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TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total
responses
Total burden
hours
Account Creation .................................................................
Complete Profile ..................................................................
5,008
4,164
1
1
5,008
4,164
.08
1.00
400.64
4,164
Total ..............................................................................
1 5,008
........................
5,008
........................
4,564.64
1 The
4,164 respondents who complete their profiles are a subset of the 5,008 respondents who create accounts.
HRSA specifically 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.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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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; Rural Public Health
Workforce Training Network Program
Data Collection
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
HRSA 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. OMB may act on
HRSA’s ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has
closed.
SUMMARY:
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Number of
responses per
respondent
Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than June 29, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
DATES:
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within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under Review—Open for
Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email
Samantha Miller, the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer, at
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 594–
4394.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title:
Rural Public Health Workforce Training
Network Program Data Collection—
OMB No. 0915–xxxx–NEW.
Abstract: The Rural Public Health
Workforce Training Network (RPHWTN)
Program Data Collection is authorized
by section 330A(f) of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c(f)).
Furthermore, section 2501 of the
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
(ARP, Pub. L. 117–2) provides funding
for the Department of Health and
Human Services to carry out activities
related to expanding and sustaining a
public health workforce, including to
respond to COVID–19. The RPHWTN
program, which is managed by the
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at
HRSA, intends to expand public health
capacity by supporting health care job
development, training, and placement
in rural communities. This grant
program intends to address the ongoing
critical need for trained public health
professionals in health care facilities
serving rural communities by
establishing networks that will develop
formal training/certification programs.
The long-term objective of this program
is to enhance clinical and operational
capacity to adequately address
population health needs of rural
communities negatively impacted by
COVID–19, including long COVID–19.
The HRSA Office of Planning, Analysis,
and Evaluation will work with the
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to
design and distribute surveys to
RPHWTN grantees and trainees, which
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will serve as program data collection
tools. Grantees will establish networks
that support health care job
development, training, and placement
in rural communities. Trainees are
individuals participating in the training
programs made possible through the
RPHTWN-supported networks
established by program grantees. To
accomplish RPHWTN program goals,
HRSA would like to collect the
following type of information from
respondents:
• From grantees: training content,
count of trainings and attendees,
specific strategies in supporting patients
with long COVID–19 and behavioral
health needs, and trainee retention/
completion.
• From trainees: limited demographic
information (age, ZIP code, race, and
ethnicity), skills needed to fulfill roles
in specific tracks selected, skill
assessment, professional and/or
educational experience, and career
goals/intentions.
A 60-day notice was published in the
Federal Register on December 9, 2022,
vol. 87, No. 236; pp. 75639–75640.
There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: Per OMB memo M–21–20,
the ARP provides funding for critical
resources to respond to the public
health crisis the nation faces resulting
from the COVID–19 pandemic. The
memo emphasizes the need for a swift
government-wide response,
underscoring the need to ensure the
public’s trust in how the federal
government implements ARP programs
and distributes ARP funding.
Accountability and transparency of
federal government spending and
achieving results are necessary for
effective stewardship of these funds. To
this end, federal awarding agencies
must collect recipient performance
reports in a manner that enables the
federal government to articulate the
outcomes of federal financial assistance
to the American people. HRSA seeks to
collect performance information that
measures progress in achieving program
goals and objectives, ensures payment
integrity, and demonstrates equity-
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oriented results—all while minimizing
the reporting burden to federal financial
assistance recipients. Data from grantees
is necessary for understanding
programmatic activities supported by
this HRSA investment, providing
program monitoring and oversight,
assessing the sustainability of programsupported activities, and ultimately
affording HRSA the insights and ability
to make specific, evidence informed
policy and program recommendations
moving forward. To successfully
accomplish the goals of this program in
supporting job development and
training, it is also crucial that HRSA
receives a clear understanding of
trainees’ existing and needed skillsets,
their reception to/feedback about the
trainings they receive, and a sense of
their potential career trajectories as they
pertain to the workforce training tracks
specified by HRSA in the program
Notice of Funding Opportunity (HRSA–
22–117). There are several consequences
of the federal government not collecting
the data for the RPHWTN program as
described herein. These include: (1) the
inability to monitor grant activities and
therefore inability to ensure sufficient
oversight of and accountability for this
HRSA investment, (2) a lost opportunity
to better understand the workforce
capacity-building needs of the rural
communities that HRSA serves, and (3)
a failure to gather key information that
could ultimately lead to more evidence
informed policy and program
recommendations in the future.
Likely Respondents: Respondents of
these surveys will be RPHWTN grantees
and trainees.
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.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(hours)
Total
responses
Total
burden hours
Form name
Grantees .............................
Trainees ..............................
Baseline Survey .................
Follow-Up Survey ...............
Exit Survey .........................
Trainee Survey ...................
32
32
32
500
1
2
1
2
32
64
32
1,000
0.25
0.13
0.25
0.25
8.00
8.53
8.00
250.00
Total .............................
.............................................
596
........................
1,128
........................
274.53
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine; Notice of
Closed Meetings
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Number of
respondents
Type of respondent
Pursuant to section 1009 of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended, notice is hereby given of a
meeting.
The meeting will be closed to the
public in accordance with the
provisions set forth in sections
552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C.,
as amended. The grant applications and
the discussions could disclose
confidential trade secrets or commercial
property such as patentable materials,
and personal information concerning
individuals associated with the grant
applications, the disclosure of which
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy.
