[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 5, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33224-33225]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-13534]


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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) 
443-1984.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project: Voluntary Partner Surveys To Implement Executive 
Order 12862 in the Health Resources and Services Administration (OMB 
No. 0915-0212)--[Revision]

    In response to Executive Order 12862, the Health Resources and 
Services Administration (HRSA) is proposing to conduct voluntary 
customer surveys of its partners to assess strengths and

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weaknesses in program services and processes. HRSA partners are 
typically State or local governments, health care facilities, health 
care consortia, health care providers, and researchers. HRSA is 
requesting a generic approval from OMB to conduct the partner surveys.
    Partner surveys to be conducted by HRSA might include, for example, 
mail or telephone surveys of grantees to determine satisfaction with 
grant processes or technical assistance provided by a contractor, or 
in-class evaluation forms completed by providers who receive training 
from HRSA grantees, to measure satisfaction with the training 
experience. Results of these surveys will be used to plan and redirect 
resources and efforts as needed to improve services and processes. 
Focus groups may also be used to gain partner input into the design of 
mail and telephone surveys. Focus groups, in-class evaluation forms, 
mail surveys, and telephone surveys are expected to be the preferred 
data collection methods.
    A generic approval will permit HRSA to conduct a limited number of 
partner surveys without a full-scale OMB review of each survey. If 
generic approval is granted, information on each individual partner 
survey will not be published in the Federal Register.
    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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In-Class Evaluations............          40,000               1          40,000             .05           2,000
Mail/Telephone Surveys..........          12,000               1          12,000             .25           3,000
Focus Groups....................             250               1             250             1.5             375
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    Total.......................          52,250  ..............  ..............  ..............           5,375
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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: May 30, 2012.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2012-13534 Filed 6-4-12; 8:45 am]
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