ............ 20,500
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Send comments to Nancy Pearce, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: January 5, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 99-488 Filed 1-8-99; 8:45 am]
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