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Date: October 4, 2007.
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Agenda: To review and evaluate grant
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Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701
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(Telephone Conference Call).
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MSC 7812, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–435–
1222, nigidas@csr.nih.gov.
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with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR
404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National
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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
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Project: Protection and Advocacy for
Individuals With Mental Illness
(PAIMI) Annual Program Performance
Report (OMB No. 0930–0169)—Revision
The Protection and Advocacy for
Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI)
Act, [42 U.S.C. 10801 et seq.] authorized
funds to support protection and
advocacy services on behalf of
individuals with severe mental illness
and severe emotional impairment who
are at risk for abuse (including incidents
of seclusion, restraint, and serious
injuries or fatalities related to such
incidents, neglect, residing in a public
or private care or treatment facility. The
PAIMI Program is managed by the
Center for Mental Health Services
(CMHS) within the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
Under the PAIMI Act, formula grant
awards are made to governor-designated
protection and advocacy (P&A) systems
in each of the 50 states, the District of
Columbia (Mayor), the American Indian
Consortium [the Dine (Navajo) and Hopi
Peoples in Northern Arizona and New
Mexico], and five (5) jurisdictions—
American Samoa, Guam, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The
awards are used to provide legal-based
advocacy services which ensure
protection against violation of the
constitutional and federal rights of
individuals with significant (severe)
mental illness (adults) and significant
(severe) emotional impairment.
In 2000, the PAIMI Act amendments,
created a 57th P&A system—the
American Indian Consortium and
authorized P&A systems to serve PAIMIeligible individuals, as defined under
the Act [42 U.S.C. at 10802 (4)], who
reside in the community including their
own homes. However, P&A services to
PAIMI-eligible clients residing in the
community is permissible only when
the annual PAIMI appropriation met or
exceeded $30 million, and that residents
in public and private residential care or
treatment facilities had service priority
over community residents. The
Children’s Health Act of 2000 (CHA) [42
U.S.C. 290aa et seq.], also referenced
State P&A authority to obtain
information on incidents of seclusion,
restraint, and related deaths in certain
facilities.
The PAIMI Act requires each of the 57
P&A systems to file an annual report, no
later than January 1st, of its activities
and accomplishments and to provide
information on such topics as, the
numbers of individuals served, types of
complaints addressed, and the number
of intervention strategies used to resolve
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the presenting issues. Under the Act, the
PAIMI Advisory Council (PAC) of each
P&A system is also required to submit
its independent assessment of the
effectiveness of the services provided to,
and the activities conducted by, the
P&A systems on behalf of PAIMI-eligible
individuals and their family members,
in a separate section of the Program
Performance Report (PPR).
The Developmental Disabilities
Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of
1975, referred to as the DD Act [42
U.S.C. 6042 et seq.], created the State
P&A systems. The Administration on
Developmental Disabilities (ADD),
within the Administration for Children
and Families, has administrative
oversight of the Protection and
Advocacy for Developmental
Disabilities (PADD) Program. Since
1986, the Department has provided
formula grant funds to the same
governor-designated P&A systems to
protect and advocate for individuals
with significant mental illness.
SAMHSA is currently waiting for the
ADD to issue a Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (NPR) for the DD Act of
2000 amendments. These amendments
will also govern activities fulfilled by
the State P&A systems under the PAIMI
Act. Therefore, to ensure to the greatest
extent possible that all facets of the P&A
system administered by the Department
are subject to the same requirements,
SAMHSA will wait until the DD Act
NPR is published before revising the
PAIMI Rules. [The Final PAIMI Rules
were issued in 1997 and were extended
in 2000 and 2004. An FRN was
published May 2006 to extend the
current PAIMI Rules, which will expire
in 2007, until 2010].
SAMHSA is revising the PAIMI
Annual PPR for the following reasons:
(1) To make it consistent with the
requirements of the annual reporting
requirements under the PAIMI Act and
the PAIMI Rules [42 CFR Part 51] and
the CHA of 2000 Parts H and I; (2) to
conform with the Office of Management
and Budget’s (OMB) findings and
recommendations from the FY 2005
Program Assessment Rating Tool
(PART) review of the PAIMI Program;
(3) to broaden the category of deaths
investigated by the State P&A systems;
(4) to reduce the reporting burdens for
the State P&A systems and the PAIMI
PAC in certain areas; and, (5) to enhance
the PAC section by providing better
information on its role, responsibility,
and authority on P&A system PAIMI
activities and services.
