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loan holding company, including the
companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well
as other related filings required by the
Board, are available for immediate
inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank
indicated. The application also will be
available for inspection at the offices of
the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in
writing on the standards enumerated in
the HOLA (12 U.S.C. 1467a(e)). If the
proposal also involves the acquisition of
a nonbanking company, the review also
includes whether the acquisition of the
nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 10(c)(4)(B) of the
HOLA (12 U.S.C. 1467a(c)(4)(B)). Unless
otherwise noted, nonbanking activities
will be conducted throughout the
United States.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding each of these applications
must be received at the Reserve Bank
indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors not later than January 13,
2017.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
(Chapelle Davis, Assistant Vice
President) 1000 Peachtree Street NE.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30309. Comments can
also be sent electronically to
Applications.Comments@atl.frb.org:
1. Community First Bancshares, MHC,
Covington, Georgia; to become a mutual
savings and loan holding company, and
Community First Bancshares, Inc., to
become a mid-tier stock savings and
loan holding company, by acquiring 100
percent of Newton Federal Bank, all of
Covington, Georgia.
The notificants listed below have
applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and
§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12
CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank
or bank holding company. The factors
that are considered in acting on the
notices are set forth in paragraph 7 of
the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
The notices are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank indicated. The notices
also will be available for inspection at
the offices of the Board of Governors.
Interested persons may express their
views in writing to the Reserve Bank
indicated for that notice or to the offices
of the Board of Governors. Comments
must be received not later than January
3, 2017.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice
President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas
City, Missouri 64198–0001:
1. Steven L. Bihlmaier, Osborne,
Kansas, and Douglas D. Bihlmaier,
Dairen, Connecticut; to acquire shares of
Osborne Investments, Inc., of The
Farmers Bank of Osborne, both of
Osborne, Kansas and thereby acquire
shares and for approval as a member of
the Bihlmaier Family Group. In
addition, Cheryl A. Bihlmaier, Osborne,
Kansas, as a member of the Bihlmaier
Family Group, to retain shares of
Osborne Investments, Inc.
The applications listed below, as well
as other related filings required by the
Board, are available for immediate
inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank
indicated. The applications will also be
available for inspection at the offices of
the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in
writing on the standards enumerated in
the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the
proposal also involves the acquisition of
a nonbanking company, the review also
includes whether the acquisition of the
nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 4 of the BHC Act
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding each of these applications
must be received at the Reserve Bank
indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors not later than January 19,
2017.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(Ivan Hurwitz, Vice President) 33
Liberty Street, New York, New York
10045–0001. Comments can also be sent
electronically to
Comments.applications@ny.frb.org:
1. PCSB Financial Corporation,
Yorktown Heights, New York; to
become a bank holding company by
acquiring 100 percent of the voting
shares of PCSB Bank, Brewster, New
York.
2. Community Bank System, Inc.,
Dewitt, New York; to acquire 100
percent of Merchants Bancshares, Inc.
and thereby indirectly acquire
Merchants Bank, both of South
Burlington, Vermont.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, December 14, 2016.
Yao-Chin Chao,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, December 15, 2016.
Yao-Chin Chao,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
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Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Savings and Loan Holding
Companies
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Home Owners’ Loan Act
(12 U.S.C. 1461 et seq.) (HOLA),
Regulation LL (12 CFR part 238), and
Regulation MM (12 CFR part 239), and
all other applicable statutes and
regulations to become a savings and
loan holding company and/or to acquire
the assets or the ownership of, control
of, or the power to vote shares of a
savings association and nonbanking
companies owned by the savings and
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Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or
Bank Holding Company
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
holding company and/or to acquire the
assets or the ownership of, control of, or
the power to vote shares of a bank or
bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies
owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, December 14, 2016.
Yao-Chin Chao,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
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Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 ‘‘Generic
SUMMARY:
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Clearance for the Collection of Data
Through ACTION III Field-Based
Investigations to Improve Health Care
Delivery.’’ In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C.
3501–3521, AHRQ invites the public to
comment on this proposed information
collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by February 21, 2017.
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
emails at doris.lefkowitz@
AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Proposed Project
Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Data Through ACTION III Field-Based
Investigations To Improve Health Care
Delivery
The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) is requesting OMB
approval of a generic clearance for
purposes of conducting field-based
research to improve care delivery in
diverse health care settings. More
specifically, AHRQ seeks this clearance
to support timely and meaningful
answers to research questions
investigated through AHRQ’s ACTION
Program. ACTION III research produces
field-based, stakeholder-informed
knowledge about ways to improve care
delivery, and real-world-driven
implementation and dissemination of
evidence across diverse care settings. A
generic clearance to support expedited
performance of ACTION III research
activities would enable us to more
efficiently meet agency goals while fully
meeting the intent and requirements of
the Paperwork Reduction Act in a
timely manner.
