[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 25, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4150-4151]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-893]


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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: Maternal and Child Health Bureau Performance Measures 
for Discretionary Grants (OMB No. 0915-0272)

    The Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) intends to continue to 
collect performance data for Special Projects of Regional and National 
Significance (SPRANS), Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS), and 
other grant programs administered by MCHB.
    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) proposes to 
continue using reporting requirements for SPRANS projects, CISS 
projects, and other grant programs administered by MCHB, including 
national performance measures, previously approved by OMB, and in 
accordance with the ``Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 
1993'' (Pub. L. 103-62). This Act requires the establishment of

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measurable goals for Federal Programs that can be reported as part of 
the budgetary process, thus linking funding decisions with performance. 
Performance measures for MCHB discretionary grants were initially 
approved in January 2003. Approval from OMB is being sought to continue 
the use of these measures. The number of measures has been reduced with 
the transfer of a program to the Administration for Children and 
Families. The remaining performance measures are unchanged from those 
approved in 2003. Some of these measures are specific to certain types 
of programs, and will not apply to all grantees. Furthermore, these 
measures are based primarily on existing data, thereby minimizing the 
response burden consistent with program administration and management 
needs.
    The estimated response burden is as follows:

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                                                               Number of        Responses per                           Burden per        Total burden
                           Form                               respondents         respondent      Total  responses       response            hours
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Grant Report.............................................               631                  1                631                  6              3,786
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
John Kraemer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503.

    Dated: January 19, 2006.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E6-893 Filed 1-24-06; 8:45 am]
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