[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77878-77879]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-21790]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for the 
Office of Management and Budget (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) 276-0361.

Project: Revision of Mental Health Client/Participant Outcome Measures 
and Infrastructure, Prevention, and Promotion Indicators (OMB No. 0930-
0285)

    SAMHSA is requesting approval from OMB for a revision to extend the 
expiration date for the previously approved instruments and data 
collection activities for the Center for Mental Health Services Mental 
Health Client/Participant Outcome Measures and Infrastructure, 
Prevention, and Promotion Indicators (OMB No 0930-0285) that expires on 
March 30, 2025.
    To be fully accountable for the spending of Federal funds, SAMHSA 
requires all programs to collect and report data to ensure that program 
goals and objectives are met. Data are collected and used to monitor 
and improve performance of each program and ensure appropriate and 
thoughtful spending of Federal funds.
    SAMHSA requests to continue using and extend the expiration date 
for the currently approved Client-level Mental Health Client/
Participant Outcome measures and Infrastructure, Prevention, and 
Promotion indicators and to extend the expiration date.
    These two data collections maintain capacity and requirements to 
report qualitative performance and quantitative outcomes for all Center 
for Mental Health Services discretionary grant programs, including: 
demographic characteristics of clients served; social determinants of 
health of clients served before, during, and at end of services; 
numbers of clients served; and process measures, outputs, outcomes, of 
grant program required activities.
    Currently, the information collected from these data collections is 
entered and stored on SAMHSA's Performance Accountability and Reporting 
System (SPARS), which is a real-time, performance management system 
that captures information on mental health and substance abuse 
treatment services delivered in the United States through discretionary 
grantees. Continued approval of this information collection will allow 
SAMHSA to continue to meet Government Performance and Results 
Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRMA) reporting requirements that quantify 
the effects and accomplishments of its discretionary grant programs, 
which are consistent with OMB guidance.

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    SAMHSA and its Centers will use the data collected for annual 
reporting required by GPRMA, to describe clients and individuals served 
and to summarize outputs and outcomes of grant program activities. 
SAMHSA and its Centers will use the data for annual reporting. SAMHSA's 
report for each fiscal year will include actual results of performance 
monitoring for the three preceding fiscal years. Information collected 
through this request will allow SAMHSA to report on the results of 
these performance outcomes as well as be consistent with SAMHSA-
specific performance domains, and to assess the accountability and 
performance of its discretionary grant programs. The information 
collected through this request will allow SAMHSA to improve its ability 
to assess the impact of its programs on key outcomes of interest and to 
gather vital descriptive characteristics about clients served by 
discretionary grant programs.
    Currently, there are 76,209 total burden hours in the two data 
collections. SAMHSA is requesting an increase to 139,178 hours to 
account for additional grantees having reporting requirements and to 
account more fully for the time needed to report quarterly on the IPP 
indicators. The proposed estimate of time to collect data and complete 
the instruments is shown in table 1.

                                   Table1--Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden
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                                                               Responses
                  SAMHSA tool                     Number of       per         Total      Hours per    Total hour
                                                 respondents   respondent   responses     response      burden
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Client-level baseline assessment--interview....       75,600            1       75,600          0.3       22,680
Client-level baseline assessment--                    84,000            1       84,000          0.1        8,400
 administrative................................
Client-level 3- or 6-month reassessment--             53,760            1       53,760          0.3       16,128
 interview.....................................
Client-level 3- or 6-month reassessment--             67,200            1       67,200          0.1        6,720
 administrative................................
Client-level discharge assessment--interview...       12,500            1       12,500          0.3        3,750
Client-level discharge assessment--                   25,000            1       25,000          0.1        2,500
 administrative................................
Section H Program Specific Data: baseline, 3-         75,000            2      150,000          0.1       15,000
 or 6-month reassessment, and/or clinical
 discharge.....................................
    Subtotal...................................      393,060  ...........      468,060  ...........       75,178
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Infrastructure development, prevention, and            2,000            4        8,000            8       64,000
 mental health promotion quarterly record
 abstraction...................................
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    Subtotal...................................        2,000  ...........        8,000  ...........       64,000
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        Total..................................      395,060  ...........      476,060  ...........      139,178
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    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

Krishna Palipudi,
Social Science Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2024-21790 Filed 9-23-24; 8:45 am]
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