[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77839-77840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32014]


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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, email 
[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: Cultural and Linguistic Competency and Health 
Literacy Data Collection Checklist (OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--[New].
    The Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) vision is 
``Healthy Communities, Healthy People.'' In addition, the HRSA mission 
statement is ``To improve health and achieve health equity through 
access to quality services, a skilled health workforce and innovative 
programs.'' This framework supports a health care system that assures 
access to

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comprehensive, culturally competent, quality care.
    Performance measures have been useful in helping HRSA to assess the 
progress of each grantee. The measure used will be informed by the 
degree to which HRSA-funded programs have incorporated cultural and 
linguistic competence and health literacy elements into their policies, 
guidelines, contracts and training. HRSA bureaus and offices will be 
encouraged to incorporate this performance measure (or a modified 
version of this measure) into their funding opportunity announcements, 
as either a stand-alone or integrated measure.
    Using a scale of 0-3, the grantee may use the Cultural and 
Linguistic Competency and Health Literacy Data Collection Checklist to 
assess if specified cultural/linguistic competence and health literacy 
elements have been incorporated into their policies, guidelines, 
contracts and training. Each HRSA program may add data sources and year 
of data used for scoring to provide a rationale for determining a 
score, and/or applicability of elements to a specific program.
    The goal of this checklist is to increase the number of HRSA-funded 
programs that have integrated cultural and linguistic competence and 
health literacy into their policies, guidelines, contracts and 
training. In addition, variations of the proposed tool have proven 
useful for grantees' self-assessment. This proposed tool can also offer 
insights into technical assistance challenges and opportunities.
    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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Data Collection Checklist.......             900               1             900               1             900
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    Total.......................             900               1             900               1             900
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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 email to [email protected] or by fax to (202) 395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: December 8, 2011.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2011-32014 Filed 12-13-11; 8:45 am]
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