[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 169 (Wednesday, September 1, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53453-53454]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19880]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Proposed Information Collection: Request for Public Comment: 30-
Day Notice

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION:  Request for public comment: 30-day proposed information 
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 collection 
of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(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. As required by section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the 
Act, the proposed information collection has been submitted to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The IHS 
received no comments in response to the 60-day Federal Register notice 
(FR 04-8721) published on 4/19/04. The purpose of this notice is to 
allow an additional 30 days for public comment to be submitted directly 
to OMB.

Proposed Collection

    Title: 0917-0007, ``IHS Urban Indian Health Program Common 
Reporting Requirements.''
    Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently 
approved information collection.
    Form Number: The report formats are contained in IHS instruction 
manual, ``Urban Indian Health Programs Common Reporting Requirements.'' 
The reporting formats have been computerized for electronic data 
submission.
    Need and Use of Information Collection: IHS contracts with urban 
Indian organizations to: access and identify health services available 
to urban Indians; provide health education and health services to urban 
Indians; identify the unmet health needs of urban Indians; and, make 
recommendations on methods to improve health services provided to urban 
Indians. The information is collected annually and used to: monitor 
contractor performance; prepare budget reports; allocate resources; 
and, access and evaluate the urban Indian health contract programs.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, not-for-profit 
institutions, and State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Type of Respondents: Urban Indian Health care organizations.
    The table below provides the following: types of data collection 
instruments, estimated number of respondents, number of responses per 
respondent, annual number of responses, average burden hours per 
response, and total annual burden hours.

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                                   Estimated                                     Average burden
  Data collection instruments      number of     Responses per  Annual  number       hrs per       Total annual
                                  respondents     respondent     of  responses     response\*\      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.......................            (**)               1  ..............  0.50 (30 mins)..            17.0

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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.....................             408              14             408  15.13 (910 mins)          514.5
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\*\ For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.
\**\ Excludes Urban Indian Health projects with no medical component.

    There are no Capital Costs, Operating Costs and/or Maintenance 
Costs required for this collection of information.
    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 collected 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.
    Direct Comments to OMB: 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, directly to: Office of Management and Budget, Office of 
Regulatory Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Allison Eydt, Desk Officer for IHS.
    Send requests for more information on the proposed collection or to 
obtain a copy of the data collection instrument(s) and instructions to: 
Ms. Christina 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 
collection instruments and/or the process, please contact Karen Boyle, 
Reyes Building, 801 Thompson Avenue, Suite 200, 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 30 days of the date of this publication.

    Dated: August 6, 2004.
Charles W. Grim,
Assistant Surgeon General, Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 04-19880 Filed 8-31-04; 8:45 am]
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