[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 15 (Friday, January 23, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3593-3594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01099]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier HHS-OS-0990-New-60D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of 
Health and Human Services, announces plans to submit a new Information 
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting that ICR to OMB, OS seeks 
comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any 
other aspect of the ICR.

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before March 24, 
2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 
[email protected] or by calling (202) 690-6162.

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 document identifier HHS-OS-0990-New-60D 
for reference.

Information Collection Request Title: Title X Sustainability Assessment 
Tool For Grantees and Service Sites

    Abstract: The Office of Population Affairs within the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Health seeks to collect data from the Title X 
centers on efforts related to (1) assisting individuals in obtaining 
health insurance; (2) partnerships with primary care providers; (3) 
availability and use of electronic health records; (4) monitoring 
patient care quality; (5) factors affecting revenue sources; and (6) 
the way that sites conduct analyses to consider the cost of providing 
services.

Need and Proposed Use of the Information

    The Title X Family Planning Program (``Title X program'' or 
``program'') is the only Federal grant program dedicated solely to 
providing individuals with comprehensive family planning and related 
preventive health services (e.g., screening for breast and cervical 
cancer, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and human 
immunodeficiency virus [HIV]). By law, priority is given to persons 
from low-income families (Section 1006[c] of Title X of the Public 
Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 300). The Office of Population Affairs 
(OPA) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health 
administers the Title X program.
    The American health care system is experiencing unprecedented 
levels of change as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act (ACA). The exact impact of these health system changes to 
Title X centers needs to be assessed in order to ensure the long term 
sustainability of the Title X network.
    This data collection is necessary to explain trends in client 
volume, insurance status of clients and revenue sources for Title X 
centers (data already collected through the Family Planning Annual 
Report--FPAR). This data will be collected directly from individual 
centers in order to provide contextual information and explain national 
trends in FPAR data.

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    OPA will utilize these data in three main ways:
    First, OPA needs to prepare grantees and Title X centers to respond 
to changes in the health system. As more individuals obtain health 
insurance, OPA needs to understand how individual Title X centers may 
be affected. Second, OPA invests in national training centers that are 
charged with providing national training, resources and technical 
assistance to grantees. Data collected from this effort will be used to 
inform the work of the training centers so they can better support the 
Title X grantees. Third, this data will help OPA better understand 
challenges affecting Title X centers in order to better work with HHS 
entities and national stakeholders to provide resources to Title X 
centers. Data will be collected through an online data collection tool 
directly from grantees and from Title X centers.
    Likely Respondents: This annual reporting requirement is centers 
that receive funding (either directly from OPA or through a 
subrecipient or grantee agency) for family planning services authorized 
and funded by the Title X Family Planning Program [``Population 
Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs'' (Pub. L. 91-572)], 
which was enacted in 1970 as Title X of the Public Health Service Act 
(Section 1001 of Title X of the Public Health Service Act, 42 United 
States Code [U.S.C.] 300).
    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.
    Based on some pilot work, 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      annualized      Annualized
      Type of respondent            Form name        Number of     responses per    burden per     total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       response         (hours)
                                                                                      (hours)
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Grantees......................  Sustainability                92               1            0.66           60.72
                                 Assessment--Gra
                                 ntees.
Service Sites.................  Sustainability             4,168               1            0.66        2,750.88
                                 Assessment--Sit
                                 es.
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    Totals....................  ................           4,260  ..............  ..............         2811.60
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    OS 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.

Darius Taylor,
Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-01099 Filed 1-22-15; 8:45 am]
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