[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 7559]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-3408]


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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: Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant 
Annual Report, Needs Assessment and Application Guidance (OMB No. 
0915-0172)--Revision

    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) proposes to 
revise the Guidance and Forms for the Application and Annual Report for 
the Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant Program. The 
guidance is used annually by the 50 States and nine jurisdictions in 
making application for Block Grants under Title V of the Social 
Security Act, and in preparing the required annual report. The proposed 
revisions follow and build on extensive modifications made to the 
guidance and forms in 1997. The proposed revisions are of two types: 
(1) Editorial and technical revisions based on the experiences of the 
States and jurisdictions in using the guidance and forms in 1998 and 
1999; and, (2) The addition of a standard set of measures to be used in 
conducting the formal needs assessment required by Title V every five 
years. This needs assessment will be required of each State and 
jurisdiction in fiscal year 2000.
    The addition of the core set of measures for use in conducting the 
formal needs assessment follows discussions with State Maternal and 
Child Health Directors over the last two years. The changes 
incorporated in the 1997 revisions have been reflected in major changes 
in the Title V program, with much more emphasis on accountability and 
performance measurement as part of the performance partnership concept 
on which those changes were built. The inclusion now of standard 
measures for all States and jurisdictions to use in conducting the 
five-year needs assessment is a natural progression in the development 
of the Federal-State partnership process.
    Following approval of the 1997 revisions, HRSA developed and 
instituted an automated electronic data collection and reporting 
system, the Title V Electronic Reporting Package (Title V ERP). The ERP 
has greatly reduced the burden on the States and jurisdictions, because 
it provides for automatic calculations of ratios, rates, and 
percentages, carries data over from year to year, and assures that data 
used in multiple tables are entered only once. The ERP also provides 
for text entry, and facilitates the orderly printing of tables, text, 
and required appendices.
    The estimated response burden is as follows:

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                                                                          Responses
                      Type of form                          Number of        per      Burden hours  Total burden
                                                           respondents   respondent   per response      hours
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Annual Report and Application with Needs Assessment (FY
 2000):
    States..............................................            50             1           500        25,000
    Jurisdictions.......................................             9             1           270         2,430
Annual Report and Application without Needs Assessment
 (FY 2001 and FY 2002)
    States..............................................            50             1           335        16,750
    Jurisdictions.......................................             9             1           135         1,215
        Total Average Annual Reporting Burden...........  ............  ............  ............        21,122
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Wendy A. Taylor, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of 
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: February 7, 2000.
Jane Harrison
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
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