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Total Annual Hours: 930,267. (For
policy questions regarding this
collection, contact Linda Greenberg at
(301) 492–4225. For all other issues call
(410) 786–1326.)
To obtain copies of the supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, access CMS Web Site
address at https://www.cms.hhs.gov/
PaperworkReductionActof1995, or
Email your request, including your
address, phone number, OMB number,
and CMS document identifier, to
Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov, or call the
Reports Clearance Office on (410) 786–
1326.
To be assured consideration,
comments and recommendations for the
proposed information collections must
be received by the OMB desk officer at
the address below, no later than 5 p.m.
on February 11, 2013: OMB, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: CMS Desk Officer, Fax
Number: (202) 395–6974, Email:
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Dated: January 8, 2013.
Martique Jones,
Deputy Director, Regulations Development
Group, Office of Strategic Operations and
Regulatory Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
[Document Identifier: CMS–10078]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, HHS.
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) is publishing the
following summary of proposed
collections for public comment.
Interested persons are invited to send
comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (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
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automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
1. Type of Information Collection
Request: Reinstatement without change
of a previously approved collection;
Title: Program for Matching Grants to
States for the Operation of High Risk
Pools; Use: The Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) is
requiring the information in this
information collection request as a
condition of eligibility for grants that
were authorized in the Trade Act of
2002, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
and the State High Risk Pool Funding
Extension Act of 2006. The information
is necessary to determine if a state
applicant meets the necessary eligibility
criteria for a grant as required by law.
The respondents will be states that have
a high risk pool as defined in sections
2741, 2744, or 2745 of the Public Health
Service Act. The grants will provide
funds to states that incur losses in the
operation of high risk pools. High risk
pools are set up by states to provide
health insurance to individuals that
cannot obtain health insurance in the
private market because of a history of
illness. Form Number: CMS–10078
(OCN: 0938–0887); Frequency:
Occasionally; Affected Public: State,
Local and Tribal Governments; Number
of Respondents: 31; Total Annual
Responses: 31; Total Annual Hours:
1,240. (For policy questions regarding
thiscollection contact Paul Scholz at
(410) 786–6178. For all other issues call
(410) 786–326.)
To obtain copies of the supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, access CMS’ Web Site
address at https://www.cms.hhs.gov/
PaperworkReductionActof1995, or
Email your request, including your
address, phone number, OMB number,
and CMS document identifier, to
Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov, or call the
Reports Clearance Office on (410) 786–
1326.
In commenting on the proposed
information collections please reference
the document identifier or OMB control
number. To be assured consideration,
comments and recommendations must
be submitted in one of the following
ways by March 12, 2013:
1. Electronically. You may submit
your comments electronically to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for ‘‘Comment or
Submission’’ or ‘‘More Search Options’’
to find the information collection
document(s) accepting comments.
2. By regular mail. You may mail
written comments to the following
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address: CMS, Office of Strategic
Operations and Regulatory Affairs,
Division of Regulations Development,
Attention: Document Identifier/OMB
Control Number ll, Room C4–26–05,
7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore,
Maryland 21244–1850.
Dated: January 8, 2013.
Martique Jones,
Deputy Director, Regulations Development
Group, Office of Strategic Operations and
Regulatory Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects:
Title: Child Support Noncustodial
Parent Employment Demonstration
(CSPED).
OMB No.: 0970–NEW.
Description:
The Office of Child Support
Enforcement (OCSE) within the
Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) is proposing data
collection activity as part of the Child
Support Noncustodial Parent
Employment Demonstration (CSPED). In
October 2012, OCSE issued grants to
eight state child support agencies to
provide employment, parenting, and
child support services to non-custodial
parents who are having difficulty
meeting their child support obligation.
The overall objective of the CSPED
evaluation is to document and evaluate
the effectiveness of the approaches
taken by these eight CSPED grantees.
