Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 59406-59407 [2012-23788]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 188 (Thursday, September 27, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59406-59407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-23788]


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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.

Project: Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness (PATH) 
Program Annual Report (OMB No. 0930-0205)--Revision

    The Center for Mental Health Services awards grants each fiscal 
year to each of the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from allotments authorized 
under the PATH program established by Public Law 101-645, 42 U.S.C. 
290cc-21 et seq., the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance 
Amendments Act of 1990 (section 521 et seq. of the Public Health 
Service (PHS) Act). Section 522 of the PHS Act requires that the 
grantee States and Territories must expend their payments under the Act 
solely for making grants to political subdivisions of the State, and to 
non-profit private entities (including community-based veterans' 
organizations and other community organizations) for the purpose of 
providing services specified in the Act. Available funding is allotted 
in accordance with the formula provision of section 524 of the PHS Act.
    This submission is for a revision of the current approval of the 
annual grantee reporting requirements. Section 528 of the PHS Act 
specifies that not later than January 31 of each fiscal year, a funded 
entity will prepare and submit a report in such form and containing 
such information as is determined necessary for securing a record and 
description of the purposes for which amounts received under section 
521 were expended during the preceding fiscal year and of the 
recipients of such amounts and determining whether such amounts were 
expended in accordance with statutory provisions.
    The proposed changes to the PATH Annual Report Survey are as 
follows:
    1. Format
    To create a PATH report that is easier to read, the formatting has 
been modified to be more table driven. In addition, the language has 
been made more concise. Although the online form and report is close in 
flow to the previous report, it is necessary to thoroughly read all 
reporting instructions to insure proper data entry.
    2. Estimated Counts
    The new PATH report does not include entry of estimated counts. 
Only actual counts should be entered.
    3. Homelessness Management Information System (HMIS) Data 
Integration
    The Data section of the report is expected to be propagated from 
the local HMIS when providers use HMIS. This includes client counts, 
services, referrals, and demographics. This data will be automatically 
aggregated from client-level data.
    4. Demographic Responses
    In order to facilitate integration of PATH data into HMIS, all data 
responses have been modified to fully align with valid HMIS responses. 
For example, the ``Hispanic'' response has been separated from ``Race'' 
and placed in ``Ethnicity.''
    5. Additional Data Items
    The PATH report now tracks demographic data for persons contacted, 
as well as those enrolled. For services and referrals, in addition to 
gathering the number of enrolled persons receiving the service or 
referral, there is a total count of the number of times that particular 
service was provided or referral made.
    6. Voluntary Outcome Measures
    The data previously entered as voluntary outcome measures has now 
been moved to the referral section of the report and are no longer 
considered ``voluntary.''
    The estimated annual burden for these reporting requirements is 
summarized in the table below.

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                                                                                    Burden per
                   Respondents                       Number of      Responses/       response      Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        (hrs.)
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States..........................................              56               1              19           1,064
Local provider agencies.........................             503               1              34          17,102
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    Total.......................................             559  ..............  ..............          18,166
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by October 29, 2012 to the SAMHSA 
Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). To ensure timely receipt of 
comments, and to avoid potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing 
of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, commenters are encouraged 
to submit their comments to OMB via email to: OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. Although commenters are encouraged to send 
their comments via email, commenters may also fax their comments to: 
202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: Office of Management 
and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive 
Office Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2012-23788 Filed 9-26-12; 8:45 am]
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