[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 39 (Monday, February 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10503-10504]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4533]


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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: Voluntary Partner Surveys To Implement Executive 
Order 12862 in the Health Resources and Services Administration--
(OMB 0915-0212)--Extension

    In response to Executive Order 12862, the Health Resources and 
Services Administration (HRSA) is proposing to conduct voluntary 
customer surveys of its ``partners'' to assess strengths and weaknesses 
in program services. A generic approval is being requested from OMB to 
conduct the partner surveys. HRSA partners are typically State or local 
governments, health care facilities,

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health care consortia, health care providers, and researchers.
    Partner surveys to be conducted by HRSA might include, for example, 
mail or telephone surveys of grantees to determine satisfaction with a 
technical assistance contractor, or in-class evaluation forms completed 
by providers who receive training from HRSA grantees to measure 
satisfaction with the training experience. Results of these surveys 
will be used to plan and redirect resources and efforts as needed to 
improve service. Focus groups may also beused to gain partner input 
into the design of mail and telephone surveys. Focus groups in-class 
evaluation forms, mail surveys, and telephone surveys are expected to 
be the preferred methodologies.
    A generic approval will permit HRSA to conduct a limited number of 
partner surveys without a full-scale OMB review of each survey. If 
generic approval is granted, information on each individual partner 
survey will not be published in the Federal Register.
    The estimated response burden is as follows:

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                                                     Number of     Responses per     Hours per      Total hour
                 Type of survey                     respondents     respondent       response         burden
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In-class evaluations............................          40,000               1             .05           2,000
Mail/Telephone surveys..........................          12,000               1             .25           3,000
Focus groups....................................              50               1            1.5               75
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    Total.......................................          52,050  ..............  ..............           5,075
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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 16, 2000.
Jane Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 00-4533 Filed 2-25-00; 8:45 am]
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