[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 204 (Friday, October 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65357-65358]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-26429]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Indian Health Service
Request for Public Comment: 30-Day Proposed Information
Collection: Office of Urban Indian Health Programs; Uniform Data System
AGENCY: Indian Health Service.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, which requires 30 days for public comment on proposed
information collection projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) has
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget
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(OMB) a request to review and approve the information collection listed
below. This proposed information collection project was previously
published in the Federal Register (74 FR 59544) on November 18, 2009
and allowed 60 days for public comment. No public comment was received
in response to the notice. The purpose of this notice is to allow 30
days for public comment to be submitted directly to OMB.
Proposed Collection: Title: Office of Urban Indian Health Programs
(OUIHP) Uniform Data System (UDS). Type of Information Collection
Request: Initial request and four-year extension, for data collection
to ensure compliance with legislative mandates and report to Congress
and policymakers on program accomplishments. Form Number(s): There are
currently no form numbers. Reporting formats are contained in the UDS
Instruction Manual. Need and Use of Information Collection: The UDS
contains the annual reporting requirements for the cluster of primary
health care and case management/outreach and referral grantees funded
by the IHS. The UDS includes reporting requirements for grantees of the
OUIHP. The authorizing statute is Title V of Public Law 94-437, of the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act, as amended. IHS will collect data
in the UDS which will be used to ensure compliance with the legislative
mandates and report to Congress and policymakers on program
accomplishments. To meet these objectives, the OUIHP requires a core
set of data collected annually that is appropriate for monitoring and
evaluating performance and reporting on annual trends. Affected Public:
Title V funded urban Indian health programs. Type of Respondents: Title
V urban Indian health programs.
The table below provides: Types of data collection instruments,
Number of respondents, Responses per respondent, Total annual
responses, Average burden hours per response, and Total annual burden
hours.
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Average burden
Data collection instrument(s) Number of Responses per Total annual hours per Total annual
respondents respondent responses response* burden hours
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Universal Report................................................... 34 1 34 8.00 272
(480 min)
American Indian/Alaska Native Report............................... 34 1 34 8.00 272
(480 min)
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Total.......................................................... 68 544
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* For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.
There are no Capital Costs, Operating Costs, and/or Maintenance
Costs to report.
Request for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are
invited on one or more of the following points: (a) Whether the
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency
function; (b) whether the agency processes the information collected in
a useful and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of public burden estimate
(the estimated amount of time needed for individual respondents to
provide the requested information); (d) whether the methodology and
assumptions used to determine the estimate are logical; (e) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information being
collected; and (f) ways to minimize the public burden through the use
of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Direct Comments to OMB: Send your written comments and suggestions
regarding the proposed information collection contained in this notice,
especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated
response time to: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory
Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for IHS, New Executive Office
Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.
Send Comments and Requests for Further Information: Send your
written comments and requests for more information on the proposed
collection or requests to obtain a copy of the data collection
instrument(s) and instructions to: Mr. Hershel Gorham, Reports
Clearance Officer, 801 Thompson Avenue, TMP, Suite 450, Rockville, MD
20852; call non-toll free (301) 443-4792; send via facsimile to (301)
443-9879; or send your e-mail requests, comments, and return address
to: [email protected].
Comment Due Date: Your comments regarding this information
collection are best assured of having full effect if received within 30
days of the date of this publication.
Dated: October 7, 2010.
Yvette Roubideaux,
Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-26429 Filed 10-21-10; 8:45 am]
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