80_FR_19400 80 FR 19331 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

80 FR 19331 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 69 (April 10, 2015)

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FR Document2015-08272

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 69 (Friday, April 10, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 69 (Friday, April 10, 2015)]
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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, 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: Family Treatment Drug Court Services Evaluation (OMB 
No. 0930-0330)--REINSTATEMENT

    In 2010, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), 
provided funding to 12 existing Family Treatment Drug Courts (FTDCs) 
for enhancement and/or expansion of their FTDC's capabilities to 
provide psycho-social, emotional and mental health services to children 
(0-17 years) and their families who have methamphetamine use disorders 
and involvement in child protective services. This program was 
authorized in House Report 111-220 accompanying HR 3293 in 2010. The 
Committee language stated that ``these grants will support a 
collaborative approach, including treatment providers, child welfare 
specialists, and judges, to provide community-based social services for 
the children of methamphetamine-addicted parents,'' and were to be 
awarded to Family Dependency Treatment Drug Courts.

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    SAMHSA is requesting to reinstate OMB approval of instruments used 
in the Children Affected by Methamphetamine (CAM) grant program through 
2020 for a new cohort of grantees under the new program name of Family 
Treatment Drug Courts, or FTDCs. The continued use of these instruments 
will allow SAMHSA to collect data on The FTDC grantees that is not 
otherwise captured: The national evaluation of the FTDC project will 
collect data on: (1) Child Outcomes; (2) Parent/Caregiver Outcomes; and 
(3) Family Functioning. The results from this data collection will 
serve to inform future decisions regarding funding by SAMHSA as well as 
establish an evidence base for the practices undertaken for other 
localities and programs implementing Family Treatment Drug Courts. The 
overall reporting burden is estimated at 720.5 hours.
    Providing children's services in an FTDC was a new activity for 
FTDCs and the grantees. The purpose of the evaluation was to monitor 
the grantees progress and to measure their performance on child, family 
and adult outcomes. These outcomes were compared to referent data 
available at the local and/or State level, and to pre-post measures for 
family functioning. Previous data collection efforts have measured 
occurrence of maltreatment and substance exposed newborns, The child/
youth indicators related to permanency assess whether they remain in 
their home, the length of stay in foster care (if they are out of their 
home), the proportion who re-enter foster care, the proportion who were 
reunified, the length of time to reunification and whether the children 
and youth exit services with adoption or legal guardianship if they are 
not reunified with their parents. The adult indicators related to 
recovery include substance use, access to treatment, treatment 
outcomes, employment and criminal behavior. The results of the 
evaluations were used by grantees to measure the progress of their 
programs, and aided their efforts to sustain the activities once the 
grants ended.
    To the greatest extent possible, the data elements are 
operationally defined using standard definitions in child welfare and 
substance abuse treatment. The use of standard data definitions will 
reduce the data collection burden on grantees as these variables are 
collected through data collection procedures that currently exist 
through all publically funded child welfare and substance abuse 
treatment systems. The FTDC performance measures are data currently 
collected by programs as part of their normal operations (e.g., 
placement status in child welfare services, substance abuse treatment 
entry dates). Thus, minimal data collection from clients will be 
required as the grantees will be abstracting existing data. The only 
new information collected will be from the North Carolina Family 
Assessment Scale (NCFAS) assessment obtained from participants during 
the intake and discharge interviews. If needed, the FTDC staff member 
may supplement this information by obtaining information from other 
staff that interact with the client (i.e., the social worker familiar 
with the family) or during a home visit (if this is part of their 
program activities).
    It should be re-emphasized that the FTDC projects are expansions or 
enhancements of FTDC partnerships that currently have existing 
relationships (and information sharing/confidentiality agreements) in 
place. It is through this existing information sharing forum that the 
FTDC grantees will be able to obtain the requisite child welfare and 
substance abuse treatment performance measures. The grantees will use 
electronic abstraction and secondary data collection for elements that 
are already being collected by counties and States in their reporting 
requirements of Federally-mandated data.
    Table 1 presents the estimated total cost burden associated with 
the collection of the FTDC data elements. The following estimates 
represent the number of anticipated participants based on experience 
with the previous CAM program. There are two sources of data collection 
burden for the performance system. First, FTDC staff extracts data from 
secondary sources for the child, parent/caregiver and family 
functioning data elements for biannual data uploads. The total number 
of responses is two per year; with each upload taking approximately 16 
hours at each site. In addition to the data extraction, FTDC staff will 
complete 2 administrations (intake and discharge) of the NCFAS for each 
family (approximately 267 families per year based on estimates 
extrapolated from the CAM program). The NCFAS takes approximately .75 
hours to complete per family per administration. The estimated total 
cost of the time FTDC staff will spend completing data collection is 
$15,952 per year (total number of staff hours, 720.5 hours, multiplied 
by $22.14, the estimated average hourly wages for social work 
professionals as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013). 
See Table 1.

