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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,
Public Law 104–13), the Health
Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) publishes periodic summaries
of proposed projects being developed
for submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (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 on (301) 443–
1129.
Comments are invited on: (a) The
proposed collection of information for
the proper performance of the functions
of the agency; (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: The Nursing
Scholarship Program (NSP):
Extension—(OMB No. 0915–0301)
The Nursing Scholarship Program
(NSP) or ‘‘Nursing Scholarship’’ is a
competitive Federal program which
awards scholarships to individuals for
attendance at schools of nursing. The
program is administered by the Bureau
of Clinician Recruitment and Service
Number of
respondents
Type of report
Application ............................................................................
In-school monitoring .............................................................
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(BCRS) in HRSA. The scholarship
consists of payment of tuition, fees,
other reasonable educational costs, and
a monthly support stipend. In return,
the students agree to provide a
minimum of 2 years of full-time clinical
service (or an equivalent part-time
commitment, as approved by the NSP)
at a health care facility with a critical
shortage of nurses as defined by the
program.
Nursing scholarship recipients must
be willing and are required to fulfill
their NSP service commitment at a
health care facility with a critical
shortage of nurses in the United States,
the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the
Territory of Guam, the Commonwealth
of the Northern Marianas, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, the Territory of America
Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the
Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the
Federated States of Micronesia.
Students who are uncertain of their
commitment to provide nursing in a
health care facility with a critical
shortage of nurses in the United States
and its Territories are advised not to
participate in this program.
The NSP needs to collect data to
determine an applicant’s eligibility for
the program, to monitor a participant’s
continued enrollment in a school of
nursing, to monitor the participant’s
compliance with the NSP service
obligation, and to obtain data on its
program to ensure compliance with
legislative mandates and prepare annual
reports to Congress. The following
information will be collected: (1) From
the applicants and/or the schools,
general applicant and nursing school
data such as full name, location, tuition/
fees, and enrollment status; (2) from the
schools, on an annual basis, data
concerning tuition/fees and student
enrollment status; and (3) from the
participants and their health care
facilities with a critical shortage of
nurses, on a biannual basis, data
concerning the participant’s
employment status, work schedule and
leave usage. The BCRS enters the cost
information into its computerized data
system, along with the projected amount
for the monthly stipend, to determine
the amount of each scholarship award.
The estimated annual burden is as
follows:
Total
responses
1
1
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Number of
respondents
Type of report
Responses
per
respondent
Hours
per
response
Total
responses
Total
burden
hours
In-service monitoring ............................................................
600
2
1,200
1
1,200
Total ..............................................................................
5,100
........................
10,200
........................
10,200
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: November 6, 2008.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and
Coordination.
[FR Doc. E8–27113 Filed 11–13–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Health Resources
and Services Administration (HRSA)
publishes abstracts of information
collection requests under review by the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of
the clearance requests submitted to
OMB for review, e-mail
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA
Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443–
1129.
The following request has been
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget for review under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995:
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Proposed Project: Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program: Client-Level Data
Reporting System: New
The Client-Level Data Reporting
System (CLDRS), created in 2008 by the
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), was designed
to collect information from grantees, as
well as their subcontracted service
providers, funded under Parts A, B, C,
D, and F of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Treatment Modernization Act of 2006
(Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program). The
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
provides Federal HIV/AIDS Programs
under Title XXVI of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act with the flexibility to
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respond effectively to the changing HIV
epidemic, with an emphasis on
providing life-saving and life-extending
services for people living with HIV/
AIDS, and with targeting resources to
areas that have the greatest needs.
All Program Parts of the Ryan White
HIV/AIDS Program specify HRSA’s
responsibilities in the administration of
grant funds, the allocation of funds, the
evaluation of programs for the
population served, and the
improvement of the quality of care.
Accurate records of the providers
receiving Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program funding, the services provided,
and the clients served continue to be
critical to the implementation of the
legislation and thus are necessary for
HRSA to fulfill its responsibilities.
Currently, the HIV/AIDS Bureau
(HAB) requires that all Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program funded grantees and their
contracted service providers report
aggregate data annually using the Ryan
White Data Report (RDR). Agencies
report data related to the service
provider, clients, service visits
provided/clients served, client
demographics, and health insurance
payments. Aggregate data by definition
cannot be merged and unduplicated
across service providers within a given
geographic area. As a result, grantees,
and ultimately HAB, cannot obtain
accurate counts of the number of
individuals served by the Ryan White
HIV/AIDS Program. Additionally,
aggregate data cannot be analyzed with
the detail that is required to assess
quality of care or to sufficiently account
for the use of Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program funds.