This evaluation will yield information
about effective strategies for improving
child support payments by providing
non-custodial parents employment and
other services through child support
programs. It will generate extensive
information on how these programs
operated, what they cost, the effects the
programs had, and whether the benefits
of the programs exceed their costs. The
information gathered will be critical to
informing decisions related to future
investments in child support-led
employment-focused programs for noncustodial parents who have difficulty
meeting their child support obligations.
The CSPED evaluation will include
the following two interconnected
components or ‘‘studies’’:
1. Implementation and Cost Study.
The goal of the implementation and cost
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study is to provide a detailed
description of the programs—how they
are implemented, their participants, the
contexts in which they are operated,
their promising practices, and their
costs. The detailed descriptions will
assist in interpreting program impacts,
identifying program features and
conditions necessary for effective
program replication or improvement,
and carefully documenting the costs of
delivering these services. Key activities
of the implementation and cost study
will include: (1) Conducting semistructured interviews with program staff
and selected community partner
organizations to gather information on
program implementation and costs; (2)
conducting focus groups with program
participants to elicit participation
experiences; (3) administering a webbased survey to program staff and
community partners to capture broader
staff program experiences; and (4)
collecting data on study participant
service use, dosage, and duration of
enrollment throughout the
demonstration using a web-based
Management Information System (MIS).
2. Impact Study. The goal of the
impact study is to provide rigorous
estimates of the effectiveness of the
eight programs using an experimental
research design. Program applicants
who are eligible for CSPED services will
be randomly assigned to either a
program group that is offered program
services or a control group that is not.
The study MIS that will document
service use for the implementation
study will also be used by grantee staff
to conduct random assignment for the
impact study. The impact study will
rely on data from surveys of
participants, as well as administrative
records from state and county data
systems. Survey data will be collected
twice from program applicants. Baseline
information will be collected from all
noncustodial parents who apply for the
program prior to random assignment. A
follow-up survey will be collected from
sample members twelve months after
random assignment. A wide range of
measures will be collected through
surveys, including measures of
employment stability and quality,
barriers to employment, parenting and
co-parenting, and demographic and
socio-economic characteristics. In
addition, data on child support
obligations and payments, Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) benefits, Medicaid
receipt, involvement with the criminal
justice system, and earnings and benefit
data collected through the
Unemployment Insurance (UI) system
will be obtained from state and county
databases.
This 60-Day Notice covers the
following data collection activities: (1)
Guides for the semi-structured
interviews with program staff and
community partners, (2) focus group
guides for program participants, (3) the
web-based survey to document program
staff and partner experiences, (4) the
MIS functions for tracking participation
in the program, (5) the introductory
script which program staff will use to
introduce the study to participants, (6)
the baseline survey used to capture
participant characteristics prior to
randomization, (7) the MIS functions for
conducting random assignment, and (8)
the extraction of child support, benefit,
earnings, and criminal justice data
extracted from state and county
administrative data systems.
Respondents:
Respondents include program
applicants, study participants, grantee
staff and community partners, as well as
state and county staff responsible for
extracting data from government
databases for the evaluation. Specific
respondents per instrument are noted in
the burden tables below.
Annual Burden Estimates
The following instruments, part of the
baseline data collection and site
Management Information Systems
(MIS), are proposed for public comment
under this 60-Day Federal Register
Notice.
IMPLEMENTATION AND COST STUDY
Number of
respondents
Instrument
Semi-structured interview topic guide with program staff
and community partners ...............................................
Focus group guide with program participants .................
Web survey of program staff and community partners ...
Study MIS for grantee and partner staff to document
program participation ....................................................
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden hours
per response
1
1.5
0.5
Total burden
hours
Total annual
burden hours
120
240
200
2
1
2
240
360
200
80
120
66.7
200
1,500
0.0333
10,000
3,333.3
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average burden
hours per
response
120
12,600
105
1
0.1667
0.1667
2,100
2,100
700
700
12,000
1
0.5833
7,000
2333.3
120
32
105
2
0.1667
8
2,100
512
700
170.7
IMPACT STUDY
Number of
respondents
Instrument
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Grantee staff .............................................................
