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decisions received from SSA either on 

initial application or on appeal. This 

password-protected web-based data 

form will be housed on the SOAR Web 

site (http://www.prainc.com/soar). Use 

of this form is completely voluntary. 

In addition, data from the web-based 

form can be compiled into reports on 

decision results and the use of SOAR 

core components, such as the SSA–1696 

Appointment of Representative which 

allows SSA to communicate directly 

with the case manager assisting with the 

application. These reports will be 

reviewed by agency directors, SOAR 

state-level leads, and the national SOAR 

Technical Assistance Center and SOAR 

national evaluation team to quantify the 

success of the effort overall and to 

identify areas where additional 

technical assistance is needed. 

The estimated response burden is as 

follows: 

Information source Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total 

hours 

SOAR Data Form ............................................. 800 36 28,800 .25 7,200 

Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent by September 16, 2011 to the 

SAMHSA Desk Officer at the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). To ensure timely receipt of 

comments, and to avoid potential delays 

in OMB’s receipt and processing of mail 

sent through the U.S. Postal Service, 

commenters are encouraged to submit 

their comments to OMB via e-mail to: 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Although commenters are encouraged to 

send their comments via e-mail, 

commenters may also fax their 

comments to: 202–395–7285. 

Commenters may also mail them to: 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, New Executive Office Building, 

Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503. 

Cathy J. Friedman, 

SAMHSA, Public Health Analyst. 

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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 summary 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 (240) 276–1243. 

Project: Children Affected by 

Methamphetamine in Family Drug 

Treatment Court—NEW 

In 2010, the Substance Abuse and 

Mental Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse 

Treatment (CSAT), provided funding to 

12 existing Family Treatment Drug 

Courts (FTDCs) for enhancement and/or 

expansion of their FTDC’s capabilities 

to provide psycho-social, emotional and 

mental health services to children (0–17 

years) and their families who have 

methamphetamine use disorders and 

involvement in child protective 

services. This program was authorized 

in House Report 111–220 accompanying 

H.R. 3293 in 2010. The Committee 

language stated that ‘‘these grants will 

support a collaborative approach, 

including treatment providers, child 

welfare specialists, and judges, to 

provide community-based social 

services for the children of 

methamphetamine-addicted parents,’’ 

and were to be awarded to Family 

Dependency Treatment Drug Courts. 

The proposed data collection for the 

grantees, referred to as the Children 

Affected by Methamphetamine in 

Family Treatment Drug Court (CAM– 

FTDC) project, will provide knowledge 

about the services needed and provided 

to these and similar families. The data 

to be collected by the CAM–FTDC 

program is SAMHSA’s first Federal data 

collection effort focused specifically on 

the needs of children whose parents 

have a substance use disorder and are 

participating in an FTDC and on 

effective strategies to address their 

needs. The information collected 

through the CAM–FTDC program will 

benefit SAMHSA by providing an indepth understanding of the needs of the 

children and families served by CAM– 

FTDC. Findings from this program will 

provide SAMHSA with valuable 

information regarding appropriate 

service interventions for this population 

and, ultimately, inform SAMHSA on 

how the agency can best meet the needs 

of future drug endangered children. The 

results from this data collection will 

serve to inform future decisions 

regarding funding by SAMHSA as well 

as establish an evidence base for the 

practices undertaken for other localities 

and programs implementing Family 

Treatment Drug Courts. 

The evaluation of the CAM–FTDC 

project will collect data on children, 

parents/caregivers, family functioning 

and interagency collaboration. The 

domains specified in the Request for 

Applications (RFA) are: (1) Child 

Outcomes; (2) Parent/Caregiver 

Outcomes; (3) Family Functioning; and, 

(4) Interagency Collaboration. 

To the greatest extent possible, the 

data elements are operationally defined 

using standard definitions in child 

welfare and substance abuse treatment. 

The use of standard data definitions 

will reduce the data collection burden 

on grantees as these variables are 

collected through data collection 

procedures that currently exist through 

all publically funded child welfare and 

substance abuse treatment systems. The 

CAM–FTDC performance measures are 

data currently collected by programs as 

part of their normal operations (e.g., 

placement status in child welfare 

services, substance abuse treatment 

entry dates). Thus, no primary data 

collection from clients will be required 

as the grantees will be abstracting 

existing data. The information utilized 

for the North Carolina Family 

Assessment Scale rating is obtained 

during the intake interview that sites 

engage in when determining program 

eligibility and suitability. If needed, the 

CAM FTDC staff member may 

supplement this information by 

obtaining information from other staff 

that interact with the client (i.e., the 

social worker familiar with the family) 

or during a home visit (if this is part of 

their program activities). 