                                         Table 1--Annualized Hour Burden
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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per      Total hour
         Form/instrument              records         record         responses       response         burden
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FTDC Form--Biannual extraction                10               2              20              16             320
 of extant data x 10 grantees...
NCFAS--Administered twice for                267               2             534             .75           400.5
 each family....................
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    Total.......................             277  ..............             554  ..............           720.5
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Note: The estimated response burden includes the extractions and uploads to the FTDC Form and administration the
  North Carolina Family Assessment Form.

    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 2-1057, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857 or email her a 
copy at [email protected]. Written comments should be received 
by June 9, 2015.

Summer King,
Statistician.
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Lubiprostone added from either Competitive Advantages: A simple In compliance with Section the apical or basolateral side of the 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork and unique mode of reducing or epithelium. Methadone also increased eliminating ocular side effects in cancer Reduction Act of 1995 concerning transepithelial potential (TEP) and this opportunity for public comment on patients undergoing treatments with increase is consistent with a proposed collections of information, the MEK inhibitors. Development Stage: lubiprostone-induced increase in Substance Abuse and Mental Health • Early-stage. basolateral membrane CLC–2 Services Administration (SAMHSA) • In vitro data available. conductance and subsequent membrane will publish periodic summaries of Inventors: Sheldon S. Miller (NEI), depolarization. These results suggest proposed projects. To request more Arvydas Maminishkis (NEI), Charlotte lubiprostone can be a therapeutic in information on the proposed projects or E. Remé (Merck KGaA). retinal disease to increase fluid to obtain a copy of the information Intellectual Property: HHS Reference absorption from retina and subretinal collection plans, call the SAMHSA No. E–248–2012/0— space. Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276– • US Provisional Application No. 61/ Potential Commercial Applications: 1243. 721,810 filed 02 Nov 2012. Treatment for or prevention of age- Comments are invited on: (a) Whether • PCT Patent Application No. PCT/ related macular degeneration, chronic the proposed collections of information US2013/068056 filed 01 Nov 2013. are necessary for the proper macular edema, diabetic retinopathy, Related Technologies: HHS Reference retinal detachment, glaucoma, or uveitis performance of the functions of the No. E–169–2008/0— by decreasing the amount of fluid agency, including whether the • US Patent No. 8,697,046 issued 15 present in the subretinal space (SRS). information shall have practical utility; Apr 2014 (Methods of Administering (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate Interferon Gamma to Absorb Fluid From Competitive Advantages: A simple of the burden of the proposed collection the Subretinal Space; Li R, et al.). and novel therapeutic for retinal • US Patent Application No. 14/ of information; (c) ways to enhance the diseases characterized by the abnormal 252,489 filed 14 Apr 2014. quality, utility, and clarity of the fluid accumulation in subretinal space. Licensing Contact: Suryanarayana information to be collected; and (d) Development Stage: ways to minimize the burden of the Vepa, Ph.D., J.D.; 301–435–5020; vepas@mail.nih.gov. • Early-stage. collection of information on respondents, including through the use Lubiprostone To Treat Retinal Diseases • In vitro data available. of automated collection techniques or Associated With Fluid Accumulation in Inventors: Sheldon S. Miller, Arvydas other forms of information technology. Retina & Subretinal Space Maminishkis, Jeffrey Adijanto, Tina M. Banzon, and Qin Wan (all of NEI). Proposed Project: Family Treatment Description of Technology: Use of Drug Court Services Evaluation (OMB Lubiprostone for treating age-related Intellectual Property: HHS Reference No. 0930–0330)—REINSTATEMENT macular degeneration, chronic macular No. E–283–2012/0— edema, diabetic retinopathy, retinal • U.S. Provisional Application No. In 2010, the Substance Abuse and detachment, glaucoma, or uveitis by 61/777,073 filed 12 Mar 2013. Mental Health Services Administration decreasing excess fluid accumulation in (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse the retina and/or subretinal space (SRS) • PCT Patent Application No. PCT/ Treatment (CSAT), provided funding to is described. The retinal pigment US2014/024724 filed 12 Mar 2014. 12 existing Family Treatment Drug epithelium (RPE) is a highly pigmented, Related Technology: HHS Reference Courts (FTDCs) for enhancement and/or terminally differentiated monolayer of No. E–169–2008/0— expansion of their FTDC’s capabilities cells at the back of the eye. The RPE • U.S. Patent No. 8,697,046 issued 15 to provide psycho-social, emotional and performs numerous processes that are Apr 2014 (Methods of Administering mental health services to children (0–17 critical for the maintenance of Interferon Gamma to Absorb Fluid From years) and their families who have photoreceptor cell health and function. the Subretinal Space; Li R, et al.). methamphetamine use disorders and The pathological accumulation of fluid involvement in child protective beneath the RPE is a symptom and a • U.S. Patent Application No. 14/ services. This program was authorized contributing factor in the loss of vision 252,489 filed 14 Apr 2014. in House Report 111–220 accompanying in a variety of ocular conditions. Licensing Contact: Suryanarayana HR 3293 in 2010. The Committee Previously, the inventors have shown Vepa, Ph.D., J.D.; 301–435–5020; language stated that ‘‘these grants will mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES that human RPE contains apical and vepas@mail.nih.gov. support a collaborative approach, basolateral membrane receptors that can Dated: March 7, 2015. including treatment providers, child be activated to increase cell cAMP or Ca welfare specialists, and judges, to followed by basolateral membrane Richard U. Rodriguez, provide community-based social activation of CFTR or Ca-activated Acting Director, Office of Technology services for the children of chloride channels resulting in a Transfer, National Institutes of Health. methamphetamine-addicted parents,’’ clinically significant increase in fluid [FR Doc. 2015–08290 Filed 4–9–15; 8:45 am] and were to be awarded to Family absorption across the RPE. For the first BILLING CODE 4140–01–P Dependency Treatment Drug Courts. VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:09 Apr 09, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\10APN1.SGM 10APN1