Program applicants 1 .................................................
Baseline survey:
Study participants .....................................................
Study MIS for grantee staff to conduct random assignment ................................................................
State and county administrative records ..................
Total burden
hours
Total annual
burden hours
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Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 8,204.
In compliance with the requirements
of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the
Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment
on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above.
Copies of the proposed collection of
information can be obtained and
comments may be forwarded by writing
to the Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Planning, Research
and Evaluation, 370 L’Enfant
Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447,
Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer.
Email address:
infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests
should be identified by the title of the
information collection.
The Department specifically requests
comments 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)
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.
Consideration will be given to
comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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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.
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
SUMMARY:
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:
Patient Survey-Health Centers (OMB
No. 0915–xxxx) NEW.
The Health Center program supports
Health Centers (HCs), Migrant Health
Centers (MHCs), Health Care for the
Homeless (HCH) programs, and Public
Housing Primary Care (PHPC) programs.
Health Centers (HCs) receive grants from
HRSA to provide primary and
preventive health care services to
medically underserved populations.
The proposed Patient Survey will
collect nationally in-depth information
about HC patients, their health status,
the reasons they seek care at the HCs,
their diagnoses, the services they utilize
at HCs and elsewhere, the quality of
those services, and their satisfaction
with the care they receive, through
personal interviews of a stratified
random sample of HC patients. Prior to
the national study, a cognitive pre-test
will be conducted to refine and test the
survey instrument in different
languages, and to test the survey
sampling methodologies and
procedures. The pre-test will include
cognitive interviews to ensure that the
questions are being understood as was
intended. Interviews conducted in the
pre-test and the national study are
estimated to take approximately 1 hour
and 15 minutes each.
The Patient Survey builds on previous
periodic Patient User-Visit Surveys,
which were conducted to learn about
the process and outcomes of care in HCs
and MHCs, HCHs, and PHPCs. The
original questionnaires were derived
from the National Health Interview
Survey (NHIS) and the National
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
(NAMCS) conducted by the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
Conformance with the NHIS and
NAMCS allowed comparisons between
these NCHS surveys and the previous
HC and HCH User-Visit Surveys. The
new Patient Survey was developed
using a questionnaire methodology
similar to that used in the past and will
also potentially allow some longitudinal
comparisons for HCs and HCHs with the
previous User-Visit survey data,
including monitoring of processes and
outcomes over time. In addition, this
survey will be conducted in languages
not used during previous surveys
(which were conducted in English and
Spanish) to include patients from
different racial and ethnic backgrounds,
including Chinese (Mandarin and
Cantonese), Korean, and Vietnamese.
With the exception of Spanish speakers,
other racial and ethnic subgroups were
not able to participate in the previous
surveys.
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 Information
Collection Request are summarized in
the table below.
The annual estimate of burden is as
follows:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects:
Title: Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration
(CSPED).
OMB No.: 0970-NEW.
Description:
The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) within the
Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is proposing data
collection activity as part of the Child Support Noncustodial Parent
Employment Demonstration (CSPED). In October 2012, OCSE issued grants
to eight state child support agencies to provide employment, parenting,
and child support services to non-custodial parents who are having
difficulty meeting their child support obligation. The overall
objective of the CSPED evaluation is to document and evaluate the
effectiveness of the approaches taken by these eight CSPED grantees.
This evaluation will yield information about effective strategies for
improving child support payments by providing non-custodial parents
employment and other services through child support programs. It will
generate extensive information on how these programs operated, what
they cost, the effects the programs had, and whether the benefits of
the programs exceed their costs. The information gathered will be
critical to informing decisions related to future investments in child
support-led employment-focused programs for non-custodial parents who
have difficulty meeting their child support obligations.
