[Federal Register: January 11, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 6)]
[Notices]               
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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 (301) 443-7978.
    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: Projects for Assistance in Transition from 
Homelessness (PATH) Annual Report--New--The Center for Mental Health 
Services awards grants each fiscal year to each of the States, the 
District of

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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 USC 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 will be for 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 estimated annualized burden for these reporting requirements is 
summarized below.

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                                                                          Number of      Average
                                                            Number of    responses/      burden/    Total burden
                                                           respondents   respondent     response        hours
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States..................................................            56             1            72         4,032
Local provider agencies and counties....................           358             1            46        16,468
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    Total...............................................           414  ............  ............        20,500
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    Send comments to Nancy Pearce, SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 16-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. 
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

    Dated: January 5, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 99-488 Filed 1-8-99; 8:45 am]
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