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.

Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant Application

Format: FY 1999-2001--0930-0080 (Revision)--The Public Health Service

Act (42 U.S.C. 300x21-35 & 51-64) authorizes block grants to States for

the purpose of providing substance abuse prevention and treatment

services. Under the provisions of the law, States may receive

allotments only after an application is submitted and approved by the

Secretary, DHHS. For the FY 1999 Substance Abuse Prevention and

Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant cycle, SAMHSA will provide States with

slightly modified application forms and instructions. These changes

affect the portion of the application that asks for information related

to section 1926 (sales of tobacco to minors). The application no longer

requires a description of sampling methodologies and procedures for

identifying and selecting tobacco outlets to be sampled throughout a

State, unless a change to such methodologies or procedures has occurred

in the previous year. The application provides for more detailed

information on the results and validity of the random unannounced

inspections, and it will request greater detail on the number and

results of actual enforcement activities that a State has undertaken.

At the request of the Department, SAMHSA is including an additional

tobacco-related question in Attachment 6 of the application. This

question requires States to briefly describe collaboration between each

State's Tobacco and Health Office (ASTHO representative) and Single

State Authority for Substance Abuse (NASADAD representative). Because

Federal funds for tobacco prevention and control efforts are, in most

cases, awarded to different State-level agencies, it is necessary for

the Department and SAMHSA to verify and understand interactions at the

State level on youth tobacco prevention and enforcement. SAMHSA has

modified the race/ethnicity categories in Form 9 to comply with recent

revisions to OMB Directive No. 15. These modifications are not expected

to increase respondent burden.

The annual burden estimate for the SAPT Block Grant Application

Format is shown below:

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Responses per Hours per

Number of respondents respondent response Total hours

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1\1\............................................................ 1 530 530

59.............................................................. 1 563 33,217

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Total....................................................... .............. .............. 33,747

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\1\ Red Lake Indian Tribe (exempt from Tobacco Regulation requirements).

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 17, 1998.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 98-10921 Filed 4-23-98; 8:45 am]

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