It should be re-emphasized that the 

CAM–FTDC projects are expansions or 

enhancements of FTDC partnerships 

that currently have existing 

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confidentiality agreements) in place. It 

is through this existing information 

sharing forum that the CAM grantees 

will be able to obtain the requisite child 

welfare and substance abuse treatment 

performance measures. 

The grantees will use electronic 

abstraction and secondary data 

collection for elements that are already 

being collected by counties and States 

in their reporting requirements of 

Federally-mandated data. There are five 

data sources that will be used to collect 

and report the performance measures: 

Two Federal child welfare data sets, a 

Federal substance abuse treatment data 

set, the North Carolina Family 

Assessment Scale, and an interagency 

collaboration survey administered to 

CAM FTDC program staff. 

Exhibit 1 presents the estimated total 

cost burden associated with the 

collection of the CAM–FTDC data 

elements. The following estimates 

represent the minimum CAM–FTDC 

clients required to be served by the 

CAM–FTDC grantees (i.e., a minimum 

of 20 methamphetamine-using clients is 

required in order to have a sufficient 

number of participants in the program × 

12 grantees). The identified respondent 

for the annualized hour burden for the 

child, parent/caregiver and family 

functioning elements is the grantee staff 

person who will extract data from 

CAM–FTDC client. For the interagency 

collaboration measure, the respondent is 

identified as a CAM–FTDC staff 

member. It is estimated that 10 CAM– 

FTDC staff members from each of the 12 

grantees will complete the interagency 

collaboration measure. The estimated 

total cost of the time that will be spent 

completing data collection is $18,400 

(total number of respondent hours × 

$18.40, the estimated average hourly 

wages for adults as published by the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010). 

EXHIBIT 1—ANNUALIZED HOUR BURDEN

Form/instrument Number of 

records 

Responses 

per record 

Total responses Hours per 

response1

Total hour 

burden 

CAM Form-Secondary extraction (12 sites × 20 families) ...................... 240 2 480 .5 240 

North Carolina Family Assessment Form—Scale-General + Reunification (NCFAS–G+R) (12 sites × 20 families) ........................................ 240 2 480 .5 240 

Collaborative Capacity Instrument—(CCI) (12 sites × 10 families) ......... 120 1 120 .33 39 .6 

Total .................................................................................................. 600 .................... 1,080 .................... 519 .6 

1The estimated response burden includes the extractions and uploads to the CAM Form and the North Carolina Family Assessment Form. 

Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent by September 16, 2011 to the 

SAMHSA Desk Officer at the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). To ensure timely receipt of 

comments, and to avoid potential delays 

in OMB’s receipt and processing of mail 

sent through the U.S. Postal Service, 

commenters are encouraged to submit 

their comments to OMB via e-mail to: 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Although commenters are encouraged to 

send their comments via e-mail, 

commenters may also fax their 

comments to: 202–395–7285. 

Commenters may also mail them to: 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, New Executive Office Building, 

Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503. 

Cathy J. Friedman, 

SAMHSA, Public Health Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20857 Filed 8–16–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4162–20–P 

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 summary 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 (240) 276–1243. 

Project: Triennial Evaluation of the 

Projects for Assistance in Transition 

From Homelessness (PATH)—NEW 

The Center for Mental Health Services 

awards grants each fiscal year to each of 

the States, the District of 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 U.S.C. 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 nonprofit 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 is for a collection of 

contextual, process, and outcome 

information to evaluate the national 

PATH program. Section 528 of the PHS 

Act specifies that the Administrator of 

the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 

Services Administration shall evaluate 

at least once every 3 years the 

expenditures of grants under this part 

by eligible entities in order to ensure 

that expenditures are consistent with 

the provisions of this part. The 

evaluation shall include 

recommendations regarding changes in 

program design or operations. 

The proposed data collection 

includes: 

• Interviews with 10 State Path 

Contacts (SPCs) and an online survey 

with all 56 SPCs to gather more 

information on how States plan, solicit, 

and monitor local providers using 

PATH funding; the challenges faced in 

their operating environment, in working 

with the populations they serve, and the 

environment in which they work; 

remaining gaps and needs as well as 

possible solutions and 


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