[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 189 (Tuesday, September 30, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58786-58788]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-23175]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) announces plans to submit an Information 
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management 
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Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments 
from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other 
aspect of the ICR.

DATES: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received 
no later than December 1, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 10-29, Parklawn 
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
draft instruments, email [email protected] or call the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the information request collection title 
for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Maternal, Infant and Early 
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Competitive Grant Final Report 
OMB No. 0915-xxxx--New
    Abstract: On March 23, 2010, the President signed into law the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Act), Section 2951 of 
the Act amended Title V of the Social Security Act by adding a new 
section, 511, which authorized the creation of the Maternal, Infant and 
Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) (http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3590enr.txt.pdf, pages 216-225). The legislative authority of this Act was extended 
by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-93). The 
Act responds to the diverse needs of children and families in 
communities at risk and provides an unprecedented opportunity for 
collaboration and partnership at the federal, state, and community 
levels to improve health and development outcomes for at risk children 
through evidence-based home visiting programs.
    Under this program, competitive funding has been awarded since June 
2011 for Competitive Development Grants and Competitive Expansion 
Grants. Competitive Development Grants were intended to support the 
efforts of states and jurisdictions with modest evidence-based home 
visiting programs to expand the depth and scope of these efforts, with 
the intent to develop the infrastructure and capacity needed to seek a 
Competitive Expansion Grant in the future. Competitive Expansion Grants 
were intended to support the efforts of states and jurisdictions that 
had already made significant progress towards a high quality home 
visiting program or embedding their home visiting program into a 
comprehensive, high-quality early childhood system.
    Since federal fiscal year 2011, 19 states have been awarded 
Competitive Development Grants, and 26 states have been awarded 
Competitive Expansion Grants. These competitive grants are for 2 years 
(Development Grants) and 4 years (Expansion Grants), respectively. 
Grantees of the competitive grant program will need to complete final 
reports in order to comply with HRSA reporting requirements. Grantees 
that were awarded Competitive Development Grants during federal fiscal 
year 2011 were eligible for Competitive Expansion Grants in federal 
fiscal year 2013. For this reason, some grantees have been awarded up 
to two Competitive Grants to date. Ten grantees have both a Competitive 
Development Grant and a Competitive Expansion Grant. Additional funds 
are being made available for Competitive Grants in federal fiscal year 
2015. Up to 35 grants are anticipated to be awarded on March 1, 2015, 
with a project period equal to 2 years and 7 months. Grantees are 
expected to use 2015 competitive grant funds to provide ongoing support 
to high-quality evidence-based home visiting programs and for the 
development and expansion of evidence-based home visiting programs 
funded, in whole or in part, by the MIECHV program through increased 
enrollment and retention of families served. After Competitive Grant 
issuance in 2015, some MIECHV grantees may have up to three competitive 
grants for which final reports need to be submitted.
    HRSA is collecting information from MIECHV grantees that have 
received competitive grant funds as part of the agency's final 
reporting requirements. The final report will be completed by grantees 
funded under the Competitive Grant Program and submitted to HRSA within 
90 days of the project period end date.
    The burden estimates presented in the table below are based on 
consultations with a few states on the final reporting requirements 
described in the competitive grant guidance documents.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Submission of a final 
report is a reporting requirement under the grant award. The final 
report will enable assessment of program effectiveness and impact on 
the health and development of service recipients. Each final report 
will be assessed to measure and quantify the degree to which each 
grantee was successful in implementing the grant and ensuring yearly 
program improvement. Data will be extracted from final reports and 
aggregated, using suitable analytic approaches, to compare, contrast, 
and identify successes, areas for improvement, and promising practices 
across the program. These findings will be used to identify the 
accomplishments of the MIECHV program, support program or grantee 
improvement, and craft or inform dissemination strategies.
    Likely Respondents: MIECHV grantees that have received a 
competitive (D89) grant award.
    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 Information Collection Request are summarized in the table below.
    Total Estimated Annualized burden hours:

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                                                                                      Average
                                     Number of       Number of         Total        burden per     Total  burden
            Form name               respondents   responses  per     responses     response  (in       hours
                                                     respondent                       hours)
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MIECHV Competitive Grant Final                19               1              19              25             475
 Report--Fiscal Year 2011 and
 2012 Development Grantees......

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MIECHV Competitive Grant Final                31               1              31              25             775
 Report--Fiscal Year 2011, 2012,
 2013, and 2014 Expansion
 Grantees.......................
MIECHV Competitive Grant Final                35               1              35              25             875
 Report--Fiscal Year 2015
 Expansion Grantees.............
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    Total.......................  ..............  ..............  ..............  ..............            2125
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    HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and 
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper 
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the 
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to 
minimize the information collection burden.

    Dated: September 24, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
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