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TOTAL AND ANNUALIZED AVERAGES: RESPONDENTS, RESPONSES AND HOURS—Continued 

Type of respondent Form 

Number of 

respondents 

per year 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Burden per 

response 

(hours) 

Annual burden 

(hours) 

Hourly wage 

rate Total cost 

HCO Staff 3 ............. TUPS-Baseline ....... 3,334 1 3,334 0.25 834 26.81 22,360 

HCO Staff 3 ............. TUPS-6 month ........ 252 1 252 0.5 126 26.81 3,378 

HCO Staff 3 ............. TUPS-12 month ...... 189 1 189 0.5 95 26.81 2,547 

Clinicians .................. C-SIF ....................... 180 8.3 1,494 0.25 374 57.21 21,397 

Consumer ................ CES-Baseline .......... 1,128 1 1,128 0.4 451 7.25 3,270 

Consumer ................ CES-6-month .......... 843 1 843 0.4 337 7.25 2,443 

Consumer ................ C-KII ........................ 15 1 15 1 15 7.25 109 

Total .................. ................................. 15,504 ........................ 17,298 ........................ 4,902 ........................ 134,773 

Abbreviation: HCO=Healthcare Organization 

1BLS OES May 2022 National Industry-Specific Occupation Employment and Wage Estimates average annual salary for Survey Researchers (code 19–3022); 

https://www.bls.gov/oes/cuSeetrrent/naics5_541720.htm 2BLS OES May 2022 National Industry-Specific Occupation Employment and Wage Estimates average annual salary for Medical and Health Services Managers 

(code 11–9111); https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes119111.htm 3BLS OES May 2022 National Industry-Specific Occupation Employment and Wage Estimates average annual salary for Community and Social Service Occupations (code 29–1000); https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes210000.htm 4BLS OES May 2022 National Industry-Specific Occupation Employment and Wage Estimates average annual salary for Health Diagnosing and Treating Practitioners (code 29–1000); https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#29-0000 5BLS OES May 2022 Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2022; https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2022/home.htm#:∼:text=In%202022%2C

%2078.7%20million%20workers,wage%20of%20%247.25%20per%20hour. 

Send comments to SAMHSA Reports 

Clearance Officer, 5600 Fisher Lane, 

Room 15E45, Rockville, MD 20852 OR 

email him a copy at samhsapra@

samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments 

should be received by November 12, 

2024. 

Alicia Broadus, 

Public Health Advisor. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20435 Filed 9–10–24; 8:45 am] 

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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 the 

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– 

0361. 

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: PEERS Harm 

Reduction Evaluation: Point-in-Time 

Harm Reduction (PiT HR) Survey 

Funded in FY 2022, the Harm 

Reduction (HR) Grant Program aims to 

support community-based overdose 

prevention programs, syringe services 

programs, and other harm reduction 

services. Funding is used to enhance 

overdose and other types of prevention 

activities to help control the spread of 

infectious diseases and the 

consequences of such diseases for 

individuals with, or at risk of 

developing substance use disorders 

(SUD), support distribution of FDAapproved overdose reversal medication 

to individuals at risk of overdose, build 

connections for individuals at risk for, 

or with, a SUD to overdose education, 

counseling, and health education, refer 

individuals to treatment for infectious 

diseases such as HIV, sexually 

transmitted infections (STIs), and viral 

hepatitis, and encourage such 

individuals to take steps to reduce the 

negative personal and public health 

impacts of substance use or misuse. As 

part of the Harm Reduction grant 

program evaluation, conducted through 

the Program Evaluation, Effectiveness, 

and Review Services (PEERS) contract, 

SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse 

Prevention (CSAP) is requesting 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) to administer a 

Point-In-Time Harm Reduction (PiT HR) 

survey to better understand the 

program. 

The PiT HR survey will elicit 

information from participants of the 

Harm Reduction Grant Program grantees 

to assess the extent to which grantees 

have achieved CSAP’s goals of 

strengthening harm reduction programs. 

Data from the survey will help CSAP 

better understand: (1) the sociodemographic and drug use 

characteristics of participants who 

receive HR services and supplies across 

the country; (2) the HR services and 

supplies participants received and 

unmet needs; and (3) the social-cultural 

and structural barriers to receiving HR 

services and supplies. This anonymous 

survey will allow for an assessment of 

whether HR programs are reaching highrisk and underserved populations and 

populations experiencing behavioral 

health disparities and will help guide 

improvements to the HR Grant Program. 

The data will be aggregated across 

grantee programs to provide CSAP with 

a national picture of the population 

receiving HR services and supplies, the 

services and supplies they access, and 

perceived barriers to ensure the HR 

Grant Program meets its goals. Grantees 

will be provided with brief grantee-level 

reports providing actionable 

information to inform and strengthen 

their services. The grantee reports will 

provide insight into the populations 

they serve, the extent to which their 

services reach the populations they’ve 

identified as priority populations, 

whether the program meets the needs of 

their participants, and what barriers 

remain to service access. These reports 

will inform the implementation of their 

programs and help them address gaps in 

service delivery. HR Program Grantees 

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participants. The PiT HR Survey has 

been designed to answer questions that 

cannot be answered with existing data 

with minimal burden on grantees and 

respondents. It strengthens the 

evaluation by including participant 

voice. 

