Notice of Final Issuance Adopting Administration for Native Americans (ANA) Program Policies and Procedures, 21252-21253 [2017-09148]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
[CFDA numbers: 93.581, 93.587, 93.612]
Notice of Final Issuance Adopting
Administration for Native Americans
(ANA) Program Policies and
Procedures
ANA, ACF, HHS.
Issuance of Final Policies.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Administration for
Native Americans (ANA) is issuing final
interpretive rules, general statements of
policy, and rules of agency organization,
procedure, or practice relating to the
following seven Funding Opportunity
Announcements (FOAs): Environmental
Regulatory Enhancement (HHS–2017–
ACF–ANA–NR–1221); Sustainable
Employment and Economic
Development Strategies (HHS–2017–
ACF–ANA–NE–1225); Native American
Language Preservation and
Maintenance—Esther Martinez
Immersion (HHS–2017–ACF–ANA–NB–
1226); Native American Language
Preservation and Maintenance (HHS–
2017–ACF–ANA–NL–1235); Social and
Economic Development Strategies
(HHS–2017–ACF–ANA–NA–1236);
Social and Economic Development
Strategies—Alaska (HHS–2015–ACF–
ANA–NK– 0960); and Native Youth
Initiative for Leadership, Empowerment,
and Development (HHS–2017–ACF–
ANA–NC–1263).
DATES: The policies described in the
Notice for Public Comment (NOPC) are
effective immediately upon publication.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carmelia Strickland, Director, Division
of Program Operations and
Administration for Native Americans,
(877) 922–9262.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
814 of the Native American Programs
Act of 1974 (NAPA), as amended,
requires ANA to provide notice and
allow for comment on its proposed
interpretive rules and general
statements of policy. This Notice
responds to comments to ANA’s January
23, 2017, NOPC, provides notice of the
cancellation of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017
Sustainable Employment and Economic
Development Strategies (SEEDS) FOA,
and provides information on where to
find the FY 2017 FOAs.
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SUMMARY:
A. Comments and Responses to the
2017 NOPC
ANA published a NOPC in the
Federal Register on January 23, 2017
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(82 FR 7834), with proposed policy and
program clarifications, modifications,
and activities for the FY 2017 FOAs.
The NOPCs provided proposed
clarifications, modifications, and new
text for seven FY 2017 FOAs:
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement
(HHS–2017–ACF–ANA–NR–1221);
Sustainable Employment and Economic
Development Strategies (HHS–2017–
ACF–ANA–NE–1225); Native American
Language Preservation and
Maintenance—Esther Martinez
Immersion (HHS–2017–ACF–ANA–NB–
1226); Native American Language
Preservation and Maintenance (HHS–
2017–ACF–ANA–NL–1235); Social and
Economic Development Strategies
(HHS–2017–ACF–ANA–NA–1236);
Social and Economic Development
Strategies—Alaska (HHS–2015–ACF–
ANA–NK–0960); and Native Youth
Initiative for Leadership, Empowerment,
and Development (HHS–2017–ACF–
ANA–NC–1263). The public comment
period was open for 30 days.
ANA received feedback from the
Cherokee Nation. ANA considered the
comments and determined none of them
required changes to any of the FOAs.
Many of the comments expressed
agreement with ANA’s changes to the
FOAs. We appreciate the comments and
they require no response or changes. A
few comments expressed concerns or
made suggestions about some of the
changes. We respond to those below:
Comment: Regarding access in all
FOAs to ANA’s Application Toolkit,
commenter commended the addition of
the Toolkit and recommended
introductory webinars to roll out the
Toolkit.
Response: ANA will make no changes
to the FOAs in response to this
comment. ANA will be providing
information about the new Application
Toolkit in a variety of ways, including
webinars and ANA’s pre-application
trainings.
Comment: With respect to the
modification of application due dates
under the Native Youth Initiative for
Leadership, Empowerment, and
Development FOA to align with ANA’s
other FOAs, the commenter noted this
change would help streamline ANA’s
grant processes and that such change
was not unexpected. The commenter
did express concern about lower quality
proposals being submitted if tribes
submitted multiple ANA applications in
the same application period.
Response: ANA will make no changes
to the FOAs in response to this
comment. In response to the concern
about multiple ANA applications being
due at the same time, ANA is
considering how to alleviate some of
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that burden by looking at ways to make
the application process less burdensome
for applicants interested in submitting
applications under more than one FOA.
