[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 12 (Friday, January 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 2675]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1260]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 35, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed 
projects being developed for submission to 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, call the HRSA 
Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.
    Comments are invited 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) 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 on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.
    Proposed Project: Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) and Health 
Education Training Centers (HETC): Managed Care Inventory Project--
New--Section 746(a) of the Public Health Service Act authorizes Federal 
assistance to schools of medicine (allopathic and osteopathic) which 
have cooperative arrangements with one or more public or nonprofit 
private area health education centers (AHECs) for the planning, 
development and operation of area health education center programs. 
Section 746(f) of the PHS Act authorizes Federal assistance to schools 
of allopathic and osteopathic medicine, or parent institutions on 
behalf of such schools, or a consortium of such schools to plan, 
develop, establish, maintain or operate HETCs. The support is designed 
to improve the supply, distribution, quality, and efficiency of (a) 
personnel providing health services in the State of Florida or along 
the border between the United States and Mexico and (b) personnel 
providing, in other urban and rural areas of the U.S., health services 
to any population group, including Hispanic individuals and recent 
refugees, that have demonstrated serious health care needs. Program 
support is also used to encourage health promotion and disease 
prevention through public education.
    A telephone survey is proposed of federally funded AHEC and HETC 
programs to determine the variety and extent of managed care training 
activities that are ongoing or planned within the next two years. The 
survey results will be used to formulate recommendations for managed 
care training, and to help guide the AHEC/HETCs in planning and 
directing training programs and clinical experience in managed care. 
The burden estimates are as follows:

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                                                                                   Responses    Hours     Total 
                           Type of center                               No. of        per        per     burden 
                                                                     respondents  respondent  response    hours 
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AHECs..............................................................         36            1      2 hrs   72 hrs.
HETCs..............................................................         10            1      2 hrs   20 hrs.
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      Total........................................................         46            1      2 hrs   92 hrs.
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    Send comments to Patricia Royston, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer, 
Room 14-36, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. 
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.

    Dated: January 14, 1997.
J. Henry Montes,
Director, Office of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 97-1260 Filed 1-16-97; 8:45 am]
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