80_FR_34562 80 FR 34447 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

80 FR 34447 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 115 (June 16, 2015)

Page Range34447-34448
FR Document2015-14733

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 115 (Tuesday, June 16, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 16, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34447-34448]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14733]


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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: 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.
    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

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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.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by July 16, 2015 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: 
[email protected]. 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. 2015-14733 Filed 6-15-15; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4162-20-P

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 115 / Tuesday, June 16, 2015 / Notices 34447 Responses Hours per Number of Total Total hour Instrument per response per respondents responses burden respondent respondent Grantee Quarterly Report .................................................... 172 4 688 2 1,376 Written comments and methamphetamine use disorders and indicators related to recovery include recommendations concerning the involvement in child protective substance use, access to treatment, proposed information collection should services. This program was authorized treatment outcomes, employment and be sent by July 16, 2015 to the SAMHSA in House Report 111–220 accompanying criminal behavior. The results of the Desk Officer at the Office of Information HR 3293 in 2010. The Committee evaluations were used by grantees to and Regulatory Affairs, Office of language stated that ‘‘these grants will measure the progress of their programs, Management and Budget (OMB). To support a collaborative approach, and aided their efforts to sustain the ensure timely receipt of comments, and including treatment providers, child activities once the grants ended. to avoid potential delays in OMB’s welfare specialists, and judges, to To the greatest extent possible, the receipt and processing of mail sent provide community-based social data elements are operationally defined through the U.S. Postal Service, services for the children of using standard definitions in child commenters are encouraged to submit methamphetamine-addicted parents,’’ welfare and substance abuse treatment. their comments to OMB via email to: and were to be awarded to Family The use of standard data definitions OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. Dependency Treatment Drug Courts. will reduce the data collection burden Although commenters are encouraged to SAMHSA is requesting to reinstate on grantees as these variables are send their comments via email, OMB approval of instruments used in collected through data collection commenters may also fax their the Children Affected by procedures that currently exist through comments to: 202–395–7285. Methamphetamine (CAM) grant all publically funded child welfare and Commenters may also mail them to: program through 2020 for a new cohort substance abuse treatment systems. The Office of Management and Budget, of grantees under the new program FTDC performance measures are data Office of Information and Regulatory name of Family Treatment Drug Courts, currently collected by programs as part Affairs, New Executive Office Building, or FTDCs. The continued use of these of their normal operations (e.g., Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503. instruments will allow SAMHSA to placement status in child welfare collect data on The FTDC grantees that services, substance abuse treatment Summer King, is not otherwise captured: The national entry dates). Thus, minimal data Statistician. evaluation of the FTDC project will collection from clients will be required [FR Doc. 2015–14729 Filed 6–15–15; 8:45 am] collect data on: (1) Child Outcomes; (2) as the grantees will be abstracting BILLING CODE 4162–20–P Parent/Caregiver Outcomes; and (3) existing data. The only new information Family Functioning. The results from collected will be from the North this data collection will serve to inform Carolina Family Assessment Scale DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND future decisions regarding funding by (NCFAS) assessment obtained from HUMAN SERVICES SAMHSA as well as establish an participants during the intake and evidence base for the practices discharge interviews. If needed, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health undertaken for other localities and FTDC staff member may supplement Services Administration programs implementing Family this information by obtaining Treatment Drug Courts. The overall information from other staff that interact Agency Information Collection reporting burden is estimated at 720.5 with the client (i.e., the social worker Activities: Submission for OMB hours. familiar with the family) or during a Review; Comment Request Providing children’s services in an home visit (if this is part of their Periodically, the Substance Abuse and FTDC was a new activity for FTDCs and program activities). Mental Health Services Administration the grantees. The purpose of the It should be re-emphasized that the (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of evaluation was to monitor the grantees FTDC projects are expansions or information collection requests under progress and to measure their enhancements of FTDC partnerships OMB review, in compliance with the performance on child, family and adult that currently have existing Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. outcomes. These outcomes were relationships (and information sharing/ Chapter 35). To request a copy of these compared to referent data available at confidentiality agreements) in place. It documents, call the SAMHSA Reports the local and or State level, and to pre- is through this existing information Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243. post measures for family functioning. sharing forum that the FTDC grantees Previous data collection efforts have will be able to obtain the requisite child Project: Family Treatment Drug Court measured occurrence of maltreatment welfare and substance abuse treatment Services Evaluation (OMB No. 0930– and substance exposed newborns. The performance measures. The grantees 0330)—Reinstatement child/youth indicators related to will use electronic abstraction and In 2010, the Substance Abuse and permanency assess whether they remain secondary data collection for elements Mental Health Services Administration in their home, the length of stay in that are already being collected by asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse foster care (if they are out of their counties and States in their reporting Treatment (CSAT), provided funding to home), the proportion who re-enter requirements of Federally-mandated 12 existing Family Treatment Drug foster care, the proportion who were data. Courts (FTDCs) for enhancement and/or reunified, the length of time to Table 1 presents the estimated total expansion of their FTDC’s capabilities reunification and whether the children cost burden associated with the to provide psycho-social, emotional and and youth exit services with adoption or collection of the FTDC data elements. mental health services to children (0–17 legal guardianship if they are not The following estimates represent the years) and their families who have reunified with their parents. The adult number of anticipated participants VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Jun 15, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00085 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16JNN1.SGM 16JNN1

