Notice2026-00104
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Bureau of Health Workforce Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0906-0086-Revision
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Published
January 8, 2026
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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 91, Number 5 (Thursday, January 8, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 713-714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-00104]
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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: Bureau of
Health Workforce Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0906-0086-
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 9,
2026.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fc8c9d8c998e8b938e97bc948e8f9dd29b938a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a9d9c8d9ccdbdec6dbc2e9c1dbdac887cec6df">[email protected]</span></a> or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 13N82, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 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#e09081908592978f928ba088929381ce878f96"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3f4f5e4f5a4d48504d547f574d4c5e11585049">[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 information request collection title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Bureau of Health Workforce
Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0906-0086-Revision.
Abstract: Over 50 Bureau of Health Workforce programs award grants
to health professions schools and training programs across the United
States to develop, expand, and enhance training, and to strengthen the
distribution of the health workforce. These programs are governed by
Titles III, VII, and VIII of the Public Health Service Act. Performance
information is collected in the HRSA Performance Report for Grants and
Cooperative Agreements. Data collection activities consisting of an
annual progress report and an annual performance report satisfy
statutory and programmatic requirements for performance measurement and
evaluation (including specific Titles III, VII and VIII requirements),
as well as the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of
2010 and the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018
requirements. The performance measures were last revised in 2023 to
ensure they addressed programmatic changes, met evolving program
management needs, and responded to emerging workforce concerns.
Measures were then updated in 2025 to better reflect agency priorities.
HRSA will continue with its current performance management strategy and
make additional changes that reduce burden, simplify reporting, reflect
new legislative or Department of Health and Human Services priorities,
and enable longitudinal analysis of program performance. To reduce
reporting burden, HRSA will remove four complex interrelated forms and
50 questions that are no longer needed. To simplify reporting on the
individual characteristics form, four questions will be consolidated
into two. HRSA will also amend four training and employment questions
to ensure consistent reporting across forms and key outcomes measures
are captured. Additionally, the data collection forms will be revised
for compliance with OMB's Statistical Policy Directive No. 15. Lastly,
the progress report will be updated to include a new summary
information section with five questions to capture outcomes at project
closeout.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The purpose of the
proposed data collection is to continue analysis and reporting of
grantee training activities and education, identify details about the
practice locations where trainees work after program completion, and
report outcomes of funded initiatives. Data collected from these grant
programs will also provide a description of the program activities of
approximately 1,968 reporting grantees to inform policymakers on the
barriers, opportunities, and outcomes involved in health care workforce
development. The proposed measures focus on four key outcomes: (1)
increasing the workforce supply of well-educated practitioners in
needed professions, (2) increasing the number of practitioners that
practice in underserved and rural areas, (3) enhancing the quality of
education, and (4) supporting educational infrastructure to increase
the capacity to train more health professionals in high demand areas.
Likely Respondents: Respondents are grantees of Bureau of Health
Workforce health professions grant programs.
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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Direct Financial Support Program 602 1 602 2.7 1,625.4
Infrastructure Program.......... 159 1 159 4.1 651.9
Multipurpose or Hybrid Program.. 1,207 1 1,207 2.8 3,379.6
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Total....................... 1,968 .............. 1,968 .............. 5,656.9
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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.
Amy P. McNulty,
Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2026-00104 Filed 1-7-26; 8:45 am]
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