[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 5 (Friday, January 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1183-1184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-99]
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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, call the
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.
The following request has been submitted to the OMB for review
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995:
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Proposed Project: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program: Client-Level Data
Reporting System: (OMB No. 0915-0323)--[Revision]
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program's client-level data reporting
system, entitled the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report or the
Ryan White Services Report (RSR), was created in 2008 by the Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). It is designed to collect
information from grantees, as well as their subcontracted services
providers, funded under Parts A, B, C, and D, and the Part F Minority
AIDS Initiative of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of
2009 (Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program). The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
provides Federal HIV/AIDS Programs in the Public Health Service (PHS)
Act under Title XXVI with flexibility to respond effectively to the
changing HIV epidemic, with an emphasis on providing life-saving and
life-extending services for people living with HIV/AIDS across this
country, as well as targeting resources to areas that have the greatest
needs.
All parts of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program specify HRSA's
responsibilities in the administration of grant funds, the allocation
of funds, the evaluation of programs for the population served, and the
improvement of the quality of care. Accurate records of the providers
receiving Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funding, the services provided,
and the clients served, continue to be critical issues for the
implementation of the legislation and are necessary for HRSA to fulfill
its responsibilities.
The RSR provides data on the characteristics of Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program-funded grantees, their contracted service providers, and the
clients being served with program funds. The Report is intended to
support clinical quality management, performance measurement, service
delivery, and client monitoring at the system and client levels. The
reporting system consists of two online data forms, the Grantee Report
and the Service Provider Report, as well as a data file containing the
client-level data elements. Data are submitted annually.
The legislation specifies grantee accountability and linking
performance to budget. The RSR is used to ensure compliance with the
requirements of the legislation, to evaluate the progress of programs,
to monitor grantee and provider performance, to measure the Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and the Performance Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) goals, and to meet reporting responsibilities to the
Department, Congress, and OMB.
In addition to meeting the goal of accountability to Congress,
clients, advocacy groups, and the general public, information collected
through the RSR is critical for HRSA, State and local grantees, and
individual providers to assess the status of existing HIV-related
service delivery systems to investigate trends in service utilization
and to identify areas of greatest need.
The estimated average annualized hour burden is 17,975 hours per
year. Burden estimates are broken down into burden to grantee
respondents and burden to service provider respondents. Estimates for
grantees and service providers are further divided by the RSR
component. Estimates for grantees and providers are based on prior
experience in collecting, maintaining, and reporting data using the RSR
and interviews with volunteers from grantee agencies.
The response burden for grantees is estimated as:
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Source of Number of Responses per Hours per Total hour
Component funding respondents grantee response burden
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Grantee Report................ Part A.......... 56 1 2.04 114
Part B.......... 59 1 2.52 149
Part C.......... 354 1 0.32 113
Part D.......... 98 1 0.33 32
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Subtotal..... 567 .............. .............. 408
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The response burden for service providers is estimated as:
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total hour
Component respondents provider responses response burden
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Service Provider Report....... * 2,080......... 1 * 2,080 2.30 4,784
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* All providers, including providers of administrative support services and direct client services.
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total hour
Component Electronic data system respondents provider responses response burden
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Client Report............................. No.......................... 56 1 56 106.25 5,950
Yes......................... 1,822 1 1,822 3.75 6,832.5
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Subtotal................. ** 1,878 .............. ** 1,878 .............. 12,783
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** Providers of direct client services only.
Total Burden is 17,975.
Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this Federal
Register Notice to the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to
OIRA-- [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct
all correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
Dated: January 3, 2011.
Robert Hendricks,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-99 Filed 1-6-11; 8:45 am]
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