[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 130 (Monday, July 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37248-37249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-13169]


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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: ``Health Care and Other Facilities'' Project Status 
Update Form: NEW

    The Health Resources and Services Administration's Health Care and 
Other Facilities (HCOF) program provides earmarked funds to health-
related

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facilities for construction-related activities and/or capital equipment 
purchases. Awarded facilities are required to provide a periodic 
(quarterly for construction-related projects, annually for equipment 
only projects) update of the status of the funded project until it is 
completed. The monitoring period averages about 3 years, although some 
projects take up to 5 years to complete. The information collected from 
these updates is vital to program management staff to determine whether 
projects are progressing according to the established timeframes, 
meeting deadlines established in the Notice of Grant Award (NGA), and 
drawing down funds appropriately. The data collected from the updates 
is also shared with the Division of Grants Management Operations (DGMO) 
and the Division of Engineering Services (DES) for their assistance in 
the overall evaluation of each project's progress.
    An electronic form has been developed for progress reporting for 
the HCOF program. This form will provide awardees access to directly 
input the required status update information in a timely, consistent, 
and uniform manner. The electronic form will minimize burden to 
respondents and will inform respondents when there are missing data 
elements prior to submission.
    The estimate of burden for the form is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Response per        Total         Hours per     Total burden
          Project type              respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Construction-Related............             395               4           1,580              .5             790
Equipment Only..................             523               1             523              .5             262
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    Total.......................             918  ..............           2,103  ..............           1,052
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Karen Matsuoka, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of 
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: June 28, 2007.
Caroline Lewis,
Associate Administrator for Management.
 [FR Doc. E7-13169 Filed 7-6-07; 8:45 am]
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