[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 177 (Monday, September 14, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55137-55138]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-22999]


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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 October 
14, 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 
for Non-Competing Continuation Progress Report OMB No. 0915-0356--
Extension
    A 30-day notice was previously published on July 22, 2015 for this 
information collection request but it contained incorrect burden 
figures.
    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-
2250). 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 and also want to 
implement innovative home visiting strategies in their states and 
jurisdictions.
    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.

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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 innovative approach and evaluations 
conducted under the competitive grant, implementation of the 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 innovation 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.
    Likely Respondents: Grantees with Home Visiting Competitive 
Expansion Grants Awarded in Federal Fiscal Years 2011-2015
    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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                                                     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               35               1              35              20             700
 Progress Report--FY 2015.......
Home Visiting Competitive Grant               56               1              56              20           1,120
 Progress Report--FY 2016.......
Home Visiting Competitive Grant               56               1              56              20           1,120
 Progress Report--FY 2017.......
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    Total.......................             184               4             184  ..............           3,865
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Jackie Painter,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2015-22999 Filed 9-11-15; 8:45 am]
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