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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of Management and
Budget (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: Revision of Mental Health Client/Participant Outcome Measures and
Infrastructure, Prevention, and Promotion Indicators (OMB No. 0930-0285)
SAMHSA is requesting approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
a revision to extend the expiration date for the previously approved instruments and data
collection activities for the Center Mental Health Services Mental Health Client/Participant
Outcome Measures and Infrastructure, Prevention, and Promotion Indicators (OMB No 09300285) that expires on March 30, 2025.
To be fully accountable for the spending of Federal funds, SAMHSA requires all
programs to collect and report data to ensure that program goals and objectives are met. Data are
collected and used to monitor and improve performance of each program and ensure appropriate
and thoughtful spending of Federal funds.
SAMHSA requests to continue using and extend the expiration date for the currently
approved Client-level Mental Health Client/Participant Outcome measures and Infrastructure,
Prevention, and Promotion indicators and to extend the expiration date.
These two data collections maintain capacity and requirements to report qualitative
performance and quantitative outcomes for all Center for Mental Health Services discretionary
grant programs, including: demographic characteristics of clients served; social determinants of
health of clients served before, during, and at end of services; numbers of clients served; and

process measures, outputs, outcomes, of grant program required activities.
Currently, the information collected from these data collections is entered and stored on
SAMHSA’s Performance Accountability and Reporting System (SPARS), which is a real-time,
performance management system that captures information on mental health and substance
abuse treatment services delivered in the United States through discretionary grantees.
Continued approval of this information collection will allow SAMHSA to continue to meet
Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRMA) reporting
requirements that quantify the effects and accomplishments of its discretionary grant programs,
which are consistent with OMB guidance.
SAMHSA and its Centers will use the data collected for annual reporting required by
GPRMA, to describe clients and individuals served and to summarize outputs and outcomes of
grant program activities. SAMHSA and its Centers will use the data for annual reporting.
SAMHSA’s report for each fiscal year will include actual results of performance monitoring for
the three preceding fiscal years. Information collected through this request will allow SAMHSA
to report on the results of these performance outcomes as well as be consistent with SAMHSAspecific performance domains, and to assess the accountability and performance of its
discretionary grant programs. The information collected through this request will allow
SAMHSA to improve its ability to assess the impact of its programs on key outcomes of interest
and to gather vital descriptive characteristics about clients served by discretionary grant
programs.
Currently, there are 76,209 total burden hours in the two data collections. SAMHSA is
requesting an increase to 139,178 hours to account for additional grantees having reporting
requirements and to account more fully for the time needed to report quarterly on the IPP
indicators. The proposed estimate of time to collect data and complete the instruments is shown
in table 1.
Table1: Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden

Number of
Respondents

Responses
per
Respondent

Total
Responses

Hours per
Response

Total Hour
Burden

Client-level baseline
assessment - interview

75,600

75,600

0.3

22,680

Client-level baseline
assessment – administrative

84,000

84,000

0.1

8,400

Client-level 3- or 6-month
reassessment -interview

53,760

53,760

0.3

16,128

Client-level 3- or 6-month
reassessment -administrative

67,200

67,200

0.1

6,720

Client-level discharge
assessment - interview

12,500

12,500

0.3

3,750

Client-level discharge
assessment - administrative

25,000

25,000

0.1

2,500

Section H Program Specific
Data: baseline, 3- or 6-month
reassessment, and clinical
discharge

75,000

150,000

0.1

15,000

Subtotal

393,060

SAMHSA Tool

Infrastructure development,
prevention, and mental
health promotion quarterly
record abstraction
Subtotal
Total

2,000

468,060
8,000

75,178
64,000

2,000

8,000

64,000

395,060

476,060

139,178

Send comments to SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer at samhsapra@samhsa.hhs.gov.
Written comments should be received by [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF
PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
Alicia Broadus,
Public Health Advisor.
[FR Doc. 2024-15811 Filed: 7/17/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 7/18/2024]