Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 5162-5164 [E9-1751]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
5162
Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 18 / Thursday, January 29, 2009 / Notices
Dr. Nyugen has entered into a
Voluntary Settlement Agreement with
ORI. As part of that Agreement, Dr.
Nyugen admits to UCLA’s findings of
fact but denies ORI’s findings that the
actions rise to the level of scientific
misconduct. The settlement is not an
admission of liability on the part of the
Respondent. Dr. Nyugen voluntarily
agreed, for a period of three (3) years,
beginning on December 29, 2008:
(1) Not to serve in any advisory
capacity to PHS, including but not
limited to service on any PHS advisory
committee, board, and/or peer review
committee, or as a consultant; and
(2) That although Respondent is not
currently engaged in PHS–supported
research, any institution that submits an
application for PHS support for a
research project on which the
Respondent’s participation is proposed
or that uses the Respondent in any
capacity on PHS supported research, or
that submits a report of PHS-funded
research in which the Respondent is
involved, must concurrently submit a
plan for supervision of the Respondent(s
duties to the funding agency for
approval. The supervisory plan must be
designed to ensure the scientific
integrity of the Respondent(s research
contribution. Respondent agreed to
ensure that a copy of the supervisory
plan also is submitted to ORI by the
institution for ORI approval.
Respondent agreed to not participate in
any PHS-supported research until such
a supervisory plan is submitted to ORI.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Director, Division of Investigative
Oversight, Office of Research Integrity,
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 750,
Rockville, MD 20852, (240) 453–8800.
Chris B. Pascal,
Director, Office of Research Integrity.
[FR Doc. E9–1933 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4150–31–P
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
rmajette on PRODPC74 with NOTICES
Notice of Meeting: Secretary’s
Advisory Committee on Genetics,
Health, and Society
Pursuant to Public Law 92–463,
notice is hereby given of the eighteenth
meeting of the Secretary’s Advisory
Committee on Genetics, Health, and
Society (SACGHS), U.S. Public Health
Service. The meeting will be held from
10 a.m. to approximately 5:30 p.m. on
Thursday, March 12, 2009, and 8:30
a.m. to approximately 3 p.m. on Friday,
March 13, 2009, at the Hubert H.
VerDate Nov<24>2008
15:25 Jan 28, 2009
Jkt 217001
Humphrey Building, 200 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.
The meeting will be open to the public
with attendance limited to space
available. The meeting also will be Web
cast.
At this meeting, the Committee will
begin to explore issues related to
genetics and the future of the health
care system with the first in a series of
roundtables focusing on perspectives of
stakeholders in the payer community.
Other agenda items include a session on
developments related to informed
consent for genomic data sharing,
discussion of the Committee’s next steps
to address concerns related to
consumer-initiated genomic services,
and updates on Department of Health
and Human Services and agency
priorities.
As always, the Committee welcomes
hearing from anyone wishing to provide
public comment on any issue related to
genetics, health and society. Individuals
who would like to provide public
comment should notify the SACGHS
Executive Secretary, Ms. Sarah Carr, by
telephone at 301–496–9838 or e-mail at
carrs@od.nih.gov. The SACGHS office is
located at 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite
750, Bethesda, MD 20892. Anyone
planning to attend the meeting, who is
in need of special assistance, such as
sign language interpretation or other
reasonable accommodations, is also
asked to contact the Executive
Secretary.
Under authority of 42 U.S.C. 217a,
Section 222 of the Public Health Service
Act, as amended, the Department of
Health and Human Services established
SACGHS to serve as a public forum for
deliberations on the broad range of
human health and societal issues raised
by the development and use of genetic
and genomic technologies and, as
warranted, to provide advice on these
issues. The draft meeting agenda and
other information about SACGHS,
including information about access to
the Web cast, will be available at the
following Web site: https://
oba.od.nih.gov/SACGHS/
sacghs_home.html.
Dated: January 22, 2009.
