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impact the ability of state and territory
agencies and a national hotline to share
information with each other?
National Consumer Education and
Referral Web site
• The CCDBG Act of 2014 and
proposed rules list the types of
information that must be made available
for parents and providers on a state,
territory, and national Web site. What
will parents and providers need to make
this information useful when searching
for high-quality early childhood
services? In particular, what Web site
design features will deliver information
that is accurate and easy to find and
understand, so that parents can easily
find high-quality services that meet
their needs? Are there any priorities?
• Providers may use the national Web
site as a way to increase visibility of
their programs and services. What kinds
of information should providers be able
to include that would help both
themselves and parents?
• A primary tenant of the national
Web site will be to link to Web sites,
services, and data that state and territory
lead agencies make available. To remove
any overlap of services, what national
Web site design options will support
these efforts?
• When it comes to data availability,
what national Web site supports will
help existing state and local systems to
participate in the national Web site? For
example: would state and local systems
benefit from guidance on how to
develop effective web services, data
governance, application programming
interfaces (API), or creating standards
for collection of data?
• With a focus on provider quality
information and availability of data,
what information or technical assistance
will state and territories need to make
this information available online?
• What technologies and strategies
can be used to overcome barriers,
challenges, and concerns regarding
potential design models of a national
Web site?
Dated: March 2, 2016.
Linda K. Smith,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early
Childhood Development, Administration for
Children and Families, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
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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 April 7, 2016.
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:
Telehealth Resource Center Performance
Measurement Tool. OMB No. 0915–
0361—Revision
Abstract: To ensure the best use of
public funds and to meet the
Government Performance Review Act
requirements, the Federal Office of
Rural Health’s Office for the
Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) in
collaboration with the Telehealth
Resource Centers (TRCs) created a set of
performance measures that grantees can
use to evaluate the technical assistance
services provided by the TRCs. Grantee
goals are to customize the provision of
telehealth technical assistance across
the country. The TRCs provide technical
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assistance to health care organizations,
health care networks, and health care
providers in the implementation of costeffective telehealth programs to serve
rural and medically underserved areas
and populations.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The revised measures will
be used to evaluate the effectiveness of
the technical assistance. The tool will
also be used to address GPRA
requirements and to report to Congress
the value added from the TRC Grant
Program; justification for budget
request; measure performance relative to
the mission of OAT/HRSA, as well as
individual goals and objectives of the
program; identify topics of interest for
future special studies; identify changes
in healthcare needs within rural
communities, allowing programs to shift
focus in order to meet those needs; and
collect uniform consistent data and
provide guidance to grantees.
Likely Respondents: The likely
respondents will be telehealth
associations, telehealth providers, rural
health providers, clinicians that deliver
services via telehealth, technical
assistance providers, research
organizations, and academic medical
centers.
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
Telehealth Resource Center Performance Data Collection
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
‘‘Low Income Levels’’ Used for Various
Health Professions and Nursing
Programs Authorized in Titles III, VII,
and VIII of the Public Health Service
Act
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) is
updating income levels used to identify
a ‘‘low income family’’ for the purpose
of determining eligibility for programs
that provide health professions and
nursing training to individuals from
disadvantaged backgrounds. These
various programs are authorized in
Titles III, VII, and VIII of the Public
Health Service Act.
The Department periodically
publishes in the Federal Register lowincome levels to be used by institutions
receiving grants and cooperative
agreements in order to determine
eligibility for programs providing
training for (1) disadvantaged
individuals, (2) individuals from
disadvantaged backgrounds, or (3)
individuals from low-income families.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Many
health professions and nursing grant
and cooperative agreement awardees
use the low-income levels to determine
whether potential program participants
are from an economically disadvantaged
background and would be eligible to
participate in the program, as well as to
determine the amount of funding the
individual receives. Federal agencies
generally make awards to: Accredited
schools of medicine, osteopathic
medicine, public health, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, optometry,
pharmacy, allied health, podiatric
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Total burden
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medicine, nursing, and chiropractic;
public or private nonprofit schools
which offer graduate programs in
behavioral health and mental health
practice; and other public or private
nonprofit health or education entities to
assist the disadvantaged to enter and
graduate from health professions and
nursing schools. Some programs
provide for the repayment of health
professions or nursing education loans
for disadvantaged students.
