[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 29 (Monday, February 13, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7558-7559]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1921]


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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 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 to provide suggestions to improve the guidance and 
forms. In addition, the proposed revisions are editorial and ttechnical 
revisions based on the experience of the States and jurisdictions in 
using the guidance and forms since 2003.
    Two new performance measures were developed (obesity in children 
aged 2 to 5 years; and smoking in the last trimester of pregnancy) and 
two existing performance measures were either removed entirely (low 
birth weight) or incorporated into an existing health status capacity 
indicator (eligible children receiving services under Medicaid). This 
will result in no net increase in the number of performance measures. 
In addition, the directions in the guidance for the Health Systems 
Capacity Indicators (HSCI) were expanded to enhance clarification. This 
proposed change will make it easier for the States to report on these 
indicators.
    The existing electronic system used by the States to submit their 
Block Grant Application and Annual Report has also been enhanced. 
First, using the electronic system, the narrative from the prior year's 
submission is available online in the system so that the applicant need 
only edit those sections that have changed. This feature reduces burden 
by avoiding duplicating material. For national performance measures 2-
6, the data obtained from the National Survey of Children with Special 
Health Care Needs are pre-populated which eliminates the need to 
retrieve and enter data from this survey, unless the States choose to 
use another data source. Also, notes from the prior year's submission 
are available to the States allowing for more efficient updating 
through edits rather then recreating them. Data are entered once (in a 
data entry field on a given form), and where those data are referenced 
elsewhere, the value is copied and displayed. The electronic system 
includes an automatic character counter that tells the user how many 
characters the States have left. This eliminates the need to 
independently track entries against the Maternal and Child Health 
Bureau's limits for each section to ensure compliance. The electronic 
system includes forms status checker and data alerts, which conduct 
automated checks on data validity, data consistency, and application 
completeness, as well as value tolerance checks. This feature 
facilitates application review and eliminates much of the previously 
required data cleaning activity. Also, this allows the user to obtain 
an immediate update at any point in time on the completeness and 
compliance of the application, reducing the need to conduct a review of 
the application. Data are saved directly to the HRSA server so that no 
manual transmission is required. Finally, the automatic commitment of 
data to the HRSA server eliminates the need for version control or data 
migration.
    The estimated average annual burden per year is as follows for the 
Annual Report and Application without the Needs Assessment:

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                                                     Number of     Responses per   Burden hours    Total burden
               Type of respondent                   respondents     respondent     per response        hours
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States..........................................              50               1             297          14,868
Jurisdictions...................................               9               1             120           1,077
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    Total.......................................              59  ..............  ..............          15,945
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    Burden in the 3 Year Reporting Cycle for the Annual Report and 
Application with Needs Assessment is:

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                                                     Number of     Burden hours    Responses per   Total burden
                Needs assessment                    respondents    per response     respondent         hours
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States/Jurisdictions............................              59           378.5               1          22,303
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    Total Average Burden for 3 year cycle.......  ..............  ..............  ..............          18,064
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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

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and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503.

    Dated: February 6, 2006.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
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