[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 48 (Friday, March 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13420-13421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-5603]


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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: The Division of Independent Review Grant Reviewer 
Recruitment Form (OMB No. 0915-0295)--Extension

    HRSA's Division of Independent Review (DIR) is responsible for 
carrying out the independent and objective review of all eligible 
applications submitted to HRSA. DIR ensures that the independent review 
process is efficient, effective, economical, and complies with 
statutes, regulations, and

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policies. The review of applications is performed by people 
knowledgeable in the field of endeavor for which support is requested 
and is advisory to individuals in HRSA responsible for making award 
decisions.
    To streamline the collection, selection, and assignment of expert 
grant reviewers to objective review committees, HRSA utilizes a Web-
based data collection Grant Reviewer Recruitment Form to gather 
critical reviewer information. The Grant Reviewer Recruitment Form 
standardizes pertinent categories of reviewer information such as areas 
of expertise, occupations, work settings, reviewer education, and 
experience. This standardized information is automatically entered into 
a centralized data base that the Division of Independent Review uses to 
determine suitability and to select appropriate reviewers for objective 
review committees that judge the merits of grant applications and 
cooperative agreements.
    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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New reviewer....................           1,380               1           1,380         45 min.           1,035
Updating reviewer information...           4,255               1           4,255         30 min.           2,128
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    Total.......................           5,635  ..............           5,635  ..............           3,163
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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: March 7, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-5603 Filed 3-10-11; 8:45 am]
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