The Secretary defines a ‘‘low-income
family/household’’ for programs
included in Titles III, VII, and VIII of the
Public Health Service Act as having an
annual income that does not exceed 200
percent of the Department’s poverty
guidelines. A family is a group of two
or more individuals related by birth,
marriage, or adoption who live together.
On June 26, 2013, in U.S. v. Windsor,
133 S. Ct. 2675 (2013), the Supreme
Court held that section 3 of the Defense
of Marriage Act, which prohibited
federal recognition of same-sex spouses
and same-sex marriages, was
unconstitutional. In light of this
decision, please note that in
determining eligibility for these
programs, same-sex marriages and samesex spouses will be recognized on equal
terms with opposite-sex marriages and
opposite-sex spouses, regardless of
where the couple resides. This approach
is consistent with a post-Windsor policy
of treating same-sex marriages on the
same terms as opposite sex marriages to
the greatest extent reasonably possible.
Thus, a ‘‘family or household’’ includes
same-sex spouses that are legally
married in a jurisdiction that recognizes
same-sex marriage regardless of whether
the same-sex spouses live in a
jurisdiction that recognizes same-sex
marriage or a jurisdiction that does not
recognize same-sex marriage as well as
the family members that result from
such same-sex marriage.
Most HRSA programs use the income
of a student’s parents to compute low
income status. However, a ‘‘household’’
may potentially be only one person.
Other HRSA programs, depending upon
the legislative intent of the program, the
programmatic purpose related to income
level, as well as the age and
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circumstances of the participant, will
apply these low income standards to the
individual student to determine
eligibility, as long as he or she is not
listed as a dependent on the tax form of
his or her parent(s). Each program
announces the rationale and choice of
methodology for determining low
income levels in program guidance.
The Secretary annually adjusts the
low-income levels based on the
Department’s poverty guidelines and
makes them available to persons
responsible for administering the
applicable programs. The Department’s
poverty guidelines are based on poverty
thresholds published by the U.S. Bureau
of the Census, adjusted annually for
changes in the Consumer Price Index.
The income figures below have been
updated to reflect the Department’s
2016 poverty guidelines as published in
81 FR 15 (January 25, 2016).
LOW INCOME LEVELS BASED ON THE
2016 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Persons in family/household *
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Income
level **
$23,760
32,040
40,320
48,600
56,880
65,160
73,460
81,780
For families with more than 8 persons, add
$8,320 for each additional person. * Includes
only dependents listed on federal income tax
forms. ** Adjusted gross income for calendar
year 2015.
LOW INCOME LEVELS BASED ON THE
2016 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
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Persons in family/household *
1
2
3
4
5
6
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Income
level **
$29,680
40,040
50,400
60,760
71,120
81,480
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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 April 7,
2016.
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:
Telehealth Resource Center Performance Measurement Tool. OMB No. 0915-
0361--Revision
Abstract: To ensure the best use of public funds and to meet the
Government Performance Review Act requirements, the Federal Office of
Rural Health's Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) in
collaboration with the Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) created a set
of performance measures that grantees can use to evaluate the technical
assistance services provided by the TRCs. Grantee goals are to
customize the provision of telehealth technical assistance across the
country. The TRCs provide technical assistance to health care
organizations, health care networks, and health care providers in the
implementation of cost-effective telehealth programs to serve rural and
medically underserved areas and populations.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The revised measures will
be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the technical assistance. The
tool will also be used to address GPRA requirements and to report to
Congress the value added from the TRC Grant Program; justification for
budget request; measure performance relative to the mission of OAT/
HRSA, as well as individual goals and objectives of the program;
identify topics of interest for future special studies; identify
changes in healthcare needs within rural communities, allowing programs
to shift focus in order to meet those needs; and collect uniform
consistent data and provide guidance to grantees.
Likely Respondents: The likely respondents will be telehealth
associations, telehealth providers, rural health providers, clinicians
that deliver services via telehealth, technical assistance providers,
research organizations, and academic medical centers.
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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Telehealth Resource Center 14 42 588 0.07 41.16
Performance Data Collection....
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Total....................... 14 42 588 0.07 41.16
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Jackie Painter,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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