Justification Memo

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES Public Health Service

Substance Abuse and Mental

Health Services Administration

Rockville, MD 20857

DATE: March 3, 2009

FROM: Reports Clearance Officer, SAMHSA

TO: Chief, Human Resources and Housing Branch

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB

ATTN: Julie Wise

Through: Reports Clearance Officer, DHHS ____

SUBJECT: Pretesting Suicide Prevention Messages and Materials with Veterans (OMB No. 0930-0196)

The attached materials are provided in support of our request for approval of a customer satisfaction feedback survey under SAMHSA’s generic approval for “Pretesting of Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Mental Health Services Communications Messages.”

This is the 2nd submission under that approval and will impose an estimated annual average total burden of 72 hours, which would bring the total currently approved burden under this clearance to 9,065 hours. The current total burden hours in the OMB inventory for the Message Pretesting (OMB No. 0930-0196) is 9,290.

We look forward to receiving your feedback so that implementation may proceed.

Summer King

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