[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 48 (Friday, March 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 13420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-5602]
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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 collection 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 Office on (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: Rural Health Community-Based Grant Program (OMB No.
0915-0319)--[Revision]
On May 20, 2008, OMB approved the agency's request for the
collection of data related to OMB No. 0915-0319 and set an expiration
date of May 31, 2011. The agency is now proceeding to submit a revised
package which will include program specific measures that grantees will
have to collect and report on. The revisions will include measures that
are aligned with the agency's updated clinical measures. There are
currently six rural health grant programs that operate under the
authority of Section 301 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act. These
programs include: (1) Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program
(Outreach); (2) Rural Health Network Development Grant Program (Network
Development); (3) Small Healthcare Provider Quality Grant Program
(Quality); (4) Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program
(Delta); (5) Rural Health Network Planning Grant Program (Network
Planning) and; (6) Rural Health Workforce Development Grant Program
(Workforce). These grants are to provide expanded delivery of health
care services in rural areas, for the planning and implementation of
integrated health care networks in rural areas, and for the planning
and implementation quality improvement and workforce activities.
For these programs, performance measures were drafted to provide
data useful to the programs and to enable HRSA to provide aggregate
program data required by Congress under the Government Performance and
Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. These measures cover the principal topic
areas of interest to ORHP, including: (a) Access to care; (b) the
underinsured and uninsured; (c) workforce recruitment and retention;
(d) sustainability; (e) health information technology; (f) network
development; and, (g) health related clinical measures. Several
measures will be used for all six programs. All measures will speak to
the Office of Rural Health Policy's progress toward meeting its goals.
The annual estimate of burden is as follows:
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Number of Frequency of Total Hours per Total hour
Grant program respondents responses responses response burden
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Rural Health Care Services 111 1 111 3.25 360.75
Outreach Grant Program...........
Rural Health Network Development.. 49 1 49 2.75 134.75
Delta States Rural Development 12 1 12 3.125 38
Network Grant Program............
Small Health Care Provider Quality 59 1 59 8 472
Improvement Grant Program........
Network Development Planning Grant 30 1 30 1 30
Program..........................
Rural Health Workforce Development 20 1 20 3 60
Program..........................
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Total......................... 281 .............. 281 ............. 1096
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
Dated: March 7, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-5602 Filed 3-10-11; 8:45 am]
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