# Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** June 10, 1999
- **Citation:** 64 FR 31283

## Text

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 collections of
information are 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: Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With
Mental Illness (PAIMI) Annual Program Performance Report (OMB No.
0930-0169, Revision)

The Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness
(PAIMI) Act, (42 U.S.C. Chapter 1114) authorized funds to support
protection and advocacy services on behalf of individuals with mental
illness and severe emotional disturbance who are at risk for abuse and
neglect and other civil rights violations while under treatment in a
residential facility. Under the PAIMI Act, formula grant awards are
made to protection and advocacy (P&A) systems designated by the
governors of the 50 states and 5 territories, and the District of
Columbia to ensure that the rights of individuals with mental illness
and severe emotional disturbance are not violated. The PAIMI Act
requires P & A systems to file an annual report on their activities and
accomplishments and to provide in the report information on such topics
as, numbers of individuals served, types of complaints addressed, the
number of intervention strategies used to resolve the presenting
issues. The Act also requires that the P&A Advisory Council also submit
an annual report that assesses the effectiveness of the services
provided by P&A systems.
The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is revising the PAIMI
Annual Program Performance Report for the following reasons: (1) to
make it consistent with the revised annual program report format used
by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, Administration on
Children and Families; and, (2) to conform to the GPRA requirements
that the reporting burden to the States be reduced. CMHS proposes no
revisions to the PAIMI Annual Advisory Council Report.
Planned revisions to the PAIMI Annual Program Performance Report
include: (1) Deletion of financial expenditure and sub-contractor
information, which P&A systems are required to submit annually to the
SAMHSA Grants Management Office; (2) Deletion of items that are more
appropriate for inclusion in the Guidance for Applicants (GFA), such as
PAIMI program staff positions, by-laws & policies and procedures; (3)
PAIMI staff, advisory council and governing board demographic
information will be reduced to a comprehensive graph format; (4) All
``information not available'' statements will be deleted to ensure that
P&A systems focus on gathering more accurate client data during the
intake and referral process; (5) Sections such as, PAIMI program
mechanisms for public comment, individual PAIMI clients, etc. will be
reduced to a graph format similar to that approved by OMB for use by
the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, Administration on
Children and Families, which administers the Protection and Advocacy to
the

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Developmentally Disabled (PADD) Program; (6) Case complaints and
problems of the individuals served by the P&As will be modified to
capture more accurate information on incidents of abuse, neglect and
civil rights violations, such as the incidents of seclusion and
restraint used in the emergency rooms of general hospitals on
individuals with mental illness, co-occurring disorders and severe
emotional disturbance, during transport to and from a residential
treatment facility, etc.; and, (7) Sections focused on the types of
intervention strategies, public education and awareness/training
activities used by the P&As on behalf of the clients served will be
placed in a chart format. The revised format will be effective for the
report due on January 1, 2001.
The annual burden estimate is as follows:

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Number of
Number. of responses per Hours per Total hour
respondents respondent response burden
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Annual Program Performance Report............... 56 1 26 1,456
Activities & accomplishments................ .............. .............. (20) (1,120)
Performance outcomes........................ .............. .............. (3) (168)
Expenses.................................... .............. .............. (0) (0)
Budget...................................... .............. .............. (2) (112)
Priority statement.......................... .............. .............. (1) (56)
Advisory Council Report......................... 56 1 10 560
Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 2,016
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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: June 14, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 99-14701 Filed 6-9-99; 8:45 am]
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