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Form name
Number of
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respondent
Total
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Average
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(in hours)
Total burden
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Exhibit 4 (Initial, Reconciliation and FTE Resident Assessment) ................................................................................
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Dated: April 14, 2014.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information
Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014–09186 Filed 4–21–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment
Request
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with Section
3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health
Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) has submitted an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review
of this ICR will be provided to OMB.
OMB will accept further comments from
the public during the review and
approval period.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than May 22, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
including the Information Collection
Request Title, to the desk officer for
HRSA, either by email to OIRA_
submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to
202–395–5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance
Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call
(301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title:
Healthy Start Evaluation and Quality
Assurance OMB No. 0915–0338—
Revision
Abstract: The National Healthy Start
Program, funded through the Health
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Resources and Services
Administration’s (HRSA’s) Maternal and
Child Health Bureau (MCHB), has the
goal of reducing disparities in infant
mortality and adverse perinatal
outcomes. The program began as a
demonstration project with 15 grantees
in 1991 and has expanded over the past
2 decades to 105 grantees serving 196
communities across 39 states. Healthy
Start grantees operate in communities
with rates of infant mortality at least 1.5
times the U.S. national average and high
rates for other adverse perinatal
outcomes. These communities are
geographically, racially, ethnically, and
linguistically diverse low-income areas.
Healthy Start covers services during the
perinatal period (before, during, after
pregnancy) and follows the woman and
infant through 2 years after the end of
the pregnancy. The next round of
funding represents a transformation of
the program framework from nine
service and systems core components to
five approaches. The five approaches
are as follows: (1) Improving women’s
health; (2) promoting quality services;
(3) strengthening family resilience; (4)
achieving collective impact; and (5)
increasing accountability through
quality assurance, performance
monitoring, and evaluation.
MCHB seeks to implement a uniform
set of data elements for monitoring and
conduct a mixed-methods evaluation to
assess the effectiveness of the program
on individual, organizational, and
community-level outcomes. Data
collection instruments will include a
Preconception, Pregnancy, and
Parenting Information Form; National
Healthy Start Program Survey;
Community Action Network Survey;
Healthy Start Site Visit Protocol; and
Healthy Start Participant Focus Group
Protocol.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The purpose of the data
collection instruments will be to obtain
consistent information across all
grantees about Healthy Start and its
outcomes for purposes of monitoring,
and in-depth information for 15 Healthy
Start communities and 15 comparison
communities to support a rigorous
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evaluation design. The data will be used
to: (1) Conduct ongoing performance
monitoring of the program; (2) provide
credible and rigorous evidence of
program effect on outcomes; (3) assess
the relative contribution of the five
program approaches to individual and
community-level outcomes; (4) meet
program needs for accountability,
programmatic decision-making, and
ongoing quality assurance; and (5)
strengthen the evidence-base, and
identify best and promising practices for
the program to support sustainability,
replication, and dissemination of the
program.
Likely Respondents: Respondents
include pregnant women and women of
reproductive age who are served by the
Healthy Start program (monitoring) and
sampled postpartum women from 15
unfunded organizations in comparison
communities (evaluation) for the
Preconception, Pregnancy, and
Parenting Information Form; project
directors and staff for the National
Healthy Start Program Survey;
representatives from partner
organizations for the Community Action
Network Survey; program staff,
providers, and partners for the Healthy
Start Site Visit Protocol; and program
participants for the Healthy Start
Participant Focus Group Protocol.
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.
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TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN—HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Preconception, Pregnancy, and Parenting Information
Form .................................................................................
National Healthy Start Program Web Survey ......................
CAN member Web Survey ..................................................
Healthy Start Site Visit Protocol ..........................................
Healthy Start Participant Focus Group Protocol .................
40,675
88
225
15
180
1
1
1
1
1
40,675
88
225
15
180
0.50
2.00
0.75
6.00
1.00
20,338
176
169
90
180
Total ..............................................................................
41,183
........................
41,183
........................
20,953
Dated: April 15, 2014.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information
Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014–09193 Filed 4–21–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Health Center Program
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of Class Deviation From
Competition Requirements for Low-Cost
Extensions and Administrative
Supplement Thresholds To Minimize
Disruption of Services for Certain
Health Center Program Service Areas.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Awarding Agency Grants Management
Manual (AAGAM) Chapter 1.03.103, the
Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC)
requests a class deviation to award lowcost extensions of up to 6 months or,
when necessary, administrative
supplements to minimize disruption of
services for specific health center
program service areas.
Per the requirements for low-cost
extensions outlined in the AAGAM
Chapter 2.04.104B–4A.1.a.(5)(b), these
extensions may not exceed 25 percent of
the approved federal direct cost budget
authorized for the budget period
(exclusive of the additional funding
requested) or $100,000. Likewise, per
the requirements for administrative
supplements outlined in the AAGAM
Chapter 2.04.104B–4A.4.b, these
supplements may not exceed 25 percent
of the approved federal direct cost
budget authorized for the budget period
(exclusive of the additional funding) or
$250,000, whichever is less. In each
case, the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) is required to
publish a notice in the Federal Register
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in advance of, or concurrent with, the
awarding of the funds.
BPHC is requesting a class deviation
to the requirements for low-cost
extensions to allow HRSA to award
extensions that exceed 25 percent of the
approved federal direct cost budget
authorized for the budget period
(exclusive of the additional funding
requested) and/or $100,000 in cases
where the grantee would not receive
future continued support under the
Health Center Program. Likewise, BPHC
is requesting a class deviation to the
requirements for administrative
supplements to allow HRSA to award
supplements that exceed 25 percent of
the approved federal direct cost budget
authorized for the budget period
(exclusive of the additional funding)
and/or $250,000 in cases where the
award is to a currently funded grantee
located in or adjacent to the service area
of a grantee that will not receive
continued support under the Health
Center Program. BPHC is also requesting
that the deviation allow for the
publication of a consolidated notice in
the Federal Register annually that
summarizes the actions taken in the
prior fiscal year.
