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II. Information Request 

The OPHS, on behalf of the HHS 

Interagency Workgroup on Multiple 

Chronic Conditions, requests input on 

the draft ‘‘HHS Strategic Framework on 

Multiple Chronic Conditions.’’ In 

addition to general comments, the 

Workgroup is seeking input on any 

additional gaps not addressed in the 

draft document. 

III. Potential Responders 

HHS invites input from a broad range 

of individuals and organizations that 

have interests in MCC and persons with 

such conditions. Some examples of 

these organizations include, but are not 

limited to, the following: 

—General public 

—Health care, professional, and 

educational organizations 

—Physicians, nurses, hospitals, and 

other health-care system providers 

—State and local public health agencies 

—Public health organizations 

—Foundations 

—Disease groups 

—Chronic care and advocacy groups 

—Aging-related organizations 

—Medicaid- and Medicare-related 

organizations 

—Pharmacy groups 

—Insurers and business groups 

—Collaboratives and consortia. 

When responding, please self-identify 

with any of the above or other categories 

(include all that apply) and your name. 

Anonymous submissions will not be 

considered. 

The submission of written materials 

in response to the RFI should not 

exceed 5 pages, not including 

appendices and supplemental 

documents. Responders may submit 

other forms of electronic materials to 

demonstrate or exhibit concepts of their 

written responses. 

Dated: May 13, 2010. 

Anand Parekh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health 

(Science and Medicine). 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health 

Services Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

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. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collections of information 

are necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Proposed Project: Registration for 

Behavioral Health Web Site and 

Resources—NEW 

SAMHSA is authorized under section 

501(d)(16) of the Public Health Service 

Act (42 U.S.C. 290aa(d)(16)) to develop 

and distribute materials for the 

prevention, treatment, and recovery 

from substance abuse and mental health 

disorders. To improve the way the 

public locates and obtains these 

materials, SAMHSA uses its Web site as 

an online resource for behavioral health 

information. A part of this Web site is 

SAMHSA’s development of a voluntary 

registration process that will allow 

customers to create accounts that will 

save their order histories and shipping 

addresses. During the Web site 

registration process, SAMHSA will also 

ask customers for optional demographic 

information that will include 

organization affiliation, SAMHSA 

grantee identification information, and 

reasons for interest in behavioral health 

information. SAMHSA will use this 

information to conduct customer 

analyses that will inform materials 

development, assist in forecasting 

inventory needs, and identify ways that 

SAMHSA can improve its customer 

service. SAMHSA will request the same 

optional demographic information and 

state of residency when customers 

subscribe to its email update service, for 

the purpose of assessing information 

needs and better targeting email 

messages to appropriate audiences. 

SAMHSA is employing a Web-based 

form for information collection to avoid 

duplication and unnecessary burden on 

customers who register both for an 

account on the Web site and for email 

updates. The Web technology allows 

SAMHSA to integrate the email update 

subscription process into the Web site 

account registration process. Customers 

who register for an account on the Web 

site will be given the option of being 

enrolled automatically to receive 

SAMHSA email updates. Any optional 

questions answered by the customer 

during the Web site registration process 

will automatically be mapped to the 

profile generated for the email update 

system, thereby reducing the collection 

of duplicate information. 

SAMHSA will collect all customer 

information submitted for Web site 

registration and email update 

subscriptions electronically via a series 

of Web forms on the samhsa.gov 

domain. Customers can submit the Web 

forms at their leisure, or call SAMHSA’s 

toll-free Call Center and an information 

specialist will submit the forms on their 

behalf. The electronic collection of 

information will reduce the burden on 

the respondent and streamline the datacapturing process. SAMHSA will place 

Web site registration information into a 

Knowledge Management database and 

will place email subscription 

information into a database maintained 

by a third-party vendor that serves 

multiple Federal agencies and the White 

House. Customers can change, add, or 

delete their information from either 

system at any time. 

The respondents will be behavioral 

health professionals, researchers, 

parents, caregivers, and the general 

public. 

SAMHSA estimates the burden of this 

information collection as follows: 


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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 

towards improving standards for 


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