[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 188 (Monday, September 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50954-50955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25727]
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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 Office 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: Application and Annual Report, Maternal and Child
Health Block Grant Program (OMB No. 0915-0172)--Extension and Revision
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has revised
and reformatted the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Guidance.
This guidance is used annually by the 50 States and 9 jurisdictions in
making application for Block Grants under Title V of the Social
Security Act, and in preparing the required annual report. The
revisions are designed to simplify and clarify the guidance and
required forms and to reduce duplication, while still allowing for
clear, concise, useful, and accurate communication about the States'
programs. More specifically, the revisions are designed to: (1) Make
the program descriptions more readable; (2) alleviate the disconnect
between the application for the next fiscal year and the annual report
for the previous fiscal year that makes programmatic and data reviews
difficult; (3) clarify budget and expense tables, through better design
of forms and by carrying totals from form to form; (4) report
objectives in a standard format, including the relationship to Healthy
People 2000 goals, to facilitate year-to-year comparisons and multi-
State tabulations; and, (5) incorporate uniform performance measures
across all States and jurisdictions as well as State/jurisdiction-
specific performance measures.
The HRSA revision also combines the current three guidance
documents into one document by eliminating the separate annual
application and annual report in favor of a combined document, and
every fifth year explicitly including the results of the needs
assessment, which would be incorporated only by reference in the
intervening years. The HRSA revision efforts are intended not only to
simplify and expedite the rational submission of necessary data and
reports, but also to reduce the burden on States and jurisdictions by
eliminating duplicative requirements and streamlining the presentation
of information. Estimates of burden to complete the application and
annual report are as follows:
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Number of Responses per Burden hours Total burden
Type of form respondents respondent per response hours
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Application and Annual Report, 1998-99 (without
needs assessment):*
States...................................... 50 1 500 25,000
Jurisdictions............................... 9 1 200 1,800
Five-Year Application and Annual Report, 2000
(with needs assessment): *
States...................................... 50 1 750 37,500
Jurisdictions............................... 9 1 400 3,600
Weighted Annual Average (over next three years):
States...................................... 50 1 555 29,167
Jurisdictions............................... 9 1 267 2,400
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* The Annual Application and Annual Report, without needs assessment, will be submitted in FY 1998 and FY 1999.
The five-year Annual Application and Annual Report will be submitted in FY 2000. The average annual response
burden for the next three years is 31,567 hours.
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:
Laura Oliven, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C.
20503.
Dated: September 22, 1997.
Jane Harrison,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 97-25727 Filed 9-26-97; 8:45 am]
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