[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 210 (Monday, October 31, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 67197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-28034]


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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 Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

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 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, Public Housing Primary Care, and 
other grantees under section 330. The authorizing statute is section 
330 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. Federally Qualified 
Health Center ``Look-Alikes'' do not receive grant funds, but report 
certain UDS data to HRSA in order to permit monitoring of their 
performance.
    HRSA collects data in the UDS which are used to ensure compliance 
with legislative and regulatory requirements, improve health center 
performance and operations, and 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 will be revised in four ways: 
(1) A new staff tenure table is added to collect months of service for 
persons within specified categories; (2) three new clinical measures 
are added consistent with identified national priorities; (3) reporting 
of health conditions is based on all (vs. primary) diagnoses; and, (4) 
a limited number of questions are revised concerning Electronic Health 
Record (EHR) reporting capabilities and a new question is asked 
regarding health center national quality recognition.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

 
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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
         Type of report             respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Universal report................           1,287               1           1,287              82         105,534
Grant report....................             328               1             328              18           5,904
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    Total.......................           1,615  ..............           1,615  ..............         111,438
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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: October 21, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Information and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-28034 Filed 10-28-11; 8:45 am]
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