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Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant
applications.
Place: Villa Florence Hotel, 225 Powell
Street, San Francisco, CA 94012.
Contact Person: Dana Jeffrey Plude, PhD,
Scientific Review Administrator, Center for
Scientific Review, National Institutes of
Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 3176,
MSC 7848, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435–
2309, pluded@csr.nih.gov.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific
Review Special Emphasis Panel; Innovative
Biomedical Imaging and Technologies.
Date: February 17, 2007.
Time: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant
applications.
Place: Bahia Resort Hotel, 998 W. Mission
Bay Drive, San Diego, CA 92109.
Contact Person: Xiang-Ning Li, MD, PhD,
Scientific Review Administrator, Center for
Scientific Review, National Institutes of
Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5112,
MSC 7854, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435–
1744, lixiang@csr.nih.gov.
(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Nos. 93.306, Comparative Medicine;
93.333, Clinical Research, 93.306, 93.333,
93.337, 93.393–93.396, 93.837–93.844,
93.486–93.878, 93.892, 93.893, National
Institutes of Health, HHS)
Dated: January 8, 2007.
Anna Snouffer,
Acting Director, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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National Institutes of Health
Center for Scientific Review; Notice of
Closed Meeting.
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Notice is hereby given of a change in
the meeting of the Enabling
Bioanalytical and Biophysical
Technologies Study Section, January 31,
2007, 8:30 a.m. to February 1, 2007, 5
p.m., Courtyard Marriott, 299 Second
Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 which
was published in the Federal Register
on December 5, 2006, 71 FR 70522–
70523.
The meetings will be held February 1,
2007, to February 2, 2007. The meeting
time and location remain the same. The
meeting is closed to the public.
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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 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: Independent
Evaluation of the Community Mental
Health Services Block Grant Program—
NEW
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Dated: January 8, 2007.
Anna Snouffer,
Acting Director, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
The Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA), the Center for Mental
Health Services (CMHS) administers the
Community Mental Health Services
Block Grant (CMHS BG). The
Community Mental Health Services
Block Grant was funded by Congress to
develop community-based systems of
care for adults with serious mental
illness (SMI) and children with severe
emotional disorders (SED), and has been
the largest Federal program dedicated to
improving community mental health
services. States have latitude in
determining how to spend their funds to
support services for adults with SMI
and children with SED. The only
requirements outlined in the
authorizing legislation for State receipt
of CMHS BG funds are provisions to
increase children’s services, create a
State mental health planning council,
and to develop a State mental health
plan to be submitted to the Secretary of
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Health and Human Services (HHS). The
State mental health planning council is
to comprise various State constituents
including providers, administrators, and
mental health services consumers. Each
State plan must:
• Provide for the establishment and
implementation of an organized
community-based system of care for
individuals with mental illness.
• Estimate the incidence and
prevalence of adults with SMI and
children with SED within the State.
• Provide for a system of integrated
services appropriate for the multiple
needs of children.
• Provide for outreach to and services
for rural and homeless populations.
• Describe the financial and other
resources necessary to implement the
plan and describe how the CMHS BG
funds are to be spent.
In addition, Congress included a
maintenance-of-effort (MOE)
requirement that a State’s expenditures
for community mental health services
be no less than the average spent in the
two preceding fiscal years.
The CMHS BG received an adequate
rating on the OMB PART in 2003.
Clearly in the follow up period to that
assessment, one of the critical areas that
must be addressed is the expectation
that an independent and objective
evaluation of the program is to be
carried out initially and at regular
intervals. In addition, the program
evaluation has been designed to be of
high quality, sufficient scope and
unbiased (with appropriate
documentation for each of these
elements). In fact it is in addressing an
evaluation of the program that critical
elements of accountability and program
performance are also identified and
initially assessed. The rigor of the
evaluation is seen in how it addresses
the effectiveness of the program’s
impact with regard to its mission and
long term goals. By legislative design
the CMHS BG Program has previously
focused on legislative compliance. Now
it addresses the impact of the program
nationally, over time, with a view to
coming to terms with identified program
deficiencies and the corresponding
impact of proposed changes.
In this evaluation, a multi-method
evaluation approach is being used to
examine Federal and State performance
with regard to the CMHS BG and its
identified goals. This approach
emphasizes a qualitative and
quantitative examination of both the
CMHS BG process (e.g., activities and
outputs in the logic model) and systemlevel outcomes whereby Federal and
State stakeholder perspectives on the
CMHS BG, as captured through semi-
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meeting.
Notice is hereby given of a change in the meeting of the Enabling
Bioanalytical and Biophysical Technologies Study Section, January 31,
2007, 8:30 a.m. to February 1, 2007, 5 p.m., Courtyard Marriott, 299
Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 which was published in the
Federal Register on December 5, 2006, 71 FR 70522-70523.
The meetings will be held February 1, 2007, to February 2, 2007.
The meeting time and location remain the same. The meeting is closed to
the public.
Dated: January 8, 2007.
Anna Snouffer,
Acting Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 07-103 Filed 1-11-07; 8:45 am]
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