[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4899-4900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00792]


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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; National Hospital Organ 
Donation Campaign's Activity Scorecard

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, 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 February 
16, 2017.

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) 443-
1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: National Hospital Organ 
Donation Campaign's Activity Scorecard OMB No. 0915-0373--Revision.
    Abstract: HRSA's Healthcare Systems Bureau, Division of 
Transplantation, administers the Workplace Partnership for Life (WPFL) 
program under the authority of Section 377A(a) of the Public Health 
Service (PHS) Act, (42 U.S.C. 274f-1). The WPFL seeks to involve 
workplaces and other organizations in a national effort to increase the 
number of registered organ, eye, and tissue donors and to increase 
awareness about organ donation. In 2011, HRSA launched the National 
Hospital Organ Donation Campaign (Hospital Campaign) and issued a 
challenge to hospitals nationwide to assist in this effort by 
conducting donor education and donor registry enrollment events in 
their hospitals and communities. The nation's 58 organ procurement 
organizations (OPOs), which already work with hospitals on clinical 
aspects of transplantation, participate in the Hospital Campaign to 
provide assistance to hospitals in their service areas as they 
implement strategies and activities to increase the number of 
enrollments in state donor registries. HRSA supports the Hospital 
Campaign by providing communications materials, facilitating the 
sharing of best practices, leveraging the influence of national 
associations and organizations related to hospitals and organ donation 
as Campaign National Partners, and offering the additional incentive of 
national-level recognition to hospitals.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The Hospital Campaign's 
Activity Scorecard is a key component of this effort. It provides a 
menu of over 40 ideas for outreach activities. The Activity Scorecard 
also provides incentive for hospitals to participate by laying the 
foundation for recognition. Each activity on the programmable PDF is 
assigned a particular number of points based on the activity's 
potential for generating registrations. Recognition is awarded to 
hospitals that have annual points which qualify them for one of the 
following recognition levels: bronze, silver, gold, and platinum.
    Hospitals can complete the Activity Scorecard and submit it 
annually via email or fax to HRSA or to their local OPO or Donate Life 
America (DLA) affiliate to be considered for recognition. This is a 
voluntary activity and hospitals may participate in the campaign 
without using or submitting a completed Activity Scorecard. However, 
most hospitals enrolled in the campaign (currently 2,038) have 
submitted a completed Activity Scorecard to become eligible for 
recognition.
    Hospitals that achieve specific outlined levels are recognized 
annually

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in several ways: By receipt of a HRSA certificate of recognition 
presented to hospitals by their participating OPOs in various 
ceremonies; by HRSA's sharing of a consolidated list of recognized 
hospitals during the final webinar of the project year that occurs 
after scorecard submission; in the final e-newsletter of the project 
year; and in communications sent out by the campaign's 11 national 
partners, which include the American Hospital Association, the 
Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, and the American 
Society of Transplant Surgeons. Hospitals also frequently distribute 
their own media releases throughout their communities.
    Revisions for this submission of the information collection request 
include two new opportunities for hospitals to earn points: a point is 
awarded for each donor registration a hospital motivates and points are 
awarded for reaching the hospital's donor registration goal. In 
addition, HRSA is making various formatting changes and the point 
values for two activities have been increased.
    Likely Respondents: Hospital representatives, most often the organ 
donation champions identified by the OPOs, can download the form from 
organdonor.gov or receive it from their OPO or DLA affiliate.
    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 be able to respond to a 
collection of information; to search data sources; and 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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National Hospital Organ Donation Campaign's Activity Scorecard.....           1,250                1            1,250            0.367           458.75
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Jason E. Bennett,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2017-00792 Filed 1-13-17; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4165-15-P