[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 133 (Friday, July 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37268-37269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-18212]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a 
copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301)-443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:
    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

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extent of managed care training activities that are ongoing or planned 
in the near future. 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                   Total   
                       Type of center                          Number of       per       Hours per      burden  
                                                              respondents   respondent    response      hours   
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AHECs.......................................................           36            1            2           72
HETCs.......................................................           10            1            2           20
TOTAL.......................................................           46            1            2           92
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C. 
20503.

    Dated: July 7, 1997.
Jane Harrison,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 97-18212 Filed 7-10-97; 8:45 am]
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