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approval of the information collection 

listed below. 

Proposed Collection: Collection of 

Customer Service, Demographic, and 

Smoking/Tobacco use Information from 

the National Cancer Institute’s Contact 

Center (CC) Clients, 0925–0208 

Expiration Date 04/30/2019, REVISION, 

National Cancer Institute (NCI), 

National Institutes of Health (NIH). 

Need and Use of Information 

Collection: The National Cancer 

Institute (NCI) currently collects: (1) 

Customer service and demographic 

information from clients of the Contact 

Center (CC) in order to properly plan, 

implement, and evaluate cancer 

education efforts, including assessing 

the extent by which the CC reaches and 

impacts underserved populations; (2) 

smoking/tobacco use behavior of 

individuals seeking NCI’s smoking 

cessation assistance through the CC in 

order to provide smoking cessation 

services tailored to the individual 

client’s needs and track their smoking 

behavior at follow up. This is a request 

for OMB to approve a revised 

submission for an additional three years 

to provide ongoing customer service 

collection of demographic information, 

and collection of brief customer 

satisfaction questions from NCI Contact 

Center Clients for the purpose of 

program planning and evaluation. 

OMB approval is requested for 3 

years. There are no costs to respondents 

other than their time. The total 

estimated annualized burden hours are 

1,875. 

Estimated Annualized Burden Hours 

TABLE A. 12–1—ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

Type of respondents Survey instrument Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

responses 

Average time 

per response 

(minutes/hour) 

Annual 

burden hours 

Telephone Clients (Appendix 1A) ..... Customer Service ............................. 31,562 1 1/60 526 

Demographic & Customer Satisfaction Questions.13,100 1 2/60 437 

Smoking Cessation Clients ............... Smoking Cessation ‘‘Intake’’ Questions (Appendix 1C).3,380 1 6/60 338 

Customer Satisfaction Questions 

(Appendix 9).

676 1 2/60 23 

VA Smoking Cessation Clients ......... Call Backs (Appendix 1D) ................ 1,560 1 4/60 104 

VA Follw Up Calls ............................. Call Backs (Appendix 1E) ................ 936 1 4/60 62 

LiveHelp Clients ................................ Demographic & Customer Satisfaction Questions (Appendix 1B).6,236 1 2/60 208 

Email Clients ..................................... Email Intake Form (Appendix 2) ...... 1,002 1 10/60 167 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... 58,452 58,452 ........................ 1,875 

Dated: July 16, 2018. 

Karla C. Bailey, 

Project Clearance Liaison, National Cancer 

Institute, National Institutes of Health. 

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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 (SAMHSA) 

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: Testing of Electronic 

Health Records Questions for the 

National Survey of Substance Abuse 

Treatment Services (N–SSATS) and the 

National Mental Health Services 

Survey (N–MHSS)—NEW 

The Substance Abuse and Mental 

Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA), Center for Behavioral 

Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ), 

is requesting approval for conducting 

cognitive testing on the use of electronic 

health records (EHRs) by substance 

abuse and mental health treatment 

facilities in the United States. The final 

goal of this cognitive testing is to 

incorporate questions on electronic 

health records to SAMHSA’s National 

Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment 

Services (N–SSATS) and the National 

Mental Health Services Survey (N– 

MHSS). 

Currently, there is a lack of national 

level data that exists on behavioral 

health care providers’ progress toward 

interoperability. The National Council 

for Behavioral Health in 2011/2012 

conducted a survey to determine health 

information technology (IT) readiness. 

This data focused only on the 

membership of the National Council for 

Behavioral Health and does not provide 

national baseline data on the four 

domains of interoperability that are 

outlined in the Interoperability 

Roadmap (finding, sending, receiving 

and integrating data into EHRs) for 

behavioral health care providers. 

Currently, these providers are not 

eligible to participate in interoperability 

driving efforts such as the Medicare 

Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 

2015 (MACRA) initiative. However, 

some behavioral health providers may 

be eligible in the future to participate in 

value-based payment initiatives such as 

the Merit-Based Incentive Payment 

System (MIPS). Measuring and reporting 

the state of interoperability will help to 

determine the type of support these 

providers need and their readiness to 


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participate in delivery system reform 

efforts in the future. 

