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.

Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH)

Annual Report--New

The Center for Mental Health Services awards grants each fiscal

year to each of the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth

of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from allotments authorized

under the PATH program established by Public Law 101-645, 42 U.S.C.

290cc-21 et seq., the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance

Amendments Act of 1990 (section 521 et seq. of the Public Health

Service (PHS) Act). Section 522 of the PHS Act requires that the

grantee States and Territories must expend their payments under the Act

solely for making grants to political subdivisions of the State, and to

non-profit private entities (including community-based veterans

organizations and other community organizations) for the purpose of

providing services specified in the Act. Available funding is allotted

in accordance with the formula provision of section 524 of the PHS Act.

This submission is for approval of the annual grantee reporting

requirements. Section 528 of the PHS Act specifies that not later than

January 31 of each fiscal year, a funded entity will prepare and submit

a report in such form and containing such information as is determined

necessary for securing a record and description of the purposes for

which amounts received under section 521 were expended during the

preceding fiscal year and of the recipients of such amounts and

determining whether such amounts were expended in accordance with

statutory provisions.

The estimated annual burden for these reporting requirements is

summarized below.

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Number of

Respondent Number of responses/ Average burden/ Total burden

respondents respondent response hours

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States--automated............................... 34 1 26 884

States--hard copy............................... 22 2 28 616

Local provider agencies--automated.............. 213 1 31 6,603

Local provider agencies--hard copy.............. 142 1 24 3,408

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Total....................................... 411 .............. .............. 11,511

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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 7, 1999.

Barbara M. Prince,

Acting Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 99-17900 Filed 7-13-99; 8:45 am]

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