Notice2026-04535
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part F National AIDS Education and Training Center Program Activities, OMB No. 0906-XXXX-New
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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 91, Number 45 (Monday, March 9, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11326-11329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-04535]
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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; HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program Part F National AIDS Education and Training Center Program
Activities, OMB No. 0906-XXXX--New
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 April 8,
2026.
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 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 Samantha Miller, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#790918091c0b0e160b1239110b0a18571e160f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="453524352037322a372e052d3736246b222a33">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program Part F National AIDS Education and
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Training Center Program Activities, OMB No. 0906-XXXX New
Abstract: The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program's (RWHAP) Part F AIDS
Education and Training Center (AETC) Program, authorized under Title
XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, supports a network of national
and regional centers that conduct focused, multi-disciplinary education
and training programs for health care providers. The RWHAP AETC Program
provides health care providers with: (1) tailored education and
training on HIV prevention, care, and treatment; (2) clinical
consultation; and (3) technical assistance.
The national AETC Program currently has five distinct activities:
(1) National AIDS Education and Training Center Support Center (NASC),
(2) National Clinician Consultation Center (NCCC), (3) National HIV
Curriculum (NHC) e-Learning Platform, (4) Integrating the National HIV
Curriculum e-Learning Platform into Health Care Professions (NHC-IP)
Programs, and (5) HIV Clinical Training Tracks for Primary Care
Residents (HTR).
NASC supports workforce training and resource coordination for the
AETC Program to enhance HIV care delivery. NCCC provides expert
guidance to clinicians on HIV testing, prevention (e.g., pre- and post-
exposure prophylaxis), HIV treatment, hepatitis coinfections, perinatal
HIV care, and substance use management through a national toll-free
call center staffed by HIV experts. NHC offers comprehensive e-learning
modules and tools for HIV prevention, diagnosis, and care, while
providing free continuing education credits and resources for
healthcare providers. NHC-IP focuses on incorporating HIV training into
graduate-level medical, nursing, and pharmacy curricula to prepare
future healthcare professionals. The HTR initiative develops HIV-
focused tracks within primary care residency programs.
The RWHAP National AETC Program recipients have extensive reach to
the HIV workforce. For example, from 2023-2024, the NASC website had
over 165,694 viewers; NASC also had 457 registrants for the RWHAP
Clinical Conference; NCCC supported 9,407 health care provider
consultation requests; NHC engaged 15,773 individuals through online
curriculum and learning modules; and NHC-IP supported 4,932 students
and 122 faculty. Data is not yet available for the HTR program. The
RWHAP National AETC Program recipients are now required to report data
on training activities and trainees to HRSA once a year; they were not
required to report data to HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau previously.
HRSA is requesting the approval of new AETC data collection forms
to obtain more accurate data relating to National AETC activities,
participants, and site information for all National recipients (NASC,
NCCC, NHC, NHC-IP, and HTR). In addition, these forms will capture
National AETC involvement in the HIV care and treatment workforce (1-
year post-participation in an HTR), knowledge gained through
participating in an AETC activity, and satisfaction with that activity.
Given the distinct functions of each Center, it is essential to develop
tailored forms specific to each Center's respective activities and its
participants. Each center will be required to submit no more than five
forms (see table 1 below). Different forms are necessary to accommodate
the distinct activities and focus areas of each center. To ensure
accurate and comprehensive data collection, these forms must be
customized to meet the specific needs of each national center. A brief
description of each form follows.
<bullet> The National Individual Participant Record (National IND-
PAR) is completed at least once every reporting period by participants
actively engaging in NASC, NHC, and HTR AETC activities. This form
includes NASC, NHC, and HTR AETC participant demographic, workplace,
and client-served data for the respective recipient. The IND-PAR is
broken up into sections (All and HTR) so that recipients can tailor the
form to include the relevant questions (e.g., HTR would include
questions from the All section as well as the HTR section).
<bullet> The NCCC IND-PAR is completed at least once every
reporting period by NCCC callers. This form is shorter because it is
only administered orally to those who call into NCCC.