Jennifer Spaeth,
Director, NIH Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. E9–1867 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4140–01–P
PO 00000
Frm 00021
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project:
‘‘Assessing Organizational Responses to
AHRQ’s Health Literacy Pharmacy
Tools.’’ In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), AHRQ invitesthe
public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by March 30, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
e-mail at doris.leflowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project: Assessing
Organizational Responses to AHRQ’s
Health Literacy Pharmacy Tools
According to the 2003 National
Assessment of Adult Literacy, only 12
percent of adults have proficient health
literacy-the capacity to obtain, process,
and understand basic health
information and services needed to
make appropriate health decisions.
Limited health literacy often leads to
medication errors. For example, one
study found that a majority of adults
with low health literacy did not
understand instructions to ‘‘take
medication on an empty stomach.’’
Overall, it is estimated that low health
literacy costs the U.S. health care
system $50 billion to $73 billion per
year. Pharmacies can serve as an
important source of medication
information for people with limited
health literacy, but relatively few
pharmacies have implemented health
literacy practices (Praska et al., 2005).
E:\FR\FM\29JAN1.SGM
29JAN1
5163
Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 18 / Thursday, January 29, 2009 / Notices
Recognizing that pharmacies may
need outside knowledge and assistance
to improve their health literacy
practices, AHRQ, through a previous
task order, supported the creation of the
following four health literacy tools for
pharmacy settings, which have been
validated in institutional pharmacy
settings.
1. Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients’
Needs? A Pharmacy Health Literacy
Assessment Tool User’s Guide (Jacobson
et al., 2007)
2. Strategies to Improve
Communication between Staff and
Patients: Training Program for Pharmacy
Staff (Kripalini & Jacobson, 2007).
3. How to Create a Pill Card (Jacobson
et al., 2008).
4. Telephone Reminders: A Tool to
Help Refill Medications on Time
(Jacobson et al., 2008)
AHRQ now proposes to distribute
these tools to a more diverse set of
pharmacies and to conduct in-depth
case studies to enhance our
understanding about the conditions that
may facilitate or impede the adoption of
the tools in these settings. AHRQ would
use insights gained to develop materials
(promotional implementation guides)
that could assist interested pharmacies
in putting the tools into practice and
anticipating and overcoming obstacles
to doing so.
The pharmacy health literacy tools
will be disseminated through an AHRQ
Web site, which will also provide
technical assistance to pharmacies that
wish to implement the tools. A
description of the tools and site will be
distributed to pharmacists through
national pharmacy organizations’ trade
publications and a direct mailing to
chain pharmacy headquarters. We
anticipate that we would be able to
reach as many as 60,000 individual
pharmacists across the country through
these channels.
This project is being conducted
pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority
to conduct and support research on
healthcare and on systems for the
delivery of such care, including
activities with respect to: The quality,
effectiveness, efficiency,
appropriateness and value of health care
services; quality measurement and
improvement; and health care costs,
productivity, organization, and market
forces. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1), (2), and (6).
Method of Collection
Case Studies
Through its contractor, AHRQ
proposes to conduct 7 in-depth case
studies to assess pharmacies’
experiences with implementation of one
or more of these four health literacy
tools, using interviews, site visits,
review of documents and a survey of
pharmacy staff from case study
pharmacies. In addition, AHRQ will
conduct 2 more limited studies of
pharmacies that were aware of the tools
but chose not to implement them.
A 2-day site visit with be conducted
with each of the 7 sites that implement
at least one of the tools. Each site visit
will include a walk-through of the
pharmacy site to see the physical layout,
an interview with the key informant or
contact person, and individual
interviews with up to eight additional
pharmacy employees, including the
pharmacy manager, staff pharmacists,
pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy
clerks.
Therefore, up to 63 interviews will be
completed across the 7 sites that
implement one or more of the tools. In
addition, up to 12 pharmacy staff at
each of the 7 implementation sites will
complete the tool’s Pharmacy Staff
Survey contained in the Pharmacy
Health Literacy Assessment Tool.
For each of the two pharmacies which
do not implement the tools, interviews
will be conducted with up to 2
informants per site. The content of this
interview will be similar, but not
identical, to the interviews with staff at
the implementing sites.
Web Site Visitors’ Survey
For pharmacists and other visitors to
the AHRQ Web site, we will conduct a
voluntary survey regarding health
literacy in general, and feedback
regarding AHRQ’s health literacy tools.
