[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12545-12546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5673]


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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 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 Officer at (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: 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 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, 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.

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    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              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 
30 days of this notice.

    Dated: March 5, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-5673 Filed 3-15-10; 8:45 am]
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