Comment: The commenter suggested
that ANA broaden the scope of preapplication training to include examples
of successful applications and separate
webinars for each of ANA’s FOAs rather
than pre-application trainings that
address all of ANA’s FOAs.
Response: ANA will make no changes
to the FOAs in response to this
comment. With respect to provision of
successful applications, as stated in the
NOPC, ACF policy requires that no
additional information that is not
already provided in the FOA can be
disseminated after FOAs have been
published. In addition, ANA’s preapplication trainings will continue to
address all six of ANA’s FOAs to allow
potential applicants to benefit from
being able to travel to one place to learn,
in detail, about all of ANA’s FOAs and
how they may address community
needs.
B. Cancellation of 2017 Sustainable
Employment and Economic
Development Strategies (SEEDS) FOA
ANA forecasted the issuance of
SEEDS FOA (HHS–ACF–ANA–NE–
1225) for FY 2017 and included it in the
NOPC in the Federal Register (82 FR
7834) on January 23, 2017. Since the
forecast and publication of the NOPC,
ANA has determined that it will not
publish the SEEDS FOA in 2017 due to
limited funding for new awards.
Currently funded SEEDS projects will
continue to receive funding. Applicants
interested in economic development
projects in FY 2017 should consider the
SEDS program, HHS–ACF–ANA–NA–
1236.
ANA is not seeking comments on this
cancellation of the SEEDS FOA. Section
814(b) of NAPA requires that ANA
follow the notice and comment
procedures in the Administrative
Procedure Act at 5 U.S.C. 553 for
interpretive rules and statements of
policy but, like in 5 U.S.C. 553, creates
an exception when the agency for good
cause finds that notice and public
procedure are ‘‘impracticable,
unnecessary, or contrary to the public
interest.’’ Seeking comments on the
cancellation is impracticable because
ANA has made this decision due to a
lack of funding and any comments
cannot change ANA’s funding for FY
2017.
C. Funding Opportunity
Announcements
For information on the types of
projects funded by ANA, please refer to
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ANA’s Web site for information on our
program areas and funding opportunity
announcements: https://
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ana. Prepublication information on ANA’s FOAs
is available at https://www.grants.gov/
web/grants/search-grants.html by
clicking on ‘Forecasted’ under
Opportunity Status and ‘Administration
for Children and Families—ANA [HHS–
ACF–ANA]’ on the left side of the page.
ANA’s 2017 FOAs can be accessed at:
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/
foa/office/ana or https://
www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/.
Synopses and application forms will be
available on www.Grants.gov.
Dated: April 28, 2017.
Stacey Ecoffey,
Acting Commissioner, Administration for
Native American.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request; Bureau of Primary
Health Care Uniform Data System,
OMB No. 0915–0193—Revision
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 must be
received no later than July 5, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit statements and
comments to paperwork@hrsa.gov or by
mail to the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer, 5600
Fishers Lane, Room 10–29, 14N39
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 paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call the HRSA Information Collection
Clearance Officer at (301) 443–1984.
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When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Bureau of Primary Health Care Uniform
Data System, OMB No. 0915–0193—
Revision.
Abstract: The Uniform Data System
(UDS) is the Bureau of Primary Health
Care’s (BPHC) annual reporting system
for HRSA-supported health centers.
UDS includes reporting requirements
for Health Center Program look-alikes
and grantees of the following:
Community Health Center program,
Migrant Health Center program, Health
Care for the Homeless program, and
Public Housing Primary Care program.
A subset of recipients of the Bureau of
Health Workforce’s (BHW) Nurse
Education, Practice, Quality and
Retention (NEPQR) program,
specifically those recipients that are
funded under the practice priority areas
listed under Public Health Service Act
(PHSA) Section 831(b), are also required
to complete UDS annual reporting.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: HRSA collects UDS data
annually to ensure compliance with
legislative and regulatory requirements,
improve health center performance and
operations, and report overall program
accomplishments. The data help to
identify trends, enabling HRSA to
establish or expand targeted programs
and identify effective services and
interventions to improve the health of
medically underserved communities
and vulnerable populations. UDS data
are compared with national healthrelated data, including the National
Health Interview Survey and National
Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey, to explore potential differences
between health center patient
populations and the U.S. population at
large, and those individuals and
families who rely on the health care
safety net for primary care. UDS data
also inform Health Center Program
partners and communities regarding the
patients served by health centers. BHW
uses the patient and provider-level data
to determine the impact of health care
services on patient outcomes. The data
also enables BHW to establish or expand
targeted programs and identify effective
services and interventions to improve
the health of underserved communities
and vulnerable populations. In addition,
the UDS data are useful to a subset of
BHW recipients of the NEPQR program
for performance and operations
improvement, patient forecasts,
identification of trends/patterns,
implication of access barriers, and cost
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analysis to support long-term
sustainability.
