Notice2025-24091
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Health Workforce Connector, OMB No. 0906-0031 Revision
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December 31, 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 247 (Wednesday, December 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61402-61403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-24091]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Health Workforce Connector, OMB No. 0906-0031
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 March 2,
2026.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0676677663747169746d466e74756728616970"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="85f5e4f5e0f7f2eaf7eec5edf7f6e4abe2eaf3">[email protected]</span></a> or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 13N82, 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#2757465742555048554c674f55544609404851"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="dcacbdacb9aeabb3aeb79cb4aeafbdf2bbb3aa">[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: Bureau of Health Workforce
Health Workforce Connector OMB No. 0906-0031-Revision.
Abstract: The Health Workforce Connector's (HWC) goal is to help
connect skilled professionals to communities in need by allowing
approved site points of contact (POCs) at National Health Service Corps
(NHSC), Nurse Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs (Nurse
Corps), Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Loan
Repayment Program, Pediatric Specialty (PS) Loan Repayment Program,
Nursing Training, and Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education
(THCGME) sites to post available opportunities and update site
profiles. The HWC provides a central platform to connect participants,
including but not limited to those in the NHSC, Nurse Corps, STAR, PS,
Nursing Training, and THCGME programs with facilities that are approved
for their programs. The HWC has become a resource that connects any
health care professional or student interested in providing primary
care services in underserved communities with facilities in need of
health care providers. The HWC also allows users to create a profile,
search for approved sites, find job and training opportunities, and
connect with other clinicians who are similarly interested in working
with underserved populations. The HWC is searchable by site POCs.
Individuals can use the HWC's search capability with Google Maps.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Information will be
collected from users in two ways:
(1) Account Creation: For job seekers, creating an account is
optional. To create an account the user must enter their first name,
last name, and email address. Those mandatory fields will be used to
send an automated email allowing the user to validate their login
credentials. In addition, for job seekers participating in the programs
listed above, their HWC account will be linked to their existing
program file in the Bureau of Health Workforce Management Information
Systems Solution database and allow an initial import of existing data
at the request of the user.
(2) Profile Completion: Users may fill out a profile, but this
function will be optional and includes fields such as location,
discipline, specialty, and languages spoken. The information collected,
if published by the user, can be searched by approved site POCs seeking
potential candidates for health care job opportunities at their site.
Job seekers also can set their security and privacy settings on their
accounts to make their profiles searchable by other end users or
private at any time. In addition, all information collected through the
HWC will be stored within existing secure Bureau of Health Workforce
Management Information Systems Solution databases and will be used
internally for report generation on an as-needed basis.
HRSA is requesting a revision and is seeking to use the previously
approved forms. The revisions are because of an increase in the
estimated annual burden due to an increase in web page traffic, leading
to an increase in the number of accounts created.
Likely Respondents: Potential users include individuals searching
for a health care job opportunity at a NHSC,
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Nurse Corps, STAR, PS, Nursing Training, or THCGME approved health care
facility and health care facility POCs searching for potential
candidates to fill open health care job opportunities at their sites.
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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Account Creation................ 5,330 1 5,330 0.08 426.40
Complete Profile................ 5,014 1 5,014 1.00 5,014.00
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Total....................... \1\ 5,330 .............. 5,330 .............. 5,440.40
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\1\ The 5,014 respondents who complete their profiles are a subset of the 5,330 respondents who create accounts.
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. 2025-24091 Filed 12-30-25; 8:45 am]
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