[Federal Register: November 13, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 219)]
[Notices]
[Page 68880]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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 list 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 (301) 443-7978.
Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH)
Annual Report--(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 non-profit 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 extension and revision of the current
approval of the annual grantee reporting requirements; only minor
changes are being made to response choices within a few items. 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 estimated annual burden for these reporting requirements is
summarized in the table that follows.
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Number of Responses/ Avg. burden/ Total burden
Respondent respondents respondent response (hrs.) hrs.
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States...................................... 56 1 26 1,456
Local provider agencies..................... 398 1 31 12,338
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Total................................... 455 ............... ............... 13,794
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:
Allison Herron Eydt, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235,
Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: November 5, 2002.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-28749 Filed 11-12-02; 8:45 am]
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