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) 443-8005.

Proposed Project: Community Mental Health Services (CMHS) Block

Grant Application--Revision--The ADAMHA Reorganization Act 42 USC

300x1-9 established the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant

program which authorized block grants to States to provide community

based mental health services. The name of the program was changed in

the Spring of 1997 to The Performance Partnership Block Grants (PPBG)

for Community Mental Health Services. Under provision of the law,

States may receive allotments only after an application is approved by

the Secretary. Further, the Act requires States to submit to the

Secretary a plan for providing comprehensive community mental health

services to adults with a serious mental illness and to children with a

serious emotional disturbance and an annual implementation report on

the block grant fund activities for the previous year.

This block grant program is administered by SAMHSA's Center for

Mental Health Services (CMHS). Through an iterative process of

consultation with State mental health planners, representatives of the

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, and the

National Governors Association, CMHS revised the recommended voluntary

format and content. The proposed application for FY 1999-2001 reflects

the criteria, assurances, and requirements set forth in Public Law 102-

321. The proposed application provides maximum flexibility to the

States while providing performance measures as required by the

Government Performance and Results Act. It includes a multi-year option

for the State Plan, the option for consolidation of the 12 criteria for

application to 5 criteria, and reduced respondent burden. Based on

feedback from States that might exercise the multi-year planning option

and the consolidation of the criteria, the annual burden estimates are

as follows:

Estimates of Annualized Burden

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Responses per

Number of respondent Hours per Annualized

States (over 3 year response response

responding period) burden (hours)

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State Plan:

12 Criteria:

1 year.................................. 7 3 210 1470

2 year.................................. 3 2 180 360

3 year.................................. 4 1 150 200

5 Criteria:

1 year.................................. 15 3 180 2700

2 year.................................. 15 2 150 1500

3 year.................................. 15 1 110 550

Implementation Report........................... 59 3 80 4720

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Totals...................................... 59 .............. .............. 11,500

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

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

Daniel J. Chenok, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office

of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10236,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: April 7, 1998.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 98-10067 Filed 4-15-98; 8:45 am]

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