The UDS data collection for 2018 will
be revised in three ways. To support
continued efforts to standardize data
collection and reduce the burden per
respondent of reporting for health
centers, the measures stated below will
be updated, where necessary, to align
with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services electronic clinical quality
measures (CMS e-CQMs) designated for
the 2018 reporting period. Specifically:
• Poor glycemic control is defined as
HbA1c > 9% per the CMS Meaningful
Use and e-specifications.’’ Therefore,
HRSA is removing this column to be
consistent with the Healthy People 2020
national benchmark and CMS and to
reduce reporting burden.
• Patient Centered Medical Home
(PCMH) recognition assesses a health
center’s approach to patient-centered
care. HRSA collects PCMH data on a
quarterly basis outside of UDS.
Therefore, HRSA is removing this
question to reduce reporting burden.
• Telehealth is increasingly used as a
method of health care delivery for the
health center patient population,
especially those hard-to-reach patients
living in geographically isolated
communities. Collecting information on
telehealth capacity and use of telehealth
is essential for (1) the delivery of
technical assistance for health centers
and (2) improving the health of the
nation’s underserved communities and
vulnerable populations by assuring
access to comprehensive, culturally
competent, quality primary health care
services. Based on the uniqueness of
telehealth data and its introduction into
the UDS system, HRSA is proposing
more robust questions to better capture
this data.
Likely Respondents: Respondents are
HRSA BPHC Health Center Program
grantees, look-alikes, and BHW NEPQR
Program recipients.
Burden Statement: Burden includes
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. While the overall burden
estimate is increasing due to an increase
in the number of respondents, the
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA numbers: 93.581, 93.587, 93.612]
Notice of Final Issuance Adopting Administration for Native
Americans (ANA) Program Policies and Procedures
AGENCY: ANA, ACF, HHS.
ACTION: Issuance of Final Policies.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) is issuing final
interpretive rules, general statements of policy, and rules of agency
organization, procedure, or practice relating to the following seven
Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs): Environmental Regulatory
Enhancement (HHS-2017-ACF-ANA-NR-1221); Sustainable Employment and
Economic Development Strategies (HHS-2017-ACF-ANA-NE-1225); Native
American Language Preservation and Maintenance--Esther Martinez
Immersion (HHS-2017-ACF-ANA-NB-1226); Native American Language
Preservation and Maintenance (HHS-2017-ACF-ANA-NL-1235); Social and
Economic Development Strategies (HHS-2017-ACF-ANA-NA-1236); Social and
Economic Development Strategies--Alaska (HHS-2015-ACF-ANA-NK- 0960);
and Native Youth Initiative for Leadership, Empowerment, and
Development (HHS-2017-ACF-ANA-NC-1263).
DATES: The policies described in the Notice for Public Comment (NOPC)
are effective immediately upon publication.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carmelia Strickland, Director,
Division of Program Operations and Administration for Native Americans,
(877) 922-9262.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 814 of the Native American Programs
Act of 1974 (NAPA), as amended, requires ANA to provide notice and
allow for comment on its proposed interpretive rules and general
statements of policy. This Notice responds to comments to ANA's January
23, 2017, NOPC, provides notice of the cancellation of the Fiscal Year
(FY) 2017 Sustainable Employment and Economic Development Strategies
(SEEDS) FOA, and provides information on where to find the FY 2017
FOAs.
