[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 13, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67657-67658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27561]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Request for Public Comment: 30-Day Proposed Information 
Collection: Indian Health Service (IHS) Sharing What Works--Best 
Practice, Promising Practice, and Local Effort (BPPPLE) Form

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 which requires 30 days for public comment on 
proposed information collection projects, the Indian Health Service 
(IHS) is publishing for comment a summary of a proposed information 
collection to be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for review. This proposed information collection project was previously 
published in the Federal Register (77 FR 52748) on August 30, 2012, and 
allowed 60 days for public comment. No public comment was received in 
response to the notice. The purpose of this notice is to allow 30 days 
for public comment to be submitted directly to OMB.
    Proposed Collection: Title: 0917- 0034, ``Indian Health Service 
(IHS) Sharing What Works--Best Practice, Promising Practice, and Local 
Effort (BPPPLE) Form.'' Type of Information Collection Request: 
Extension without revision of the currently approved information 
collection, 0917-0034, ``IHS Sharing What Works--Best Practice, 
Promising Practice, and Local Effort (BPPPLE) Form,'' which was 
previously approved under the title ``Director's 3 Initiative Best 
Practice, Promising Practice, and Local Efforts Form.'' Although the 
name of the form has changed, the contents of the form remain the same. 
Forms: 0917-0034, ``IHS Sharing What Works--Best Practice, Promising 
Practice, and Local Effort (BPPPLE) Form.'' Need and Use of Information 
Collection: The IHS goal is to raise the health status of the American 
Indian and Alaska Native (AI/

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AN) people to the highest possible level by providing comprehensive 
health care and preventive health services. To support the IHS mission 
and to provide the product/service to IHS, Tribal, and Urban (I/T/U) 
programs, the Office of Preventive and Clinical Services' program 
divisions (i.e., Behavioral Health, Health Promotion/Disease 
Prevention, Nursing, and Dental) have developed a centralized program 
database of best practices, promising Practices and local efforts and 
resources. This database was previously referred as OSCAR, but the name 
will be changed to BPPPLE to reflect the revised name of the form. The 
purpose of this collection is to develop a database of BPPPLE and 
resources to be published on the IHS.gov Web site which will be a 
resource for program evaluation and for modeling examples of various 
health care projects occurring in AI/AN communities.
    All information submitted is on a voluntary basis; no legal 
requirement exists for collection of this information. The information 
collected will enable the Indian Health systems to: (a) Identify 
evidence based approaches to prevention programs among the I/T/Us when 
no system is currently in place, and (b) Allow the program managers to 
review BPPPLE occurring among the I/T/Us when considering program 
planning for their communities.
    Affected Public: Individuals. Type of Respondents: I/T/U programs' 
staff. The table below provides: Types of data collection instruments, 
Number of respondents, Responses per respondent, Average burden hour 
per response, and Total annual burden hour(s).

                                             Estimated Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
          Data collection instrument(s)              Number of     Responses per    burden hour    Total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response    burden hours
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IHS Sharing What Works--BPPPLE Form (OMB Form                100               1           20/60            33.3
 No. 0917-0034).................................
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    Total.......................................             100  ..............  ..............            33.3
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    There are no Capital Costs, Operating Costs, and/or Maintenance 
Costs to report.
    Request for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are 
invited on one or more of the following points: (a) Whether the 
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency 
function; (b) whether the agency processes the information collected in 
a useful and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of the public burden 
estimate (the estimated amount of time needed for individual 
respondents to provide the requested information); (d) whether the 
methodology and assumptions used to determine the estimates are 
logical; (e) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information being collected; and (f) ways to minimize the public burden 
through the use of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Direct your comments to OMB: Send your comments and suggestions 
regarding the proposed information collection contained in this notice, 
especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated 
response time to: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory 
Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503, Attention: Desk Officer for IHS.
    To request more information on the proposed collection, or to 
obtain a copy of the data collection instruments and/or instruction(s) 
contact: Tamara Clay, Reports Clearance Officer, 801 Thompson Avenue, 
TMP, Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852, call non-toll free (301) 443-4750, 
send via facsimile to (301) 443-2316, or send your email requests, 
comments, and return address to: [email protected].
    Comment Due Date: December 13, 2012. Your comments regarding this 
information collection are best assured of having full effect if 
received within 30 days of the date of this publication.

    Dated: November 6, 2012.
Yvette Roubideaux,
Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 2012-27561 Filed 11-9-12; 8:45 am]
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