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Number of respondents Responses/ 

respondent Burden hours Total burden hours 

30,000 .......................................................................................................................................... 1 .167 5,010 

Send comments to Summer King, 

SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 

Room 7–1044, One Choke Cherry Road, 

Rockville, MD 20857 and e-mail her a 

copy at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. 

Written comments should be received 

within 60 days of this notice. 

Dated: February 20, 2009. 

Elaine Parry, 

Director, Office of Program Services. 

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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) 276–1243. 

Project: Notification of Intent To Use 

Schedule III, IV, or V Opioid Drugs for 

the Maintenance and Detoxification 

Treatment of Opiate Addiction Under 

21 U.S.C. 823(g)(2) (OMB No. 0930– 

0234)—Revision 

The Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 

2000 (‘‘DATA,’’ Pub. L. 106–310) 

amended the Controlled Substances Act 

(21 U.S.C. 823(g)(2)) to permit 

practitioners (physicians) to seek and 

obtain waivers to prescribe certain 

approved narcotic treatment drugs for 

the treatment of opiate addiction. The 

legislation sets eligibility requirements 

and certification requirements as well as 

an interagency notification review 

process for physicians who seek 

waivers. The legislation was amended 

in 2005 to eliminate the patient limit for 

physicians in group practices, and in 

2006, to permit certain physicians to 

treat up to 100 patients. 

To implement these provisions, 

SAMHSA developed a notification form 

(SMA–167) that facilitates the 

submission and review of notifications. 

The form provides the information 

necessary to determine whether 

practitioners (i.e., independent 

physicians) meet the qualifications for 

waivers set forth under the new law. 

Use of this form will enable physicians 

to know they have provided all 

information needed to determine 

whether practitioners are eligible for a 

waiver. 

However, there is no prohibition on 

use of other means to provide requisite 

information. The Secretary will convey 

notification information and 

determinations to the Drug Enforcement 

Administration (DEA), which will 

assign an identification number to 

qualifying practitioners; this number 

will be included in the practitioner’s 

registration under 21 U.S.C. 823(f). 

Practitioners may use the form for 

three types of notification: (a) New, (b) 

immediate, and (c) to notify of their 

intent to treat up to 100 patients. Under 

‘‘new’’ notifications, practitioners may 

make their initial waiver requests to 

SAMHSA. ‘‘Immediate’’ notifications 

inform SAMHSA and the Attorney 

General of a practitioner’s intent to 

prescribe immediately to facilitate the 

treatment of an individual (one) patient 

under 21 U.S.C. 823(g)(2)(E)(ii). Finally, 

the form may be used by physicians 

with waivers to certify their need and 

intent to treat up to 100 patients. 

The form collects data on the 

following items: Practitioner name; 

State medical license number and DEA 

registration number; address of primary 

location, telephone and fax numbers; email address; purpose of notification 

new, immediate, or renewal; 

certification of qualifying criteria for 

treatment and management of opiate 

dependent patients; certification of 

capacity to refer patients for appropriate 

counseling and other appropriate 

ancillary services; certification of 

maximum patient load, certification to 

use only those drug products that meet 

the criteria in the law. The form also 

notifies practitioners of Privacy Act 

considerations, and permits 

practitioners to expressly consent to 

disclose limited information to the 

SAMHSA Buprenorphine Physician 

Locator. 

Since July 2002, SAMHSA has 

received over 17,000 notifications and 

has certified almost 16,000 physicians. 

Eighty-one percent of the notifications 

were submitted by mail or by facsimile, 

with approximately twenty percent 

submitted through the Web based online 

system. Approximately 60 percent of the 

certified physicians have consented to 

disclosure on the SAMHSA 

Buprenorphine Physician Locator. 

Respondents may submit the form 

electronically, through a dedicated Web 

page that SAMHSA will establish for the 

purpose, as well as via U.S. mail. 

The following table summarizes the 

estimated annual burden for the use of 

this form. 

Purpose of submission Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Burden per 

response 

(hr.) 

Total burden 

(hrs) 

Initial Application for Waiver ............................................................................ 1,500 1 .083 125 

Notification to Prescribe Immediately .............................................................. 50 1 .083 4 

Notice to Treat up to 100 patients ................................................................... 500 1 .040 20 

Total ................................................................................................... 2,050 ........................ ........................ 149 

Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent by March 30, 2009 to: SAMHSA 

Desk Officer, Human Resources and 

Housing Branch, Office of Management 

and Budget, New Executive Office 

Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 

20503; due to potential delays in OMB’s 

receipt and processing of mail sent 

through the U.S. Postal Service, 

respondents are encouraged to submit 

comments by fax to: 202–395–6974. 

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Dated: February 20, 2009. 

Elaine Parry, 

Director, Office of Program Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Office of the Secretary 

Published Privacy Impact 

Assessments on the Web 

AGENCY: Privacy Office, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of publication of Privacy 

Impact Assessments. 

SUMMARY: The Privacy Office of the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) is making available twenty-nine 

Privacy Impact Assessments on various 

programs and systems in the 

Department. These assessments were 

approved and published on the Privacy 

Office’s Web site between October 1 and 

December 31, 2008. 

