[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 207 (Wednesday, October 26, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66305-66306]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-27730]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

[Document Identifier OS-0990-New; 30-day notice]


Agency Information Collection Request, 30-Day Public Comment 
Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), 
Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following 
summary of a proposed collection for public comment. Interested persons 
are invited to send comments regarding this burden estimate or any 
other aspect of this collection of information, including any of the 
following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility of the proposed 
information collection for the proper performance of the agency's 
functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated

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burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (4) the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology to minimize the 
information collection burden.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, e-mail your 
request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, and OS 
document identifier, to [email protected], or call the 
Reports Clearance Office on (202) 690-5683. Send written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collections within 30 days 
of this notice directly to the OS OMB Desk Officer; faxed to OMB at 
202-395-5806.
    Proposed Project: Descriptive information of solutions provided to 
the Federal government in response to Challenge and Competition 
solicitations posted on Challenge.gov--OMB No. 0990-NEW--Immediate 
Office of the Secretary.
    Abstract: This request is to seek generic clearance for the 
collection of routine information requested of responders to 
solicitations the Federal government makes during the issuance of 
challenges and competitions posted on the General Service 
Administration (GSA)'s Challenge.gov Web site. Since passage of the 
America COMPETES Act of 2011, challenge competitions are increasingly 
being used by Federal agencies to solve complex problems and obtain 
innovative solutions. In this role, the Federal government places a 
description of a problem and parameters of the solution on the 
Challenge.gov Web site. The solutions are evaluated by the submitting 
agency and typically prizes (monetary and non-monetary) are awarded to 
the winning entries.
    This clearance applies to challenges posted on Challenge.gov which 
uses a common platform for the solicitation of challenges from the 
public. Each agency designs the criteria for its solicitations based on 
the goals of the challenge and the specific needs of the agency. There 
is no standard submission format for solution providers to follow. We 
anticipate that approximately 100 challenges would be issued each year 
by HHS, with an average of 15 submissions to each challenge 
solicitation. It is expected that other federal agencies will issue a 
similar number of challenges. There is no set schedule for the issuance 
of challenges; they are developed and issued on an ``as needs'' basis 
in response to issues the federal agency wishes to solve. The 
respondents to the challenges, who are participating voluntarily, are 
unlikely to reply to more than one or several of the challenges.
    Although in recent memoranda the GSA and Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) described circumstances whereby OMB approval of a PRA 
request is not needed, program officials at HHS have identified several 
sets of information that will typically need to be requested of 
solution providers to enable the solutions to be adequately evaluated 
by the federal agency issuing the challenge.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Table
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                                                                                     Average
                                    Type of         Number of       Number of      burden  (in     Total burden
            Forms                 respondent       respondents    responses per    hours)  per        hours
                                                                   respondent       response
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Challenge Template A.........  Individuals or               500               1           20/60            166.6
                                Households.
Challenge Template A.........  Organizations...             500               1           20/60            166.6
Challenge Template A.........  Businesses......             500               1           20/60            166.6
Challenge Template A.........  State,                        30               1           20/60             10
                                territory,
                                tribal or local
                                governments.
Challenge Template A.........  Federal                       30               1           20/60             10
                                government.
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    Total....................  ................            1560  ..............  ..............            519.8
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Mary Forbes,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction Act Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-27730 Filed 10-25-11; 8:45 am]
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