Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 8 / Friday, January 12, 2007 / Notices 1553 

Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Villa Florence Hotel, 225 Powell 

Street, San Francisco, CA 94012. 

Contact Person: Dana Jeffrey Plude, PhD, 

Scientific Review Administrator, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 3176, 

MSC 7848, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435–

2309, pluded@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; Innovative 

Biomedical Imaging and Technologies. 

Date: February 17, 2007. 

Time: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Bahia Resort Hotel, 998 W. Mission 

Bay Drive, San Diego, CA 92109. 

Contact Person: Xiang-Ning Li, MD, PhD, 

Scientific Review Administrator, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5112, 

MSC 7854, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435–

1744, lixiang@csr.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.306, Comparative Medicine; 

93.333, Clinical Research, 93.306, 93.333, 

93.337, 93.393–93.396, 93.837–93.844, 

93.486–93.878, 93.892, 93.893, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: January 8, 2007. 

Anna Snouffer, 

Acting Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 07–102 Filed 1–11–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review; Notice of 

Closed Meeting. 

Notice is hereby given of a change in 

the meeting of the Enabling 

Bioanalytical and Biophysical 

Technologies Study Section, January 31, 

2007, 8:30 a.m. to February 1, 2007, 5 

p.m., Courtyard Marriott, 299 Second 

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 which 

was published in the Federal Register 

on December 5, 2006, 71 FR 70522–

70523. 

The meetings will be held February 1, 

2007, to February 2, 2007. The meeting 

time and location remain the same. The 

meeting is closed to the public. 

Dated: January 8, 2007. 

Anna Snouffer, 

Acting Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 07–103 Filed 1–11–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M 

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 (240) 276–1243. 

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: Independent 

Evaluation of the Community Mental 

Health Services Block Grant Program—

NEW 

The Substance Abuse and Mental 

Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA), the Center for Mental 

Health Services (CMHS) administers the 

Community Mental Health Services 

Block Grant (CMHS BG). The 

Community Mental Health Services 

Block Grant was funded by Congress to 

develop community-based systems of 

care for adults with serious mental 

illness (SMI) and children with severe 

emotional disorders (SED), and has been 

the largest Federal program dedicated to 

improving community mental health 

services. States have latitude in 

determining how to spend their funds to 

support services for adults with SMI 

and children with SED. The only 

requirements outlined in the 

authorizing legislation for State receipt 

of CMHS BG funds are provisions to 

increase children’s services, create a 

State mental health planning council, 

and to develop a State mental health 

plan to be submitted to the Secretary of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). The 

State mental health planning council is 

to comprise various State constituents 

including providers, administrators, and 

mental health services consumers. Each 

State plan must: 

• Provide for the establishment and 

implementation of an organized 

community-based system of care for 

individuals with mental illness. 

• Estimate the incidence and 

prevalence of adults with SMI and 

children with SED within the State. 

• Provide for a system of integrated 

services appropriate for the multiple 

needs of children. 

• Provide for outreach to and services 

for rural and homeless populations. 

• Describe the financial and other 

resources necessary to implement the 

plan and describe how the CMHS BG 

funds are to be spent. 

In addition, Congress included a 

maintenance-of-effort (MOE) 

requirement that a State’s expenditures 

for community mental health services 

be no less than the average spent in the 

two preceding fiscal years. 

The CMHS BG received an adequate 

rating on the OMB PART in 2003. 

Clearly in the follow up period to that 

assessment, one of the critical areas that 

must be addressed is the expectation 

that an independent and objective 

evaluation of the program is to be 

carried out initially and at regular 

intervals. In addition, the program 

evaluation has been designed to be of 

high quality, sufficient scope and 

unbiased (with appropriate 

documentation for each of these 

elements). In fact it is in addressing an 

evaluation of the program that critical 

elements of accountability and program 

performance are also identified and 

initially assessed. The rigor of the 

evaluation is seen in how it addresses 

the effectiveness of the program’s 

impact with regard to its mission and 

long term goals. By legislative design 

the CMHS BG Program has previously 

focused on legislative compliance. Now 

it addresses the impact of the program 

nationally, over time, with a view to 

coming to terms with identified program 

deficiencies and the corresponding 

impact of proposed changes. 

In this evaluation, a multi-method 

evaluation approach is being used to 

examine Federal and State performance 

with regard to the CMHS BG and its 

identified goals. This approach 

emphasizes a qualitative and 

quantitative examination of both the 

CMHS BG process (e.g., activities and 

outputs in the logic model) and systemlevel outcomes whereby Federal and 

State stakeholder perspectives on the 

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