Planned revisions to the PAIMI
Annual PPR and the PAC included the
following items:
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(1) Changing the fonts to improve
readability;
(2) Adding Tables of Content and
Glossaries to the PPR and Advisory
Council Report (ACR) sections;
(3) Reducing the reporting burden in
Section 2. PAIMI Program Priorities and
Objectives by requesting only one case
example per priority (goal) rather than
per objective;
(4) Revising Sections: 2. PAIMI
Program Priorities (Goals) and
Objectives: 4. Case Complaints/
Problems of Individuals; and, 5.
Intervention Strategies on Behalf of
Groups of PAIMI-eligible Individuals,
for consistency with the findings and
recommendations from the OMB, 2005
PART evaluation/assessment of the
PAIMI Program and to clarify and/or
enhance the instructional guidance for
determining activity/intervention
outcomes and estimating the number of
individuals or groups impacted by P&A
system activities/interventions in
sections 4 and 5;
(5) Expanding Section 4.E.2. by
adding an item c. for the number of
death investigation activities not related
to incidents of seclusion and restraint;
(6) Providing the applicable PAIMI
citations to the guidance in Section 8.
Other Services & Activities.
(7) Modifying the ACR, Sections B.
PAC Membership and C. PAC Ethnicity/
Racial Diversity for consistency with the
format used in the PAIMI Application
for FY 2007–2009;
(8) Enhancing Section F. PAC
Activities to include the applicable
citations that will provide each PAC
with better information on its authority,
role, and responsibilities as the P&A
governing authority.
(9) Revising Section G. PAIMI
Assessment of PAIMI Program
Operations, by eliminating the previous
requirement that the PAC comment on
each P&A system annual priority and
objective. The PAC will only submit a
summary of its assessment of the P&A
system’s annual PAIMI Program
priorities, objectives, activities and
program operations;
(10) Adding an additional item to
Section G. to identify the training and
technical assistance needs of each PAC;
and,
(11) Adding the applicable citations to
Section H. Grievance Procedures to
provide the PAC with better information
on its authority, role, and
responsibilities.
The revised report formats will be
effective for the report due on January
1, 2008.
The annual burden estimate is as
follows:
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Number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Annual Program Performance Report .........................................................
Activities & Accomplishments ......................................................................
Performance outcomes ................................................................................
Expenses .....................................................................................................
Budget ..........................................................................................................
Priority statements & objectives ..................................................................
Advisory Council Report ..............................................................................
57
........................
........................
........................
........................
........................
57
1
........................
........................
........................
........................
........................
1
26
(20)
(3)
(1)
(1)
(1)
10
1,482
(1,140)
(171)
(57)
(57)
(57)
570
Total ......................................................................................................
114
........................
..........................
2,052
Written comments and
recommendations concerning the
proposed information collection should
be sent by October 10, 2007 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.
Dated: August 31, 2007.
Elaine Parry,
Acting Director, Office of Program Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Outer Continental Shelf (OCS),
Western and Central Gulf of Mexico
(GOM), Oil and Gas Lease Sales for
Years 2009–2012
Minerals Management Service
(MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Call for Information and
Nominations/Notice of Intent (Call/NOI)
to Prepare a Supplemental
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: On April 28, 2006, MMS
issued a Call for 11 lease sales in the
Western and Central GOM planning
areas included in the draft proposed
2007–2012 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing
Program. After that Call the Congress
enacted a mandate, in the Gulf of
Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006
(GOMESA) (Pub. L. 109–432, December
20, 2006), that MMS offer, as soon as
practicable, approximately 5.8 million
acres located in the southeastern part of
the Central Planning Area (CPA)
referred to as the ‘‘181 South Area.’’
Central GOM Sale 208 (March 2009)
will be the first sale to include the ‘‘181
South Area.’’ The purpose of this Call is
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leasing, exploration, and development
that might result from the four Central
GOM OCS oil and gas lease sales
tentatively scheduled in 2009–2012, in
particular regarding the ‘‘181 South
Area.’’ The purpose of this NOI is to
announce MMS’s intent to prepare a
SEIS on the four Central and three
Western GOM OCS oil and gas lease
sales tentatively scheduled in 2009–
2012. Comments received in response to
the NOI will assist MMS in developing
the scope of the SEIS.
