[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 5, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16601-16602]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-06724]
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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 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 on (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,
through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Proposed 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
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(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) The revisions revise the SAMHSA PPR, as
appropriate, for consistency with the annual reporting requirements
under the PAIMI Act and Rules [42 CFR part 51]; (2) The revisions
simplify the electronic data entry by state PAIMI programs; (3) 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 (4) 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 (5) The new electronic version will
expedite SAMHSA's ability to prepare the biennial report; (6) The new
electronic version will improve SAMHSA's ability to generate reports,
analyze trends and more expeditiously provide feedback to PAIMI
programs. The current report formats will be effective for the FY 2017
PPR reports due on January 1, 2018
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 20 1,140
Advisory Council Report......................... 57 1 10 570
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Total....................................... 57 .............. .............. 1,710
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Send comments to Summer King, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15E57-B, Rockville, Maryland 20857, or email a
copy to [email protected]. Written comments should be received
by June 5, 2017.
Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2017-06724 Filed 4-4-17; 8:45 am]
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