[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 119 (Thursday, June 20, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37223-37224]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-14679]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: HHS-OS-19226-30D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

AGENCY: The Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of 
Health and Human Services, has submitted an Information Collection 
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR is for renewal of the approved 
information collection assigned OMB control number 0990-0275 scheduled 
to expire on October 31, 2013. Comments submitted during the first 
public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept 
further comments from the public on this ICR during the review and 
approval period.

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before July 22, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or via 
facsimile to (202) 395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information Collection Clearance 
staff, [email protected] or (202) 690-6162.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the OMB control number 0990-0275 and 
document identifier HHS-OS-19226-30D for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Performance Improvement and 
Management System (PIMS).
    OMB No.: 0990-0275.
    Abstract: This request for clearance is to extend data collection 
activities by three (3) years for a currently approved collection using 
the OMB approved Performance Data System (PDS), the tool used by Office 
of Minority Health (OMH) to collect program management and performance 
data for all OMH-funded projects. Grantee data collection via the 
Uniform Data Set (UDS) (original data collection system) was first 
approved by OMB on June 7, 2004 (OMB No. 0990-275). OMB approval was 
also received for modifications to the UDS to accommodate grant 
programs that were not required to use the UDS at the time the system 
was developed (August 23, 2007), which upgraded the data collection 
tool from the UDS to the PDS (August 31, 2010). Clearance is due to 
expire on October 31, 2013.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The clearance is also to 
continue data collection using the PDS, enhancing the system to improve 
functionality and to alter questions to improve data collection 
completeness and quality. The functionality and question improvements 
are intended to improve OMH's ability to comply with Federal reporting 
requirements and monitor and evaluate performance by enabling the 
efficient collection of more performance-oriented data which are tied 
to OMH-wide performance reporting needs. The ability to monitor and 
evaluate performance in this manner, and to work towards continuous 
program improvement are basic functions that OMH must be able to 
accomplish in order to carry out its mandate with the most effective 
and appropriate use of resources.
    Likely Respondents: Respondents for this data collection include 
the project directors leading OMH-funded projects and/or the date entry 
persons assigned for each OMH-funded project. Affected public includes 
not-for-profit institutions and State, Local, or Tribal Governments.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information, and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for 
this ICR are summarized in the table below.

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                                                        Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                                                            Number      Average  burden
                                        Type of respondent           Form name           Number of      responses per    per  response     Total burden
                                                                                        respondents       respondent       (in hours)         hours
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PDS Burden..........................  OMH Grantee...........  PDS...................             100                4              1.5              600
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Keith A. Tucker,
Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-14679 Filed 6-19-13; 8:45 am]
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