Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995 concerning opportunity for public comment on proposed

collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration will publish periodic summaries of proposed

projects. To request more information on the proposed projects or to

obtain a copy of the information collection plans, 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: State Treatment and Needs Assessment Program

Studies (OMB No. 0930-0186--Revision)

SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), as part of

its State Treatment and Needs Assessment Program (STNAP), awards

contracts to States to conduct studies for the purpose of determining

the need and demand for substance abuse treatment within each State. In

order to receive funds from the Substance Abuse Prevention and

Treatment Block Grant, States must submit in their annual block grant

applications an assessment of service needs Statewide, at the sub-state

level, and for specified population groups (as required by Section 1929

of the Public Health Service Act). Most States plan to conduct an adult

telephone household survey to collect information on needed treatment

for substance abuse/dependence. In addition, many States plan to

conduct a variety of more focused studies which will collect data on

treatment need in special populations, including adolescents, pregnant

women, American Indians, arrestees and other criminal justice

populations.

This submission reflects changes to the previously approved annual

burden for survey activities in two States previously funded (changes

to their previously approved survey plans) and in the nine States

receiving new contracts in FY 1998 that are engaging in primary data

collection. The burden will be as presented below:

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No. of

Total No. of responses/ Hours/ Annualized

respondents respondent response burden hours

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Previous submission............................ 75,521 1 0.54 41,093

Decrease: (Adolescent Survey not being done) -3,000 1 0.55 -1,650

New Activities:

Household Telephone Surveys................ 5,567 1 0.55 3,062

Criminal justice populations............... 1,590 1 .87 1,377

Medicaid recipients........................ 1,556 1 0.55 856

Other population groups.................... 1,733 1 .53 919

Treatment providers........................ 360 1 .81 291

Treatment clients.......................... 600 2.7 0.45 729

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Total.................................. 83,927 ............... .............. 46,677

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Send comments to Nancy Pearce, SAMHSA, Reports Clearance Officer,

Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

Dated: November 27, 1998

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 98-32194 Filed 12-2-98; 8:45 am]

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