[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3098-3099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-452]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Request for Public Comment: 60-Day Proposed Information 
Collection: Indian Health Service Chief Executive Officer Retention 
Survey

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.
SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services, 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: 0917-NEW, ``Indian Health Service Chief Executive Officer 
Retention Survey''.
    Type of Information Collection Request: New Collection.
    Form Number: None.
    Forms: The IHS Chief Executive Officer Retention Survey.
    Need and Use of Information Collection: The National Council of 
Chief Executive Officers (NCCEO) was established to ensure that the IHS 
Service Unit Chief Executive Officers (CEO) effectively participate in 
the establishment and implementation of strategies to achieve the IHS 
mission. Part of their responsibility (as stated in their Charter) 
includes: ongoing recruitment, development, and retention of 
professional CEOs. The NCCEO's purpose is to ensure that the IHS 
Service Unit CEO and their Tribal CEO counterparts effectively 
participate in the establishment and implementation of an agency 
strategy to achieve the IHS mission. The current Executive Committee is 
actively addressing recruitment, retention and succession planning for 
their constituents, the IHS CEOs. To enhance their ability to be 
effective in this challenging task, the NCCEO needs to know more about 
IHS CEOs and the issues that affect retention and recruitment including 
the competitive influences of private sector health care delivery 
systems. The chosen method to obtain this critical information from the 
CEOs of IHS, Tribal and Urban facilities is by electronic survey. The 
goal of the IHS is to raise the health status of American Indians and 
Alaska Natives to the highest possible level. To meet this goal, the 
IHS is committed to providing high quality health services to the 
eligible service population. An important factor

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in improving the quality of services is: ensuring that our clinics and 
hospitals recruit and retain the best possible CEO reasonably 
available. The proposed survey is designed to ascertain current 
demographics: age, gender, years of experience, education, pay compared 
to complexity of facilities, job satisfaction and retirement 
eligibility.
    Affected Public: Individuals.
    Type of Respondents: Individuals.
    The table below provides the estimated burden hours for this 
information collection:

                                             Estimated Burden Hours
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                                                     Estimated                        Average
           Data collection instrument                number of     Responses per    burden hour    Total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent    per response *    burden hrs
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CEO Retention Survey............................             120               1  0.15 (10 mins)             20
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*For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.

    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 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.
    Send Comment and Requests for Further Information: Send your 
written comments and requests for more information on the proposed 
collection or requests to obtain a copy of the data collection 
instruments(s) and instructions to: Mrs. Chris Rouleau, IHS Reports 
Clearance Officer, 801 Thompson Avenue, TMP 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: [email protected].
    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: January 12, 2006.
Charles W. Grim,
Assistant Surgeon General, Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 06-452 Filed 1-18-06; 8:45 am]
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