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TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

frequency per 

response 

Total annual 

responses 

Hours per 

response Total hours 

Web Site Registration .............................................................. 41,200 1 41,200 .033 

(2 min.) 

1,360 

E-mail Update Subscription ..................................................... 24,000 1 24,000 .017 

(1 min.) 

480 

Total .................................................................................. 65,200 ........................ 65,200 ........................ 1,840 

Send comments to Summer King, 

SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 

Room 7–1044, One Choke Cherry Road, 

Rockville, MD 20857 and e-mail a copy 

to summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. 

Written comments should be received 

within 60 days of this notice. 

Dated: April 28, 2010. 

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 

In compliance with section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 concerning 

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 on (240) 276– 

1243. 

Project: Substance Abuse Prevention 

and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant 

Uniform Application Guidance and 

Instructions FY 2011–2013 and 

Regulations (OMB No. 0930–0080)— 

Revision 

Sections 1921 through 1935 of the 

Public Health Service Act (U.S.C. 300x– 

21 to 300x–35) provide for annual 

allotments to assist States to plan, carry 

out and evaluate activities to prevent 

and treat substance abuse and for 

related activities. Under the provisions 

of the law, States may receive 

allotments only after an application is 

submitted and approved by the 

Secretary, DHHS. For the Federal fiscal 

years (FY) 2011–FY 2013 Substance 

Abuse Prevention and Treatment 

(SAPT) Block Grant application cycles, 

SAMHSA will provide States with 

revised application guidance and 

instructions to implement changes made 

in accordance with recommendations 

from the National Association of State 

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors 

(NASADAD) and their member States in 

the revisions and clarification of data 

reporting requirements and instructions. 

During negotiations with the States 

resulting in agreement on the National 

Outcome Measures (NOMs) for 

substance abuse treatment and 

prevention, SAMHSA pledged to the 

States to: 

1. Reduce respondent burden; 

2. Work with the States to improve 

performance management of the SAPT 

Block Grant; 

3. Improve the availability, timeliness, 

and quality of data available to Federal, 

State, and provider administrators of 

block grant funded programs. 

This revision of the Uniform 

Application and Regulation for the 

SAPT Block Grant takes additional steps 

toward implementing these 

commitments. SAMHSA, in 

consultation with NASADAD, has 

provided States the ability to reduce 

their application burden by 

consolidating the FY 2011–FY 2013 

State Plan into a 3-year plan. With the 

exception of the projected annual 

budget form, States only would be 

expected to submit any proposed 

revisions to its approved three year plan 

but would otherwise not have to 

resubmit a State Plan during FY 2012 

and FY 2013. Individual States may 

reduce their respondent burden further 

by selecting the option of using 

SAMHSA pre-populated tables for 

Section IVa and IVb. The data for these 

tables would be drawn from SAMHSA 

data sets known as Drug and Alcohol 

Services Information System (DASIS) 

Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) and 

National Survey on Drug Use and 

Health (NSDUH) by SAMHSA and 

provided to the States. In addition, the 

web-based Block Grant Application 

System now facilitates completion of 

the provider entity table through added 

pre-populated data items. The data for 

this table would be drawn from 

SAMHSA data set known as DASIS 

National Survey of Substance Abuse 

Treatment Services (N–SSATS) 

SAMHSA will continue to work with 

NASADAD and the States to assess the 

feasibility and usefulness of prepopulating additional sections of the 

application with data extracted from 

SAMHSA data sets to further reduce 

respondent burden. 

SAMHSA continues to provide the 

States with the option of reporting on 

prevention expenditures utilizing the 

six primary prevention strategies or 

utilizing the Institute of Medicine 

classification of Universal, Selective or 

Indicated. SAMHSA has designed the 

State Prevention Framework State 

Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) competitive 

program and funded contracts in States 

without a SPF SIG to support data 

driven prevention planning by the 

Single State Agencies for Substance 

Abuse. States are expected to use the 

State level data collected with support 

from these programs in the planning in 

section II of the Uniform Application. 

The Uniform Application has been 

modified to move needs assessment, 

planning narrative and future year 

budget forms into Section II, the FY 

2011–FY 2013 Plan section. 

In December 2004, SAMHSA and the 

States agreed on the goal of having all 

States reporting the NOMs measures as 

defined at the meeting by the end of a 

3-year implementation period starting in 

FY 2005 and concluding at the end of 

FY 2007. By January 2006, supportive 

technical assistance on information 

technology design and payment for data 

submitted became available by the State 

Outcomes Measurement and 

Management System (SOMMS) 

program. States who have participated 

in the SOMMS/NOMs subcontracts may 

choose to have their data pre-populated 

which would significantly reduce their 

reporting burden for this application. 

