[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 12, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1622-1623]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-364]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for the opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more 
information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data 
collection plans and draft instruments, e-mail [email protected] or 
call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1129.
    Comments are invited on: (a) The proposal to continue collection of 
information for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency; 
(b) the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.

Proposed Project: Ryan White Treatment and Modernization Act Part A 
Minority AIDS Initiative Report (the Part A MAI Report) (OMB No. 0915-
0304): Extension

    HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) administers Part A of Title XXVI of 
the Public Health Service Act as amended by Congress in October 2009 
(Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009). Part A provides 
emergency relief for areas with substantial need for HIV/AIDS care and 
support services that are most severely affected by the HIV/AIDS 
epidemic, including eligible metropolitan areas (EMA) and

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Transitional Grant Areas (TGAs). As a component of Part A (previously 
Title I), the purpose of the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) Supplement 
is to improve access to high quality HIV care services and health 
outcomes for individuals in disproportionately impacted communities of 
color who are living with HIV disease, including African-Americans, 
Latinos, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native 
Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (Section 2693(b)(2)(A) of the Public 
Health Service (PHS) Act). Since the purpose of the Part A MAI is to 
expand access to medical, health, and social support services for 
disproportionately impacted racial/ethnic minority populations living 
with HIV/AIDS, who are not yet in care, it is important that HRSA is 
able to report on minorities served by the Part A MAI.
    The Part A MAI Report is a data collection instrument in which 
grantees report on the number and characteristics of clients served and 
services provided. The Part A MAI Report, first approved for use in 
March 2006, is designed to collect performance data from Part A 
Grantees that will not change, and it has two parts: (1) A Web-based 
data entry application that collects standardized quantitative and 
qualitative information, and (2) an accompanying narrative report.
    Grantees submit two Part A MAI Reports annually: Part A MAI Plan 
(Plan) and the Part A MAI Year-End Annual Report (Annual Report). The 
Plan and Annual Report components of the report are linked to minimize 
the reporting burden, and include drop-down menu responses, fields for 
reporting budget, expenditure and aggregated client level data, and 
open-ended responses for describing client or service-level outcomes. 
Together the Plan and Annual Report components collect information from 
grantees on MAI-funded services, expenditure patterns, the number and 
demographics of clients served, and client-level outcomes.
    The MAI Plan Narrative that accompanies the Plan Web-forms provides 
(1) an explanation of the data submitted in the Plan Web forms; (2) a 
summary of the Plan, including the plan and timeline for disbursing 
funds, monitoring service delivery, and implementing any service-
related capacity development or technical assistance activities; and 
(3) the plan and timeline for documenting client-level outcome 
measures. In addition, if the EMA/TGA revised any planned services, 
allocation amounts or target communities after their grant application 
was submitted, the changes must be highlighted and explained. The 
accompanying MAI Annual Report Narrative describes (1) progress towards 
achieving specific goals and objectives identified in the Grantee's 
approved MAI Plan for that fiscal year and in linking MAI services/
activities to Part A and other Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program services; 
(2) achievements in relation to client-level health outcomes; (3) 
summary of challenges or barriers at the provider or grantee levels, 
the strategies and/or action steps implemented to address them, and 
lessons learned; and (4) discussion of MAI technical assistance needs 
identified by the EMA/TGA.
    This information is needed to monitor and assess: (1) Changes in 
the type and amount of HIV/AIDS health care and related services being 
provided to each disproportionately impacted community of color; (2) 
the aggregate number of persons receiving HIV/AIDS services within each 
racial and ethnic community; and (3) the impact of Part A MAI-funded 
services in terms of client-level and service-level health outcomes. 
The information also is used to plan new technical assistance and 
capacity development activities and inform the HRSA policy and program 
management functions. The data provided to HRSA does not contain 
individual or personally identifiable information.
    The annual estimated response burden for grantees is as follows:

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                                     Estimated
              Form                   number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Part A MAI Report...............              56               2             112           5 hrs             560
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Note: Data collection system enhancements have resulted in a shortened response burden (from 6 to 5 total hours
  per response) for respondents since the previous OMB approval request.

    E-mail comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA Reports 
Clearance Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, Maryland 20857. Written comments should be received within 
60 days of this notice.

    Dated: January 6, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Deputy Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
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