19332 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 69 / Friday, April 10, 2015 / Notices SAMHSA is requesting to reinstate legal guardianship if they are not relationships (and information sharing/ OMB approval of instruments used in reunified with their parents. The adult confidentiality agreements) in place. It the Children Affected by indicators related to recovery include is through this existing information Methamphetamine (CAM) grant substance use, access to treatment, sharing forum that the FTDC grantees program through 2020 for a new cohort treatment outcomes, employment and will be able to obtain the requisite child of grantees under the new program criminal behavior. The results of the welfare and substance abuse treatment name of Family Treatment Drug Courts, evaluations were used by grantees to performance measures. The grantees or FTDCs. The continued use of these measure the progress of their programs, will use electronic abstraction and instruments will allow SAMHSA to and aided their efforts to sustain the secondary data collection for elements collect data on The FTDC grantees that activities once the grants ended. that are already being collected by is not otherwise captured: The national To the greatest extent possible, the counties and States in their reporting evaluation of the FTDC project will data elements are operationally defined requirements of Federally-mandated collect data on: (1) Child Outcomes; (2) using standard definitions in child data. Parent/Caregiver Outcomes; and (3) welfare and substance abuse treatment. Table 1 presents the estimated total Family Functioning. The results from The use of standard data definitions cost burden associated with the this data collection will serve to inform will reduce the data collection burden collection of the FTDC data elements. future decisions regarding funding by on grantees as these variables are The following estimates represent the SAMHSA as well as establish an collected through data collection number of anticipated participants evidence base for the practices procedures that currently exist through based on experience with the previous undertaken for other localities and all publically funded child welfare and CAM program. There are two sources of programs implementing Family substance abuse treatment systems. The data collection burden for the Treatment Drug Courts. The overall FTDC performance measures are data performance system. First, FTDC staff reporting burden is estimated at 720.5 currently collected by programs as part extracts data from secondary sources for hours. of their normal operations (e.g., the child, parent/caregiver and family Providing children’s services in an placement status in child welfare functioning data elements for biannual FTDC was a new activity for FTDCs and services, substance abuse treatment data uploads. The total number of the grantees. The purpose of the entry dates). Thus, minimal data responses is two per year; with each evaluation was to monitor the grantees collection from clients will be required upload taking approximately 16 hours at progress and to measure their as the grantees will be abstracting each site. In addition to the data performance on child, family and adult existing data. The only new information extraction, FTDC staff will complete 2 outcomes. These outcomes were collected will be from the North administrations (intake and discharge) compared to referent data available at Carolina Family Assessment Scale of the NCFAS for each family the local and/or State level, and to pre- (NCFAS) assessment obtained from (approximately 267 families per year post measures for family functioning. participants during the intake and based on estimates extrapolated from Previous data collection efforts have discharge interviews. If needed, the the CAM program). The NCFAS takes measured occurrence of maltreatment FTDC staff member may supplement approximately .75 hours to complete per and substance exposed newborns, The this information by obtaining family per administration. The child/youth indicators related to information from other staff that interact estimated total cost of the time FTDC permanency assess whether they remain with the client (i.e., the social worker staff will spend completing data in their home, the length of stay in familiar with the family) or during a collection is $15,952 per year (total foster care (if they are out of their home visit (if this is part of their number of staff hours, 720.5 hours, home), the proportion who re-enter program activities). multiplied by $22.14, the estimated foster care, the proportion who were It should be re-emphasized that the average hourly wages for social work reunified, the length of time to FTDC projects are expansions or professionals as published by the reunification and whether the children enhancements of FTDC partnerships Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013). See and youth exit services with adoption or that currently have existing Table 1. TABLE 1—ANNUALIZED HOUR BURDEN Number of Responses Total Hours per Total hour Form/instrument records per record responses response burden FTDC Form—Biannual extraction of extant data x 10 grantees ............................................................................ 10 2 20 16 320 NCFAS—Administered twice for each family ...................... 267 2 534 .75 400.5 Total .............................................................................. 277 ........................ 554 ........................ 720.5 Note: The estimated response burden includes the extractions and uploads to the FTDC Form and administration the North Carolina Family Assessment Form. Send comments to Summer King, copy at summer.king@samhsa.hhs.gov. Written comments should be received mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, by June 9, 2015. Room 2–1057, One Choke Cherry Road, Summer King, Rockville, MD 20857 or email her a Statistician. 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