[Federal Register: September 29, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 188)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects
being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995. To request more information on the proposed project or to
obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft instruments, call
the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1129.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is 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: Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block
Grant Program--Guidance and Forms for the Title V Application/Annual
Report, OMB No.0915-0172: Revision
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) proposes to
revise the Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant
Program--Guidance and Forms for the Application/Annual Report. The
guidance is used annually by the 50 States and 9 jurisdictions in
making application for Block Grants under Title V of the Social
Security Act, and in preparing the required annual report. The proposed
revisions follow and build on extensive consultation received from a
workgroup convened to provide suggestions to improve the guidance and
forms. The proposed revisions are editorial and technical revisions
based on the experience of the states and jurisdictions in using the
guidance and forms since 2003.
Two new performance measures were developed (obesity in children
aged 2 to 5 years; and smoking in the last trimester of pregnancy) and
two existing performance measures were either removed entirely (low
birth weight) or incorporated into an existing health status capacity
indicator (eligible children receiving services under Medicaid). This
will result in no net increase in the number of performance measures.
In addition, the directions in the guidance for the Health Systems
Capacity Indicators (HSCI) were expanded to enhance clarification. This
proposed change will make it easier for the states to report on these
indicators.
The existing electronic system used by the states to submit their
Block Grant Application and Annual Report has also been enhanced.
First, using the electronic system, the narrative from the prior year's
submission is available online in the system so that the applicant need
only edit those sections that have changed. This reduces burden by
avoiding duplicating material. For national performance measures 2-6,
the data obtained from the National Survey of Children with Special
Health Care Needs are pre-populated which eliminates the need to
retrieve and enter data from this survey, unless the states choose to
use another data source. Also, notes from the prior year's submission
are available to the states allowing for more efficient updating
through edits rather then recreating them. Data are entered once (in a
data entry field on a given form), and where those data are referenced
elsewhere, the value is
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copied and displayed. The electronic system includes an automatic
character counter that tells the user how many characters the states
have left. This eliminates the need to independently track entries
against the Maternal and Child Health Bureau's limits for each section
and ensures compliance. The electronic system includes forms status
checker and data alerts, which conduct automated checks on data
validity, data consistency, and application completeness, as well as
value tolerance checks. This facilitates application review and
eliminates much of previously required data cleaning activity. Also,
this allows the user to obtain an immediate update at any point in time
on the completeness and compliance of the application, reducing the
need to conduct a review of the application. Data are saved directly to
the HRSA server so that no manual transmission is required. Finally,
the automatic commitment of data to the HRSA server eliminates the need
for version control or data migration.
The estimated average annual burden per year is as follows for the
Annual Report and Application without the Needs Assessment:
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Number of Responses per Burden hours Total burden
Type of respondent respondents respondent per response hours
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States.......................................... 50 1 297 14,868
Jurisdictions................................... 9 1 120 1,077
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Total....................................... .............. .............. 59 15,945
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Burden in the 3 Year Reporting Cycle for the Annual Report and
Application with Needs Assessment is:
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Number of Burden hours per Responses per Total burden
Needs assessment respondents responses respondent hours
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States/Jurisdictions........................ 59 378.5 1 22,303
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Total Average Burden for 3 year cycle... .............. ................ ................ 18,064
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Send comments to Susan G. Queen, PhD., HRSA Reports Clearance
Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of notice.
Dated: September 23, 2005.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
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