Notice2023-11384
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network Program Data Collection
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Published
May 30, 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 103 (Tuesday, May 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34507-34508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11384]
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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 Public Health
Workforce Training Network Program Data Collection
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 June 29,
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#057564756077726a776e456d7776642b626a73"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7707160712050018051c371f05041659101801">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 594-4394.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Rural Public Health Workforce
Training Network Program Data Collection--OMB No. 0915-xxxx-NEW.
Abstract: The Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network
(RPHWTN) Program Data Collection is authorized by section 330A(f) of
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c(f)). Furthermore, section
2501 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP, Pub. L. 117-2)
provides funding for the Department of Health and Human Services to
carry out activities related to expanding and sustaining a public
health workforce, including to respond to COVID-19. The RPHWTN program,
which is managed by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at HRSA,
intends to expand public health capacity by supporting health care job
development, training, and placement in rural communities. This grant
program intends to address the ongoing critical need for trained public
health professionals in health care facilities serving rural
communities by establishing networks that will develop formal training/
certification programs. The long-term objective of this program is to
enhance clinical and operational capacity to adequately address
population health needs of rural communities negatively impacted by
COVID-19, including long COVID-19. The HRSA Office of Planning,
Analysis, and Evaluation will work with the Federal Office of Rural
Health Policy to design and distribute surveys to RPHWTN grantees and
trainees, which will serve as program data collection tools. Grantees
will establish networks that support health care job development,
training, and placement in rural communities. Trainees are individuals
participating in the training programs made possible through the
RPHTWN-supported networks established by program grantees. To
accomplish RPHWTN program goals, HRSA would like to collect the
following type of information from respondents:
<bullet> From grantees: training content, count of trainings and
attendees, specific strategies in supporting patients with long COVID-
19 and behavioral health needs, and trainee retention/completion.
<bullet> From trainees: limited demographic information (age, ZIP
code, race, and ethnicity), skills needed to fulfill roles in specific
tracks selected, skill assessment, professional and/or educational
experience, and career goals/intentions.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on December
9, 2022, vol. 87, No. 236; pp. 75639-75640. There were no public
comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Per OMB memo M-21-20, the
ARP provides funding for critical resources to respond to the public
health crisis the nation faces resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The memo emphasizes the need for a swift government-wide response,
underscoring the need to ensure the public's trust in how the federal
government implements ARP programs and distributes ARP funding.
Accountability and transparency of federal government spending and
achieving results are necessary for effective stewardship of these
funds. To this end, federal awarding agencies must collect recipient
performance reports in a manner that enables the federal government to
articulate the outcomes of federal financial assistance to the American
people. HRSA seeks to collect performance information that measures
progress in achieving program goals and objectives, ensures payment
integrity, and demonstrates equity-
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oriented results--all while minimizing the reporting burden to federal
financial assistance recipients. Data from grantees is necessary for
understanding programmatic activities supported by this HRSA
investment, providing program monitoring and oversight, assessing the
sustainability of program-supported activities, and ultimately
affording HRSA the insights and ability to make specific, evidence
informed policy and program recommendations moving forward. To
successfully accomplish the goals of this program in supporting job
development and training, it is also crucial that HRSA receives a clear
understanding of trainees' existing and needed skillsets, their
reception to/feedback about the trainings they receive, and a sense of
their potential career trajectories as they pertain to the workforce
training tracks specified by HRSA in the program Notice of Funding
Opportunity (HRSA-22-117). There are several consequences of the
federal government not collecting the data for the RPHWTN program as
described herein. These include: (1) the inability to monitor grant
activities and therefore inability to ensure sufficient oversight of
and accountability for this HRSA investment, (2) a lost opportunity to
better understand the workforce capacity-building needs of the rural
communities that HRSA serves, and (3) a failure to gather key
information that could ultimately lead to more evidence informed policy
and program recommendations in the future.
Likely Respondents: Respondents of these surveys will be RPHWTN
grantees and trainees.
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
Type of respondent Form name respondents responses per responses response hours
respondent (hours)
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Grantees.................................. Baseline Survey............. 32 1 32 0.25 8.00
Follow-Up Survey............ 32 2 64 0.13 8.53
Exit Survey................. 32 1 32 0.25 8.00
Trainees.................................. Trainee Survey.............. 500 2 1,000 0.25 250.00
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Total................................. ............................ 596 .............. 1,128 .............. 274.53
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-11384 Filed 5-26-23; 8:45 am]
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