[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 152 (Monday, August 9, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47817-47818]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-19549]


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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: Title: ``Health Care and Other Facilities'' 
Project Status Update Form (OMB No. 0915-0309)--[Extension] .
    The Health Resources and Services Administration's Health Care and 
Other Facilities (HCOF) program provides congressionally-directed funds 
to health-related facilities for construction-related activities and/or 
capital equipment purchases. Awarded facilities are required to provide 
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), and drawing down funds appropriately. The

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data collected from the updates is also shared with the Division of 
Grants Management Operations (DGMO) for their assistance in the overall 
evaluation of each project's progress.
    An electronic form is currently being used for progress reporting 
for the HCOF program. This form provides awardees access to directly 
input the required status update information in a timely, consistent, 
and uniform manner. The electronic form minimizes burden to respondents 
and informs respondents when there are missing data elements prior to 
submission. We acknowledge a change in the burden estimate due to close 
out of old projects, and the addition of new projects for FY 2010.
    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............             481               4           1,924              .5             962
Equipment Only..................           1,238               1           1,238              .5             619
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    Total.......................           1,719  ..............           3,162  ..............           1,581
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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: August 3, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-19549 Filed 8-6-10; 8:45 am]
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