Collection of the information
described in this request is essential to
supporting AHRQ’s mission, which is to
produce evidence to make health care
safer, higher quality, more accessible,
equitable, and affordable, and to work
with HHS and other partners to make
sure that the evidence is understood and
used. More specifically, in support of
this mission, AHRQ initiates and
oversees projects with the following
overarching aims:
• Expand knowledge about how
specific changes to processes or
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structures of care delivery might
improve care quality;
• Develop and test interventions,
strategies, tools, trainings and guidance
for putting that knowledge into practice;
• Disseminate and implement
evidence-based practices across diverse
care settings
This study is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractor, WESTAT,
pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority
to conduct and support research on
health care 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 and with respect to quality
measurement and improvement. 42
U.S.C 299a(a)(1) and (2).
Method of Collection
Information collections conducted
under this clearance will be collected
via the following methods:
• Interviews—Interviews (telephone
or in-person) will be conducted with
clinical or management staff from
diverse health care settings, patients, or
other providers or recipients of care
with the purposes of: Expanding
knowledge about how specific changes
to processes or structures of care
delivery might improve care quality;
obtaining stakeholder-informed input
about how and why an intervention or
strategy will or won’t work in a
particular real world setting; identifying
contextual factors that facilitate or
impede implementation of complex
system interventions or evidence-based
practices; identifying needs and
challenges of intended users of tools
and/or beneficiaries of trainings and
other resources.
• Small discussion groups/Focus
groups—Small discussion groups/Focus
groups will be conducted with
providers or recipients of care from
diverse health care settings with the
purposes of: Obtaining stakeholderinformed input about how and why an
intervention or strategy is or is not
working in a particular real world
setting and identifying needs and
gaining user/beneficiary feedback on
value and limitations of prototype
redesigned care processes, tools,
resources or trainings.
• Implementation Logs will be used
to track activities, time and resource use
associated with use of tools, trainings or
other resources, and to monitor progress
and identify needed revisions to
implementation methods.
• Recruitment and Screening calls
will be used to identify and enroll
individuals, groups, or organizations
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that will be willing to participate in the
broader research study
• Questionnaires or brief surveys will
be used to capture broad, high level staff
or patient level feedback on experience
with tools, redesigned care processes,
trainings or other resources.
• Cognitive testing of surveys, Web
sites, or other resources will be used to
support the development of materials
that resonate and can be understood by
intended users.
• Collection of published and internal
documents, performance assessments,
and other data or information will
provide important contextual
information about the specific settings
of care into which new tools, resources,
training, or redesigned care processes
will be introduced.
AHRQ will use the proposed generic
clearance to obtain field-based,
stakeholder-informed input and
feedback about how and why
interventions or strategies designed to
improve care quality (i.e., safety,
effectiveness, patient-centeredness,
timeliness, efficiency, and equity) do or
do not work in the real world.
Information collected under this
clearance would be expected to increase
understanding of how contextual factors
and other key variables might affect the
implementation and effectiveness of
specific strategies, interventions or tools
when utilized in particular settings.
This knowledge would help health care
providers and other decision-makers
consider whether, when and how to use
and adapt such strategies, interventions
or tools to conform to their own needs
and to the distinctive characteristics of
the intended settings. Additionally,
information collected under this
clearance would be expected to increase
AHRQ’s understanding of contextual
variables and other factors that facilitate
or impede dissemination and
implementation of clinical guidelines,
evidence-based practices, and other
research-based findings from the
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Institute (PCORI), National Institutes of
Health (NIH), and other partners.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
As described above a variety of
instruments and platforms will be used
to collect information from respondents,
though few, if any, single projects
would be expected to use all the
methods listed.
The average number annual burden
hours per year requested (2189.5) are
presented in Table 1 below, and is based
on an assumed average of 5 projects per
year (we rounded up the past average of
4.5 projects per year to 5). The
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maximum total burden across all three
years is thus 6568.5 hours.
TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Number of
respondents
Data collection type
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Interviews .........................................................................................................
Focus Groups/Small Discussions ....................................................................
Implementation Logs .......................................................................................
Recruitment and Screening .............................................................................
Cognitive Testing .............................................................................................
Questionnaires/Brief Surveys ..........................................................................
Collection of Internal Documents ....................................................................
