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: 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

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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 USC 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 will be 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 annualized burden for these reporting requirements is

summarized below.

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Number of Average

Number of responses/ burden/ Total burden

respondents respondent response hours

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States.................................................. 56 1 72 4,032

Local provider agencies and counties.................... 358 1 46 16,468

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Total............................................... 414 ............ ............ 20,500

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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: January 5, 1999.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 99-488 Filed 1-8-99; 8:45 am]

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