Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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 (301)443-0525.

Proposed Project: National Household Survey on Drug Abuse--

Revision--The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) is a

survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the Unitied

States, age 12 and over. The data are used to estimate the prevalence

of use of cigarette, alcohol, and illicit drug use, and abuse of licit

drugs. The results are used by SAMHSA, ONDCP, other Federal agencies,

and other organizations and researchers to establish policy, direct

program activities, and better allocate resources. A 200-household

field test of a computer assisted data collection methodology will also

be conducted. The total annual burden estimate is 23,592 hours as shown

below:

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No. of

No. of responses Average burden per

respondents per response Total burden

respondent

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1997 NHSDA........................ 53,082 1 0.44 hrs.................. 23,403 hrs.

CAPI/ACASI Field Test............. 562 1 0.34 hrs.................. 189 hrs.

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Total....................... ........... ........... .......................... 23,592 hrs.

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10236, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: July 31, 1996.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA

[FR Doc. 96-20898 Filed 8-15-96; 8:45 am]

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