99-8009. Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 62 (Thursday, April 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 15777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8009]


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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 list 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 [phone].

GPRA Client Outcomes for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration (SAMHSA)

    NEW--The mission of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA) is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency 
of substance abuse and mental health treatment and prevention services 
across the United States. All of SAMHSA's activities are designed to 
ultimately reduce the gap in the availability of substance abuse and 
mental health services and to improve their effectiveness and 
efficiency.
    Data will be collected from all grantees under four Fiscal Year 
1998 grant programs of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and 
from all SAMHSA knowledge development and application and targeted 
capacity expansion grants and contracts where client outcomes are to be 
assessed at intake and post-treatment beginning in Fiscal Year 1999. 
SAMHSA-funded projects will be required to submit this data as a 
contingency for their award. The analysis of the data will also help 
determine whether the goal of reducing health and social costs of drug 
use to the public is being achieved.
    The primary purpose of the proposed data collection activity is to 
meet the reporting requirements of the Government Performance Review 
Act (GPRA) (Public Law 103-62) by allowing SAMHSA to quantify the 
effects and accomplishments of SAMHSA programs. In addition, the data 
will be useful in addressing goals and objectives outlined in ONDCP's 
Performance Measures of Effectiveness. Following is the estimated 
annual response burden for this effort.

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                                                     Number of      Responses/        Hours/       Annual burden
                     Center                           clients         client         response          hours
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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment............           3,750               3             .70           2,625
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention...........          12,150               3             .63           7,654
Center for Mental Health Services...............          13,837               3             .25           3,459
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    TOTAL.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............          13,738
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Daniel Chenok, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503.

    Dated: March 25, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 99-8009 Filed 3-31-99; 8:45 am]
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