Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 56596 [E8-22729]

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• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
• Health Resources and Services Administration

[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 189 (Monday, September 29, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 56596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22729]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995. To request more information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft instruments, e-
mail paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer at 
(301) 443-1129.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.

Proposed Project: Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block 
Grant Program Guidance and Forms for the Title V Application/Annual 
Report (OMB No. 0915-0172): Revision

    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) proposes to 
revise the Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant 
Program--Guidance and Forms for the Application/Annual Report. The 
guidance is used annually by the 50 States and 9 jurisdictions in 
making application for Block Grants under Title V of the Social 
Security Act, and in preparing the required annual report. The proposed 
revisions follow and build on extensive consultation received from a 
workgroup convened to provide suggestions to improve the guidance and 
forms.
    The changes in this edition of the Maternal and Child Health 
Services Title V Block Grant Program Guidance and Forms for the Title V 
Application/Annual Report are primarily revisions to Section II--Needs 
Assessment. The purpose of these revisions is: (1) To provide more 
complete information on the Background and Conceptual Framework for the 
Needs Assessment Process (Part A); (2) to clarify what State grantees 
are to include in the Five Year Needs Assessment Document (Part B); (3) 
to better explain the information to include in the Annual Needs 
Assessment Summary/Update, both in the year when the five year Needs 
Assessment is conducted and in interim years (Part C); and (4) to 
update Figure 2, the Needs Assessment diagram, to reflect all aspects 
of the Needs Assessment process. In addition, other minor changes and 
clarifications are included throughout the document that primarily 
serves to make the instructions clearer for the respondent.
    Such changes include the clarification of headings and the types of 
information that States may want to include in a particular section.
    The estimated average annual burden is as follows:

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                                           Number of     Responses per       Total         Burden per      Total burden                     Total hour
          Reporting document              respondents     respondent       responses        response           hours      Cost per  hour       cost
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Application and Report without Needs                59               1              59            270             15,930             $30        $477,900
 Assessment (2009 & 2011).............
Application with Needs Assessment                   59               1              59            378.5           22,332              30         669,960
 (2010)...............................
    Total Average Annual Burden.......              59  ..............              59            306             18,054              30        541,620
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The total estimate of annual burden is the average for the next three year period of Application submissions in which a Needs Assessment will be
  required once. The Application submissions (with and without the Needs Assessment) are based on the calendar year.

    E-mail comments to paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA Reports 
Clearance Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.

    Dated: September 22, 2008.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E8-22729 Filed 9-26-08; 8:45 am]
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