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Clearance Officer, Room 15E–57A, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 OR
email a copy to samhsapra@
samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments
should be received by October 15, 2024.
Alicia Broadus,
Public Health Advisor.
[FR Doc. 2024–18253 Filed 8–14–24; 8:45 am]
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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
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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, email the SAMHSA
Reports Clearance Officer at
samhsapra@samhsa.hhs.gov. 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: SAMHSA Unified
Client-Level Performance Reporting
Tool (SUPRT)—(OMB No. 0930–NEW)
The Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services that leads public health efforts
to advance the behavioral health of the
nation. SAMHSA is seeking approval for
the new SAMHSA Unified Client-level
Performance Reporting Tool (SUPRT) to
modify the existing Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and Center for
Mental Health Services (CMHS) ClientLevel Performance Instruments into a
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streamlined, multi-component
SAMHSA Client-Level Performance
Tool. Currently, over 7,500 grantees
across a range of prevention, harm
reduction, treatment, and recovery
support discretionary grant programs
report program performance data into
SAMHSA’s Performance Accountability
and Reporting System (SPARS) that
serves as a central data repository.
SPARS also functions as a performance
management system that captures
information on the substance use and
mental health services delivered via the
range of SAMHSA’s discretionary
grants. SAMHSA has historically
required grantees to collect much of the
client-level information in SPARS using
a prescribed series of questions in long
complex instruments. This is not the
totality of data tools SAMHSA uses,
however, to collect performance data on
its discretionary grant programs.
SAMHSA uses data collected,
depending on the grant program, at the
client-level, but also through aggregate
program performance tools, required
narrative performance progress reports,
or a combination of these. This notice
informs the public of SAMHSA’s intent
to develop and implement a new
streamlined client-level performance
tool that will allow SAMHSA to
continue to meet Government
Performance and Results Modernization
Act (GPRAMA) of 2010 reporting
requirements, reduce the scope and
associated burden of questions requiring
responses directly from clients, and
limit the amount of client-level detail
reported by grantees.
The proposed new client-level
performance tool will involve
streamlining questions from the
currently used client-level performance
reporting tools, as well as incorporating
select new measures/questions into a
multi-component client-level tool. With
this change, SAMHSA will provide
guidance specifying which items
SAMHSA expects grantees to ask
directly of clients and those for which
grantees may use alternate data sources
for gathering and reporting client-level
data. This new, streamlined client-level
performance tool will reduce client and
grantee reporting burden and enhance
consistency of the collected
performance data. This tool also reflects
diverse stakeholder feedback SAMHSA
obtained through multiple listening
sessions conducted with key
stakeholders and will incorporate
findings of cognitive testing to improve
clarity of the measures. This
performance tool will align with, and
strengthen, SAMHSA’s complementary
evaluation activities of its discretionary
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grant programs providing client
services.
SAMHSA will use the data collected
through the new streamlined clientlevel performance tool for both annual
reporting required by GPRAMA, grantee
monitoring, and continuous
improvement of its discretionary grant
programs. The information collected
through this process will allow
SAMHSA to (1) monitor and report on
implementation and overall
performance of the associated grant
programs; (2) advance SAMHSA’s
proposed performance goals; and (3)
assess the accountability and
performance of its discretionary grant
programs, focused on efforts that
promote mental health, prevent
substance use, and provide treatments
and supports to foster recovery.
Through the proposed new,
streamlined single client-level
performance tool, SAMHSA seeks to (1)
improve the utility of client-level
performance tools while decreasing
burden; (2) standardize and utilize
tested questions across programs
wherever possible; and, (3) elicit
programmatic information that helps
inform the impact of discretionary grant
programs on the achievement of
SAMHSA’s Strategic Priority Area goals
and objectives (https://
www.samhsa.gov/about-us/strategicplan). Furthermore, this effort is
designed to align performance reporting
requirements with the measurement
activities of other federal agencies (e.g.,
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services; the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention; the U.S. Census Bureau;
the Office of Management and Budget;
etc.) to the extent possible. To meet
these goals, data from the new clientlevel performance tool for SAMHSA’s
discretionary grants can be used to
delineate who is served, how they are
served, what services they receive, and
how the program impacts the progress
of clients in terms of mental health and
substance use issues. The tool reflects
SAMHSA’s goals to elicit pertinent
program data that can be used to inform
current and future programs and
practices and respond to stakeholders,
congressional, and other agency
inquiries.
