[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 96 (Wednesday, May 18, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31245-31246]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-11672]


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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 June 17, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection 
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to

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[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: Rural Network Allied Health 
Training Program Performance Improvement Measurement System (PIMS)

    OMB No.: 0906-xxxx--NEW.
    Abstract: The Rural Network Allied Health Training Program will 
support the development of formal, mature rural health networks that 
focus on activities that achieve efficiencies, expand access to, 
coordinate and improve the quality of essential health care services, 
and strengthen the rural health care system as a whole. This purpose 
will be achieved through the recruitment, clinical training, and 
retention of allied health professionals.
    This program will further support integrated rural health networks 
that can partner with local community colleges and other accredited 
educational institutions (such as vocational and technical colleges) to 
develop formal clinical training programs.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program, 
performance measures were drafted to provide data to the program and to 
enable HRSA to provide aggregate program data required by Congress 
under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. These 
measures cover the principal topic areas of interest to the Federal 
Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), including: (a) Access to care; 
(b) population demographics; (c) staffing; (d) consortium/network; (e) 
sustainability; and (f) project specific domains. Several measures will 
be used for this program. All measures will speak to FORHP's progress 
toward meeting the goals.
    Likely Respondents: The respondents are recipients of the Rural 
Network Allied Health Training Program grant funding.
    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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Rural Network Allied Health                   10               1              10            6.55            65.5
 Training Program Performance
 Measures.......................
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    Total.......................              10  ..............              10  ..............            65.5
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Jason E. Bennett,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2016-11672 Filed 5-17-16; 8:45 am]
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