82 FR 42825 - 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 82, Issue 175 (September 12, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 175 (Tuesday, September 12, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42825-42826]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-19251]


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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: 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 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 1,742.4 hours for Cohort 3. The burden hours of Cohort 1 
(1,742.4

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hours), Cohort 2 (316.8 hours) and Cohort 3 (1,742.4 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             respondents     respondent       responses       response       hour burden
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1....................................  Project Director \a\.............              11               2              22            12.0             264
2....................................  Project Director \a\.............               2               2               4            12.0              28
3....................................  Project Director \a\.............              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       respondent    Total responses      response       hour burden
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Project Director...................................................              11                2               22             12.0              264
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent by October 12, 2017 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. 2017-19251 Filed 9-11-17; 8:45 am]
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