The CSPED evaluation will include the following two interconnected
components or ``studies'':
1. Implementation and Cost Study. The goal of the implementation
and cost
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study is to provide a detailed description of the programs--how they
are implemented, their participants, the contexts in which they are
operated, their promising practices, and their costs. The detailed
descriptions will assist in interpreting program impacts, identifying
program features and conditions necessary for effective program
replication or improvement, and carefully documenting the costs of
delivering these services. Key activities of the implementation and
cost study will include: (1) Conducting semi-structured interviews with
program staff and selected community partner organizations to gather
information on program implementation and costs; (2) conducting focus
groups with program participants to elicit participation experiences;
(3) administering a web-based survey to program staff and community
partners to capture broader staff program experiences; and (4)
collecting data on study participant service use, dosage, and duration
of enrollment throughout the demonstration using a web-based Management
Information System (MIS).
2. Impact Study. The goal of the impact study is to provide
rigorous estimates of the effectiveness of the eight programs using an
experimental research design. Program applicants who are eligible for
CSPED services will be randomly assigned to either a program group that
is offered program services or a control group that is not. The study
MIS that will document service use for the implementation study will
also be used by grantee staff to conduct random assignment for the
impact study. The impact study will rely on data from surveys of
participants, as well as administrative records from state and county
data systems. Survey data will be collected twice from program
applicants. Baseline information will be collected from all
noncustodial parents who apply for the program prior to random
assignment. A follow-up survey will be collected from sample members
twelve months after random assignment. A wide range of measures will be
collected through surveys, including measures of employment stability
and quality, barriers to employment, parenting and co-parenting, and
demographic and socio-economic characteristics. In addition, data on
child support obligations and payments, Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
benefits, Medicaid receipt, involvement with the criminal justice
system, and earnings and benefit data collected through the
Unemployment Insurance (UI) system will be obtained from state and
county databases.
This 60-Day Notice covers the following data collection activities:
(1) Guides for the semi-structured interviews with program staff and
community partners, (2) focus group guides for program participants,
(3) the web-based survey to document program staff and partner
experiences, (4) the MIS functions for tracking participation in the
program, (5) the introductory script which program staff will use to
introduce the study to participants, (6) the baseline survey used to
capture participant characteristics prior to randomization, (7) the MIS
functions for conducting random assignment, and (8) the extraction of
child support, benefit, earnings, and criminal justice data extracted
from state and county administrative data systems.
Respondents:
Respondents include program applicants, study participants, grantee
staff and community partners, as well as state and county staff
responsible for extracting data from government databases for the
evaluation. Specific respondents per instrument are noted in the burden
tables below.
Annual Burden Estimates
The following instruments, part of the baseline data collection and
site Management Information Systems (MIS), are proposed for public
comment under this 60-Day Federal Register Notice.
Implementation and Cost Study
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden Total annual
respondents respondent response hours burden hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Semi-structured interview topic 120 2 1 240 80
guide with program staff and
community partners............
Focus group guide with program 240 1 1.5 360 120
participants..................
Web survey of program staff and 200 2 0.5 200 66.7
community partners............
Study MIS for grantee and 200 1,500 0.0333 10,000 3,333.3
partner staff to document
program participation.........
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Impact Study
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Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden Total annual
respondents respondent response hours burden hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Introductory script:
Grantee staff.............. 120 105 0.1667 2,100 700
Program applicants \1\..... 12,600 1 0.1667 2,100 700
Baseline survey:
Study participants......... 12,000 1 0.5833 7,000 2333.3
Study MIS for grantee staff 120 105 0.1667 2,100 700
to conduct random
assignment................
State and county 32 2 8 512 170.7
administrative records....
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\1\ Five percent of program applicants are not expected to agree to participate in the study; thus there are 5%
more program applicants than study participants.
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 8,204.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW.,
Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. Email
address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified
by the title of the information collection.
The Department specifically requests comments 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) 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.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-00416 Filed 1-10-13; 8:45 am]
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