Notice2024-16719
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Performance Measurement Information System
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Published
July 30, 2024
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 89, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 30, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61125-61126]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16719]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Public Comment
Request; The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
Program Performance Measurement Information System
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 August 29,
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#285849584d5a5f475a4368405a5b49064f475e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7606170613040119041d361e04051758111900">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Maternal, Infant, and Early
Childhood Home Visiting Program Performance Measurement Information
System, OMB No. 0906-0017--Revision.
Abstract: This request is for continued approval of the Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Performance
Measurement Information System. The MIECHV Program is administered by
the Maternal and Child Health Bureau within HRSA in partnership with
the Administration for Children and Families, and provides support to
all 56 states and jurisdictions, as well as tribes and tribal
organizations. Through a needs assessment, states, jurisdictions,
tribes, and tribal organizations identify target populations and select
the home visiting service delivery model(s) that best meet their needs.
There is no proposed change to the previously approved information
collection instruments. Over the next 3 years, as part of efforts to
implement new statutory provisions enacted as part of the
reauthorization of the MIECHV program, HRSA intends to engage with
MIECHV awardees, home visiting model developers, and federal partners
to identify opportunities to reduce administrative burden related to
performance reporting, to enhance performance measures to measure
disparities, and to align performance measures with other programs
administered by HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on April 3, 2024,
89 FR 23028-29. HRSA received one comment from a local MIECHV-funded
program administrator. The comment discussed obtaining additional
qualitative information for program benchmark data, improving response
categories for race and ethnicity, and changing breastfeeding
performance measure. HRSA has considered this comment; however, per
congressional direction, HRSA's current primary focus is minimizing
burden for local MIECHV-funded programs. The changes sought by the
comment would impose additional burden. As a result, no change to the
proposed information collection tools is proposed at this time. As
previously stated, HRSA intends to re-assess the current performance
measurement system over the next 3 years, including considering and
addressing the issues raised by the commenter.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA uses performance
information to demonstrate program accountability and continuously
monitor and provide oversight to MIECHV program awardees. The
information is also used to provide quality improvement guidance and
technical assistance to awardees and help inform the development of
early childhood systems at the national, state, and local level. HRSA
is seeking to continue to collect information on demographic, service
utilization, and select clinical indicators for participants enrolled
in home visiting services and a set of standardized performance and
outcome indicators that correspond with the statutorily identified
benchmark areas. This information will be used to demonstrate awardees'
compliance with statutory and programmatic requirements. It will also
be used to monitor and provide continued oversight for awardee
performance and to target technical assistance resources to awardees.
Likely Respondents: MIECHV Program awardees that are states,
jurisdictions, and, where applicable, nonprofit organizations providing
home visiting services within states.
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.
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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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Form 1: Demographic, Service 56 1 56 560 31,360
Utilization, and Select
Clinical Indicators............
Form 2: Performance Indicators 56 1 56 221 12,376
and Systems Outcome Measures...
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Total....................... 56 .............. 56 .............. 43,736
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-16719 Filed 7-29-24; 8:45 am]
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