[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 108 (Thursday, June 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32562-32563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-13029]
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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: Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental Illness
(PAIMI) Annual Program Performance Report (OMB No. 0930-0169)--
Extension
The Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness
(PAIMI) Act at 42 U.S.C. 10801 et seq., authorized funds to the same
protection and advocacy (P&A) systems created under the Developmental
Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1975, known as the DD
Act (as amended in 2000, 42 U.S.C. 15001 et seq.]. The DD Act supports
the Protection and Advocacy for Developmental Disabilities (PADD)
Program administered by the Administration on Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities (AIDD) within the Administration on
Community Living. AIDD is the lead federal P&A agency. The PAIMI
Program supports the same governor-designated P&A systems established
under the DD Act by providing legal-based individual and systemic
advocacy services to individuals with significant (severe) mental
illness (adults) and significant (severe) emotional impairment
(children/youth) who are at risk for abuse, neglect and other rights
violations while residing in a care or treatment facility.
In 2000, the PAIMI Act amendments created a 57th P&A system--the
American Indian Consortium (the Navajo and Hopi Tribes in the Four
Corners region of the Southwest). The Act, at 42 U.S.C. 10804(d),
states that a P&A system may use its allotment to provide
representation to individuals with mental illness, as defined by
section 42 U.S.C. 10802 (4)(B)(iii) residing in the community,
including their own home, only, if the total allotment under this title
for any fiscal year is $30 million or more, and in such cases an
eligible P&A system must give priority to representing PAIMI-eligible
individuals, as defined by 42 U.S.C. 10802(4)(A) and (B)(i).
The Children's Health Act of 2000 (CHA) also referenced the state
P&A system authority to obtain information on incidents of seclusion,
restraint and related deaths [see, CHA, Part H at 42 U.S.C. 290ii-1].
PAIMI Program formula grants awarded by SAMHSA go directly to each of
the 57 governor-designated P&A systems. These systems are located in
each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the American Indian
Consortium, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands.
The PAIMI Act at 42 U.S.C. 10805(7) requires that each P&A system
prepare and transmit to the Secretary HHS and to the head of its State
mental health agency a report on January 1. This report describes the
activities, accomplishments, and expenditures of the system during the
most recently completed fiscal year, including a section prepared by
the advisory council (the PAIMI Advisory Council or PAC) that describes
the activities of the council and its independent assessment of the
operations of the system.
The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
proposes no revisions to its annual PAIMI Program Performance Report
(PPR), including the advisory council section, at this time for the
following reasons: (1) AIDD is currently piloting a PADD PPR. The
results of the pilot will not be available until October 2014 (FY
2015). (2) when the AIDD/ACL PPR is final, SAMHSA will revise its PPR,
as appropriate, for consistency with the annual reporting requirements
under the PAIMI Act and Rules [42 CFR Part 51]; (3) SAMHSA will develop
a mechanism to facilitate electronic submission of the annual PAIMI PPR
and ACR as recommended in the Evaluation of the Protection and Advocacy
for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Program, Phase III.
Evaluation Report al Report (SAMHSA (2011). Evaluation of the
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental Illness (PAIMI)
Program, Phase III. Final Report. HHS Pub. No. PEP12-EVALPAIMI.
Rockville, MD: CMHS, SAMHSA). (4) GPRA requirements for the PAIMI
Program will be revised as appropriate to ensure that SAMHSA obtains
information that closely measures actual outcomes of programs that it
funds and (5) SAMHSA will reduce wherever feasible the current
reporting burden by removing any information that does not facilitate
evaluation of the programmatic and fiscal effectiveness of a state P&A
system. The current report formats will be effective for the FY 2014
PPR reports due on January 1, 2015.
The annual burden estimate is as follows:
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Number of
Number of responses per Hours per Total hour
respondents respondent response burden
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Program Performance Report...................... 57 1 26 1,482
Advisory Council Report......................... 57 1 10 570
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Total....................................... 57 .............. .............. 2,052
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by July 7, 2014 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
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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. 2014-13029 Filed 6-4-14; 8:45 am]
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