[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 84 (Monday, May 4, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20485-20486]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-10048]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Indian Health Service
Request for Public Comment: 30-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 30 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 (0MB)
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 IHS 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 works 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 website 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 approve, 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
requirement 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).
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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 non-toll free (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 30
days of the date of this publication.
Dated: April 27, 2009.
Robert G McSwain,
Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. E9-10048 Filed 5-1-09; 8:45 am]
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