[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 65 (Friday, April 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18919-18920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07508]


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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.

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: Rural Health Network Development 
Planning Performance Improvement and Measurement System Database

OMB No. 0915-xxxx--NEW

    Abstract: The purpose of the Rural Health Network Development 
Planning (Network Planning) program, authorized by Section 330A(f) of 
the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 254c(f), as amended by section 
201, Public Law 107-251 of the Health Care Safety Net Amendments of 
2002, is to assist in the development of an integrated healthcare 
network, if the network participants do not have a history of 
collaborative efforts. The Network Planning program helps to promote 
the planning and development of health care networks in order to: (i) 
Achieve efficiencies; (ii) expand access to, coordinate, and improve 
the quality of essential health care services; and (iii) strengthen the 
rural health care system as a whole. This program brings together key 
parts of a rural health care delivery system, particularly those 
entities that may not have collaborated in the past under a formal 
relationship, to work together to establish and improve local capacity 
and coordination of care. This grant program supports 1 year of 
planning with the primary goal of helping networks create a foundation 
for their infrastructure and focusing member efforts to address 
important regional or local community health needs.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Performance measures were 
developed to provide routine data for the program and to enable HRSA to 
aggregate program data. These measures cover the principal topic areas 
of interest to the Office of Rural Health Policy, including: (a) 
Network infrastructure; (b) network collaboration; (c) sustainability; 
and (d) network assessment. Several measures will be used for this 
program.

Summary of Prior Comments and Agency Response

    A 60-day Federal Register Notice was published in the Federal 
Register on December 5, 2013, Vol. 78, No. 234; pp. 73200-01. There 
were no comments.
    Likely Respondents: The respondents would be Rural Health Network 
Development Planning grant recipients.
    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 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 of                    Average burden
            Form name                Number of     responses per       Total       per response    Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses      (in hours)         hours
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Rural Health Network Development              21               1              21               1              21
 Planning Program Performance
 Improvement and Measurement
 System Measures................
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    Total.......................              21               1              21               1              21
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    Dated: March 27, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-07508 Filed 4-3-14; 8:45 am]
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