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.

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

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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/response Annualized

respondents respondent 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............... 1,423 1 .68 970

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

Other population groups.................... 2,013 1 .74 1,480

Treatment providers........................ 312 1 .72 226

Treatment clients.......................... 600 2.7 .51 820

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Total.................................. 83,992 ............... .............. 46,857

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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: February 2, 1999.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-3087 Filed 2-8-99; 8:45 am]

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