[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 169 (Tuesday, September 1, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52769-52770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-21547]
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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: Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness (PATH)
Program Annual Report (OMB No. 0930-0205)--Revision
The Center for Mental Health Services awards grants each fiscal
year to each of the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from allotments authorized
under the PATH program established by Public Law 101-645, 42 U.S.C.
290cc-21 et seq., the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance
Amendments Act of 1990 (section 521 et seq. of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act). Section 522 of the PHS Act requires that the
grantee states and territories must expend their payments under the Act
solely for making grants to political subdivisions of the state, and to
nonprofit private entities (including community-based veterans'
organizations and other community organizations) for the purpose of
providing services specified in the Act. Available funding is allotted
in accordance with the formula provision of section 524 of the PHS Act.
This submission is for a revision of the current approval of the
annual grantee reporting requirements. Section 528 of the PHS Act
specifies that not later than January 31 of each fiscal year, a funded
entity will prepare and submit a report in such form and containing
such information as is determined necessary for securing a record and
description of the purposes for which amounts received under section
521 were expended during the preceding fiscal year and of the
recipients of such amounts and determining whether such amounts were
expended in accordance with statutory provisions.
The proposed changes to the PATH Annual Report are as follows:
1. Format.
To create a PATH report that is easier to read and questions that
are easier to understand, language has been made more concise and
questions have been renumbered.
2. Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) Data Integration.
All data elements align with the 2014 HMIS Data Standards and can
be extracted from HMIS.
3. Staff training.
An element has been added to the Budget section to collect
information about the number of trainings provided by PATH-funded
staff.
4. Number of persons served this reporting period.
To decrease reporting burden and improve data quality, several
revisions were made to the collection of information about persons
outreached and persons enrolled. Data elements were updated to more
clearly describe the data to be reported and reduce confusion and
potential for misinterpretation. Information about persons outreached
has been divided into two elements to collect specific information
about the location of the outreach contact (street outreach or service
setting).
5. Services provided.
To improve data quality, several service category labels have been
updated to more accurately reflect the type of service to be reported.
The ``Screening and Assessment'' category has also been divided into
two separate categories to capture specific information about
screenings and clinical assessments provided by PATH staff. The ``Total
number of times this service was provided'' column has been removed to
reduce reporting burden.
6. Referrals provided.
To improve data quality, several referral category labels have been
updated to more accurately reflect the type of referral to be reported.
The ``Total number of times this type of referral was provided'' column
has been removed to reduce reporting burden.
7. Outcomes.
Elements collecting information regarding PATH program outcomes
have been added. The PATH program's transition to using local HMIS to
collect PATH client data allows data on client outcomes related to the
PATH program to be more easily collected and reported.
8. Demographics.
Response categories for demographic data elements have been updated
to fully align with the 2014 HMIS Data Standards. An element to gather
information about PATH clients' connection to the SSI/SSDI Outreach,
Access, and Recovery program (SOAR) has also been added.
To decrease reporting burden and improve the outreach and
engagement process, demographic information for ``Persons contacted''
is no longer required. Providers are encouraged to gather information
and build client records as early in the engagement process as
possible. All demographic information should be collected by the point
of PATH enrollment.
9. Definitions.
Definitions for PATH terms have been updated to streamline
definitions and increase reliability of data reporting.
The estimated annual burden for these reporting requirements is
summarized in the table below.
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Burden per
Respondents Number of Responses per response Total burden
respondents respondent (hrs.)
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States.......................................... 56 1 20 1,120
Local provider agencies......................... 492 1 20 9,840
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Total....................................... 548 .............. .............. 10,960
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by October 1, 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
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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. 2015-21547 Filed 8-31-15; 8:45 am]
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