[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 20 (Wednesday, January 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4511-4512]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-1464]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: OS-0990-0220; 60-Day Notice]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), 
Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following 
summary of a proposed collection for public comment. Interested persons 
are invited to send comments regarding this burden estimate or any 
other aspect of this collection of information, including any of the 
following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility of the proposed 
information collection for the proper performance of the agency's 
functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to 
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology to minimize the information collection 
burden.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Extension.
    Title of Information Collection: Voluntary Academic and Industry 
Partner Surveys to Implement Executive Order 12862 and 5 U.S.C. 305 for 
the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
    Form/OMB No.: 0990-0220.
    Use: The Office of Acquisition Management Policy (OAMP) under the 
Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (ASAM) and the 
Office of Grants (OG) under the Assistant Secretary for Resources and

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Technology (ASRT), Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and 
Human Services (HHS) request that the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) extend its existing approval under Clearance No. 0990-0220 for 
HHS to undertake voluntary surveys of HHS' partners in academia and 
industry (e.g., Principal Investigators, business offices, and vendors) 
through January 31, 2010. To comply with Executive Order 12862, Setting 
Customer Service Standards (the EO), HHS again plans to systematically 
survey its grant recipients and contractors to compile their 
evaluations of the Department's grants and procurement processes, and 
to improve the way we conduct business with them.
    These voluntary surveys will continue to be a collaborative effort, 
with OAMP and OG providing leadership, oversight, and a methodology; 
and the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) conducting the surveys for 
their own operations. Each OPDIV will conduct web-based surveys of its 
partners to obtain feedback for improving business processes. The grant 
recipients and contractors to be surveyed are sufficiently familiar 
with the Department and its OPDIVs to make this feedback extremely 
useful. These surveys will give OAMP, OG, and each of the OPDIVs an 
opportunity to understand and evaluate grant and procurement quality 
standards, as well as to incorporate best industry or public sector 
standards into OPDIV practices.
    Frequency: Reporting every 3 years.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit, Not-for-profit 
institutions, Federal Government.
    Annual Number of Respondents: 2133.
    Total Annual Responses: 2133.
    Average Burden per Response: 10.75 minutes.
    Total Annual Hours: 382.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, e-mail your 
request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, and OS 
document identifier, to [email protected], or call the 
Reports Clearance Office on (202) 690-6162. Written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collections must be 
received within 60 days, and directed to the OS Paperwork Clearance 
Officer at the following address: Department of Health and Human 
Services, Office of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Resources 
and Technology, Office of Resources Management, Attention: Sherrette 
Funn-Coleman (0990-0220), Room 537-H, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, DC 20201.

    Dated: January 23, 2007.
Alice Bettencourt,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance 
Officer.
[FR Doc. E7-1464 Filed 1-30-07; 8:45 am]
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