[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 141 (Friday, July 22, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44019-44020]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-18596]


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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: Supplemental Information Request for the Submission 
of the Updated State Plan for the Home Visiting Program (OMB No. 0915-
0336)--[Extension]

    On March 23, 2010, the President signed into law the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-148), historic 
and transformative legislation designed to enhance disease prevention, 
strengthen the health care workforce, and make quality, affordable 
health care available to all Americans. Through a provision authorizing 
the creation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting 
Program, (http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3590enr.txt.pdf, pages 216-
225), the Act responds to the diverse needs of children and families in 
communities at risk and provides an unprecedented opportunity for 
collaboration and partnership at the federal, state, and community 
levels to improve health and development outcomes for at-risk children 
through evidence-based home visiting programs.
    The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) 
Program is designed: (1) To strengthen and improve the programs and 
activities carried out under Title V; (2) to improve coordination of 
services for at-risk communities; and (3) to identify and provide 
comprehensive services to improve outcomes for families who reside in 
at-risk communities.
    To achieve the legislative requirements of the MIECHV program, the 
following application steps were required for release of grant funding:
    The first step was submission of an application for funding: The 
HRSA Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), HRSA-10-275, was issued on 
June 10, 2010, and state applications were due to HRSA on July 9, 2010. 
These applications were to include plans for completing the required 
statewide needs assessment to identify at-risk communities, submission 
of which was also a condition for receiving FY 2011 Title V Block Grant 
allotments (the completed needs assessments were due in September 2010) 
and initial State plans for developing the program in order to meet the 
criteria identified in the legislation (Section 511(b)(3)(B)). The 
second step was submission of a statewide needs assessment. On 
September 20, 2010, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five 
U.S. territories submitted needs assessments, which were approved by 
HRSA, and all 56 grantees have therefore received FY 2011 Title V Block 
Grant funds. The third step, as a condition of receiving the remaining 
grant funding, was submission of an Updated State Plan for a State Home 
Visiting Program.
    The information requested for the Updated State Plan is intended to 
help states in achieving the MIECHV Program requirements by viewing 
their proposed State Home Visiting Program as a service strategy aimed 
at developing a comprehensive, high-quality early childhood system that 
promotes maternal, infant, and early childhood health, safety and 
development, and strong parent-child relationships in the targeted 
community(ies) at risk. Ultimately, the information provided will help 
states develop a comprehensive plan that addresses community risk 
factors, builds on strengths identified in the targeted community(ies), 
and responds to the specific characteristics and needs of families in 
each of these communities.
    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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Section 1: Identification of the              56               1              56              30           1,680
 State's Targeted At-Risk
 Community(ies).................
Section 2: State Home Visiting                56               1              56              30           1,680
 Program Goals and Objectives...

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Section 3: Selection of Proposed              56               1              56              30           1,680
 Home Visiting Model(s) and
 Explanation of How the Model(s)
 Meet the Needs of Targeted
 Community(ies).................
Section 4: Implementation Plan                56               1              56              60           3,360
 for Proposed State Home
 Visiting Program...............
Section 5: Plan for Meeting                   56               1              56              60           3,360
 Legislatively-Mandated
 Benchmarks.....................
Section 6: Plan for                           56               1              56              40           2,240
 Administration of State Home
 Visiting Program...............
Section 7: Plan for Continuous                56               1              56              20           1,120
 Quality Improvement............
Section 8: Technical Assistance               56               1              56               1              56
 Needs..........................
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    Total.......................              56  ..............  ..............  ..............          15,176
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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: July 19, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-18596 Filed 7-21-11; 8:45 am]
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