<bullet> The Training Activity Record (National TAR) is completed
at the end of each National AETC activity that takes place during the
reporting period and is completed only by NASC, NHC, and NCCC national
recipients. This form describes the activity in hours, modality, and
topic(s).
<bullet> There are multiple Participant Post-Activity Surveys (PPA)
to be answered by recipients and activity-specific participants.
Specifically, the NASC-RWHAP-PPA is for participants of the RWHAP
Clinical Conference to complete post-attendance; the HTR-SF-PPA is for
students and faculty of HTR programs to complete post-participation in
the HTR program; the NCCC-PPA will be administered via email and is for
NCCC callers post call; the NHC-PPA is for registered learners of NHC
after completing a self-study lesson or question bank topic from NHC;
and the NHC-SF-PPA is for students and faculty of NHC-IPs to complete
at the end of any course in which the NHC has been integrated. These
forms collect information from participants immediately upon completion
of an activity hosted by a national AETC.
<bullet> The NHC-IP Health Profession Program Characteristics/
Outcomes Form (NHC-IP-HC) collects descriptive NHC Health Profession
Program-level data for programs that integrate NHC into their
curricula.
<bullet> The HTR Program Characteristics/Outcomes Form (HTR-PC)
collects descriptive HTR-level data for all HTR programs, such as
number of residents trained by profession/discipline during the
reporting period.
<bullet> The HTR Long-Term form collects 1-year post-participation
information only from HTR resident participants who engaged in an HTR
program that trains primary care providers who are likely to practice
in communities most impacted and at-risk for HIV.
<bullet> There are some forms that will be used to collect web-
analytic information related to the NASC website (i.e., NASC Web
Analytics Form, or NASC-Web), NHC website (i.e., NHC Training
Utilization and Web Analytics Form, or NASC-TWeb), and related to
consultation call topics discussed (i.e., NCCC Tele-Consultation
Utilization Form).
Table 1--National AETCs Summary of Forms by Recipient
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Form/tool name NASC NCCC NHC NHC-IP HTR
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National IND-PAR.......................... X ............ X ............ X
NCCC IND-PAR.............................. ............ X ............ ............ ............
National TAR.............................. X X X ............ ............
NASC Web Analytics (NASC-Web)............. X ............ ............ ............ ............
NCCC Tele-consultation Utilization Form... ............ X ............ ............ ............
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NHC Training Utilization and Web Analytics ............ ............ X ............ ............
(NHC-TWeb)...............................
NHC-IP-HC................................. ............ ............ ............ X ............
HTR-PC.................................... ............ ............ ............ ............ X
HTR Long-Term............................. ............ ............ ............ ............ X
NASC-Web-PPA.............................. X ............ ............ ............ ............
NASC-RWHAP-PPA............................ X ............ ............ ............ ............
NCCC PPA.................................. ............ X ............ ............ ............
NHC PPA................................... ............ ............ X ............ ............
NHC-SF-PPA................................ ............ ............ ............ X ............
HTR-SF-PPA................................ ............ ............ ............ ............ X
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Total forms per National AETC 5 4 4 2 4
Recipient............................
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All forms for the national AETC package will be used by national center recipient; some forms may be used by
multiple recipients.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on May 19,
2025, vol. 90, No. 95; pp. 21319-22. There were five public comments.
The public comments provided feedback on the tools, including requests
to clarify reporting periods and to revise questions; response options;
and categories within specific data collection tools. Comments also
recommended moving certain questions between tools to improve flow and
accuracy, and one AETC provided input on instructions for collecting a
unique identifier. In response, HRSA revised some of the information
collection forms, when appropriate (e.g., moving questions from one
form to the other, removing forms for some recipients because they were
not applicable based on current data workflow between recipients).
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA uses the data
collected when conducting RWHAP AETC programmatic assessments to
determine future program needs and program progress towards its
objectives. These data allow HRSA to identify where gaps exist in
training HIV professionals as well as to measure whether training
activities are meeting the goals of the RWHAP statute.
