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) 443-7978.

Evaluation of the Methadone/LAAM Treatment Program Accreditation

Project--New--SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), in

conjunction with other Federal Agencies, is involved in planning and

developing accreditation processes for methadone/LAAM treatment

programs (MTPs). This project will evaluate the process, costs, and

administrative and clinical impacts of the accreditation process, and

will estimate the costs of national implementation of an accreditation

system. In collaboration with accreditation and technical assistance

contractors, evaluation activities will be conducted at a sample of

treatment sites, with a control group of treatment sites. Measures will

include program structure and operation, costs, clinical practice,

staff appraisal, patient satisfaction and treatment outcomes. The

estimated annualized burden for the three-year data collection period

is summarized below.

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Number of Average

Number of responses burden per Total burden Annualized

Instrument respondents per response hours burden hours

respondent (hours)

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Site Survey................................. 180 2 1.5 540 180

Cost Survey \1\............................. (180) 2 3.5 1,260 420

Activity Log \1\............................ (135) 13 0.5 877.5 292.5

Treatment Staff Questionnaires.............. 1,800 2 0.33 1,188 399

Treatment Staff \2\ (Focus Groups).......... (1,080) 1 1.5 1,620 540

Patient Questionnaire....................... 14,400 1 0.25 3,600 1,200

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Total................................. 16,380 ........... ............ 9,085.5 3,031.5

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\1\ Site level response by participating sites.

\2\ Focus group respondents are a subset of the treatment staff.

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, D.C.

20503.

Dated: April 16, 1998.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 98-10786 Filed 4-22-98; 8:45 am]

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