Notice2025-15807
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Rural Communities Opioid Response Program Performance Measures, OMB No. 0906-0044-Revision
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August 19, 2025
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Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40374-40375]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15807]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Rural
Communities Opioid Response Program Performance Measures, OMB No. 0906-
0044--Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the
ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than October
20, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0d7d6c7d687f7a627f664d657f7e6c236a627b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2a5a4b5a4f585d4558416a4258594b044d455c">[email protected]</span></a> or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14NWH04, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d9a9b8a9bcabaeb6abb299b1abaab8f7beb6af"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6e1e0f1e0b1c19011c052e061c1d0f40090118">[email protected]</span></a> or call Samantha Miller,
the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Rural Communities Opioid
Response Program Performance Measures, OMB No. 0906-0044--Revision.
Abstract: HRSA administers the Rural Communities Opioid Response
Program (RCORP), which is authorized by Section 711(b)(5) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 912(b)(5)) and is a multi-initiative program
that aims to: (1) support treatment for and prevention of substance use
disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD); and (2) reduce
morbidity and mortality associated with SUD, including OUD, by
improving access to and delivering prevention, treatment, and recovery
support services to high-risk rural communities. To support this
purpose, RCORP grant initiatives include:
<bullet> RCORP--Implementation grants, which fund established
networks and consortia to deliver SUD/OUD prevention, treatment, and
recovery activities in high-risk rural communities;
<bullet> RCORP--Psychostimulant Support grants, which aim to
strengthen and expand access to prevention, treatment, and recovery
services for individuals in rural areas who misuse psychostimulants, to
enhance their ability to access treatment and move toward recovery;
<bullet> RCORP--Medication Assisted Treatment Access grants, which
aim to establish new access points in rural facilities where none
currently exist;
<bullet> RCORP--Behavioral Health Care support grants, which aim to
expand access to and quality of behavioral health care services at the
individual, provider, and community levels;
<bullet> RCORP Overdose Response recipients address immediate needs
in rural areas through improving access to,
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capacity for, and sustainability of prevention, treatment, and recovery
services for SUD;
<bullet> RCORP Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health grants, which
aim to establish and expand sustainable behavioral health care services
for children and adolescents aged 5 to 17 years who live in rural
communities;
<bullet> RCORP--Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome grants, which aim to
reduce the incidence and impact of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in
rural communities; and
<bullet> RCORP Impact recipients aim to improve access to
integrated, coordinated treatment and recovery services for SUD,
including OUD, in rural areas.
Note that additional grant initiatives may be added pending fiscal
year 2026 and future fiscal year appropriations.
HRSA currently collects information about RCORP grants using
approved performance measures. HRSA developed separate performance
measures for the new RCORP-Impact program and seeks OMB approval for
the new collection.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Due to the growth in the
number of grant initiatives included within RCORP, as well as emerging
SUD and other behavioral health trends in rural communities, HRSA is
submitting a revised ICR that includes measures for the new RCORP-
Impact grant program. HRSA developed performance measures to provide
data on each RCORP initiative and to enable HRSA to provide aggregate
program data required by Congress under the Government Performance and
Results Act of 1993. These measures cover the principal topic areas of
interest to HRSA, including: (a) provision of, and referral to, rural
behavioral health care services, including SUD prevention, treatment
and recovery support services; (b) behavioral health care, including
SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery, process and outcomes; (c)
provider prevention, treatment, and recovery services; and (d)
sustainability. Performance measures for the RCORP initiative include
common elements about consortium/network activities, direct services
provided and service access, workforce, and sustainability while also
capturing tailored measures for each specific program.
Likely Respondents: The respondents will be the recipients of the
RCORP grants.
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.
All changes to the burden for this ICR, compared to the currently
approved version (expiration date of August 31, 2027), are due to the
addition of the new form for Rural Communities Opioid Response--Impact.
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 Communities Opioid 290 2 580 1.24 719.20
Response Program--
Implementation.................
Rural Communities Opioid 15 1 15 1.30 19.50
Response Program--
Psychostimulant Support........
Rural Communities Opioid 11 1 11 1.95 21.45
Response Program--Medication
Assisted Treatment Access......
Rural Communities Opioid 58 1 58 2.02 117.16
Response Program--Behavioral
Health Care Support............
Rural Communities Opioid 47 3 141 0.56 78.96
Response Program--Overdose
Response.......................
Rural Communities Opioid 9 2 18 0.48 8.64
Response--Child and Adolescent
Behavioral Health..............
Rural Communities Opioid 41 4 164 2.31 378.84
Response--Neonatal Abstinence
Syndrome.......................
Rural Communities Opioid 19 1 19 1.15 21.85
Response--Impact (NEW).........
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Total....................... 490 .............. 1,006 .............. 1,365.60
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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. 2025-15807 Filed 8-18-25; 8:45 am]
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