[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 10, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41410-41412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-16557]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


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

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments 
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided 
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the 
review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of this 
notice.

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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection 
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information 
Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or call (301) 443-
1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, 
Part A Minority AIDS Initiative Report (the Part A MAI Report).
    OMB No. 0915-0304--Extension.
    Abstract: HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau administers the Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Part A Program authorized under Title XXVI of the Public Health 
Service (PHS) Act (Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program). Part A provides 
emergency relief for areas with substantial need for HIV/AIDS care and 
support services that are most severely affected by the HIV/AIDS 
epidemic, including eligible metropolitan areas (EMAs) and transitional 
grant areas (TGAs). As a component of Part A, the purpose of the MAI 
funding is to improve access to high quality HIV care, services, and 
outcomes for individuals in disproportionately impacted communities of 
color who are living with HIV disease, including African Americans, 
Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and 
Pacific Islanders (Section 2693(b)(2)(A) of the PHS Act). Since the 
purpose of the Part A MAI is to expand access to medical, health, and 
social support services for disproportionately impacted racial/ethnic 
minority populations living with HIV/AIDS, it is important that HRSA is 
able to report on minorities served by the Part A MAI.
    The Part A MAI Report is a data collection instrument in which 
grantees report on the number and characteristics of clients served and 
services provided. The Part A MAI Report, first approved for use in 
March 2006, is designed to collect performance data from Part A 
grantees. The report has two parts: (1) A web-based data entry 
application that collects standardized quantitative and qualitative 
information and (2) an accompanying narrative report. Grantees submit 
two Part A MAI Reports annually: The Part A MAI Plan (Plan) and the 
Part A MAI Year-End Annual Report (Annual Report). The Plan and Annual 
Report components of the report are linked to minimize the reporting 
burden and include drop-down menu responses; fields for reporting 
budget, expenditure, and aggregated client level data; and open-ended 
responses for describing client or service-level outcomes. Together, 
the Plan and Annual Report components collect information from grantees 
on MAI-funded services, expenditure patterns, the number and 
demographics of clients served, and client-level outcomes.
    The MAI Plan Narrative that accompanies the Plan web forms 
provides: (1) An explanation of the data submitted in the Plan web 
forms; (2) a summary of the Plan, including the Plan and timeline for 
disbursing funds, monitoring service delivery, and implementing any 
service-related capacity development or technical assistance 
activities; and (3) the Plan and timeline for documenting client-level 
outcome measures. In addition, if the EMA/TGA revised any planned 
services, allocation amounts, or target communities after their grant 
application was submitted, the changes must be highlighted and 
explained. The accompanying MAI Annual Report Narrative describes: (1) 
Progress towards achieving specific goals and objectives identified in 
the grantee's approved MAI Plan for that fiscal year and in linking MAI 
services/activities to Part A and other Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program 
services; (2) achievements in relation to client-level health outcomes; 
(3) summary of challenges or barriers at the provider or grantee 
levels, the strategies and/or action steps implemented to address them, 
and lessons learned; and (4) discussion of MAI technical assistance 
needs identified by the EMA/TGA.
    This information is needed to monitor and assess: (1) Changes in 
the type and amount of HIV/AIDS health care and related services being 
provided to each disproportionately impacted community of color; (2) 
the aggregate number of persons receiving HIV/AIDS services within each 
racial and ethnic community; and (3) the impact of Part A MAI-funded 
services in terms of client-level and service-level health outcomes. 
This information also is used to plan new technical assistance and 
capacity development activities, and influence the HRSA policy and 
program management functions. The data provided to HRSA does not 
contain individual or personally identifiable information. No changes 
have been made to the Part A MAI Report.
    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.

                                                        Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                                         Number of                       Average burden
                             Form name                                  Number of      responses per        Total         per response     Total burden
                                                                       respondents       respondent       responses        (in hours)         hours
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Part A MAI Report..................................................              53                2              106             23.9         2,532.87
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    Dated: July 3, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2013-16557 Filed 7-9-13; 8:45 am]
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