[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19960-19962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07293]


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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) 276-0361.

Project: Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program Monitoring

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's (SAMHSA) 
will monitor program performance of its Training and Technical 
Assistance (TTA) programs. The TTAs disseminate current behavioral 
health services research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 
National Institute on

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Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Mental Health, 
National Institute of Justice, and other sources, as well as other 
SAMHSA programs. To accomplish this, the TTA programs develop and 
update state-of-the-art, research-based curricula and professional 
development training.
    The TTAs hold a variety of events: Technical assistance, meetings, 
trainings, and presentations. A TTA technical assistance event is 
defined as a jointly planned consultation generally involving a series 
of contacts between the TTA and an outside organization/institution 
during which the TTA provides expertise and gives direction toward 
resolving a problem or improving conditions. Technical assistance 
events can be categorized into universal, targeted, and intensive. 
Other TTA events such as meetings, training, presentations, strategic 
planning and learning collaboratives are utilized to support technical 
assistance. These events are TTA-sponsored or co-sponsored events in 
which a group of people representing one or more agencies other than 
the TTAs work cooperatively on a project, problem, and/or policy.
    SAMHSA intends to use three (3) instruments for program monitoring 
of TTA events as well as ongoing quality improvement, which are 
described below.
    1. Event Description Form (EDF): The EDF collects event 
information. This instrument asks approximately 10 questions of TTA 
faculty/staff relating to the event focus and format. It allows the 
TTAs and SAMHSA to track the number of events held (See Attachment 1).
    2. TTA Post Event Form: The Post Event Form will be administered 
immediately following the event. It asks approximately 15 questions of 
each individual that participated in the event (Attachment 2). The 
instrument asks the participants to report on general demographic 
information (gender, race, sexual orientation, level of education, 
primary profession), principal employment setting, employment zip code, 
satisfaction with the event, if they expect the event to benefit them 
professionally, if they expect the event to change their practice and 
if they would recommend the event to a colleague.
    3. TTA Follow-up Form: The Follow-up Form will be administered 60-
days after all events that last a minimum of three (3) hours. The form 
will be administered to a minimum of 25% of participants who consent to 
participate in the follow-up process. The form asks about 14 questions 
(Attachment 3). The instrument asks the participants to report if the 
information provided in at the event benefited their professional 
development, will change their practice, if they will use the 
information in their future work, if information will be shared with 
colleagues, how the event supported their work responsibilities, how 
the TTA can improve the events, what other topics would participants 
like to see TTAs address and in what format.
    The information collected on the TTA forms will assist SAMHSA in 
documenting the numbers and types of participants in TTA events, 
describing the extent to which participants report improvement in their 
professional development, and which method is most effective in 
disseminating knowledge to various audiences. This type of information 
is crucial to support SAMHSA in complying with GPRA reporting 
requirements and will inform future development of knowledge 
dissemination activities.
    SAMHSA sought to improve functionality and limit public burden 
through revision of the previously proposed TTA instruments based on 
stakeholder feedback. The following revisions have been made to the 
instruments since the 60-Day public comment period:
    <bullet> Multiple linguistic revisions were made to improve clarity 
of instructions, descriptors and questions.
    <bullet> The demographics section was updated to reflect revisions 
made to the other SAMHSA GPRA data collections.
    <bullet> The unique identifier configuration has been revised to 
address concerns about respondent identification.
    The revised TTA instruments reflect SAMHSA's desire to elicit 
pertinent Training and Technical Assistance program and participant 
data that can be used to not only guide future programs and practice, 
but to also respond to stakeholder, congressional, and agency 
enquiries.
    The chart below summarizes the annualized burden for this project.

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                                                         Number of    Responses per      Total      Hours per    Total annual   Hourly wage   Total hour
                  Type of respondent                    respondents     respondent     responses     response    burden hours       cost         cost
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TTA Faculty/Staff:
    Event Description Form............................        2,000                1        2,000          .16             320       $24.78       $7,930
Meeting and presentations respondents:
    Post-Event Form...................................       50,000                1       50,000          .16           8,000        24.78      198,240
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                    Follow-up form                       Meetings and presentations are usually less than 3 hours. Follow up forms will be used only for
                                                                                           events longer than 3 hours.
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Technical Assistance and Training respondents:
    Post-Event Form...................................      100,000                1      100,000          .16          16,000        24.78      396,480
    Follow-up Form....................................       25,000                1       25,000          .16           4,000        24.78       99,120
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        Total.........................................      177,000                1      177,000          .16          28,320        24.78      701,770
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                                                  Summary Table
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                                                                    Number of     Responses per
                          Instruments                              respondents     respondents     Burden hours
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TTA Event Description Form.....................................           2,000                1             320
TTA Post Event Form............................................         150,000                1          24,000
TTA Follow up Form.............................................          25,000                1           4,000
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    Total......................................................         177,000                1          28,320
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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.

Carlos Graham,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-07293 Filed 4-5-22; 8:45 am]
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