34448 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 115 / Tuesday, June 16, 2015 / Notices based on experience with the previous each site. In addition to the data staff will spend completing data CAM program. There are two sources of extraction, FTDC staff will complete 2 collection is $15,952 per year (total data collection burden for the administrations (intake and discharge) number of staff hours, 720.5 hours, performance system. First, FTDC staff of the NCFAS for each family multiplied by $22.14, the estimated extracts data from secondary sources for (approximately 267 families per year average hourly wages for social work the child, parent/caregiver and family based on estimates extrapolated from professionals as published by the functioning data elements for biannual the CAM program). The NCFAS takes Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013). See data uploads. The total number of approximately .75 hours to complete per Table 1. responses is two per year; with each family per administration. The upload taking approximately 16 hours at estimated total cost of the time FTDC 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 × 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. Written comments and Chapter 35). To request a copy of these determinations to the Drug Enforcement recommendations concerning the documents, call the SAMHSA Reports Administration (DEA), which will proposed information collection should Clearance Officer on (240) 276–1243. assign an identification number to be sent by July 16, 2015 to the SAMHSA qualifying practitioners; this number Project: Notification of Intent To Use Desk Officer at the Office of Information will be included in the practitioner’s Schedule III, IV, or V Opioid Drugs for and Regulatory Affairs, Office of registration under 21 U.S.C. 823(f). the Maintenance and Detoxification Practitioners may use the form for Management and Budget (OMB). To Treatment of Opiate Addiction Under three types of notification: (a) New, (b) ensure timely receipt of comments, and 21 U.S.C. 823(g)(2) (OMB No. 0930– immediate, and (c) to notify of their to avoid potential delays in OMB’s 0234)—Extension intent to treat up to 100 patients. Under receipt and processing of mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service, The Drug Addiction Treatment Act of ‘‘new’’ notifications, practitioners may commenters are encouraged to submit 2000 (‘‘DATA,’’ Pub. L. 106–310) make their initial waiver requests to their comments to OMB via email to: amended the Controlled Substances Act SAMHSA. ‘‘Immediate’’ notifications OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. (21 U.S.C. 823(g)(2)) to permit inform SAMHSA and the Attorney Although commenters are encouraged to practitioners (physicians) to seek and General of a practitioner’s intent to send their comments via email, obtain waivers to prescribe certain prescribe immediately to facilitate the commenters may also fax their approved narcotic treatment drugs for treatment of an individual (one) patient comments to: 202–395–7285. the treatment of opiate addiction. The under 21 U.S.C. 823(g)(2)(E)(ii). Finally, Commenters may also mail them to: legislation sets eligibility requirements the form may be used by physicians Office of Management and Budget, and certification requirements as well as with waivers to certify their need and Office of Information and Regulatory an interagency notification review intent to treat up to 100 patients. Affairs, New Executive Office Building, process for physicians who seek The form collects data on the Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503. waivers. The legislation was amended following items: Practitioner name; state in 2005 to eliminate the patient limit for medical license number and DEA Summer King, physicians in group practices, and in registration number; address of primary Statistician. 2006, to permit certain physicians to location, telephone and fax numbers; [FR Doc. 2015–14733 Filed 6–15–15; 8:45 am] treat up to 100 patients. email address; name and address of BILLING CODE 4162–20–P To implement these provisions, group practice; group practice employer SAMHSA developed a notification form identification number; names and DEA (SMA–167) that facilitates the registration numbers of group DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND submission and review of notifications. practitioners; purpose of notification HUMAN SERVICES The form provides the information new, immediate, or renewal; necessary to determine whether certification of qualifying criteria for Substance Abuse and Mental Health practitioners (i.e., independent treatment and management of opiate Services Administration physicians) meet the qualifications for dependent patients; certification of Agency Information Collection waivers set forth under the new law. capacity to refer patients for appropriate Use of this form will enable physicians counseling and other appropriate asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request to know they have provided all ancillary services; certification of information needed to determine maximum patient load, certification to Periodically, the Substance Abuse and whether practitioners are eligible for a use only those drug products that meet Mental Health Services Administration waiver. the criteria in the law. The form also (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of However, there is no prohibition on notifies practitioners of Privacy Act information collection requests under use of other means to provide requisite considerations, and permits OMB review, in compliance with the information. The Secretary will convey practitioners to expressly consent to Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. notification information and disclose limited information to the VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Jun 15, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00086 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16JNN1.SGM 16JNN1


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