[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 125 (Monday, June 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35214-35215]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17063]


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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 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Public Law 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed 
projects being developed for submission to OMB under

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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: SPRANS/CISS Uniform Data Collection Instruments 
(OMB No. 0915-0169)--Extension and Revision--The Health Resources and 
Services Administration (HRSA) proposes to revise and reformat the 
Maternal and Child Health Special Projects of National and Regional 
Significance (SPRANS) and Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) 
Uniform Data Collection Instruments. These revised instruments will be 
used to include information from grantees to comply with the 
legislative mandate for an annual report to Congress, and to include 
data for meeting the requirements of the Government Performance and 
Results Act (GPRA).
    The SPRANS/CISS Programs complement and improve the MCH Block 
grants to the 50 states and 9 territories under Title V of the Social 
Security Act. Approximately 600 grants are awarded annually in the 
SPRANS/CISS programs, usually to state and local health departments, 
universities and other institutions of higher learning, and a smaller 
number of non-profit and for-profit organizations or associations. 
There are four separate SPRANS/CISS Uniform Data Collection 
Instruments, reflecting variations in the four basic types of SPRANS/
CISS grantees and their unique data needs: (1) Training, (2) Research, 
(3) Data, and (4) Other Discretionary Programs.
    The revisions to these data collection instruments are designed to 
ensure the collection of data needed by program managers to prepare the 
mandated annual report to Congress, and may be designed to ensure the 
collection of data required by GPRA without the introduction of 
additional collection instruments. We estimate that the burden hours 
will be decreased by more than 10%, due to further improvements to the 
instruments based on lessons learned from the initial use of the form, 
as well as improved technology that will be used to collect the data. 
Estimates of burden to complete the Uniform Data Collection Instruments 
are as follows:

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                                                                           Responses      Burden                
                        Type of form                          Number of       per       hours per   Total burden
                                                             respondents   respondent    response       hours   
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Training...................................................          150            1         1.75         262.5
Research...................................................           50            1         1.75          87.5
Data.......................................................           30            1         1.75          52.5
Other Discretionary Programs...............................          350            1         1.75         612.5
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    Total..................................................          580            1         1.75       1,015  
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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: June 24, 1997.
James J. Corrigan,
Acting Associate Administrator for Management and Program Support.
[FR Doc. 97-17063 Filed 6-27-97; 8:45 am]
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