The Web site visitors’ survey will be
available on-line.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit I shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents’ time to participate in this
case study. The staff interview at the
implementation sites will be completed
with up to 9 pharmacy staff members
from each of the 7 pharmacies that
implement all or part of the health
literacy tools. Staff interviews at the two
nonimplementation sites will be
completed with up to 2 individuals per
pharmacy. The staff interviews are
estimated to last 1 hour. The pharmacy
staff survey will be completed by up to
12 staff from the 7 implementation
pharmacies and is estimated to take
approximately 20 minutes. Lastly, the
Web site visitor’s survey will be
completed by about 150 respondents
and is estimated to take up to 12
minutes to complete. The total burden
hours for all data collections is
estimated to be 125 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden for the
respondents’ time to provide the
requested data. The estimated total cost
burden is about $3,791.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Form Name
Staff interview-implementing sites ...................................................................
Staff interview-non-implementing sites ............................................................
Pharmacy staff survey .....................................................................................
Web site visitors survey ...................................................................................
Total ..........................................................................................................
7
2
7
150
166
9
2
12
1
na
Hours per
response
1
1
20/60
12/60
na
Total burden
hours
63
4
28
30
125
rmajette on PRODPC74 with NOTICES
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form Name
Staff interview-implementing sites ...................................................................
Staff interview-non-implementing sites ............................................................
Pharmacy staff survey .....................................................................................
VerDate Nov<24>2008
15:25 Jan 28, 2009
Jkt 217001
PO 00000
Frm 00022
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
Total burden
hours
7
2
7
E:\FR\FM\29JAN1.SGM
63
4
28
29JAN1
Average
hourly wage
rate*
$30.33
30.33
30.33
Total cost
burden
$1,911
121
849
5164
Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 18 / Thursday, January 29, 2009 / Notices
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN—Continued
Number of
respondents
Form Name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate*
Total cost
burden
Web site visitors survey ...................................................................................
150
30
30.33
910
Total ..........................................................................................................
166
125
na
3,791
* The average hourly wage rate of $30.33 was calculated based on the following mean hourly wage rates: pharmacists—$47.58; pharmacy
manager [medical & health services manager category]—$50.34; pharmacy tecimicians—$13.25; and pharmacy aides $10.15. The mean hourly
wage rates for these occupations were obtained from the Bureau of Labor & Statistics on ‘‘Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2007,’’
found at: http//www.bls.gov/OES/current/oes291051.htm.
Estimated Annual Costs to the
Government
extends over three fiscal years. Exhibit
3 shows a breakdown of the total cost
as well as the annualized cost.
The total cost of this contract to the
government is $400,000. The project
EXHIBIT 3
Cost component
Total cost
Annualized
cost
Project Development ...............................................................................................................................................
Data Collection Activities .........................................................................................................................................
Data Processing and Analysis .................................................................................................................................
Publication of Results ..............................................................................................................................................
Project Management ................................................................................................................................................
$54,822
111,509
129,089
63,736
40,845
$18,274
37,170
43,030
21,245
13,615
Total ..................................................................................................................................................................
400,000
133,333
Request for Comments
rmajette on PRODPC74 with NOTICES
In accordance with the above cited
legislation, comments on the AHRQ
information collection proposal are
requested with regard to any of the
following: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of functions
of AHRQ, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of
burden (including hours and costs) of
the proposed collection of information;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity on the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for OMB
approval of the proposed information
collection. All comments will become a
matter of public record.
Dated: January 16, 2009.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
[FR Doc. E9–1751 Filed 1–28–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4160–90–M
VerDate Nov<24>2008
15:25 Jan 28, 2009
Jkt 217001
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
Title: Protection and Advocacy (P&A)
Voting Access Application and Annual
Report.
OMB No.: 0970–0326.
Description: This is a revision to
include the application for the
previously cleared Help America Vote
Act (HAVA) Annual report.
An application is required by Federal
statute (the Help America Vote Act
(HAVA) of 2002, Pub. L. 107–252,
Section 291, Payments for Protection
and Advocacy Systems, 42 U.S.C.