The proposed structure of the new
tool will be one that is streamlined and
multi-component with client-level
information collected and reported at
varying frequencies. The first
component will be composed of
standardized questions about
demographic information (asked
directly of clients at baseline only) and
social determinants of health (asked
directly of clients at baseline and
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annually as instructed by SAMHSA);
the second component will contain
standardized recovery, quality of life,
and client goal measures as impacted by
services received (also asked of clients
at baseline and reassessment during the
first year of a grant, then annually as
instructed by SAMHSA); and the third
component will consist of a streamlined
set of questions describing clients’
behavioral health history, screening and
diagnosis items, and services provided
to clients (as reported at the client-level
by the grantee using alternate data
sources that already may be in use for
other purposes, for example an
electronic health or medical record).
Question(s) about services provided to
the client will only be required at
reassessment and annually for some
programs as instructed by SAMHSA.
Currently, the tool and final burden
table are still under development and
will be available as part of the 30-Day
FRN. However, SAMHSA expects that
use of the multi-component tool will
result in a significant decrease in
burden for client and grantee
annualized reporting, not only because
of the streamlining of questions, but also
because not all items will be required at
every data collection time point. For
example, SAMHSA anticipates that the
services provided item will not be
required to report at baseline, only
reassessment and, for some programs,
annually. SAMHSA is also finalizing a
revised policy on when reassessments
are expected to occur, recognizing that
a one-size fits all approach may not be
appropriate for all client-focused grant
programs. SAMHSA is conducting
testing to establish a better estimate of
the time it will take to complete the
information collection given the varying
degree of direct client involvement
across the new tool’s components and
grantee use of alternate data sources for
a portion of the tool. At this point,
SAMHSA estimates that approximately
1500 client-focused grantees annually
will use the tool and with a burden hour
estimate per assessment that ranges
from 0.13 to 0.27 for each of the three
tool components. SAMHSA’s goal is to
develop a new performance tool that is
streamlined and will significantly
reduce burden compared to the current
performance tools.
Send comments to the SAMHSA
Reports Clearance Officer, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Room 15E45, Rockville, Maryland
20857, OR email a copy to samhsapra@
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samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments
should be received by October 15, 2024.
Alicia Broadus,
Public Health Advisor.
[FR Doc. 2024–18316 Filed 8–14–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–6481–N–02]
Notice of HUD Vacant Loan Sales
(HVLS 2025–1)
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice announces HUD’s
intention to competitively offer
approximately 2,700 home equity
conversion mortgages (HECM, or reverse
mortgage loans) secured by vacant
properties with an updated loan balance
of approximately $746 million. The sale
will consist of due and payable
Secretary-held reverse mortgage loans.
The mortgage loans consist of first liens
secured by single family, vacant
residential properties, where all
borrowers are deceased, and no
borrower is survived by a nonborrowing spouse. The Secretary will
prioritize up to 50 percent of the offered
assets for award to nonprofit
organizations or governmental entity
bidders with a documented housing
mission. This notice also generally
describes the bidding process for the
sale and certain entities who are
ineligible to bid. This is the thirteenth
sale offering of its type and will be held
on October 16, 2024.
DATES: For this sale action, the Bidder’s
Information Package (BIP) will be made
available to qualified bidders on or
about September 11, 2024. Bids for the
HVLS 2025–1 sale will be accepted on
the Bid Date of October 16, 2024 prior
to 1:00 p.m. ET (Bid Date). HUD
anticipates that award(s) will be made
on or about October 21, 2024 (the
Award Date).
ADDRESSES: To become an eligible
bidder and receive the BIP for the
October sale, prospective bidders must
complete, execute, and submit a
Confidentiality Agreement and
Qualification Statement acceptable to
HUD. The documents will be available
in preview form with free login on the
Transaction Specialist (TS), Falcon
Capital Advisors, website: https://
www.falconassetsales.com. This website
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contains information and links to
register for the sale and electronically
complete and submit documents.
