[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73336-73337]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-28541]


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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, e-mail 
[email protected] or 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 to apply 
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.
    The changes in this edition of the Maternal and Child Health 
Services Title V Block Grant Program Guidance and Forms for the Title V 
Application/Annual Report are primarily revisions to Section II--Needs 
Assessment. The purpose of these revisions is: (1) To provide more 
complete information on the Background and Conceptual Framework for the 
Needs Assessment Process (Part A); (2) to clarify what State grantees 
are to include in the Five Year Needs Assessment Document (Part B); (3) 
to better explain the information to include in the Annual Needs 
Assessment Summary/Update, both in the year when the five year Needs 
Assessment is conducted and in interim years (Part C); and (4) to 
update Figure 2, the Needs Assessment diagram, to reflect all aspects 
of the Needs Assessment process. In addition, other minor changes and 
clarifications are included throughout the document to make the 
instructions clearer for the respondent. Such changes include the 
clarification of headings and the types of information that States may 
want to include in a particular section.
    The estimated average annual burden is as follows:

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                                                                                                                      Total
                Reporting document                    Number of     Responses per       Total        Burden per       burden      Cost per    Total hour
                                                     respondents     respondent       responses       response        hours         hour         cost
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Application and Report without Needs Assessment                59               1              59             270       15,930          $30     $477,900
 (2009 & 2011)...................................
Application with Needs Assessment (2010).........              59               1              59           378.5       22,332           30      669,960
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    Total Average Annual Burden..................              59  ..............              59             306       18,064           30     541,920
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The total estimate of annual burden is the average for the next three year period of Application submissions in which a Needs Assessment will be
  required once. The Application submissions (with and without the Needs Assessment) are based on the calendar year.


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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to OIRA 
[email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: November 24, 2008.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E8-28541 Filed 12-1-08; 8:45 am]
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