During the subsequent three years, 

SAMHSA in partnership with the States 

and all other SAPT Block Grant 

stakeholders have continued to work 

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analyzing and responding to the results 

of NOMs data appropriate to each level 

of block grant funded administration 

including Federal, State, and Provider 

roles and responsibilities. 

SAMHSA realigned resources to 

address the need for technical assistance 

in information technology (IT) and 

software purchasing to implement and 

maintain NOMs data standards. This 

technical assistance first became 

available in September 2006 and IT 

support continues. 

Revisions to the previously-approved 

Uniform Application resulting from 

such stakeholder input reflect the 

following changes: (1) Section I, Form 2, 

‘‘Table of Contents,’’ was revised to 

appropriately enumerate the specific 

items within each section; (2) In Section 

II, the former single year ‘‘Intended Use 

Plan’’ is aggregated into a ‘‘Three Year 

State Plan’’ to reduce the States’ annual 

plan reporting burden. The first ‘‘Three 

Year Plan’’ will cover FYs 2011–2013. In 

the next two subsequent years, only 

revisions or updates to the 3-year plan 

will be required in the States’ FY 2012 

and FY 2013 Uniform Applications. 

Planned expenditures of each Federal 

Fiscal Year award will still be collected 

annually; (3) In Section II, the Form 

formerly specified as Form 12 has been 

removed; (4) In Section III, Narratives 

covering the Federal requirements, 

financial expenditure reports and 

services utilization reports are 

consolidated into the ‘‘Annual Report 

Section’’; (5) In Section IV subparts IVa 

and IVb, Treatment and Prevention 

Performance Reporting Forms are 

maintained and are to be completed 

annually. 

The total annual reporting burden 

estimate is shown below: 

FY 2011 

Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Number of 

hours 

per response 

Total hours 

Sections I–III—States and Territories .............................................................. 60 1 *480 28,800 

Section IV–A .................................................................................................... 60 1 40 2,400 

Section IV–B .................................................................................................... 60 1 42.75 2,565 

Recordkeeping ................................................................................................. 60 1 16 960 

Total .......................................................................................................... 60 ........................ ........................ 34,725 

* (Additional 10 hours per completion of Section II per State due to addition of FYs 2012 and 2013 in ‘‘Three Year Plan.’’) 

FY 2012 AND FY 2013 

[Due to the reduction in section II] 

Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Number of 

hours 

per response 

Total hours 

Sections I–III—States and Territories .............................................................. 60 1 440 26,400 

Section IVa ...................................................................................................... 60 1 40 2,400 

Section IVb ...................................................................................................... 60 1 42.75 2,565 

Recordkeeping ................................................................................................. 60 1 16 960 

Total .......................................................................................................... 60 ........................ ........................ 32,325 

* (Reduction of approximately 40 hours per respondent due to reductions in response burden for Section II, ‘‘Three Year Plan.’’) 

SAMHSA received comments from 

ten separate State agencies representing 

ten States. 

In response to State comments, (1) 

SAMHSA clarified all form labeling to 

provide a clear reference to the form 

number in the new application as well 

as a reference to the former form 

number used in previous applications. 

In addition, form references in the 

instructions also provide reference to 

the former number of the form; (2) 

SAMHSA also provided similar 

references to narrative requirements that 

had been previously contained in 

separate attachments labeling these 

sections in order to facilitate respondent 

understanding where this data had been 

collected in previous applications; (3) In 

Section II, instructions for the new form 

(Form 7) intended to summarize State 

planning priorities, was modified to 

allow State to identify up to twelve 

priorities as opposed to requiring twelve 

to be identified; (4) Instructions were 

added to the section IVb; Prevention 

Forms P12a–P15, to facilitate 

understanding of the time periods for 

which data were being reported on these 

forms. 

At least half of the respondents, albeit 

a small minority of the overall set of 

grantees, objected to the timing of these 

changes indicating that economic 

conditions and staffing affect their 

ability to undertake such changes. 

SAMHSA contends that the transition to 

a three year plan will reduce burden by 

an estimated total across all 60 

applicants of about 800 hours and 

requires only an additional two pages of 

narrative in the first year of the threeyear Plan. The addition of Form 7 

requiring articulation of up to twelve 

State priorities is offset by deleting the 

previous requirement to project future 

period utilization data (Form 12) and its 

instructions entirely. 

Average Annual Total Burden is 

projected to be 33,125 or a decrease of 

about 800 hours. 

Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent by June 18, 2010 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: 202–395–5806. 

Dated: May 12, 2010. 

Elaine Parry, 

Director, Office of Program Services. 

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