Likely Respondents: RWHAP National AETC participants who attend
activities hosted by NASC, NCCC, NHC, and HTR complete the Individual
Participant Record at least once a reporting period (July 1-June 30).
NASC and NCCC AETC recipients complete a Training Activity Record for
each training activity they conduct during the reporting period.
Participants who engage in recipient-specific activities will take the
activity-specific Participant Post-Activity Survey (e.g., participants
of the RWHAP Clinical Conference will take the NASC-RWHAP-PPA).
Resident participants in the HTR program will complete the HTR Long-
Term form 1-year post-participation in the program. Finally, the NHC-IP
recipients will complete the NHC-IP Health Profession Program
Characteristics/Outcomes form at least once per reporting period, and
HTR recipients will complete the HTR Program Characteristics/Outcomes
form at least once per reporting period.
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.
Due to the unique nature of the national AETCs, an additional
column titled ``Type of Respondent'' was added to the table to indicate
which national center respondent would be using the form in question. A
form may be listed more than once because the form itself has
recipient/respondent-specific sections. Providing this additional
information allows the burden estimates to be more accurate to the
respondent.
Table 2--Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Number of Average burden
Form/tool name Type of respondent or respondents/ responses per Total per response Total burden
recipient rows recipient responses (in hours) hours
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National-TAR.............................. NASC........................ 1 1 1 0.21 0.21
NASC-Web.................................. NASC........................ 1 1 1 2.00 2.00
National IND-PAR.......................... NASC participants........... 60,000 1 60,000 0.27 16,200.00
NASC-Web-PPA.............................. NASC participants........... 200 1 200 0.06 12.00
NASC-RWHAP-PPA............................ NASC attendants of RWHAP 400 1 400 0.06 24.00
Clinical Conference.
Combined Data Set......................... NASC........................ 1 1 1 64.00 64.00
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NASC Subtotal............................. ............................ 60,603 .............. 60,603 .............. 16,302.21
National TAR.............................. NCCC........................ 50 1 50 0.21 10.50
NCCC Tele-Consultation Utilization Form... NCCC........................ 1 1 1 1.00 1.00
NCCC IND-PAR.............................. NCCC Participants........... 10,000 1 10,000 0.15 1,500.00
NCCC-PPA.................................. NCCC participant callers.... 10,000 1 10,000 0.06 600.00
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Combined Data Set......................... NCCC........................ 1 1 1 64.00 64.00
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NCCC Subtotal......................... ............................ 20,052 .............. 20,052 .............. 2,175.50
NHC-TWeb.................................. NHC......................... 1 1 1 8.00 8.00
National TAR.............................. NHC......................... 1 1 1 0.21 0.21
National IND-PAR.......................... NHC and NHC-IP participants. 16,000 1 16,000 0.27 4,320.00
NHC-PPA................................... NHC participants............ 16,000 35 560,000 0.06 33,600.00
Combined Data Set......................... NHC......................... 1 1 1 64.00 64.00
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NHC Subtotal.......................... ............................ 32,003 .............. 576,003 .............. 37,992.21
NHC-IP-HC................................. NHC-IP...................... 1 10 10 0.31 3.10
NHC-IP-SF-PPA............................. NHC-IP students and faculty. 25 10 250 0.06 15.00
Combined Data Set......................... NHC-IP...................... 10 1 10 64.00 640.00
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NHC-IP Subtotal....................... ............................ 36 .............. 270 .............. 658.10
HTR-PC.................................... HTR......................... 1 4 4 0.09 0.36
National IND-PAR.......................... HTR residents............... 200 4 800 0.27 216.00
HTR-SF-PPA................................ HTR residents and faculty... 200 4 800 0.06 48.00
Combined Data Set......................... HTR......................... 4 1 4 64.00 256.00
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HTR Subtotal.......................... ............................ 405 .............. 1,608 .............. 520.36
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Total............................. ............................ 113,099 .............. 658,536 .............. 57,648.38
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2026-04535 Filed 3-6-26; 8:45 am]
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