82 FR 32558 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 134 (July 14, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 134 (Friday, July 14, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32558-32559]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14782]


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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 at (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: Biannual Infrastructure Development Measures for 
State Adolescent and Transitional Aged Youth Treatment Enhancement and 
Dissemination Implementation (SYT-I) and Adolescent and Transitional 
Aged Youth Treatment Implementation (YT-I) Programs--(OMB No. 0930-
0344)--Revision

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment has developed a set of 
infrastructure development measures in which recipients of cooperative 
agreements will report on various benchmarks on a semi-annual basis. 
The infrastructure development measures are designed to collect 
information at the state-level and site-level.
    The projects were previously named State Adolescent Treatment 
Enhancement and Dissemination (SAT-ED) and State Youth Treatment 
Enhancement and Dissemination (SYT-ED) Programs and are now called 
State Adolescent And Transitional Aged Youth Treatment Enhancement and 
Dissemination Implementation (SYT-I) and Adolescent and Transitional 
Aged Youth Treatment Implementation (YT-I) Programs.
    No changes have been made to the Biannual Infrastructure 
Development Measures Report. The only revision to the biannual progress 
report is due to the decrease in the number of respondents.
    The infrastructure development measures are based on the 
programmatic requirements conveyed in TI-15-004, Cooperative Agreements 
for SYT-I and TI-17-002, Cooperative Agreements for YT-I.
    The purpose of this program is to provide funding to States/
Territories/Tribes to improve treatment for adolescents and 
transitional age youth through the development of a learning laboratory 
with collaborating local community-based treatment provider sites. 
Through the shared experience between the State/Territory/Tribe and the 
local community-based treatment provider sites, an evidence-based 
practice (EBP) will be implemented, youth and families will be provided 
services, and a feedback loop will be developed to enable the State/
Territory/Tribe and the sites to identify barriers and test solutions 
through a services component operating in real time. The expected 
outcomes of these cooperative agreements will include needed changes to 
State/Territorial/Tribal policies and procedures; development of 
financing structures that work in the current environment; and a 
blueprint for States/Territories/Tribes and providers that can be used 
throughout the State/Territory/Tribe to widen the use of effective 
substance use treatment EBPs. Additionally, adolescents (ages 12 to 
18), transitional age youth (ages 18 to 24), and their families/primary 
caregivers who are provided services through grant funds will inform 
the process to improve systems issues.
    Estimates for response burden were calculated based on the 
methodology (survey data collection) being used and are based on 
previous experience collecting similar data and results of the pilot 
study. For emailed biannual surveys, burden estimates of 12.0 hours 
were used for Project Directors and/or Program Managers and burden 
estimates

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of 7.2 hours were used for other project staff members. It is estimated 
that 11 Project Directors and/or Program Managers and 22 other staff 
members from Cohort 1 will respond to the emailed survey biannually 
(i.e., twice each year) for 3 years at an estimated total burden of 
1,742.4 hours for Cohort 1. It is estimated that 2 Project Directors 
and/or Program Managers and 4 other staff members from Cohort 2 will 
respond to the emailed survey biannually (i.e., twice each year) for 3 
years at an estimated total burden of 316.8 hours for Cohort 2. It is 
estimated that 11 Project Directors and/or Program Managers and 22 
other staff members from Cohort 3 will respond to the emailed survey 
biannually (i.e., twice each year) for 3 years at an estimated total 
burden of 1742.4 hours for Cohort 3. The burden hours of Cohort 1 
(1742.4 hours), Cohort 2 (316.8 hours) and Cohort 3 (1742.4 hours) 
combined comes to a total estimated burden for the emailed biannual 
survey of 3,801.6 hours.

                         Table 1--Data Collection Burden for Biannual Infrastructure Development Measure for Cohorts 1, 2, and 3
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                                                                             Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total annual
                  Cohort                         Respondent type \a\        respondents     respondent       responses       response       hour burden
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1.........................................  Project Director............              11               2              22            12.0             264
2.........................................  Project Director............               2               2               4            12.0              28
3.........................................  Project Director............              11               2              22            12.0             264
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    Total.................................  ............................              24  ..............              48  ..............             556
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\a\ Total PD/PM and total other staff member cost are calculated as hourly wage x time spent on progress report x number of participants.


                                           Table 2--Annualized Burden for Biannual Infrastructure Development
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                                                                        Number of      Responses per                       Hours per       Total annual
                          Respondent type                              respondents       espondent     Total responses      response       hour burden
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Project Director...................................................              11                2               22             12.0              264
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    Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
15E-57B, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 OR email her a copy at 
[email protected]. Written comments should be received by 
September 12, 2017.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2017-14782 Filed 7-13-17; 8:45 am]
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