[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 95 (Tuesday, May 18, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 27787]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-11835]


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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 collection 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 Office on (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: Data Collection Tool for State Offices of Rural 
Health Grant Program

(OMB No. 0915-0322)--Extension

    The mission of the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) is to 
sustain and improve access to quality care services for rural 
communities. In its authorizing language (Sec. 711 of the Social 
Security Act [42 U.S.C. 912]), Congress charged ORHP with administering 
grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to provide technical 
assistance and other activities as necessary to support activities 
related to improving health care in rural areas.
    In accordance with the Public Health Service Act, Section 338J; 42 
U.S.C. 254r, the Health Resources and Services Administration proposes 
to revise the State Offices of Rural Health Grant Program--Guidance and 
Forms for the Application. The guidance is used annually by 50 States 
in writing applications for grants under the State Offices of Rural 
Health (SORH) Grant Program of the Public Health Service Act, and in 
preparing the required report.
    ORHP seeks to expand the information gathered from grantees on 
their efforts to provide technical assistance to clients within their 
State. SORH grantees would be required to submit a Technical Assistance 
Report that includes: (1) The total number of technical assistance 
encounters provided directly by the Grantee; and, (2) the total number 
of unduplicated clients that received direct technical assistance from 
the grantee. Submission of the Technical Assistance Report would be 
done via e-mail to ORHP no later than 30 days after the end of each 
twelve month budget period.
    The estimated average annual burden is as follows:

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                                                     Number of     Responses per   Burden hours    Total burden
                      Form                          respondents     respondent     per response        hours
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Technical Assistance Report.....................              50               1            12.5             625
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    Total.......................................              50  ..............  ..............             625
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: May 11, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-11835 Filed 5-17-10; 8:45 am]
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