15461). Each State Protection &
Advocacy (P&A) System must prepare
an application in accordance with the
program announcement.
There is no application kit; the P&As
application may be in the format of its
choice. It must, however, be signed by
the P&As Executive Director or the
designated representative, and contain
the assurances as outlined under Part I.
C. Use of Funds. The P&As designated
representatives may signify their
PO 00000
Frm 00023
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
agreement with the conditions/
assurances by signing and returning the
assurance document Attachment B,
found in Part IV of this Instruction. The
assurance document signed by the
Executive Director of the P&A, or other
designated person, should be submitted
with the application to the
Administration on Developmental
Disabilities.
An annual report is required by
Federal statute (the Help America Vote
Act (HAVA) of 2002, Pub. L. 107–252,
Section 291, Payments for Protection
and Advocacy Systems, 42 U.S.C.
15461). Each State Protection &
Advocacy (P&A) System must prepare
and submit an annual report at the end
of every fiscal year. The report
addresses the activities conducted with
the funds provided during the year. The
information from the annual report will
be aggregated into an annual profile of
how HAVA funds have been spent. The
report will also provide an overview of
the P&A goals and accomplishments
and permit the Administration on
Developmental Disabilities to track
progress to monitor grant activities.
Respondents: Protection & Advocacy
Systems—All States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin
Islands, American Samoa, and Guam.
E:\FR\FM\29JAN1.SGM
29JAN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 18 (Thursday, January 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5162-5164]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-1751]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection
project: ``Assessing Organizational Responses to AHRQ's Health Literacy
Pharmacy Tools.'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), AHRQ invitesthe public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by March 30, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports clearance Officer, AHRQ, by e-mail at
doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection
instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be
obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by e-mail at
doris.leflowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project: Assessing Organizational Responses to AHRQ's Health
Literacy Pharmacy Tools
According to the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, only
12 percent of adults have proficient health literacy-the capacity to
obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services
needed to make appropriate health decisions. Limited health literacy
often leads to medication errors. For example, one study found that a
majority of adults with low health literacy did not understand
instructions to ``take medication on an empty stomach.'' Overall, it is
estimated that low health literacy costs the U.S. health care system
$50 billion to $73 billion per year. Pharmacies can serve as an
important source of medication information for people with limited
health literacy, but relatively few pharmacies have implemented health
literacy practices (Praska et al., 2005).
[[Page 5163]]
Recognizing that pharmacies may need outside knowledge and
assistance to improve their health literacy practices, AHRQ, through a
previous task order, supported the creation of the following four
health literacy tools for pharmacy settings, which have been validated
in institutional pharmacy settings.
1. Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? A Pharmacy Health
Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide (Jacobson et al., 2007)
2. Strategies to Improve Communication between Staff and Patients:
Training Program for Pharmacy Staff (Kripalini & Jacobson, 2007).
3. How to Create a Pill Card (Jacobson et al., 2008).
4. Telephone Reminders: A Tool to Help Refill Medications on Time
(Jacobson et al., 2008)
AHRQ now proposes to distribute these tools to a more diverse set
of pharmacies and to conduct in-depth case studies to enhance our
understanding about the conditions that may facilitate or impede the
adoption of the tools in these settings. AHRQ would use insights gained
to develop materials (promotional implementation guides) that could
assist interested pharmacies in putting the tools into practice and
anticipating and overcoming obstacles to doing so.
The pharmacy health literacy tools will be disseminated through an
AHRQ Web site, which will also provide technical assistance to
pharmacies that wish to implement the tools. A description of the tools
and site will be distributed to pharmacists through national pharmacy
organizations' trade publications and a direct mailing to chain
pharmacy headquarters. We anticipate that we would be able to reach as
many as 60,000 individual pharmacists across the country through these
channels.
This project is being conducted pursuant to AHRQ's statutory
authority to conduct and support research on healthcare and on systems
for the delivery of such care, including activities with respect to:
The quality, effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and value of
health care services; quality measurement and improvement; and health
care costs, productivity, organization, and market forces. 42 U.S.C.
299a(a)(1), (2), and (6).
