[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 118 (Monday, June 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 35900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-15194]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more 
information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data 
collection plans and draft instruments, call the HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer on (301) 443-1129.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.

Proposed Project: Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) Uniform Data 
System (OMB No. 0915-0193--Revision)

    The Uniform Data System (UDS) contains the annual reporting 
requirements for the cluster of primary care grantees funded by the 
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The UDS includes 
reporting requirements for grantees of the following primary care 
programs: Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care 
for the Homeless, and Public Housing Primary Care. The authorizing 
statute is section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended.
    HRSA collects data in the UDS which are used to ensure compliance 
with legislative and regulatory requirements, to improve health center 
performance and operations, and to report overall program 
accomplishments. To meet these objectives, BPHC requires a core set of 
data collected annually that is appropriate for monitoring and 
evaluating performance and reporting on annual trends. The UDS data 
collection for 2012 will be revised in three ways. A new table will be 
added to collect tenure data for certain types of health center 
clinical and administrative staff. Three clinical measures will be 
added that are consistent with identified national priorities. These 
new measures are included in the UDS data collection request in order 
to allow advance time for health centers to change data collection 
systems. Finally, a few new questions will be asked about health center 
Electronic Health Record reporting capabilities.
    These changes reflect an increase in burden of hours over the 
previous information collection request in 2010. The burden is 
increased due to additional hours for reporting the new information. 
The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                              Number of       Responses per       Hours per       Total burden
             Type of report                  respondents       respondent         response            hours
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Universal report........................             1,181                 1                82            96,842
Grant report............................               328                 1                18             5,904
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    Total...............................             1,509  ................  ................           102,746
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    E-mail comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA Reports 
Clearance Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.

    Dated: June 14, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
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