375
420
20
139
40
1,000
25
2
1.5
8
1
1
1
1
1
1.5
1
0.5
1
0.2
1
750
945
160
69.5
40
200
25
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
2,189.5
TABLE 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly
wage rate *
Total cost
burden
Interviews .........................................................................................................
(Clinicians—line 1; Patients—line 2) ...............................................................
Focus Groups/Small Discussions ....................................................................
Implementation Logs .......................................................................................
Recruitment and Screening .............................................................................
Cognitive Testing .............................................................................................
Questionnaires/Brief Surveys ..........................................................................
Collection of Internal Documents ....................................................................
250
125
420
20
139
40
1000
25
500
250
945
160
69.5
40
200
25
a $95.05
a 95.05
$47,525.00
6780.00
25,628.40
4,339.20
6,605.98
1,084.80
5,424.00
2,376.25
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
99,763.63
b 27.12
c 27.12
c 27.12
a 95.05
c 27.12
c 27.12
* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2015 ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics:’’
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.
a Based on the mean wages for 29–1069 Physicians and Surgeons, All Other.
b Based on the mean wages for 00–0000 All Occupations.
c Based on the mean wages for 29–9099 Miscellaneous Health Practitioners and Technical Workers: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
Workers, All Other.
Using average wage rates for relevant
job categories from 2016 BLS data, the
total annual costs associated with these
data collections per year are
$116,746.13 as shown in Table 2 above,
for a total cost for all three years of
$350,238.39.
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s
information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of AHRQ health care
research and health care information
dissemination functions, 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(s) of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information upon the
respondents, including the use of
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automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Sharon B. Arnold,
Deputy Director.
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Quality
Common Formats for Reporting on
Health Care Quality and Patient Safety
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
AGENCY:
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Notice of Availability—New
Common Formats.
ACTION:
As authorized by the
Secretary of HHS, AHRQ coordinates
the development of sets of common
definitions and reporting formats
(Common Formats) for reporting on
health care quality and patient safety.
The purpose of this notice is to
announce the release of the Common
Formats—Community Pharmacy
Version 1.0.
DATES: Ongoing public input.
ADDRESSES: The Common Formats—
Community Pharmacy Version 1.0 and
the remaining Common Formats can be
accessed electronically at the following
HHS Web site: https://
www.pso.ahrq.gov/common/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Barbara Choo, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ,
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 06N100B,
Rockville, MD 20857; Telephone (toll
free): (866) 403–3697; Telephone (local):
(301) 427–1111; TTY (toll free): (866)
438–7231; TTY (local): (301) 427–1130;
Email: pso@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUMMARY:
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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.
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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 ``Generic
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Clearance for the Collection of Data Through ACTION III Field-Based
Investigations to Improve Health Care Delivery.'' In accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521, AHRQ invites the
public to comment on this proposed information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by February 21, 2017.
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 emails at
doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Generic Clearance for the Collection of Data Through ACTION III Field-
Based Investigations To Improve Health Care Delivery
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is requesting
OMB approval of a generic clearance for purposes of conducting field-
based research to improve care delivery in diverse health care
settings. More specifically, AHRQ seeks this clearance to support
timely and meaningful answers to research questions investigated
through AHRQ's ACTION Program. ACTION III research produces field-
based, stakeholder-informed knowledge about ways to improve care
delivery, and real-world-driven implementation and dissemination of
evidence across diverse care settings. A generic clearance to support
expedited performance of ACTION III research activities would enable us
to more efficiently meet agency goals while fully meeting the intent
and requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act in a timely manner.
Collection of the information described in this request is
essential to supporting AHRQ's mission, which is to produce evidence to
make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and
affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners to make sure that
the evidence is understood and used. More specifically, in support of
this mission, AHRQ initiates and oversees projects with the following
overarching aims:
Expand knowledge about how specific changes to processes
or structures of care delivery might improve care quality;
Develop and test interventions, strategies, tools,
trainings and guidance for putting that knowledge into practice;
Disseminate and implement evidence-based practices across
diverse care settings
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor,
WESTAT, pursuant to AHRQ's statutory authority to conduct and support
research on health care 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 and with
respect to quality measurement and improvement. 42 U.S.C 299a(a)(1) and
(2).
Method of Collection
Information collections conducted under this clearance will be
collected via the following methods:
Interviews--Interviews (telephone or in-person) will be
conducted with clinical or management staff from diverse health care
settings, patients, or other providers or recipients of care with the
purposes of: Expanding knowledge about how specific changes to
processes or structures of care delivery might improve care quality;
obtaining stakeholder-informed input about how and why an intervention
or strategy will or won't work in a particular real world setting;
identifying contextual factors that facilitate or impede implementation
of complex system interventions or evidence-based practices;
identifying needs and challenges of intended users of tools and/or
beneficiaries of trainings and other resources.
