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 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: National Registry of Effective Prevention

Programs

New--Section 515(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 USC 290bb-

21) requires that the Director of SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse

Prevention (CSAP)establish a national data base providing information

on programs for the prevention of substance abuse and specifies that

the data base shall contain information appropriate for use by public

entities and information

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appropriate for use by nonprofit private entities. Since 1994, CSAP has

met this responsibility through the High Risk Populations Databank on

programs for the prevention of substance abuse funded by direct CSAP

grants. Because relatively few direct grants of this type have been

issued in recent years, CSAP must expand its information collection to

include voluntary submission of descriptions of effective substance

abuse prevention conducted by state and local governments, nonprofit

entities, and the private sector.

CSAP has developed a template to enable practitioners who have

evidence that their program reduces risk factors or increases

protective factors pertaining to substance abuse to nominate their own

standardized program for the Registry. Each program that is nominated

should have been standardized (including curriculum manuals,

implementation manuals, videotapes, etc.), well implemented, and

findings should derive from well designed research efforts. Program

models nominated will be reviewed and rated by experts annually to be

recommended to the field.

CSAP will promote selected models by providing funds to support

development of program materials for dissemination, by connecting

program developers with organizations able to help in the dissemination

efforts, and by promoting model programs nationally through CSAP's

State Incentive Grant recipients and regional Centers for Applied

Prevention Technology. Annual burden estimates for the Registry are

shown in the table below.

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Number of Total

Number of respondents responses/ Hours/ burden

respondent response hours

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250...................................... 1 1.25 313

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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: December 20, 1999.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 99-33562 Filed 12-27-99; 8:45 am]

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