[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 105 (Wednesday, June 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35033-35034]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-12745]


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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 July 1, 
2016.

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

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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: Rural Opioid Overdose 
Reversal Grant Program OMB No. 0906-xxxx--New.
    Abstract: This program is authorized by Section 711(b) of the 
Social Security Act (U.S.C. 912(b), as amended and the Consolidated and 
Further Continuing Appropriations Act (P.L. 113-235). The purpose of 
this grant program is to reduce the incidences of morbidity and 
mortality related to opioid overdoses in rural communities through the 
purchase and placement of emergency devices used to rapidly reverse the 
effects of opioid overdose and training of licensed healthcare 
professionals and emergency responders on their use.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program, 
performance measures were drafted to provide data useful to the program 
and to enable HRSA to provide aggregate program data required by 
Congress under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 
1993 (Public Law 103-62). These measures cover the principal topic 
areas of interest to the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, 
including: (a) The number of counties served by the program; (b) the 
number and type of devices purchased and distributed and the location 
of the distribution; (c) the number of training sessions and the number 
of individuals trained; and (d) the number of individuals who were 
administered Narcan and the outcome. These measures will speak to the 
Office's progress toward meeting the set goals.
    Likely Respondents: Rural Opioid Overdose Reversal Grant Program 
award recipients.
    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                    Average burden
            Form name                Number of     responses per       Total       per response    Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses      (in hours)         hours
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Rural Opioid Overdose Reversal                18               1              18               4              72
 Grant Program Performance
 Measures.......................
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    Total.......................              18  ..............              18  ..............              72
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Jason E. Bennett,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2016-12745 Filed 5-31-16; 8:45 am]
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