If you cannot submit electronically,
please submit executed documents via
mail or facsimile to Falcon Capital
Advisors: Falcon Capital Advisors, 427
N Lee Street, Alexandria, VA 22314,
Attention: Glenn Ervin, HUD HVLS
Loan Sale Coordinator eFax: 1–202–
393–4125.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
Lucey, Director, Office of Asset Sales,
Room 9216, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410–8000;
telephone 202–708–2625, extension
3927 (this is not a toll-free number) or
at john.w.lucey@hud.gov. HUD
welcomes and is prepared to receive
calls from individuals who are deaf or
hard of hearing, as well as individuals
with speech or communication
disabilities. To learn more about how to
make an accessible telephone call,
please visit https://www.fcc.gov/
consumers/guides/telecommunicationsrelay-service-trs.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice announces HUD’s intention to
sell due and payable Secretary-held
reverse mortgage loans in HVLS 2025–
1. HUD is offering approximately 2,700
reverse mortgage notes with an updated
loan balance of approximately $746
million. The mortgage loans consist of
first liens secured by single family,
vacant residential properties, where all
borrowers are deceased, and no
borrower is survived by a nonborrowing spouse.
A listing of the mortgage loans will be
included in the due diligence materials
made available to eligible bidders. The
mortgage loans will be sold without
FHA insurance and with servicing
released. HUD will offer eligible bidders
an opportunity to bid competitively on
the mortgage loans.
The Bidding Process
The BIP describes in detail the
procedure for bidding in HVLS 2025–1.
The BIP also includes the applicable
standardized non-negotiable
Conveyance, Assignment and
Assumption Agreements for HVLS
2025–1 (CAAs). The CAAs will contain
first look requirements and mission
outcome goals.
HUD will evaluate the bids submitted
and determine the successful bids, in
terms of the best value to HUD, in its
sole and absolute discretion. If a bidder
is successful, it will be required to
submit a deposit which will be
calculated based upon the total dollar
value of the bidder’s potential award.
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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, email the
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer at [email protected]. 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: SAMHSA Unified Client-Level Performance Reporting
Tool (SUPRT)--(OMB No. 0930-NEW)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral
health of the nation. SAMHSA is seeking approval for the new SAMHSA
Unified Client-level Performance Reporting Tool (SUPRT) to modify the
existing Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and Center for
Mental Health Services (CMHS) Client-Level Performance Instruments into
a streamlined, multi-component SAMHSA Client-Level Performance Tool.
Currently, over 7,500 grantees across a range of prevention, harm
reduction, treatment, and recovery support discretionary grant programs
report program performance data into SAMHSA's Performance
Accountability and Reporting System (SPARS) that serves as a central
data repository. SPARS also functions as a performance management
system that captures information on the substance use and mental health
services delivered via the range of SAMHSA's discretionary grants.
SAMHSA has historically required grantees to collect much of the
client-level information in SPARS using a prescribed series of
questions in long complex instruments. This is not the totality of data
tools SAMHSA uses, however, to collect performance data on its
discretionary grant programs. SAMHSA uses data collected, depending on
the grant program, at the client-level, but also through aggregate
program performance tools, required narrative performance progress
reports, or a combination of these. This notice informs the public of
SAMHSA's intent to develop and implement a new streamlined client-level
performance tool that will allow SAMHSA to continue to meet Government
Performance and Results Modernization Act (GPRAMA) of 2010 reporting
requirements, reduce the scope and associated burden of questions
requiring responses directly from clients, and limit the amount of
client-level detail reported by grantees.
