Notice2024-11563
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Implement Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program 2022 Legislative Changes: Assessment of Administrative Burden
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Published
May 28, 2024
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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 89, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46141-46142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11563]
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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; Implement Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program 2022 Legislative
Changes: Assessment of Administrative Burden
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 27,
2024.
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 Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3c4c5d4c594e4b534e577c544e4f5d125b534a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d6a6b7a6b3a4a1b9a4bd96bea4a5b7f8b1b9a0">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Information Collection Request Title: Implement Maternal, Infant,
and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program 2022 Legislative Changes:
Assessment of Administrative Burden
OMB No. 0915-xxxx--[NEW]
Abstract: The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law
117-328, section 6101, the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home
Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022 (Section 6101 of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2023) extended funding for the Maternal, Infant,
and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program for an additional 5
years and adopted new program requirements. This included a new
requirement for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assess
and reduce burden on MIECHV funding recipients in administering the
program by: (1) eliminating duplication and streamlining reporting
requirements; (2) analyzing ways, in consultation with administering
agencies (i.e., MIECHV funding recipients) to reduce the number of
hours spent on complying with paperwork requirements by at least 15
percent; (3) reviewing paperwork and data collection requirements for
tribal MIECHV funding recipients and exploring, in consultation with
tribes and tribal organizations, ways to reduce administrative burden,
respect sovereignty, and acknowledge the different focus points for
tribal funding recipients; (4) collecting input from relevant state
fiscal officials to align fiscal requirements and oversight for states
and eligible entities to ensure consistency with standards and
guidelines for other federal formula grant programs; and (5) consulting
with administering agencies and service delivery model representatives
on needed and unneeded data elements regarding the dashboards provided
for in newly added Social Security Act subsection 511(d)(1)(B),
consistent with the data requirements of such subsection.
Through this ICR, HRSA aims to survey state, jurisdiction, and
tribal MIECHV funding recipients to obtain feedback regarding potential
ways to reduce administrative burden, as described above.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on December
20, 2023, vol. 88, No. 243; pp. 88084-88085. HRSA received four
comments and the information collection tools have been revised in
response. These changes addressed concerns with the burden estimate and
to modify items for clarity and increase the burden estimates for
respondents to more accurately reflect the time it will reasonably take
respondents to respond to this information collection. HRSA also
considered additional feedback from certain home visiting model
developers and is removing from this ICR the proposed plan to survey
home visiting model developers.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Section 511(h)(6)(A) of
the Social Security Act requires the Secretary of Health and Human
Services to assess and reduce administrative burden on MIECHV funding
recipients in specified ways. Information gained from this information
collection will inform recommendations to reduce administrative burden.
Likely Respondents: State and jurisdiction MIECHV Program funding
recipients that are states, territories, and, where applicable,
nonprofit organizations receiving MIECHV funding to provide home
visiting services within states; and tribal MIECHV Program funding
recipients that are tribes and tribal organizations.
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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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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State and Jurisdiction MIECHV 56 1 56 27 1,512
Funding Recipient Survey.......
Tribal MIECHV Funding Recipient 29 1 29 4 116
Survey.........................
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Total....................... 85 .............. 85 .............. 1,628
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-11563 Filed 5-24-24; 8:45 am]
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