Notice2022-08298
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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April 19, 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 75 (Tuesday, April 19, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23186-23188]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08298]
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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 (SAMHSA) will publish periodic summaries of
proposed projects. To request more
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information on the proposed projects or to obtain a copy of the
information collection plans, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer
on (240) 276-0361.
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,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology.
Proposed Project: Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental
Illness (PAIMI) Final Rule, 42 CFR Part 51 (OMB No. 0930-0172)--
Extension
These regulations meet the directive under 42 U.S.C. 10826(b)
requiring the Secretary to promulgate final regulations to carry out
the PAIMI Act (42 U.S.C. 10801 et seq.). The regulations contain
information collection requirements. The Act authorizes funds to
support activities on behalf of individuals with significant (severe)
mental illness (adults) or significant (severe) emotional impairment
(children/youth) as defined by the Act at 42 U.S.C. 10802(4) and
10804(d). Only entities designated by the governor of each State,
including the American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands,
District of Columbia (Mayor), and the tribal councils of the American
Indian Consortium (the Hopi Tribe and the Navajo Nation located in the
Four Corners region of the Southwest), to protect and advocate the
rights of persons with developmental disabilities are eligible to
receive PAIMI Program grants [ibid at 42 U.S.C. at 10802(2)]. These
grants are based on a formula prescribed by the Secretary [ibid at 42
U.S.C. at 10822(a)(1)(A)].
On January 1, each eligible state protection and advocacy (P&A)
system is required to prepare an annual PAIMI Program Performance
Report (PPR). Each annual PPR describes a P&A system's activities,
accomplishments and expenditures to protect the rights of individuals
with mental illness supported with payments from PAIMI program
allotments during the most recently completed fiscal year. Each P&A
system transmit a copy of its annual report to the Secretary (via
SAMHSA) and to the State Mental Health Agency where the system is
located per the PAIMI Act at 42 U.S.C. 10824(a). Each annual PPR must
provide the Secretary with the following information:
<bullet> The number of (PAIMI-eligible) individuals with mental
illness served;
<bullet> A description of the types of activities undertaken;
<bullet> A description of the types of facilities providing care or
treatment to which such activities are undertaken;
<bullet> A description of the manner in which the activities are
initiated;
<bullet> A description of the accomplishments resulting from such
activities;
<bullet> A description of systems to protect and advocate the
rights of individuals with mental illness supported with payments from
PAIMI program allotments;
<bullet> A description of activities conducted by states to protect
and advocate such rights;
<bullet> A description of mechanisms established by residential
facilities for individuals with mental illness to protect such rights;
<bullet> A description of the coordination among such systems,
activities, and mechanisms;
<bullet> Specification of the number of public and nonprofit P&A
systems established with PAIMI program allotments; and
<bullet> Recommendations for activities and services to improve the
protection and advocacy of the rights of individuals with mental
illness and a description of the need for such activities and services
that were not met by the state P&A systems established under the PAIMI
Act due to resource or annual program priority limitations.
Each PAIMI grantee's annual PPR must include a separate section,
prepared by its PAIMI Advisory Council (PAC), that describes the
council's activities and its assessment of the state P&A system's
operations per the PAIMI Act at 42 U.S.C. 10805(7).
In 2017, SAMHSA included the annual PAIMI PPR in the Web-based
Block Grant Application System (WebBGAS). WebBGAS, SAMHSA's electronic
data system, is used to collect grantee information for the following
reasons:
(1) To meet the OMB requirements for data collection for
mandatory (formula) grant programs;
(2) To comply with the annual program reporting requirements of
the PAIMI Act, 42 U.S.C. 10801 et seq. and the PAIMI Rules 42 CFR
part 51;
(3) To simplify the submission of PAIMI Program data by the
state P&A systems;
(4) To meet the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
requirements;
(5) To comply with the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
evaluation recommendations that SAMHSA obtain information that
closely measures the actual outcomes of the programs it funds;
(6) To reduce the grantee data collection burden by removing
information that did not facilitate evaluation of a PAIMI grantee's
programmatic and financial management systems;
(7) To provide immediate access to the PAIMI program data used
to prepare a section of the Secretary's biennial report to the
President, Congress, and National Council on Disability in
accordance with the Developmental Disabilities Assistance Act of
2000 at 42 U.S.C. 15005. Reports of the Secretary;
(8) To improve SAMHSA's ability to create reports, analyze
trends, and provide timely feedback to the P&A grantees when PPR
revisions are needed.
On June 12, 2020, OMB approved SAMHSA's PPR and Advisory Council
Report (Control No. 0930-0169, Expiration Date June 30, 2023). The
burden estimate for the annual state P&A system reporting requirements
for these regulations is as follows:
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Burden per
42 CFR citation Number of Responses per response Total annual
respondents respondent (hrs.) burden
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51.8(a)(2) Program Performance Report........... 57 1 20 \1\ 1,140
51.8(a)(8) Advisory Council Report.............. 57 1 10 \1\ 570
51.10 Remedial Actions: Corrective Action Plans 5 2 8 80
Implementation Status Report................... 5 3 2 30
51.23(c) Reports, materials and fiscal data 57 1 1 57
provided to the PAC............................
51.25(b)(2) Grievance Procedures................ 57 1 .5 28.5
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Total....................................... 57 .............. 41.5 195.5
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\1\ Burden hours associated with these reports are approved under OMB Control No. 0930-0169.
Send comments to Carlos Graham, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer,
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 15E57-A, Rockville, MD 20857 OR email him a
copy at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#711210031d1e025f16031019101c3102101c1902105f1919025f161e07"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fd9e9c8f91928ed39a8f9c959c90bd8e9c90958e9cd395958ed39a928b">[email protected]</span></a>. Written comments should be
received by June 21, 2022.
Carlos Graham,
SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-08298 Filed 4-18-22; 8:45 am]
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