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.

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.

SAMHSA's 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 is making no revisions to the PAIMI Annual Advisory Council

Report.

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 and 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 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

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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

Advisory Council Report......................... 56 1 10 560

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Total....................................... 112 2,016

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Allison Eydt, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: September 15, 1999.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 99-24641 Filed 9-21-99; 8:45 am]

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