Method of Collection
Case Studies
Through its contractor, AHRQ proposes to conduct 7 in-depth case
studies to assess pharmacies' experiences with implementation of one or
more of these four health literacy tools, using interviews, site
visits, review of documents and a survey of pharmacy staff from case
study pharmacies. In addition, AHRQ will conduct 2 more limited studies
of pharmacies that were aware of the tools but chose not to implement
them.
A 2-day site visit with be conducted with each of the 7 sites that
implement at least one of the tools. Each site visit will include a
walk-through of the pharmacy site to see the physical layout, an
interview with the key informant or contact person, and individual
interviews with up to eight additional pharmacy employees, including
the pharmacy manager, staff pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and
pharmacy clerks.
Therefore, up to 63 interviews will be completed across the 7 sites
that implement one or more of the tools. In addition, up to 12 pharmacy
staff at each of the 7 implementation sites will complete the tool's
Pharmacy Staff Survey contained in the Pharmacy Health Literacy
Assessment Tool.
For each of the two pharmacies which do not implement the tools,
interviews will be conducted with up to 2 informants per site. The
content of this interview will be similar, but not identical, to the
interviews with staff at the implementing sites.
Web Site Visitors' Survey
For pharmacists and other visitors to the AHRQ Web site, we will
conduct a voluntary survey regarding health literacy in general, and
feedback regarding AHRQ's health literacy tools. The Web site visitors'
survey will be available on-line.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit I shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondents' time to participate in this case study. The staff
interview at the implementation sites will be completed with up to 9
pharmacy staff members from each of the 7 pharmacies that implement all
or part of the health literacy tools. Staff interviews at the two
nonimplementation sites will be completed with up to 2 individuals per
pharmacy. The staff interviews are estimated to last 1 hour. The
pharmacy staff survey will be completed by up to 12 staff from the 7
implementation pharmacies and is estimated to take approximately 20
minutes. Lastly, the Web site visitor's survey will be completed by
about 150 respondents and is estimated to take up to 12 minutes to
complete. The total burden hours for all data collections is estimated
to be 125 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden for the
respondents' time to provide the requested data. The estimated total
cost burden is about $3,791.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of
Form Name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Staff interview-implementing sites.............. 7 9 1 63
Staff interview-non-implementing sites.......... 2 2 1 4
Pharmacy staff survey........................... 7 12 20/60 28
Web site visitors survey........................ 150 1 12/60 30
Total....................................... 166 na na 125
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Average
Form Name Number of Total burden hourly wage Total cost
respondents hours rate* burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Staff interview-implementing sites.............. 7 63 $30.33 $1,911
Staff interview-non-implementing sites.......... 2 4 30.33 121
Pharmacy staff survey........................... 7 28 30.33 849
[[Page 5164]]
Web site visitors survey........................ 150 30 30.33 910
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 166 125 na 3,791
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* The average hourly wage rate of $30.33 was calculated based on the following mean hourly wage rates:
pharmacists--$47.58; pharmacy manager [medical & health services manager category]--$50.34; pharmacy
tecimicians--$13.25; and pharmacy aides $10.15. The mean hourly wage rates for these occupations were obtained
from the Bureau of Labor & Statistics on ``Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2007,'' found at: http//
www.bls.gov/OES/current/oes291051.htm.
Estimated Annual Costs to the Government
The total cost of this contract to the government is $400,000. The
project extends over three fiscal years. Exhibit 3 shows a breakdown of
the total cost as well as the annualized cost.
Exhibit 3
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Annualized
Cost component Total cost cost
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Project Development..................... $54,822 $18,274
Data Collection Activities.............. 111,509 37,170
Data Processing and Analysis............ 129,089 43,030
Publication of Results.................. 63,736 21,245
Project Management...................... 40,845 13,615
-------------------------------
Total............................... 400,000 133,333
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above cited legislation, comments on the
AHRQ information collection proposal are requested with regard to any
of the following: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of functions of AHRQ, including
whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy
of AHRQ's estimate of burden (including hours and costs) of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity on the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and included in the request for OMB approval of the proposed
information collection. All comments will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: January 16, 2009.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
[FR Doc. E9-1751 Filed 1-28-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4160-90-M
