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.

GPRA Client Outcomes for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration (SAMHSA)

NEW--The mission of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration (SAMHSA) is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency

of substance abuse and mental health treatment and prevention services

across the United States. All of SAMHSA's activities are designed to

ultimately reduce the gap in the availability of substance abuse and

mental health services and to improve their effectiveness and

efficiency.

Data will be collected from all grantees under four Fiscal Year

1998 grant programs of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and

from all SAMHSA knowledge development and application and targeted

capacity expansion grants and contracts where client outcomes are to be

assessed at intake and post-treatment beginning in Fiscal Year 1999.

SAMHSA-funded projects will be required to submit this data as a

contingency for their award. The analysis of the data will also help

determine whether the goal of reducing health and social costs of drug

use to the public is being achieved.

The primary purpose of the proposed data collection activity is to

meet the reporting requirements of the Government Performance Review

Act (GPRA) (Public Law 103-62) by allowing SAMHSA to quantify the

effects and accomplishments of SAMHSA programs. In addition, the data

will be useful in addressing goals and objectives outlined in ONDCP's

Performance Measures of Effectiveness. Following is the estimated

annual response burden for this effort.

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Number of Responses/ Hours/ Annual burden

Center clients client response hours

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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment............ 3,750 3 .70 2,625

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention........... 12,150 3 .63 7,654

Center for Mental Health Services............... 13,837 3 .25 3,459

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TOTAL....................................... .............. .............. .............. 13,738

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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: March 25, 1999.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 99-8009 Filed 3-31-99; 8:45 am]

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