Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Comment Request, 954 [2013-00030]

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

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 4 (Monday, January 7, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00030]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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    Summary: 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 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, email 
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer at (301) 
443-1984.
    HRSA especially requests comments on: (1) The necessity and utility 
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of 
the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden, (3) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected, and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology to minimize the information 
collection burden.

Information Collection Request Title: Analyzing Title V Programs in the 
Context of the Affordable Care Act (OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--[New]

    Abstract: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will make affordable health 
coverage available to all legal U.S. residents, as well as guide 
transformation in the delivery of medicine and public health services. 
For children, expanded coverage has come about gradually over the past 
two decades, and implementation of major coverage provisions of the ACA 
in 2014 will result in some shifts in child health coverage.
    The Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant, 
administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration's 
Maternal and Child Health Bureau, provides a foundation for ensuring 
the health of the nation's mothers, women, children, and youth, 
including children and youth with special health care needs, and their 
families. Many ACA provisions, like State Medicaid expansions and 
mandatory health insurance, will change the face of health insurance 
demand and services provided. In response, State Title V programs will 
focus on increasing access, equality, and health equity.
    A proposed data collection form has been developed to collect 
health care services budget information from Title V MCH Block Grant 
recipients to better understand the types of direct services currently 
provided by Title V MCH programs. This form will request information on 
medical services and program support services in addition to data on 
the individuals served.
    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.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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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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Title V Health Care Services                  59               1              59               8             472
 Budget Survey..................
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    Total.......................              59  ..............              59  ..............             472
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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA 
Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10-29, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
    Deadline: Comments on this ICR must be received within 60 days of 
this notice.

    Dated: December 26, 2012.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2013-00030 Filed 1-4-13; 8:45 am]
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