Notice2022-07293
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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April 6, 2022
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Health and Human Services DepartmentSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19960-19962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07293]
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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) 276-0361.
Project: Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program Monitoring
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's (SAMHSA)
will monitor program performance of its Training and Technical
Assistance (TTA) programs. The TTAs disseminate current behavioral
health services research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse,
National Institute on
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Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Mental Health,
National Institute of Justice, and other sources, as well as other
SAMHSA programs. To accomplish this, the TTA programs develop and
update state-of-the-art, research-based curricula and professional
development training.
The TTAs hold a variety of events: Technical assistance, meetings,
trainings, and presentations. A TTA technical assistance event is
defined as a jointly planned consultation generally involving a series
of contacts between the TTA and an outside organization/institution
during which the TTA provides expertise and gives direction toward
resolving a problem or improving conditions. Technical assistance
events can be categorized into universal, targeted, and intensive.
Other TTA events such as meetings, training, presentations, strategic
planning and learning collaboratives are utilized to support technical
assistance. These events are TTA-sponsored or co-sponsored events in
which a group of people representing one or more agencies other than
the TTAs work cooperatively on a project, problem, and/or policy.
SAMHSA intends to use three (3) instruments for program monitoring
of TTA events as well as ongoing quality improvement, which are
described below.
1. Event Description Form (EDF): The EDF collects event
information. This instrument asks approximately 10 questions of TTA
faculty/staff relating to the event focus and format. It allows the
TTAs and SAMHSA to track the number of events held (See Attachment 1).
2. TTA Post Event Form: The Post Event Form will be administered
immediately following the event. It asks approximately 15 questions of
each individual that participated in the event (Attachment 2). The
instrument asks the participants to report on general demographic
information (gender, race, sexual orientation, level of education,
primary profession), principal employment setting, employment zip code,
satisfaction with the event, if they expect the event to benefit them
professionally, if they expect the event to change their practice and
if they would recommend the event to a colleague.
3. TTA Follow-up Form: The Follow-up Form will be administered 60-
days after all events that last a minimum of three (3) hours. The form
will be administered to a minimum of 25% of participants who consent to
participate in the follow-up process. The form asks about 14 questions
(Attachment 3). The instrument asks the participants to report if the
information provided in at the event benefited their professional
development, will change their practice, if they will use the
information in their future work, if information will be shared with
colleagues, how the event supported their work responsibilities, how
the TTA can improve the events, what other topics would participants
like to see TTAs address and in what format.
The information collected on the TTA forms will assist SAMHSA in
documenting the numbers and types of participants in TTA events,
describing the extent to which participants report improvement in their
professional development, and which method is most effective in
disseminating knowledge to various audiences. This type of information
is crucial to support SAMHSA in complying with GPRA reporting
requirements and will inform future development of knowledge
dissemination activities.
SAMHSA sought to improve functionality and limit public burden
through revision of the previously proposed TTA instruments based on
stakeholder feedback. The following revisions have been made to the
instruments since the 60-Day public comment period:
<bullet> Multiple linguistic revisions were made to improve clarity
of instructions, descriptors and questions.
<bullet> The demographics section was updated to reflect revisions
made to the other SAMHSA GPRA data collections.
<bullet> The unique identifier configuration has been revised to
address concerns about respondent identification.
The revised TTA instruments reflect SAMHSA's desire to elicit
pertinent Training and Technical Assistance program and participant
data that can be used to not only guide future programs and practice,
but to also respond to stakeholder, congressional, and agency
enquiries.
The chart below summarizes the annualized burden for this project.
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total annual Hourly wage Total hour
Type of respondent respondents respondent responses response burden hours cost cost
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TTA Faculty/Staff:
Event Description Form............................ 2,000 1 2,000 .16 320 $24.78 $7,930
Meeting and presentations respondents:
Post-Event Form................................... 50,000 1 50,000 .16 8,000 24.78 198,240
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Follow-up form Meetings and presentations are usually less than 3 hours. Follow up forms will be used only for
events longer than 3 hours.
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Technical Assistance and Training respondents:
Post-Event Form................................... 100,000 1 100,000 .16 16,000 24.78 396,480
Follow-up Form.................................... 25,000 1 25,000 .16 4,000 24.78 99,120
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Total......................................... 177,000 1 177,000 .16 28,320 24.78 701,770
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Summary Table
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Number of Responses per
Instruments respondents respondents Burden hours
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TTA Event Description Form..................................... 2,000 1 320
TTA Post Event Form............................................ 150,000 1 24,000
TTA Follow up Form............................................. 25,000 1 4,000
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Total...................................................... 177,000 1 28,320
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Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
Carlos Graham,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-07293 Filed 4-5-22; 8:45 am]
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