[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 28, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 4963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-1794]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Request for Public Comment: 60-Day Proposed Information 
Collection: Indian Health Service Director's Three Initiative Best 
Practice, Promising Practice, and Local Effort Form

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 which requires 60 days for public comment on 
proposed information collection projects, the Indian Health Service 
(IHS) is publishing for comment a summary of a proposed information 
collection to be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for review.
    Proposed Collection: Title: 0917-NEW, ``Indian Health Service 
Director's Three Initiative Best Practice, Promising Practice, and 
Local Effort Form.'' Type of Information Collection Request: Three year 
approval of this new information collection, 0917-NEW, ``Indian Health 
Service Director's Three Initiative Best Practice, Promising Practice, 
and Local Effort (BPPPLE) Form.''
    Form(s): The Indian Health Service BPPPLE form. Need and Use of 
Information Collection: The Indian Health Service (IHS) goal is to 
raise the health status of the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/
AN) people to the highest possible level by providing comprehensive 
health care and preventive health services. To support the HiS mission, 
the Director's Three Initiative was launched which is comprised of 
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HP/DP), Behavioral Health (BH) 
and Chronic Care (CC). The Director's Three Initiative is linked 
together in their aim to reduce health disparities and improve the 
health and wellness among the AI/AN populations through a coordinated 
and systematic approach to enhance health promotion, and chronic 
disease and mental health prevention methods at the local, regional, 
and national levels.
    To provide the product/service to IHS, Tribal, and Urban (I/T/U) 
programs, the Director's Three Initiative work together to develop a 
centralized program database of Best/Promising Practices (BPP). The 
purpose of this collection is to develop a database of BPP to be 
published on the IHS.gov Web site which will be a resource for program 
evaluation and for modeling examples of HP/DP, BH, and CC projects 
occurring in AI/AN communities.
    This is a request that OMB approves, under the Paperwork Reduction 
Act, an IHS information collection initiative to promote submission of 
``Best and Promising Practices and Local Efforts'' among the I/T/U.
    All information submitted is on a voluntary basis; no legal basis 
exists for collection of this information.
    The information collected will enable the Director's Three 
Initiative program to: (a) Identify evidence based approaches to 
prevention programs among the I/T/U when no system is currently in 
place; and (b) Allow the program managers to review BPPPLE occurring 
among the I/T/U when considering program planning for their community.
    Affected Public: Individuals. Type of Respondents: I/T/U 
organizations program staff.
    The table below provides: Types of data collection instruments, 
Number of respondents, Responses per respondent, Average burden hour 
per response, and Total annual burden hour(s).
    Estimated Burden Hours

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                                                                                      Average
          Data collection instrument(s)              Number of     Responses per    burden hour    Total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response    burden hours
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IHS Service Unit, Tribal, and Urban Indian                   100               1           20/60            33.3
 Center Administrators..........................
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    Total.......................................             100  ..............  ..............            33.3
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    There are no Capital Costs, Operating Costs, and/or Maintenance 
Costs to report.
    Request for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are 
invited on one or more of the following points: (a) Whether the 
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency 
function; (b) whether the agency processes the information collected in 
a useful and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of the public burden 
estimate (the estimated amount of time needed for individual 
respondents to provide the requested information); (d) whether the 
methodology and assumptions used to determine the estimates are 
logical; (e) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information being collected; and (f) ways to minimize the public burden 
through the use of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Send Comments and Requests for Further Information: Send your 
written comments, requests for more information on the proposed 
collection, or requests to obtain a copy of the data collection 
instrument(s) and instructions to: Ms. Betty Gould, Regulations 
Officer, 801 Thompson Avenue, TMP, Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852-1627; 
call (301) 443-7899; send via facsimile to (301) 443-9879; or send your 
e-mail requests, comments, and return address to: [email protected].
    Comment Due Date: Your comments regarding this information 
collection are best assured of having full effect if received within 60 
days of the date of this publication.

    Dated: January 21, 2009.
Robert G. McSwain,
Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. E9-1794 Filed 1-27-09; 8:45 am]
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