A. Comments and Responses to the 2017 NOPC
ANA published a NOPC in the Federal Register on January 23, 2017
(82 FR 7834), with proposed policy and program clarifications,
modifications, and activities for the FY 2017 FOAs. The NOPCs provided
proposed clarifications, modifications, and new text for seven FY 2017
FOAs: Environmental Regulatory Enhancement (HHS-2017-ACF-ANA-NR-1221);
Sustainable Employment and Economic Development Strategies (HHS-2017-
ACF-ANA-NE-1225); Native American Language Preservation and
Maintenance--Esther Martinez Immersion (HHS-2017-ACF-ANA-NB-1226);
Native American Language Preservation and Maintenance (HHS- 2017-ACF-
ANA-NL-1235); Social and Economic Development Strategies (HHS-2017-ACF-
ANA-NA-1236); Social and Economic Development Strategies--Alaska (HHS-
2015-ACF-ANA-NK-0960); and Native Youth Initiative for Leadership,
Empowerment, and Development (HHS-2017-ACF-ANA-NC-1263). The public
comment period was open for 30 days.
ANA received feedback from the Cherokee Nation. ANA considered the
comments and determined none of them required changes to any of the
FOAs. Many of the comments expressed agreement with ANA's changes to
the FOAs. We appreciate the comments and they require no response or
changes. A few comments expressed concerns or made suggestions about
some of the changes. We respond to those below:
Comment: Regarding access in all FOAs to ANA's Application Toolkit,
commenter commended the addition of the Toolkit and recommended
introductory webinars to roll out the Toolkit.
Response: ANA will make no changes to the FOAs in response to this
comment. ANA will be providing information about the new Application
Toolkit in a variety of ways, including webinars and ANA's pre-
application trainings.
Comment: With respect to the modification of application due dates
under the Native Youth Initiative for Leadership, Empowerment, and
Development FOA to align with ANA's other FOAs, the commenter noted
this change would help streamline ANA's grant processes and that such
change was not unexpected. The commenter did express concern about
lower quality proposals being submitted if tribes submitted multiple
ANA applications in the same application period.
Response: ANA will make no changes to the FOAs in response to this
comment. In response to the concern about multiple ANA applications
being due at the same time, ANA is considering how to alleviate some of
that burden by looking at ways to make the application process less
burdensome for applicants interested in submitting applications under
more than one FOA.
Comment: The commenter suggested that ANA broaden the scope of pre-
application training to include examples of successful applications and
separate webinars for each of ANA's FOAs rather than pre-application
trainings that address all of ANA's FOAs.
Response: ANA will make no changes to the FOAs in response to this
comment. With respect to provision of successful applications, as
stated in the NOPC, ACF policy requires that no additional information
that is not already provided in the FOA can be disseminated after FOAs
have been published. In addition, ANA's pre-application trainings will
continue to address all six of ANA's FOAs to allow potential applicants
to benefit from being able to travel to one place to learn, in detail,
about all of ANA's FOAs and how they may address community needs.
B. Cancellation of 2017 Sustainable Employment and Economic Development
Strategies (SEEDS) FOA
ANA forecasted the issuance of SEEDS FOA (HHS-ACF-ANA-NE-1225) for
FY 2017 and included it in the NOPC in the Federal Register (82 FR
7834) on January 23, 2017. Since the forecast and publication of the
NOPC, ANA has determined that it will not publish the SEEDS FOA in 2017
due to limited funding for new awards. Currently funded SEEDS projects
will continue to receive funding. Applicants interested in economic
development projects in FY 2017 should consider the SEDS program, HHS-
ACF-ANA-NA-1236.
ANA is not seeking comments on this cancellation of the SEEDS FOA.
Section 814(b) of NAPA requires that ANA follow the notice and comment
procedures in the Administrative Procedure Act at 5 U.S.C. 553 for
interpretive rules and statements of policy but, like in 5 U.S.C. 553,
creates an exception when the agency for good cause finds that notice
and public procedure are ``impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to
the public interest.'' Seeking comments on the cancellation is
impracticable because ANA has made this decision due to a lack of
funding and any comments cannot change ANA's funding for FY 2017.
C. Funding Opportunity Announcements
For information on the types of projects funded by ANA, please
refer to
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ANA's Web site for information on our program areas and funding
opportunity announcements: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ana. Pre-
publication information on ANA's FOAs is available at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html by clicking on
`Forecasted' under Opportunity Status and `Administration for Children
and Families--ANA [HHS-ACF-ANA]' on the left side of the page. ANA's
2017 FOAs can be accessed at: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/office/ana or https://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/. Synopses and
application forms will be available on www.Grants.gov.
Dated: April 28, 2017.
Stacey Ecoffey,
Acting Commissioner, Administration for Native American.
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