Agency information collection activities: Proposed collection; comment request,

[Federal Register: March 26, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 58)]

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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 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 (301) 443-7978.

Proposed Project

Evaluation of the HHS Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports (ACCESS), OMB Control No. 0930-0164--Revision. The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) currently has approval to conduct an evaluation study that is assessing service systems integration (SI) approaches for homeless persons with serious mental illnesses. The evaluation study is collecting data through interviews (at baseline, 3 months after baseline, and 12 months after baseline) with homeless persons with serious mental illness and providers of services (at approximately 18-month intervals, beginning in 1994) to homeless persons. SI sites will be contrasted with comparison sites to assess the impact of SI. The evaluation will describe approaches to SI, processes by which SI takes place, factors that influence SI, and the impact that SI has on homeless persons with serious mental illness.

OMB approval will be sought for an 18-month follow-up interview for the fourth cohort of homeless clients, a fourth wave of interviews with providers of services to homeless persons, and state and local level implementation data from the project staff.

Number of

Annualized Total

responses/ Hours/response burden hours respondents respondent

(over 5 yrs.)

Clients (homeless persons)......................

1,440

1

0.750

216 Service providers...............................

880

1

0.400

70 Project staff...................................

27

1

1.5

272

Total.......................................

2,347

1

.84

558

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.

Send comments to Nancy Pearce, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

Dated: March 20, 1998. Richard Kopanda, Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

[FR Doc. 98-7967Filed3-25-98; 8:45 am]

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