[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 5 (Friday, January 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1183-1184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-99]


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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, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the OMB for review 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995:

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Proposed Project: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program: Client-Level Data 
Reporting System: (OMB No. 0915-0323)--[Revision]

    The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program's client-level data reporting 
system, entitled the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report or the 
Ryan White Services Report (RSR), was created in 2008 by the Health 
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). It is designed to collect 
information from grantees, as well as their subcontracted services 
providers, funded under Parts A, B, C, and D, and the Part F Minority 
AIDS Initiative of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 
2009 (Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program). The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program 
provides Federal HIV/AIDS Programs in the Public Health Service (PHS) 
Act under Title XXVI with flexibility to respond effectively to the 
changing HIV epidemic, with an emphasis on providing life-saving and 
life-extending services for people living with HIV/AIDS across this 
country, as well as targeting resources to areas that have the greatest 
needs.
    All parts of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program specify HRSA's 
responsibilities in the administration of grant funds, the allocation 
of funds, the evaluation of programs for the population served, and the 
improvement of the quality of care. Accurate records of the providers 
receiving Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funding, the services provided, 
and the clients served, continue to be critical issues for the 
implementation of the legislation and are necessary for HRSA to fulfill 
its responsibilities.
    The RSR provides data on the characteristics of Ryan White HIV/AIDS 
Program-funded grantees, their contracted service providers, and the 
clients being served with program funds. The Report is intended to 
support clinical quality management, performance measurement, service 
delivery, and client monitoring at the system and client levels. The 
reporting system consists of two online data forms, the Grantee Report 
and the Service Provider Report, as well as a data file containing the 
client-level data elements. Data are submitted annually.
    The legislation specifies grantee accountability and linking 
performance to budget. The RSR is used to ensure compliance with the 
requirements of the legislation, to evaluate the progress of programs, 
to monitor grantee and provider performance, to measure the Government 
Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and the Performance Assessment 
Rating Tool (PART) goals, and to meet reporting responsibilities to the 
Department, Congress, and OMB.
    In addition to meeting the goal of accountability to Congress, 
clients, advocacy groups, and the general public, information collected 
through the RSR is critical for HRSA, State and local grantees, and 
individual providers to assess the status of existing HIV-related 
service delivery systems to investigate trends in service utilization 
and to identify areas of greatest need.
    The estimated average annualized hour burden is 17,975 hours per 
year. Burden estimates are broken down into burden to grantee 
respondents and burden to service provider respondents. Estimates for 
grantees and service providers are further divided by the RSR 
component. Estimates for grantees and providers are based on prior 
experience in collecting, maintaining, and reporting data using the RSR 
and interviews with volunteers from grantee agencies.
    The response burden for grantees is estimated as:

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                                    Source of        Number of     Responses per     Hours per      Total hour
           Component                 funding        respondents       grantee        response         burden
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Grantee Report................  Part A..........              56               1            2.04             114
                                Part B..........              59               1            2.52             149
                                Part C..........             354               1            0.32             113
                                Part D..........              98               1            0.33              32
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                                   Subtotal.....             567  ..............  ..............             408
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    The response burden for service providers is estimated as:

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                                    Number of      Responses per       Total         Hours per      Total hour
           Component               respondents       provider        responses       response         burden
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Service Provider Report.......  * 2,080.........               1         * 2,080            2.30           4,784
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* All providers, including providers of administrative support services and direct client services.


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                                                                             Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per      Total hour
                 Component                     Electronic data system       respondents      provider        responses       response         burden
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Client Report.............................  No..........................              56               1              56          106.25           5,950
                                            Yes.........................           1,822               1           1,822            3.75         6,832.5
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                                               Subtotal.................        ** 1,878  ..............        ** 1,878  ..............          12,783
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** Providers of direct client services only.

    Total Burden is 17,975.
    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this Federal 
Register Notice to the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to 
OIRA-- [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct 
all correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: January 3, 2011.
Robert Hendricks,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-99 Filed 1-6-11; 8:45 am]
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