Collaboration between the Office of 

the National Coordinator for Health 

Information Technology (ONC) and 

SAMHSA on this data collection effort 

will provide an efficient manner to track 

trends in health IT adoption, use, and 

interoperability among behavioral 

health care providers. In addition, this 

collaboration will contribute to the 

development of strategic efforts to 

leverage health IT in behavioral health 

care settings to provide cost effective, 

high quality and patient-centered care. 

Results from this testing will allow ONC 

and SAMHSA to work together to 

quantitatively assess health IT adoption 

and interoperability among behavioral 

health care providers using SAMHSA’s 

current national surveys, the National 

Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment 

Services (N–SSATS) and the National 

Mental Health Services Survey (N– 

MHSS). 

The information obtained from these 

efforts will be used to develop a new set 

of questions on the use and 

implementation of EHRs in behavioral 

health facilities for the N–SSATS and 

the N–MHSS surveys. Specifically, the 

information from the testing will be 

used to reduce respondent burden while 

simultaneously improving the quality of 

the data collected in these surveys. 

Data from this testing will be 

collected mostly via telephone 

interviews, and few cases conducted 

with in-person interviews. Results of 

this test will not be disseminated or 

used to inform policy, program, or 

budget decisions. Findings will be 

shared between ONC and SAMHSA staff 

to decide how the tested questions will 

be incorporated in the surveys. 

It is estimated that the total burden for 

this project is 40 hours, based on a 

maximum of 80 interviews with an 

average of 30 minutes per interview. 

The request for OMB seeks approval 

to conduct this testing of EHR questions 

during the Fall of 2018 for possible 

implementation starting in 2020. 

The total estimated burden for this 

study is 39.2 hours for the period from 

September through December 2018. 

Survey Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Interviews ............................................................................. 80 1 80 .50 40 

Send comments to Summer King, 

SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 

5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15E57–B, 

Rockville, MD 20857 OR email a copy 

at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. 

Written comments should be received 

by September 25, 2018. 

Summer King, 

Statistician. 

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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 (SAMHSA) 

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 at (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: National Survey of 

Substance Abuse Treatment Services 

(N–SSATS) (OMB No. 0930–0106)— 

Revision 

The Substance Abuse and Mental 

Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA) is requesting a revision of 

the National Survey of Substance Abuse 

Treatment (N–SSATS) data collection 

(OMB No. 0930–0106), which expires 

on December 31, 2018. N–SSATS 

provides both national and state-level 

data on the numbers and types of 

patients treated and the characteristics 

of facilities providing substance abuse 

treatment services. It is conducted 

under the authority of Section 505 of the 

Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 

290aa–4) to meet the specific mandates 

for annual information about public and 

private substance abuse treatment 

providers and the clients they serve. 

This request includes: 

• Collection of N–SSATS, which is an 

annual survey of substance abuse 

treatment facilities; and 

• Updating of the Inventory of 

Behavioral Health Services (I–BHS) 

which is the facility universe for the N– 

SSATS as well as the annual survey of 

mental health treatment facilities, the 

National Mental Health Services Survey 

(N–MHSS). The I–BHS includes all 

substance abuse treatment and mental 

health treatment facilities known to 

SAMHSA. (The N–MHSS data 

collection is covered under OMB No. 

0930–0119.) 

The information in I–BHS and N– 

SSATS is needed to assess the nature 

and extent of these resources, to identify 

gaps in services, and to provide a 

database for treatment referrals. Both I– 

BHS and N–SSATS are components of 

the Behavioral Health Services 

Information System (BHSIS). 

The request for OMB approval will 

include a request to update the I–BHS 

facility listing on a continuous basis and 

to conduct the N–SSATS and the 

between cycle N–SSATS (N–SSATS BC) 

in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The N–SSATS 

BC is a procedure for collecting services 

data from newly identified facilities 

between main cycles of the survey and 

will be used to improve the listing of 

treatment facilities in the online 

Behavioral Health Treatment Services 

Locator. 

Planned Changes 

I–BHS: Only minor form changes 

corresponding with updated technology 

are planned. 

N–SSATS: The N–SSATS with client 

counts will continue to be conducted in 

alternate years, as in the past, and the 

Treatment Locator will be updated 

monthly. 


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