[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 180 (Friday, September 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 57037]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-23260]


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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: Black Lung Clinics Program Database (OMB No. 
0915-0292)--Revision
    The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP), Health Resources and 
Services Administration, conducts an annual data collection of user 
information for the Black Lung Program. This has been ongoing with OMB 
approval since 2004. The purpose of the Black Lung Clinic Program is to 
improve the health status of coal workers by providing services to 
minimize the effects of respiratory and pulmonary impairments of coal 
miners, treatment procedures required in the management of problems 
associated with black lung disease which improves the quality of life 
or the miner and reduces economic costs associated with morbidity and 
mortality arising from pulmonary diseases. The purpose of collecting 
this data is to provide HRSA with information on how well each grantee 
is meeting the needs of active and retired miners in the funded 
communities.
    Data from the annual report will provide quantitative information 
about the programs, specifically: (a) The characteristics of the 
patients they serve (gender, age, disability level, occupation type); 
(b) the characteristics of services provided (medical encounters, non-
medical encounters, benefits counseling, or outreach); and (c) the 
number of patients served. The annual report will be updated to include 
a qualitative measure on the percent of patients that show improvement 
in pulmonary function. This assessment will provide data useful to the 
program and will enable HRSA to provide data required by Congress under 
the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. It will also ensure 
that funds are being effectively used to provide services to meet the 
needs of the target population.
    There has been a modification to a long term Black Lung performance 
measures. The new measure will be the evaluation of the quality of 
spirometry performed by the clinic. The evaluation of coal miners for 
the presence of disabling pneumoconiosis depends on well performed, 
valid and accurate lung function testing. There is no additional burden 
on the grantee to collect this information since the grantees are 
currently collecting this data.
    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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Database...........................................................              15                1                1               10              150
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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: September 13, 2010.
Sahira Rafiullah,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-23260 Filed 9-16-10; 8:45 am]
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