Most HR programs will administer the 

survey electronically on a tablet using 

the web-based survey. Tablets will be 

provided to the harm reduction grantees 

for this purpose during the survey 

administration period. The tablets will 

include an offline data collection 

function, which utilizes an app that 

runs directly from the tablet and collects 

and securely stores data on the tablet 

until or unless the tablet is connected to 

Wi-Fi. Once the tablet is connected to 

Wi-Fi, stored surveys are automatically 

uploaded to a secure online database 

and are no longer accessible on the 

tablet. Utilizing the offline data 

collection functions ensures that 

programs can participate even if they do 

not have stable Wi-Fi connections. In 

addition, the audio-enabled feature will 

assist participants who want to take the 

survey but have vision difficulties or 

lower literacy levels without requiring 

staff to read the survey questions to 

them. Once uploaded, survey data will 

be easily accessible by the PEERS 

evaluation staff who have access to the 

project survey system, allowing staff to 

provide ongoing data quality monitoring 

throughout the process. Grantees will 

receive financial compensation to 

support their efforts to recruit and 

administer the survey. 

A pen-and-paper version of the PiT 

HR Survey will be available to grantees 

who would prefer this approach when 

conducting outreach in the community 

where the use of the tablets may raise 

staff safety risks. Programs that provide 

outreach services may elect to use the 

pen-and-paper or the tablet version of 

the survey depending on their 

preferences and the communities they 

serve. The pen-and-paper version of the 

survey would be read aloud by staff to 

address literacy concerns. Completed 

paper surveys will be stored in locked 

cabinets in the HR Grantee Program 

offices and mailed via certified mail to 

the PEERS office. PEERS will 

immediately store the paper survey in 

locked cabinets, accessible only to the 

PEERS evaluation team. The raw data 

will be entered into SPSS and stored on 

password-protected computers requiring 

multifactor authentication. No person 

outside of the PEERS evaluation team 

will have access to the data. All data 

will be closely safeguarded, and no 

institutional or individual identifiers 

will be used in reports. Only aggregated 

data will be reported. SAMHSA and its 

contractors will not receive identifiable 

participant records. 

Those who participate in the survey 

will receive a $25 Visa gift card to 

compensate them for the 25-minute 

duration of the PiT HR Survey, which 

includes time for recruitment, consent, 

survey completion, and gift card receipt. 

The primary consequence of not 

collecting the PiT HR survey data is that 

CSAP would not have current 

information to understand (1) whether 

the target populations of the Harm 

Reduction Grant Program are being 

reached; (2) whether the service needs 

of the target populations are being met; 

and (3) the barriers target populations 

face in utilizing HR services to inform 

future grant programs. No other HR 

evaluation component brings in the 

often-overlooked voice of the recipients 

of HR services and supplies. 

The PiT HR Survey is cross-sectional, 

therefore the data will be collected only 

once from any survey participant. 

Individual grantees vary from small 

entities to large provider organizations. 

Every effort has been made to minimize 

the number of survey items asked of 

respondents down to the least number 

of items necessary to accomplish the 

objectives described within. As a result, 

there is no significant impact on small 

entities. 

Estimated Total Burden for Harm 

Reduction Point-in-Time Data 

Collection 

The estimates in this table reflect the 

maximum annual burden for the 

proposed PiT HR Survey at the 25 HR 

grantee sites funded through May 2025. 

These estimates are based on informal 

pilot testing of the instrument among 

PEERS staff. 

TABLE 1—ESTIMATES OF ANNUALIZED HOUR BURDEN

SAMHSA tool Number of respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

number of 

responses 

Burden 

hours per 

response 

Total 

burden 

hours 

Hourly 

wage 1

Total hour 

cost 

PiT HR Survey .................. 25 sites * 50 participants = 

1,250.

1 1,250 0.417 521.25 $34.27 $17,863.24 

1The average hourly wage for a US worker in January 2024 is $34.27 based on US Bureau of Labor statistics. (https://www.bls.gov/ 

news.release/empsit.nr0.htm). 

Send comments to SAMHSA Reports 

Clearance Officer, 5600 Fisher Lane, 

Room 15E57A, Rockville, MD 20852 OR 

email him a copy at samhsapra@

samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments 

should be received by November 12, 

2024. 

Alicia Broadus, 

Public Health Advisor. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20431 Filed 9–10–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA–4796– 

DR; Docket ID FEMA–2024–0001] 

Iowa; Amendment No. 7 to Notice of a 

Major Disaster Declaration 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice 

of a major disaster declaration for the 

State of Iowa (FEMA–4796–DR), dated 

June 24, 2024, and related 

determinations. 

DATES: This amendment was issued 

August 2, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dean Webster, Office of Response and 

Recovery, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, 500 C Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2833. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice 

of a major disaster declaration for the 

State of Iowa is hereby amended to 

include the following area among those 

areas determined to have been adversely 

affected by the event declared a major 

disaster by the President in his 

declaration of June 24, 2024. 


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