[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 26, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14667-14668]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-7089]


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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:

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Proposed Project: Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block 
Grant Program--Guidance and Forms for the Title V Application/Annual 
Report (OMB No. 0915-0172)--Revision

    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) proposes to 
revise the Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant 
Program--Guidance and Forms for the Application/Annual Report. The 
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 proposed 
revisions follow and build on extensive consultation received from a 
Workgroup convened in 2002 to provide suggestions for improving the 
guidance and forms. The proposed revisions are editorial and technical 
revisions in nature, and are based on the experience of the States and 
jurisdictions using previous versions of the guidance. Changes include 
consolidating the narrative to reduce redundancy, and reducing the 
number of Health Status Indicators (HSI) required in the application/
annual report.
    In addition, HRSA proposes changing the format for electronic 
submission to direct web entry. Web based data and text entry will 
provide for automatic calculation of ratios, rates, and percentages, 
carry data over year-to-year, and assure that data used in multiple 
tables are entered only once. It will also facilitate the orderly 
printing of tables, text, and required appendices.
    The guidance used annually by the 50 States and 9 jurisdictions had 
a previous estimated burden of 358 hours. Based on the new revisions 
and more efficient electronic submission, the estimated burden has been 
reduced by 5% to 322 hours. The estimated response burden is 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, with needs
 assessment *:
    States......................................              50               1             428          21,400
    Jurisdictions...............................               9               1             228           2,052
Application and Annual Report, without needs
 assessment *:
    States......................................              50               1             313          15,658
    Jurisdictions...............................               9               1             126          1,134
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* The Application and Annual Report, with needs assessment, will be submitted in FY 2005. The Application and
  Annual Report, without needs assessment, will be submitted in FY 2003 and FY 2004. The average annual total
  burden hours for the next three years is 19,007. The average annual burden per respondent 322 hours.

    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: March 19, 2003.
Jane M. Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 03-7089 Filed 3-25-03; 8:45 am]
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