A well-designed and supported client
level data reporting system, using a
unique identifier that will be encrypted
before transfer, would provide the
grantee and HRSA with the requisite
information to assess quality of care and
unmet needs, and the ability to more
accurately and efficiently report these
figures to HAB and other funding
agencies. These de-identified data will
be able to accurately characterize the
number of clients served by the Ryan
White HIV/AIDS Program and the
outcomes of the program services on a
national scale.
The CLDRS provides data on the
characteristics of Ryan White HIV/AIDS
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Program-funded grantees, their
contracted service providers, and the
clients being served with program
funds. It is intended to support clinical
quality management, performance
measurement, service delivery, and
client monitoring at both the system and
client levels. The reporting system
consists of two online data forms, the
Grantee Information Form, the Service
Provider Form and a data file containing
the client-level data elements. Data will
be submitted twice in the first year. The
first submission will contain data for
January through June, and the second
submission will contain data for the
entire calendar year. In subsequent
years data will be collected on an
annual basis.
The new legislation specifies
increased grantee accountability and
linking performance to budget. The
CLDRS will be used to ensure
compliance with the requirements of the
reauthorized legislation, evaluate the
progress of programs, to monitor grantee
and provider performance, measure the
Government Performance and Result
Act (GPRA) and the Performance
Assessment Rating Tool (PART) goals,
and meet reporting responsibilities to
the Department, Congress, and OMB.
In addition to meeting the goal of
accountability to Congress, clients,
advocacy groups, and the general
public, information collected through
the CLDRS is critical for HRSA, State
and local grantees, and individual
providers to assess the status of existing
HIV-related service delivery systems to
investigate trends in service utilization,
and to identify areas of greatest need.
Discussions were conducted with
volunteer grantee agencies representing
Parts A, B, C, D, and Minority AIDS
Initiatives, Parts A and B, as a basis for
the burden estimates for the CLDRS
components that follow. These burden
estimates are broken out by burden to
grantee respondents and burden to
provider respondents, and are presented
in two tables. The first table represents
the estimated burden for the first year
data submission. The second table
represents the estimated burden for
years two and three.
The number of total burden hours for
the CLD Collection System is estimated
differently in year 1 than in years 2 and
3. The estimate for the first year
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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, Public Law 104-13), the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects
being developed for submission to the Office of Management and Budget
(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 on (301) 443-1129.
Comments are invited on: (a) The proposed collection of information
for the proper performance of the functions of the agency; (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: The Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP): Extension--
(OMB No. 0915-0301)
The Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP) or ``Nursing Scholarship'' is
a competitive Federal program which awards scholarships to individuals
for attendance at schools of nursing. The program is administered by
the Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service (BCRS) in HRSA. The
scholarship consists of payment of tuition, fees, other reasonable
educational costs, and a monthly support stipend. In return, the
students agree to provide a minimum of 2 years of full-time clinical
service (or an equivalent part-time commitment, as approved by the NSP)
at a health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses as defined
by the program.
Nursing scholarship recipients must be willing and are required to
fulfill their NSP service commitment at a health care facility with a
critical shortage of nurses in the United States, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Territory of Guam, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the
Territory of America Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the
Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of Micronesia. Students who
are uncertain of their commitment to provide nursing in a health care
facility with a critical shortage of nurses in the United States and
its Territories are advised not to participate in this program.
The NSP needs to collect data to determine an applicant's
eligibility for the program, to monitor a participant's continued
enrollment in a school of nursing, to monitor the participant's
compliance with the NSP service obligation, and to obtain data on its
program to ensure compliance with legislative mandates and prepare
annual reports to Congress. The following information will be
collected: (1) From the applicants and/or the schools, general
applicant and nursing school data such as full name, location, tuition/
fees, and enrollment status; (2) from the schools, on an annual basis,
data concerning tuition/fees and student enrollment status; and (3)
from the participants and their health care facilities with a critical
shortage of nurses, on a biannual basis, data concerning the
participant's employment status, work schedule and leave usage. The
BCRS enters the cost information into its computerized data system,
along with the projected amount for the monthly stipend, to determine
the amount of each scholarship award.
The estimated annual burden is as follows:
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Number of Responses per Total Hours per Total burden
Type of report respondents respondent responses response hours
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Application..................... 4,000 1 4,000 2 8,000
In-school monitoring............ 500 1 500 2 1,000
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In-service monitoring........... 600 2 1,200 1 1,200
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Total....................... 5,100 .............. 10,200 .............. 10,200
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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: November 6, 2008.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E8-27113 Filed 11-13-08; 8:45 am]
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