[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 75 (Monday, April 19, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20942-20943]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-8717]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Proposed Information Collection: Request for Public Comment: 60-
Day Notice

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Request for public comment: 60-day proposed collection; IHS 
Urban Indian Health Program common reporting requirements.

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SUMMARY: The Indian Health Service, as part of its continuing effort to 
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance 
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies 
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing 
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (PRA95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program helps to 
ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, 
reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, 
collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of 
collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. 
Currently, the Indian Health Service (IHS) is providing a 60-day 
advance opportunity for public comment on a proposed extension of 
current information collection activity to be submitted to the Office 
of Management and Budget for review.

Proposed Collection

    Title: 09-17-0007, ``IHS Urban Indian Health Program Common 
Reporting Requirements''.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of a currently 
approved collection.
    Form Number: Reporting formats contained in the Indian Health 
Service Urban Indian Health Program Common Reporting Requirements 
Instruction Manual.
    Need and Use of Information Collection: American Indian/Alaska 
Native (AI/AN) urban health organizations contracting with the IHS 
provide the information collected. The information is collected 
annually and is used to monitor contractor performance, prepare budget 
reports, allocate resources, and evaluate the urban health contract 
program.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations, 
individuals, not-for-profit institutions, and State, local, or tribal 
government.
    Type of Respondents: Health care providers.
    The table below summarizes the annual burden hour for this 
collection.

                                         Estimated Burden Response Table
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                                   Estimated                                     Average burden
  Data collection instruments      number of     Responses per   Annual number   hr per response   Total annual
                                  respondents     respondent     of  responses         \1\          burden hrs
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Face Sheet....................              34               1              34  0.50 (30 mins)..            17.0
Table 1.......................              34               1              34  2.00 (120 mins).            68.0
Table 2.......................              34               1              34  0.75 (45 mins)..            25.5
Table 3.......................              34               1              34  2.25 (135 mins).            76.5
Table 3A......................              34               1              34  1.05 (65 mins)..            36.0
Table 3B......................              34               1              34  0.25 (15 mins)..             8.5
Table 3C......................              34               1              34  0.33 (20 mins)..            11.0
Table 3D......................              34               1              34  1.25 (75 mins)..            42.5
Table 4.......................           \(2)\               1           \(2)\  0.50 (30 mins)..            17.0
Table 5.......................              34               1              34  2.00 (120 mins).            68.0
Table 6.......................              34               1              34  2.00 (120 mins).            68.0
Table 7.......................              34               1              34  1.00 (60 mins)..            34.0
Table 8.......................              34               1              34  1.25 (75 mins)..            42.5
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      Total...................             480              14             480  15.13 (910 mins)          514.5
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\1\ For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.
\2\ Excludes urban Indian health projects with no medical component.

    There are no Capital Costs, Operating Costs, and/or Maintenance 
Costs to report.
    Request for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are 
invited on one or more of the following points: (a) Whether the 
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency 
function; (b) whether the agency processes the information collection 
in a useful and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of public burden 
estimate (the estimated amount of time needed for individual 
respondents to provide the requested information); (d) whether the 
methodology and assumptions used to determine the estimate are logical; 
(e) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information being collected; and (f) ways to minimize the public burden 
through the use of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Send Comments and Requests for Information: Send your written 
comments and suggestions regarding the proposed information collection 
contained in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public 
burden and associated response time, and send requests for more 
information on the proposed collection or to obtain a copy of the data 
collection instrument(s) and instructions to: Ms. Christine Ingersoll, 
IHS Reports Clearance Office, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 450, 
Rockville, MD 20852-1601, call non-toll free (301) 443-5938, send via 
facsimile to (301) 443-2316, or send your e-mail requests, comments, 
and return address to: [email protected].
    For Further Information directly pertaining to the proposed data 
reporting formats contained in the Indian Health Service Urban Indian 
Health Programs Common Reporting Requirements Instruction Manual and/or 
the process for handling such formats, please contact Karen Boyle, 
Reyes Building, Suite 200, 801

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Thompson Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852-1627, Telephone (301) 443-4680.
    Comment Due Date: Your comments regarding this information 
collection are best assured of having their full effect if received 
within 60 days of the date of this publication.

    Dated: April 12, 2004.
Charles W. Grim,
Assistant Surgeon General, Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 04-8717 Filed 4-16-04; 8:45 am]
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