[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12545-12546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5673]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information requests under review by the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of the
clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, e-mail
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer at (301)
443-1129.
The following request has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995:
Proposed Project: Ryan White Treatment and Modernization Act Part A
Minority AIDS Initiative Report (the Part A MAI Report). (OMB No. 0915-
0304): Extension
HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) administers Part A of Title XXVI of
the Public Health Service Act as amended by Congress in October 2009
(Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009). Part A provides
emergency relief for areas with substantial need for HIV/AIDS care and
support services that are most severely affected by the HIV/AIDS
epidemic, including eligible metropolitan areas (EMA) and Transitional
Grant Areas (TGAs). As a component of Part A (previously Title I), the
purpose of the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) Supplement is to improve
access to high quality HIV care services and health outcomes for
individuals in disproportionately impacted communities of color who are
living with HIV disease, including African-Americans, Latinos, Native
Americans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
(Section 2693(b)(2)(A) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act). Since
the purpose of the Part A MAI is to expand access to medical, health,
and social support services for disproportionately impacted racial/
ethnic minority populations living with HIV/AIDS, who are not yet in
care, it is important that HRSA is able to report on minorities served
by the Part A MAI.
The Part A MAI Report is a data collection instrument in which
grantees report on the number and characteristics of clients served and
services provided. The Part A MAI Report, first approved for use in
March 2006, is designed to collect performance data from Part A
Grantees that will not change, and it has two parts: (1) a web-based
data entry application that collects standardized quantitative and
qualitative information, and (2) an accompanying narrative report.
Grantees submit two Part A MAI Reports annually: Part A MAI Plan (Plan)
and the Part A MAI Year-End Annual Report (Annual Report). The Plan and
Annual Report components of the report are linked to minimize the
reporting burden, and include drop-down menu responses, fields for
reporting budget, expenditure and aggregated client level data, and
open-ended responses for describing client or service-level outcomes.
Together the Plan and Annual Report components collect information from
grantees on MAI-funded services, expenditure patterns, the number and
demographics of clients served, and client-level outcomes.
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The MAI Plan Narrative that accompanies the Plan Web forms provides
(1) an explanation of the data submitted in the Plan Web forms; (2) a
summary of the Plan, including the plan and timeline for disbursing
funds, monitoring service delivery, and implementing any service-
related capacity development or technical assistance activities; and
(3) the plan and timeline for documenting client-level outcome
measures. In addition, if the EMA/TGA revised any planned services,
allocation amounts or target communities after their grant application
was submitted, the changes must be highlighted and explained. The
accompanying MAI Annual Report Narrative describes (1) progress towards
achieving specific goals and objectives identified in the Grantee's
approved MAI Plan for that fiscal year and in linking MAI services/
activities to Part A and other Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program services;
(2) achievements in relation to client-level health outcomes; (3)
summary of challenges or barriers at the provider or grantee levels,
the strategies and/or action steps implemented to address them, and
lessons learned; and, (4) discussion of MAI technical assistance needs
identified by the EMA/TGA.
This information is needed to monitor and assess: (1) Changes in
the type and amount of HIV/AIDS health care and related services being
provided to each disproportionately impacted community of color; (2)
the aggregate number of persons receiving HIV/AIDS services within each
racial and ethnic community; and (3) the impact of Part A MAI-funded
services in terms of client-level and service-level health outcomes.
The information also is used to plan new technical assistance and
capacity development activities, and inform the HRSA policy and program
management functions. The data provided to HRSA does not contain
individual or personally identifiable information.
The annual estimated response burden for grantees is as follows:
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Estimated
Form number of Responses per Total Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent responses response hours
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Part A MAI Report.................................................. 56 2 112 5 560
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Note: Data collection system enhancements have resulted in a shortened response burden (from 6 to 5 total hours per response) for respondents since the
previous OMB approval request.
E-mail comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA Reports
Clearance Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, Maryland 20857. Written comments should be received within
30 days of this notice.
Dated: March 5, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-5673 Filed 3-15-10; 8:45 am]
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