The proposed new client-level performance tool will involve
streamlining questions from the currently used client-level performance
reporting tools, as well as incorporating select new measures/questions
into a multi-component client-level tool. With this change, SAMHSA will
provide guidance specifying which items SAMHSA expects grantees to ask
directly of clients and those for which grantees may use alternate data
sources for gathering and reporting client-level data. This new,
streamlined client-level performance tool will reduce client and
grantee reporting burden and enhance consistency of the collected
performance data. This tool also reflects diverse stakeholder feedback
SAMHSA obtained through multiple listening sessions conducted with key
stakeholders and will incorporate findings of cognitive testing to
improve clarity of the measures. This performance tool will align with,
and strengthen, SAMHSA's complementary evaluation activities of its
discretionary grant programs providing client services.
SAMHSA will use the data collected through the new streamlined
client-level performance tool for both annual reporting required by
GPRAMA, grantee monitoring, and continuous improvement of its
discretionary grant programs. The information collected through this
process will allow SAMHSA to (1) monitor and report on implementation
and overall performance of the associated grant programs; (2) advance
SAMHSA's proposed performance goals; and (3) assess the accountability
and performance of its discretionary grant programs, focused on efforts
that promote mental health, prevent substance use, and provide
treatments and supports to foster recovery.
Through the proposed new, streamlined single client-level
performance tool, SAMHSA seeks to (1) improve the utility of client-
level performance tools while decreasing burden; (2) standardize and
utilize tested questions across programs wherever possible; and, (3)
elicit programmatic information that helps inform the impact of
discretionary grant programs on the achievement of SAMHSA's Strategic
Priority Area goals and objectives (https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/strategic-plan). Furthermore, this effort is designed to align
performance reporting requirements with the measurement activities of
other federal agencies (e.g., the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the U.S.
Census Bureau; the Office of Management and Budget; etc.) to the extent
possible. To meet these goals, data from the new client-level
performance tool for SAMHSA's discretionary grants can be used to
delineate who is served, how they are served, what services they
receive, and how the program impacts the progress of clients in terms
of mental health and substance use issues. The tool reflects SAMHSA's
goals to elicit pertinent program data that can be used to inform
current and future programs and practices and respond to stakeholders,
congressional, and other agency inquiries.
The proposed structure of the new tool will be one that is
streamlined and multi-component with client-level information collected
and reported at varying frequencies. The first component will be
composed of standardized questions about demographic information (asked
directly of clients at baseline only) and social determinants of health
(asked directly of clients at baseline and
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annually as instructed by SAMHSA); the second component will contain
standardized recovery, quality of life, and client goal measures as
impacted by services received (also asked of clients at baseline and
reassessment during the first year of a grant, then annually as
instructed by SAMHSA); and the third component will consist of a
streamlined set of questions describing clients' behavioral health
history, screening and diagnosis items, and services provided to
clients (as reported at the client-level by the grantee using alternate
data sources that already may be in use for other purposes, for example
an electronic health or medical record). Question(s) about services
provided to the client will only be required at reassessment and
annually for some programs as instructed by SAMHSA.
Currently, the tool and final burden table are still under
development and will be available as part of the 30-Day FRN. However,
SAMHSA expects that use of the multi-component tool will result in a
significant decrease in burden for client and grantee annualized
reporting, not only because of the streamlining of questions, but also
because not all items will be required at every data collection time
point. For example, SAMHSA anticipates that the services provided item
will not be required to report at baseline, only reassessment and, for
some programs, annually. SAMHSA is also finalizing a revised policy on
when reassessments are expected to occur, recognizing that a one-size
fits all approach may not be appropriate for all client-focused grant
programs. SAMHSA is conducting testing to establish a better estimate
of the time it will take to complete the information collection given
the varying degree of direct client involvement across the new tool's
components and grantee use of alternate data sources for a portion of
the tool. At this point, SAMHSA estimates that approximately 1500
client-focused grantees annually will use the tool and with a burden
hour estimate per assessment that ranges from 0.13 to 0.27 for each of
the three tool components. SAMHSA's goal is to develop a new
performance tool that is streamlined and will significantly reduce
burden compared to the current performance tools.
Send comments to the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Room 15E45, Rockville, Maryland 20857, OR email a copy to
[email protected]. Written comments should be received by
October 15, 2024.
Alicia Broadus,
Public Health Advisor.
[FR Doc. 2024-18316 Filed 8-14-24; 8:45 am]
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