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Name of Committee: National Library of
Medicine Special Emphasis Panel; Conflicted
Applications and R01–K99–R13.
Date: July 28, 2023.
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant
applications.
Place: National Library of Medicine, 8600
Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 (Virtual
Meeting).
Contact Person: Ali Sharma, Ph.D.,
Scientific Review Officer, Division of
Extramural Programs, National Library of
Medicine, NIH, 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite
500, Bethesda, MD 20892–7968, ali.sharma@
nih.gov.
(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program No. 93.879, Medical Library
Assistance, National Institutes of Health,
HHS)
Dated: May 23, 2023.
Miguelina Perez,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory
Committee Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed
Meeting
Pursuant to section 1009 of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended, notice is hereby given of the
following meeting.
The meeting will be closed to the
public in accordance with the
provisions set forth in sections
552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), title 5 U.S.C.,
as amended. The grant applications and
the discussions could disclose
confidential trade secrets or commercial
property such as patentable material,
and personal information concerning
individuals associated with the grant
applications, the disclosure of which
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy.
Name of Committee: National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases Special
Emphasis Panel; NIAID Investigator Initiated
Program Project Applications (P01 Clinical
Trial Not Allowed).
Date: June 26, 2023.
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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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; Rural Public Health
Workforce Training Network Program Data Collection
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
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. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than June 29,
2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Samantha Miller, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call
(301) 594-4394.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Rural Public Health Workforce
Training Network Program Data Collection--OMB No. 0915-xxxx-NEW.
Abstract: The Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network
(RPHWTN) Program Data Collection is authorized by section 330A(f) of
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c(f)). Furthermore, section
2501 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP, Pub. L. 117-2)
provides funding for the Department of Health and Human Services to
carry out activities related to expanding and sustaining a public
health workforce, including to respond to COVID-19. The RPHWTN program,
which is managed by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at HRSA,
intends to expand public health capacity by supporting health care job
development, training, and placement in rural communities. This grant
program intends to address the ongoing critical need for trained public
health professionals in health care facilities serving rural
communities by establishing networks that will develop formal training/
certification programs. The long-term objective of this program is to
enhance clinical and operational capacity to adequately address
population health needs of rural communities negatively impacted by
COVID-19, including long COVID-19. The HRSA Office of Planning,
Analysis, and Evaluation will work with the Federal Office of Rural
Health Policy to design and distribute surveys to RPHWTN grantees and
trainees, which will serve as program data collection tools. Grantees
will establish networks that support health care job development,
training, and placement in rural communities. Trainees are individuals
participating in the training programs made possible through the
RPHTWN-supported networks established by program grantees. To
accomplish RPHWTN program goals, HRSA would like to collect the
following type of information from respondents:
From grantees: training content, count of trainings and
attendees, specific strategies in supporting patients with long COVID-
19 and behavioral health needs, and trainee retention/completion.
From trainees: limited demographic information (age, ZIP
code, race, and ethnicity), skills needed to fulfill roles in specific
tracks selected, skill assessment, professional and/or educational
experience, and career goals/intentions.
A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on December
9, 2022, vol. 87, No. 236; pp. 75639-75640. There were no public
comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Per OMB memo M-21-20, the
ARP provides funding for critical resources to respond to the public
health crisis the nation faces resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The memo emphasizes the need for a swift government-wide response,
underscoring the need to ensure the public's trust in how the federal
government implements ARP programs and distributes ARP funding.
Accountability and transparency of federal government spending and
achieving results are necessary for effective stewardship of these
funds. To this end, federal awarding agencies must collect recipient
performance reports in a manner that enables the federal government to
articulate the outcomes of federal financial assistance to the American
people. HRSA seeks to collect performance information that measures
progress in achieving program goals and objectives, ensures payment
integrity, and demonstrates equity-
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oriented results--all while minimizing the reporting burden to federal
financial assistance recipients. Data from grantees is necessary for
understanding programmatic activities supported by this HRSA
investment, providing program monitoring and oversight, assessing the
sustainability of program-supported activities, and ultimately
affording HRSA the insights and ability to make specific, evidence
informed policy and program recommendations moving forward. To
successfully accomplish the goals of this program in supporting job
development and training, it is also crucial that HRSA receives a clear
understanding of trainees' existing and needed skillsets, their
reception to/feedback about the trainings they receive, and a sense of
their potential career trajectories as they pertain to the workforce
training tracks specified by HRSA in the program Notice of Funding
Opportunity (HRSA-22-117). There are several consequences of the
federal government not collecting the data for the RPHWTN program as
described herein. These include: (1) the inability to monitor grant
activities and therefore inability to ensure sufficient oversight of
and accountability for this HRSA investment, (2) a lost opportunity to
better understand the workforce capacity-building needs of the rural
communities that HRSA serves, and (3) a failure to gather key
information that could ultimately lead to more evidence informed policy
and program recommendations in the future.
Likely Respondents: Respondents of these surveys will be RPHWTN
grantees and trainees.
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.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Type of respondent Form name respondents responses per responses response hours
respondent (hours)
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Grantees.................................. Baseline Survey............. 32 1 32 0.25 8.00
Follow-Up Survey............ 32 2 64 0.13 8.53
Exit Survey................. 32 1 32 0.25 8.00
Trainees.................................. Trainee Survey.............. 500 2 1,000 0.25 250.00
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Total................................. ............................ 596 .............. 1,128 .............. 274.53
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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