[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 242 (Wednesday, December 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75161-75163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-29520]


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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

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the public during the review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than January 
16, 2015.

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: Maternal, Infant, and Early 
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Competitive Grant Final Report
    OMB No.: 0915-0356--NEW
    Abstract: On March 23, 2010, the President signed into law the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section 2951 of the 
ACA 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 MIECHV program was reauthorized by the Protecting Access to 
Medicare Act of 2014 (Pub. L.113-93).) The MIECHV program 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 support 
the efforts of states and jurisdictions with modest evidence-based home 
visiting programs to expand the depth and scope of these efforts, in 
order to develop the infrastructure and capacity needed to seek a 
Competitive Expansion Grant in the future. Competitive Expansion Grants 
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 37 states have been awarded 
Competitive Expansion Grants. Grantees of the Competitive Grant Program 
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 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. Final reports 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 ICR 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......
MIECHV Competitive Grant Final                37               1              37              25             925
 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.......................              44  ..............  ..............  ..............            2275
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Jackie Painter,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-29520 Filed 12-16-14; 8:45 am]
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