[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 24 (Thursday, February 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5961-5962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2823]
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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) 443-0525.
Proposed Project: Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs) Evaluation
Project--New--Since 1992, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
(CSAT) has published 25 Treatment Improvement Protocols which provide
administrative and clinical practice guidance to the substance abuse
treatment field. CSAT plans to conduct an evaluation study to determine
the impact of TIPs. The first phase of the evaluation, the
Retrospective Study, will examine the impact of TIPs published by CSAT
as of September 1998. Surveys of four distinct target audiences of
interest to CSAT will be conducted including Single State Agency
Directors, directors of substance abuse treatment facilities listed in
the most recent Uniform Facilities Data Set (UFDS) database, clinical
directors of treatment facilities listed in the UFDS database, and
frontline clinicians/counselors working in facilities listed in the
UFDS database. Measures will include organization characteristics and
outcomes associated with the following variables: awareness, receipt,
and reading of TIPs; perceived utility of TIPs; and the impact of TIPs
on changing substance abuse treatment practices. The estimated
annualized burden is summarized below.
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No. of
No. of responses/ Hours/ Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Single State Agency Directors................... 56 2 0.50 56
Facility Directors.............................. 408 2 0.42 343
Clinical Directors.............................. 408 2 0.42 343
Counselors...................................... 408 2 0.42 343
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Total..................................... .............. .............. .............. 1,085
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Proposed Project: State Treatment Needs Assessment Studies--New--
SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), as part of its
State Treatment and Needs Assessment Program (STNAP), awards contracts
to States to conduct studies for the purpose of determining the need
and demand for substance abuse treatment within each State. In order to
receive funds from the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block
Grant, States must submit in their annual block grant applications an
assessment of service needs Statewide, at the sub-state level, and for
specified population groups (as required by Section 1929 of the Public
Health Service Act). Most States plan to conduct an adult telephone
household survey to collect information on needed treatment for
substance abuse/dependence. In addition, many States plan to conduct a
variety of more focused studies which will collect data on treatment
need in special populations, including adolescents, pregnant women,
injecting drug users, American Indians, arrestees and other criminal
justice populations. The estimated annualized burden for the State
needs assessment studies over the next three years is presented below.
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No. of
No. of responses/ Hours/response Total burden Annualized
respondents respondent hours burden hours
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Adult Household Telephone
Surveys........................ 54,400 1 0.5 27,200 9,067
Adolescent Surveys.............. 25,800 1 0.5 12,900 4,300
Criminal justice populations.... 9,050 1 1.0 9,050 3,017
Medicaid recipients............. 7,800 1 0.5 3,900 1,300
Other population groups......... 8,100 1 1.0 8,100 2,700
Treatment providers............. 255 1 1.0 255 85
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Total..................... .............. .............. .............. 61,405 20,469
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Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is 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
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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.
Send comments to Deborah Trunzo, 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 30, 1998.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 98-2823 Filed 2-4-98; 8:45 am]
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