Notice2023-04585
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Rural Health Network Development Planning Program
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Published
March 7, 2023
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day comment period for this notice has closed.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14172-14173]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04585]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Rural Health Network
Development Planning Program
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than April 6,
2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Samantha Miller, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#304051405542475f425b70584243511e575f46"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b6c6d7c6d3c4c1d9c4ddf6dec4c5d798d1d9c0">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 594-4394.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: The Rural Health Network
Development Planning Performance Improvement and Measurement System
Database OMB No. 0915-0384--Revision.
Abstract: The purpose of the Rural Health Network Development
Planning Program (Network Planning Program) is to promote the planning
and development of integrated health care networks to address the
following legislative aims: (i) achieve efficiencies; (ii) expand
access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of basic health care
services and associated health outcomes; and (iii) strengthen the rural
health care system. This program supports 1 year of planning and brings
together key parts of a rural health care delivery system, particularly
those entities that may not have collaborated in the past, to establish
and/or improve local capacity in order to strengthen rural community
health interventions and enhance care coordination. HRSA collects
information from the Network Planning Program award recipients using
approved performance measures. HRSA seeks to revise its approved
information collection by increasing the total estimated annual burden
hours, due to an increase in the number of program award recipients.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on December
9, 2022, vol. 87, No. 236; pp. 75638-39. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Performance measures for
the Network Planning Program serve the purpose of quantifying awardee-
level data that conveys the successes and challenges associated with
the grant award. These measures and aggregate data substantiate and
inform the focus and objectives of the grant program. The approved
measures encompass the following principal topic areas: network
infrastructure, network collaboration, sustainability, and network
assessment. The burden is increasing by 2 hours from the previously
approved collection due to an increase in the number of award
recipients from 21 to 23.
Likely Respondents: The respondents for these measures are Rural
Health Network Development Planning Program award recipients.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours:
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Rural Health Network Development 23 1 23 1 23
Planning Program Performance
Improvement Measurement System.
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Total....................... 23 .............. 23 .............. 23
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HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-04585 Filed 3-6-23; 8:45 am]
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