DATES: Comments on the Call must be
received no later than October 10, 2007
and comments on the NOI must be
received no later than October 25, 2007
at the addresses specified below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on this Call, please contact
Mr. Carrol Williams, Minerals
Management Service, Gulf of Mexico
OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park
Boulevard (MS 5422), New Orleans,
Louisiana 70123–2394, telephone (504)
736–2803. For information on the NOI,
you may contact Mr. Dennis Chew,
Minerals Management Service, Gulf of
Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood
Park Boulevard (MS 5412), New
Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394,
telephone (504) 736–2793.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
GOMESA, (Pub. L. 109–432, December
20, 2006), mandated MMS to offer
approximately 5.8 million acres in the
CPA (formerly the ‘‘181 South Area’’
was an area under Congressional
moratoria and Presidential withdrawal
for oil and gas leasing ‘‘as soon as
practicable after the date of enactment
of this Act.’’ This Call/NOI is the initial
step in the prelease process for a sale
within that 181 South Area. To fully
comply with all pertinent laws, rules,
and regulations and to allow the public
an adequate opportunity to participate
in the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) process, the earliest MMS
would be able to offer this area would
be March 2009.
The SEIS will update the
environmental and socioeconomic
analyses in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil
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Hours per
response
Total hour
burden
and Gas Lease Sales: 2007–2012;
Western Planning Area Sales 204, 207,
210, 215, and 218; Central Planning
Area Sales 205, 206, 208, 213, 216, and
222, Final Environmental Impact
Statement (OCS EIS/EA MMS 2007–
018) (Multisale EIS) and will address
the addition of the ‘‘181 South Area.’’
Call for Information and Nominations
1. Authority
This Call is published pursuant to the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
(OCSLA) as amended (43 U.S.C. 1331–
1356), and the regulations issued
thereunder (30 CFR part 256).
2. Purpose of Call
The purpose of the Call is to gather
information for the following tentatively
scheduled OCS lease sales:
Lease sale, OCS planning area
Sale
Sale
Sale
Sale
208,
213,
216,
222,
Central
Central
Central
Central
GOM
GOM
GOM
GOM
......................
......................
......................
......................
Sale
year
2009
2010
2011
2012
Information on oil and gas leasing,
exploration, development, and
production within this portion of the
CPA is sought from all interested
parties. This early planning and
consultation step is important for
ensuring that all interests and concerns
are communicated to the Department of
the Interior for future decisions in the
leasing process pursuant to the OCSLA
and regulations at 30 CFR part 256.
This Call is in response to the
mandate within GOMESA to offer
additional acreage in the southeastern
portion of the Central Planning Area as
depicted on the map at the end of this
notice. Leasing within this area will be
in compliance with applicable laws
including all requirements of the NEPA,
Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA)
and OCSLA. Established Departmental
procedures will be employed.
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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.
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Project: Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental Illness
(PAIMI) Annual Program Performance Report (OMB No. 0930-0169)--Revision
The Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness
(PAIMI) Act, [42 U.S.C. 10801 et seq.] authorized funds to support
protection and advocacy services on behalf of individuals with severe
mental illness and severe emotional impairment who are at risk for
abuse (including incidents of seclusion, restraint, and serious
injuries or fatalities related to such incidents, neglect, residing in
a public or private care or treatment facility. The PAIMI Program is
managed by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) within the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Under the PAIMI Act, formula grant awards are made to governor-
designated protection and advocacy (P&A) systems in each of the 50
states, the District of Columbia (Mayor), the American Indian
Consortium [the Dine (Navajo) and Hopi Peoples in Northern Arizona and
New Mexico], and five (5) jurisdictions--American Samoa, Guam, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The awards are used to
provide legal-based advocacy services which ensure protection against
violation of the constitutional and federal rights of individuals with
significant (severe) mental illness (adults) and significant (severe)
emotional impairment.
In 2000, the PAIMI Act amendments, created a 57th P&A system--the
American Indian Consortium and authorized P&A systems to serve PAIMI-
eligible individuals, as defined under the Act [42 U.S.C. at 10802
(4)], who reside in the community including their own homes. However,
P&A services to PAIMI-eligible clients residing in the community is
permissible only when the annual PAIMI appropriation met or exceeded
$30 million, and that residents in public and private residential care
or treatment facilities had service priority over community residents.
The Children's Health Act of 2000 (CHA) [42 U.S.C. 290aa et seq.], also
referenced State P&A authority to obtain information on incidents of
seclusion, restraint, and related deaths in certain facilities.
The PAIMI Act requires each of the 57 P&A systems to file an annual
report, no later than January 1st, of its activities and
accomplishments and to provide information on such topics as, the
numbers of individuals served, types of complaints addressed, and the
number of intervention strategies used to resolve the presenting
issues. Under the Act, the PAIMI Advisory Council (PAC) of each P&A
system is also required to submit its independent assessment of the
effectiveness of the services provided to, and the activities conducted
by, the P&A systems on behalf of PAIMI-eligible individuals and their
family members, in a separate section of the Program Performance Report
(PPR).