The sole purpose of these low-cost
extensions or administrative
supplements is to avoid a gap in the
provision of critical health care services
for a funded service area by providing
a ‘‘bridge’’ until HRSA is able to make
an award to an eligible applicant under
a Service Area Competition (SAC) and/
or to assure an orderly phase-out of
Health Center Program activities by the
current grantee.
BPHC is not requesting that this class
deviation cover single source
replacement awards and will continue
to request single case deviations for
such non-competitive actions if
necessary.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Intended Recipient of the Award:
Health Center Program Grantees.
Amount of Non-Competitive Awards:
Variable.
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Period of Supplemental Funding:
Variable.
CFDA Number: 93.224, 93.527.
Authority: Section 330 of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b), as
amended; Public Law 111–148, the
Affordable Care Act of 2010, Section
5601 and Section 10503, as amended;
Public Law 111–152, Health Care and
Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,
Section 2303.
Justification: BPHC always conducts
an open competition to identify a new
Health Center Program grantee for a
previously funded but now available
service area; however, it generally takes
up to 6 months to announce and
conduct the SAC and select a new
grantee for the service area.
In fiscal year 2013, BPHC awarded
operational grants to support
approximately 1,200 Health Center
Program grantee organizations.
Throughout the course of the current
fiscal year, there have been 14 cases
where a deviation and accompanying
Federal Register Notice were warranted
per AAGAM 2.04.104B–4A, based on
the need to issue a low-cost extension
or administrative supplement. Such
cases occurred when a Health Center
Program grant was discontinued prior to
the project period end date.
Discontinuations prior to the project
period end date have been the result of
a voluntary relinquishment of the grant
award by the current grantee or an
enforcement action taken by HRSA due
to a grantee’s material noncompliance
with program requirements. The need
for a low-cost extension or
administrative supplement has also
occurred at the end of a grantee’s project
period due to a lack of eligible or
fundable applications for the announced
service area. In all cases, the purpose for
the HRSA award of the low-cost
extension or administrative supplement
was to avoid a gap in the provision of
critical health care services for a service
area by providing a ‘‘bridge’’ until
HRSA was able to make an award to an
eligible applicant under a SAC and to
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the
review and approval period.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than May 22,
2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-5806.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443-
1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Healthy Start Evaluation and
Quality Assurance OMB No. 0915-0338--Revision
Abstract: The National Healthy Start Program, funded through the
Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA's) Maternal and
Child Health Bureau (MCHB), has the goal of reducing disparities in
infant mortality and adverse perinatal outcomes. The program began as a
demonstration project with 15 grantees in 1991 and has expanded over
the past 2 decades to 105 grantees serving 196 communities across 39
states. Healthy Start grantees operate in communities with rates of
infant mortality at least 1.5 times the U.S. national average and high
rates for other adverse perinatal outcomes. These communities are
geographically, racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse low-
income areas. Healthy Start covers services during the perinatal period
(before, during, after pregnancy) and follows the woman and infant
through 2 years after the end of the pregnancy. The next round of
funding represents a transformation of the program framework from nine
service and systems core components to five approaches. The five
approaches are as follows: (1) Improving women's health; (2) promoting
quality services; (3) strengthening family resilience; (4) achieving
collective impact; and (5) increasing accountability through quality
assurance, performance monitoring, and evaluation.
MCHB seeks to implement a uniform set of data elements for
monitoring and conduct a mixed-methods evaluation to assess the
effectiveness of the program on individual, organizational, and
community-level outcomes. Data collection instruments will include a
Preconception, Pregnancy, and Parenting Information Form; National
Healthy Start Program Survey; Community Action Network Survey; Healthy
Start Site Visit Protocol; and Healthy Start Participant Focus Group
Protocol.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The purpose of the data
collection instruments will be to obtain consistent information across
all grantees about Healthy Start and its outcomes for purposes of
monitoring, and in-depth information for 15 Healthy Start communities
and 15 comparison communities to support a rigorous evaluation design.
The data will be used to: (1) Conduct ongoing performance monitoring of
the program; (2) provide credible and rigorous evidence of program
effect on outcomes; (3) assess the relative contribution of the five
program approaches to individual and community-level outcomes; (4) meet
program needs for accountability, programmatic decision-making, and
ongoing quality assurance; and (5) strengthen the evidence-base, and
identify best and promising practices for the program to support
sustainability, replication, and dissemination of the program.
Likely Respondents: Respondents include pregnant women and women of
reproductive age who are served by the Healthy Start program
(monitoring) and sampled postpartum women from 15 unfunded
organizations in comparison communities (evaluation) for the
Preconception, Pregnancy, and Parenting Information Form; project
directors and staff for the National Healthy Start Program Survey;
representatives from partner organizations for the Community Action
Network Survey; program staff, providers, and partners for the Healthy
Start Site Visit Protocol; and program participants for the Healthy
Start Participant Focus Group Protocol.
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.
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Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Preconception, Pregnancy, and 40,675 1 40,675 0.50 20,338
Parenting Information Form.....
National Healthy Start Program 88 1 88 2.00 176
Web Survey.....................
CAN member Web Survey........... 225 1 225 0.75 169
Healthy Start Site Visit 15 1 15 6.00 90
Protocol.......................
Healthy Start Participant Focus 180 1 180 1.00 180
Group Protocol.................
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Total....................... 41,183 .............. 41,183 .............. 20,953
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Dated: April 15, 2014.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-09193 Filed 4-21-14; 8:45 am]
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