[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31612-31613]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14305]


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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; Information Collection 
Request Title: Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program, 
OMB No. 0915-0386--Revision

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with 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 August 7, 
2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the ICR 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: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the information request collection title 
for reference, in compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
    Information Collection Request Title: Delta States Rural 
Development Network Grant Program, OMB No. 0915-0386--Revision.
    Abstract: The Delta States Rural Development Network Grant (Delta) 
Program is authorized by the Public Health Service Act, Section 330A(e) 
(42 U.S.C. 254c(e)), as Public Law 114-53. The Delta Program supports 
projects that demonstrate evidence-based and/or promising approaches 
around cardiovascular disease, diabetes, acute ischemic stroke, or 
obesity to improve health status in rural communities throughout the 
Delta Region. Key features of projects are adoption of an evidence-
based approach, demonstration of health outcomes, program 
replicability, and sustainability.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program, 
performance measures include: (a) Access to care, (b) population 
demographics, (c) staffing, (d) sustainability, (e) project specific 
domains, and (f) health related clinical measures. These performance 
measures enable HRSA's Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to 
aggregate program data required under the Government Performance and 
Results Act of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-62). The proposed revisions to the 
performance measures include reducing the number of reported measures 
and showing annual

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progress compared to baseline data submitted in the grant applications. 
Examples of the measures that will be removed include the number of 
people reached through indirect services and the number of quality 
improvement clinical guidelines/benchmarks adopted.
    Likely Respondents: The respondents are the recipients of the Delta 
States Rural Development Network Program.
    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.
    As a result of the reduction in performance measures, annualized 
burden is decreasing from 72 hours to 20 hours. 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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Delta States Rural Development                12               1              12            1.66              20
 Network Program Performance
 Improvement Measurement System.
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    Total.......................              12  ..............              12  ..............              20
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Jason E. Bennett,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2017-14305 Filed 7-6-17; 8:45 am]
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