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.

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of

the agency, including whether the information shall have practical

utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways

to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,

including through the use of automated collection techniques or other

forms of information technology.

Proposed Project

Evaluation of the HHS Access to Community Care and Effective

Services and Supports (ACCESS) Program--0930-0164--Revision--The Center

for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is seeking OMB approval to expand

this evaluation study that is assessing service systems integration

(SI) approaches for homeless persons with severe mental illnesses. The

expansion is for conduct of 18 month follow-up interviews on the fourth

cohort of homeless clients, a fourth wave of interviews with providers

of services to homeless persons, and state and local level

implementation data from the project staff. SI sites will be contrasted

with comparison sites to assess the long-term impact of SI. Case

studies will describe approaches to SI, processes by which SI takes

place and factors that influence SI. The table below summarizes the

annualized burden for this project.

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No. of No. of Average

Respondents Responses per Burden per Total Burden

(4th cohort) Respondent Response (Annualized)

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Currently approved.............................. .............. .............. .............. 6,169

Clients (Homeless Persons)...................... 1260 .57 .75 540

Service Providers............................... 880 .57 1.2 603

Project Staff................................... 27 50 .58 777

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Total..................................... .............. .............. .............. 8,089

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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, DC

20503.

Dated: July 23, 1998.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 98-20219 Filed 7-28-98; 8:45 am]

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