[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 4, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 23772]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-10456]


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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 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 proposed 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: ``Health Care and Other Facilities'' Construction 
Program: Web-Based Status Reporting Form: (OMB No. 0915-0309)--
[Extension]

    The Health Resources and Services Administration's Health Care and 
Other Facilities (HCOF) Construction Program provides congressional 
directed funds to health facilities for construction-related activities 
and/or capital equipment purchases. Awarded facilities are required to 
provide HRSA with a periodic (quarterly for construction-related 
projects, annually for equipment only projects) update of the status of 
the funded project until it is completed. The monitoring period 
averages about 3 years, although some projects take up to 5 years to 
complete. The information collected from these updates is vital to 
program management staff to determine whether projects are progressing 
according to the established timeframes, meeting deadlines established 
in the Notice of Grant Award (NGA), drawing down funds appropriately. 
The data collected from the updates is also shared with the Division of 
Grants Management Operations (DGMO), which assists in the overall 
evaluation of each project's progress. A Web-based form has been 
developed for progress reporting for the HCOF program. This form will 
allow awardees the ability to directly input the required status update 
information in a timely, consistent, and uniform manner. The Web-based 
form will minimize burden to respondents and will inform respondents 
when there are missing data elements prior to submission.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total  burden
           Instrument               respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Construction-Related............             357               4            1428              .5             714
Equipment Only..................             905               1             905              .5             453
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      Total.....................            1262  ..............            2333  ..............            1167
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    E-mail comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA Reports 
Clearance Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.

    Dated: April 27, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-10456 Filed 5-3-10; 8:45 am]
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