[Federal Register: July 29, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 146)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities Under Emergency Review
by the Office of Management and Budget
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) has submitted the following request (see below) for emergency
OMB review under the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
OMB approval has been requested by August 8, 2008. A copy of the
information collection plans may be obtained by calling the SAMHSA
Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.
Title: Minority AIDS Initiative for Collaboration for Prevention
and Treatment Improvement for American Indians and Alaska Natives at
Risk for Substance Use and HIV/AID, (MIA) Rapid HIV Testing Clinical
Information Form--NEW.
OMB Number: 0930-New.
Frequency: One-time-only
Affected Public: Tribes, Non-Profit Tribal Organization and Urban
Indian Health Centers.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's
(SAMHSA) Center Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), is requesting an
emergency OMB review and approval of the Minority AIDS Initiative for
Collaboration for Prevention and Treatment Improvement for American
Indians and Alaska Natives at Risk for Substance Use and HIV/AID, (MIA)
Rapid HIV Testing Clinical Information Form. The MAI HIV Rapid Testing
Clinical Information Form would allow SAMHSA/CSAT to collect essential
clinical information that will be used for quality assurance, quality
performance, and product monitoring on approximately 50,000 Rapid HIV
Test Kits to be provided to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN)
communities at no cost to the recipient provider organizations. This
Program is authorized under section 509 of the Public Health Service
(PHs) Act [42 U.S.C. 290bb-2] .
The purpose of the MAI is to increase HIV/Screening to American
Indians and Alaska Natives at risk for substance use and thus HIV/AIDS
in 13 States; build and or strengthen tribes, tribal organizations and
urban Indian health centers capacity to provide HIV/AIDS education and
prevention services to American Indians and Alaska Natives; reduce the
stigma associated with HIV/AIDS screening through outreach and
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education and increase the number of American Indians and Alaska
Natives who know their HIV/AIDS status.
The target population for the initiative is tribes, tribal
organizations, and urban Indian organizations that reside in Alaska,
Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington who are at risk
for substance use and HIV/AIDS. The selected states are those with the
highest concentration of AI/AN population based on United States Census
2000. It should be noted that 6 of these states (California, Florida,
Nevada, North Carolina, and New York) are also designated Block Grant
HIV State-aside states (reported 10 HIV cases per 100,000 to CDC).
Additionally, the top five AI/AN AIDS Case states are--California,
Oklahoma, Washington, Arizona and Alaska, which also are part of the
target population.
Given the history, SAMHSA could not have anticipated the need for
the MAI Rapid HIV Testing Clinical Information Form earlier and is
requesting an emergency OMB approval. Due to the six month shelf-life
of the Rapid HIV Test Kits it is unlikely that SAMHSA will be able to
distribute the kits and collect the essential clinical information
prior to the expiration of the existing 20,000 Rapid HIV Test Kits
without the emergency OMB approval. Emergency OMB approval will make
available the immediate distribution of up to 50,000 no cost Rapid HIV
Test kits to American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The MAI
Rapid HIV Testing Clinical Information Form would support quality of
care, provide minimum but adequate clinical and product monitoring, and
provide appropriate safeguards against fraud, waste and abuse of
Federal funds. SAMHSA's approach would avoid unnecessary delay in
informing any person potentially adversely affected by a test kit
recall or public health advisory.
The following table is the estimated hour burden:
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Responses/ Total burden
Number of respondents respondent Burden hours hours
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50,000....................................................... 1 .167 8,350
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 Days of this notice to:
John Kraemer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503; due to potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing of mail
sent through the U.S. Postal Service, respondents are encouraged to
submit comments by fax to: 202-395-6974.
Date: July 24, 2008.
Christine Chen,
Director, Division of Grants Management.
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