DATES: The Privacy Impact Assessments 

will be available on the DHS Web site 

until April 27, 2009, after which they 

may be obtained by contacting the DHS 

Privacy Office (contact information 

below). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

W. Kropf, Acting Chief Privacy Officer, 

Department of Homeland Security, Mail 

Stop 0550, Washington, DC 20528, or 

e-mail: pia@dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Between 

October 1 and December 31, 2008, the 

Chief Privacy Officer of the Department 

of Homeland Security (DHS) approved 

and published twenty-nine Privacy 

Impact Assessments (PIAs) on the DHS 

Privacy Office Web site, http:// 

www.dhs.gov/privacy, under the link for 

‘‘Privacy Impact Assessments.’’ These 

PIAs cover twenty-nine separate DHS 

programs. Below is a short summary of 

those programs, indicating the DHS 

component responsible for the system, 

and the date on which the PIA was 

approved. Additional information can 

be found on the Web site or by 

contacting the Privacy Office. 

System: Financial Disclosure 

Management. 

Component: Office of General 

Counsel. 

Date of approval: October 1, 2008. 

The Ethics Division of the Office of 

General Counsel of DHS published this 

PIA for the Financial Disclosure 

Management System (FDMS). FDMS is 

a Web-based initiative developed to 

provide a mechanism for individuals to 

complete, sign, review, and file 

financial disclosure reports, first 

required by Title I of the Ethics in 

Government Act of 1978. This PIA was 

conducted because FDMS collects 

personally identifiable information (PII). 

System: Keeping Schools Safe. 

Component: Science and Technology. 

Date of approval: October 1, 2008. 

Keeping Schools Safe is a research 

and development effort funded by the 

DHS Science & Technology Directorate 

(S&T) in support of the Alabama State 

Department of Homeland Security. The 

purpose of this pilot is to test the 

functionality and clarity of live 

streaming video technology for first 

responders and law enforcement 

applications in a school environment. A 

PIA was conducted because images of 

individuals (volunteer Alabama law 

enforcement officials) will be captured 

during the field test. This PIA will only 

cover the research activities being 

conducted on behalf of S&T during this 

operational field test. 

System: United States Homeport 

Update. 

Component: U.S. Coast Guard. 

Date of approval: October 17, 2008. 

This is an update to the previous 

Homeport PIA, dated May 9, 2006, in 

order to describe the new functionality 

that allows merchant mariners to 

determine the status of their credential 

application using the Homeport Internet 

Portal. Homeport uses the identification 

information provided by the mariner to 

match records from the Merchant 

Mariner Licensing and Documentation 

system and provide mariners the current 

status of their credential application. 

Information provided by the mariner 

will be used solely for matching records 

and will not be retained in Homeport at 

the completion of the online session. 

System: Data Analysis and Research 

for Trade Transparency System. 

Component: Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement. 

Date of approval: October 20, 2008. 

Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement (ICE) operates the Data 

Analysis and Research for Trade 

Transparency System (DARTTS), which 

supports ICE investigations of tradebased money laundering, contraband 

smuggling, and trade fraud. DARTTS 

analyzes trade and financial data to 

identify statistically anomalous 

transactions that may warrant 

investigation for money laundering or 

other import-export crimes. These 

anomalies are then independently 

confirmed and further investigated by 

experienced ICE investigators. ICE 

conducted this PIA because DARTTS 

collects and uses PII associated with 

money laundering, contraband 

smuggling, and trade fraud. 

System: Secure Flight Program. 

Component: Transportation Security 

Administration. 

Date of approval: October 21, 2008. 

The Secure Flight program matches 

identifying information of aviation 

passengers and certain non-travelers 

against the consolidated and integrated 

terrorist watch list maintained by the 

Federal Government in a consistent and 

accurate manner, while minimizing 

false matches and protecting PII. TSA 

published a Final Rule outlining TSA’s 

implementation of the Secure Flight 

program. In conjunction with this Final 

Rule, TSA published this updated PIA. 

This updated PIA reflects the Secure 

Flight program as described in the Final 

Rule. 

System: Alien Change of Address 

Card. 

Component: U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Service. 

Date of approval: October 21, 2008. 

United States Citizenship and 

Immigration Service (USCIS) published 

this PIA for the Alien Change of 

Address Card (AR–11) System. The AR– 

11 tracks the address changes submitted 

to the Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) in paper and electronic form as 

required by Section 265 of the 

Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 

8 U.S.C. 1305. USCIS has conducted 

this PIA because AR–11 contains PII. 

System: First Phase of the Initial 

Operating Capability of Interoperability 

Between the U.S. Department of 

Homeland Security and the U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

Component: US VISIT. 

Date of approval: October 23, 2008. 

The DHS United States Visitor and 

Immigrant Status Indicator Technology 

(US–VISIT) Program, in cooperation 

with the Department of Justice Federal 

Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal 

Justice Information Services (CJIS) 

Division, implemented the first phase of 

initial operating capability (IOC) of 

system interoperability 

(Interoperability) between US–VISIT’s 

Automated Biometric Identification 

System (IDENT) and CJIS’ Integrated 

Automated Fingerprint Identification 

System (IAFIS). This capability, which 

expands upon and improves the method 

of exchange and sharing of certain 

biometric and biographic data between 

IDENT and IAFIS, is intended to 

increase data sharing between DHS and 

Federal, State, and local agencies for 

law enforcement activity relating to the 

DHS mission. This PIA describes these 

uses and sharing of data under the first 

phase of the Interoperability IOC, as 

well as the associated privacy risks and 

measures taken by US–VISIT to mitigate 

those risks.