[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 140 (Wednesday, July 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43446-43447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17873]


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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 no later than August 21, 
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) 594-
4306.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Maternal, Infant, and 
Childhood Home Visiting (Home Visiting) Program Non-Competing 
Continuation Progress Report for Competitive Grants OMB No. 0915-0356--
Extension
    Abstract: The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting 
(MIECHV) Program, administered by the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) in close partnership with the Administration for 
Children and Families (ACF), supports voluntary, evidence-based home 
visiting services during pregnancy and to parents with young children 
up to kindergarten entry. Competitive grants support the efforts of 
eligible entities that have already made significant progress towards 
establishing a high quality home visiting program or embedding their 
home visiting program into a comprehensive, high-quality early 
childhood system. All fifty states, the District of Columbia, five 
territories, and nonprofit organizations that would provide services in 
jurisdictions that have not directly applied for or been approved for a 
grant are eligible for competitive grants; and if awarded, are required 
to submit non-competing continuation progress reports annually. There 
are currently 48 entities with competitive grant awards. Some eligible 
entities have been awarded more than one competitive grant.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: This information 
collection is needed for eligible entities to report progress under the 
Home Visiting Program annually. 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 Home Visiting 
Program (http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3590enr.txt.pdf, pages 216-
225). A portion of funding under this program is awarded to 
participating states and eligible jurisdictions competitively. The 
purpose of the competitive funding is to provide additional support to 
entities that have already made significant progress towards 
establishing a high-quality home visiting program or embedding their 
home visiting program into a comprehensive, high-quality early 
childhood system and are ready to expand and maintain expanded 
programs.
    The information collected will be used to review grantee progress 
on proposed project plans sufficient to permit project officers to 
assess whether the project is performing adequately to achieve the 
goals and objectives that were previously approved. This report will 
also provide implementation plans for the upcoming year, which project 
officers can assess to determine whether the plan is consistent with 
the grant as approved, and will result in implementation of a high-
quality project that will complement the home visiting program as a 
whole. Progress Reports are submitted to project officers through the 
Electronic HandBooks (EHB). Failure to collect this information would 
result in the inability of the project officers to exercise due 
diligence in monitoring and overseeing the use of grant funds in 
keeping with legislative, policy, and programmatic requirements. 
Grantees are required to provide a performance narrative with the 
following sections: Project identifier information, accomplishments and 
barriers, state home visiting program goals and objectives, an update 
on the state home visiting program promising approach and evaluations 
conducted under the competitive grant, implementation of the state home 
visiting program in targeted at-risk communities, progress toward 
meeting legislatively-mandated reporting on benchmark areas, state home 
visiting quality improvement efforts, and updates on the administration 
of state home visiting program.
    Since federal fiscal year 2011, 48 eligible entities have received 
competitive grant awards. Grantees of the competitive grant program 
need to complete annual reports in order to comply with HRSA reporting 
requirements. Some grantees have been awarded up to three competitive 
grants to date.
    In the event a new Funding Opportunity Announcement is issued 
annually for the competitive grant program, the application for new 
grant funds may take the place of completion of a non-competing 
continuation progress report.
    Likely Respondents: Grantees with Home Visiting Competitive Awards 
Awarded in Federal Fiscal Years 2012- 2017.
    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

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hours estimated for this ICR are summarized in the table below.

                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                     Number of
     Summary progress on the         Number of     responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
      following activities          respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Home Visiting Competitive Grant               37               1              37              25             925
 Progress Report--FY 2012, FY
 2013, FY 2014..................
Home Visiting Competitive Grant               32               1              32              25             800
 Progress Report--FY 2015.......
Home Visiting Competitive Grant               47               2              94              25            2350
 Progress Report--FY2016 and FY
 2017...........................
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    Total.......................             116  ..............             166              25            4075
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Jackie Painter,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2015-17873 Filed 7-21-15; 8:45 am]
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