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[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 23268]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-11448]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Cooperative Agreements with Single State Agencies for Alcohol and 
Other Drug Abuse for Conducting Evaluations

AGENCY: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Cooperative Agreements with Single State Agencies for Alcohol 
and Other Drug Abuse for Assistance to States for Conducting 
Evaluations of their Substance Abuse Treatment Services.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the public of planned cooperative 
agreements that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), 
under its State Treatment Needs Assessment Program (STNAP), intends to 
award to Single State Agencies (SSAs) for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse. 
In fiscal year 2001, CSAT has approximately $2.1 million available for 
7 to 9 awards. Awards will be made if the applications are scored by 
the initial review group and concurred with by the CSAT National 
Advisory Council.
    Eligibility for cooperative agreements is limited to SSAs for 
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse because the States have statutory 
responsibility for developing and submitting services needs assessment 
estimates in order to receive a Substance Abuse Prevention and 
Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant. By providing assistance to the States for 
conducting evaluations of their substance abuse treatment services, 
CSAT, under its STNAP, seeks to help States to determine methods for 
improving the availability and quality of treatment. The STNAP 
objectives are to: assist States to take advantage of existing data to 
develop estimates of need for services and report these data on the 
annual SAPT Block Grant application; assist States to develop and 
institutionalize their capability to use data that already exist and to 
manage data collection and analyses, as needed, to supplement existing 
data sources; assist States to conduct common assessment studies needed 
to augment their existing data and to improve the opportunities for 
aggregation of data across States; and allow for aggregation of data 
across States for SAMHSA/CSAT to use in secondary analyses, multi-State 
comparisons, and for augmenting other information collected within 
SAMHSA.

    Authority: Cooperative agreements with SSAs for Alcohol and 
Other Drug Abuse will be made under the authority of section 1935 
(b)(1)(C) and (b)(3) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended 
(42 USC 300x-35), and section 1929. The Catalog of Federal Domestic 
Assistance number is 93.238.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nita Fleagle, CSAT, SAMHSA, Rockwall 
II, Suite 840, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857; telephone (301) 
443-8572; e-mail: [email protected]

    Dated: May 1, 2001.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 01-11448 Filed 5-7-01; 8:45 am]
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