Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review

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)443-8005.

The Annual Census of Patient Characteristics in State and County

Mental Hospital Inpatient Services--Revision--The Census is a complete

enumeration of all State and county mental hospitals and collects

aggregate information by age, gender, and diagnosis for each State on

the number of additions during the year and resident patients who are

physically present for 24 hours per day in the inpatient service at the

end of the reporting year. First conducted in 1840, the Census has

provided information throughout the years that is not available from

any other sources. The Census is the primary means within the Center

for Mental Health Services for assessing deinstitutionalization

practices of State and county mental hospitals. The annual burden

estimate is as follows:

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Number of Average

Number of responses burden per Total annual

respondents per response burden

respondent (hours) (hours)

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State Statisticians and Superintendents of State Mental

Hospitals.............................................. 58 1 2 116

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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, DC

20503.

Dated: June 12, 1997.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration.

[FR Doc. 97-17272 Filed 7-1-97; 8:45 am]

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