[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 21 (Friday, January 31, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5028-5029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-2348]


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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 (OMB), 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, 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

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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 be used 
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..........................           2,000               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: 
John Morrall, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503.

    Dated: January 27, 2003.
Jane M. Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 03-2348 Filed 1-30-03; 8:45 am]
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