The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of
1975, referred to as the DD Act [42 U.S.C. 6042 et seq.], created the
State P&A systems. The Administration on Developmental Disabilities
(ADD), within the Administration for Children and Families, has
administrative oversight of the Protection and Advocacy for
Developmental Disabilities (PADD) Program. Since 1986, the Department
has provided formula grant funds to the same governor-designated P&A
systems to protect and advocate for individuals with significant mental
illness. SAMHSA is currently waiting for the ADD to issue a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) for the DD Act of 2000 amendments. These
amendments will also govern activities fulfilled by the State P&A
systems under the PAIMI Act. Therefore, to ensure to the greatest
extent possible that all facets of the P&A system administered by the
Department are subject to the same requirements, SAMHSA will wait until
the DD Act NPR is published before revising the PAIMI Rules. [The Final
PAIMI Rules were issued in 1997 and were extended in 2000 and 2004. An
FRN was published May 2006 to extend the current PAIMI Rules, which
will expire in 2007, until 2010].
SAMHSA is revising the PAIMI Annual PPR for the following reasons:
(1) To make it consistent with the requirements of the annual reporting
requirements under the PAIMI Act and the PAIMI Rules [42 CFR Part 51]
and the CHA of 2000 Parts H and I; (2) to conform with the Office of
Management and Budget's (OMB) findings and recommendations from the FY
2005 Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) review of the PAIMI Program;
(3) to broaden the category of deaths investigated by the State P&A
systems; (4) to reduce the reporting burdens for the State P&A systems
and the PAIMI PAC in certain areas; and, (5) to enhance the PAC section
by providing better information on its role, responsibility, and
authority on P&A system PAIMI activities and services.
Planned revisions to the PAIMI Annual PPR and the PAC included the
following items:
(1) Changing the fonts to improve readability;
(2) Adding Tables of Content and Glossaries to the PPR and Advisory
Council Report (ACR) sections;
(3) Reducing the reporting burden in Section 2. PAIMI Program
Priorities and Objectives by requesting only one case example per
priority (goal) rather than per objective;
(4) Revising Sections: 2. PAIMI Program Priorities (Goals) and
Objectives: 4. Case Complaints/Problems of Individuals; and, 5.
Intervention Strategies on Behalf of Groups of PAIMI-eligible
Individuals, for consistency with the findings and recommendations from
the OMB, 2005 PART evaluation/assessment of the PAIMI Program and to
clarify and/or enhance the instructional guidance for determining
activity/intervention outcomes and estimating the number of individuals
or groups impacted by P&A system activities/interventions in sections 4
and 5;
(5) Expanding Section 4.E.2. by adding an item c. for the number of
death investigation activities not related to incidents of seclusion
and restraint;
(6) Providing the applicable PAIMI citations to the guidance in
Section 8. Other Services & Activities.
(7) Modifying the ACR, Sections B. PAC Membership and C. PAC
Ethnicity/Racial Diversity for consistency with the format used in the
PAIMI Application for FY 2007-2009;
(8) Enhancing Section F. PAC Activities to include the applicable
citations that will provide each PAC with better information on its
authority, role, and responsibilities as the P&A governing authority.
(9) Revising Section G. PAIMI Assessment of PAIMI Program
Operations, by eliminating the previous requirement that the PAC
comment on each P&A system annual priority and objective. The PAC will
only submit a summary of its assessment of the P&A system's annual
PAIMI Program priorities, objectives, activities and program
operations;
(10) Adding an additional item to Section G. to identify the
training and technical assistance needs of each PAC; and,
(11) Adding the applicable citations to Section H. Grievance
Procedures to provide the PAC with better information on its authority,
role, and responsibilities.
The revised report formats will be effective for the report due on
January 1, 2008.
The annual burden estimate is as follows:
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Number of
Number of responses per Hours per Total hour
respondents respondent response burden
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Annual Program Performance Report............. 57 1 26 1,482
Activities & Accomplishments.................. .............. .............. (20) (1,140)
Performance outcomes.......................... .............. .............. (3) (171)
Expenses...................................... .............. .............. (1) (57)
Budget........................................ .............. .............. (1) (57)
Priority statements & objectives.............. .............. .............. (1) (57)
Advisory Council Report....................... 57 1 10 570
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Total..................................... 114 .............. ............... 2,052
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by October 10, 2007 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.
Dated: August 31, 2007.
Elaine Parry,
Acting Director, Office of Program Services.
[FR Doc. E7-17764 Filed 9-7-07; 8:45 am]
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