Small discussion groups/Focus groups--Small discussion
groups/Focus groups will be conducted with providers or recipients of
care from diverse health care settings with the purposes of: Obtaining
stakeholder-informed input about how and why an intervention or
strategy is or is not working in a particular real world setting and
identifying needs and gaining user/beneficiary feedback on value and
limitations of prototype redesigned care processes, tools, resources or
trainings.
Implementation Logs will be used to track activities, time
and resource use associated with use of tools, trainings or other
resources, and to monitor progress and identify needed revisions to
implementation methods.
Recruitment and Screening calls will be used to identify
and enroll individuals, groups, or organizations that will be willing
to participate in the broader research study
Questionnaires or brief surveys will be used to capture
broad, high level staff or patient level feedback on experience with
tools, redesigned care processes, trainings or other resources.
Cognitive testing of surveys, Web sites, or other
resources will be used to support the development of materials that
resonate and can be understood by intended users.
Collection of published and internal documents,
performance assessments, and other data or information will provide
important contextual information about the specific settings of care
into which new tools, resources, training, or redesigned care processes
will be introduced.
AHRQ will use the proposed generic clearance to obtain field-based,
stakeholder-informed input and feedback about how and why interventions
or strategies designed to improve care quality (i.e., safety,
effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and
equity) do or do not work in the real world. Information collected
under this clearance would be expected to increase understanding of how
contextual factors and other key variables might affect the
implementation and effectiveness of specific strategies, interventions
or tools when utilized in particular settings. This knowledge would
help health care providers and other decision-makers consider whether,
when and how to use and adapt such strategies, interventions or tools
to conform to their own needs and to the distinctive characteristics of
the intended settings. Additionally, information collected under this
clearance would be expected to increase AHRQ's understanding of
contextual variables and other factors that facilitate or impede
dissemination and implementation of clinical guidelines, evidence-based
practices, and other research-based findings from the Patient-Centered
Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), National Institutes of Health
(NIH), and other partners.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
As described above a variety of instruments and platforms will be
used to collect information from respondents, though few, if any,
single projects would be expected to use all the methods listed.
The average number annual burden hours per year requested (2189.5)
are presented in Table 1 below, and is based on an assumed average of 5
projects per year (we rounded up the past average of 4.5 projects per
year to 5). The
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maximum total burden across all three years is thus 6568.5 hours.
Table 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Data collection type Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Interviews...................................... 375 2 1 750
Focus Groups/Small Discussions.................. 420 1.5 1.5 945
Implementation Logs............................. 20 8 1 160
Recruitment and Screening....................... 139 1 0.5 69.5
Cognitive Testing............................... 40 1 1 40
Questionnaires/Brief Surveys.................... 1,000 1 0.2 200
Collection of Internal Documents................ 25 1 1 25
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 2,189.5
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Table 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost
Form name respondents hours wage rate * burden
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Interviews...................................... 250 500 \a\ $95.05 $47,525.00
(Clinicians--line 1; Patients--line 2).......... 125 250 \b\ 27.12 6780.00
Focus Groups/Small Discussions.................. 420 945 \c\ 27.12 25,628.40
Implementation Logs............................. 20 160 \c\ 27.12 4,339.20
Recruitment and Screening....................... 139 69.5 \a\ 95.05 6,605.98
Cognitive Testing............................... 40 40 \c\ 27.12 1,084.80
Questionnaires/Brief Surveys.................... 1000 200 \c\ 27.12 5,424.00
Collection of Internal Documents................ 25 25 \a\ 95.05 2,376.25
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 99,763.63
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* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2015 ``U.S. Department of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics:'' https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.
\a\ Based on the mean wages for 29-1069 Physicians and Surgeons, All Other.
\b\ Based on the mean wages for 00-0000 All Occupations.
\c\ Based on the mean wages for 29-9099 Miscellaneous Health Practitioners and Technical Workers: Healthcare
Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other.
Using average wage rates for relevant job categories from 2016 BLS
data, the total annual costs associated with these data collections per
year are $116,746.13 as shown in Table 2 above, for a total cost for
all three years of $350,238.39.
Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ's
information collection are requested with regard to any of the
following: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of AHRQ health care research and
health care information dissemination functions, 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(s) of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information upon the
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 Agency's subsequent request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of
public record.
Sharon B. Arnold,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2016-30603 Filed 12-19-16; 8:45 am]
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