Notice2026-05671
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Bureau of Health Workforce Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0906-0086-Revision
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Published
March 24, 2026
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 91, Number 56 (Tuesday, March 24, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14028-14029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-05671]
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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; 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 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 23,
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 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 Samantha Miller, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#493928392c3b3e263b2209213b3a28672e263f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2757465742555048554c674f55544609404851">[email protected]</span></a> or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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
more than 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.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on January 8,
2026, vol. 91, No. 5; pp. 713-714. There were no public comments.
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 602 1 602 2.7 1,625.4
Program.
Infrastructure Program....... 159 1 159 4.1 651.9
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Multipurpose or Hybrid 1,207 1 1,207 2.8 3,379.6
Program.
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Total.................... 1,968 ............... 1,968 .............. 5,656.9
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2026-05671 Filed 3-23-26; 8:45 am]
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