[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 21 (Thursday, January 31, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 756-757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-00402]


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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; Bureau of Health Workforce 
Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0915-0061--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 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 March 4, 
2019.

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 Lisa Wright-Solomon, the 
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or 
call (301) 443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Bureau of Health Workforce 
Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0915-0061--Revision.
    Abstract: Over 40 Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) programs award 
grants to health professions schools and training programs across the 
United States to develop, expand, and enhance training, and to 
strengthen the distribution of the health workforce. These programs are 
governed by the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), 
specifically Titles III, VII, and VIII. Performance information about

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these health professions programs is collected in the HRSA Performance 
Report for Grants and Cooperative Agreements. Specific performance 
measurement requirements for each program may be found on the HRSA 
website at https://bhw.hrsa.gov/grants/reportonyourgrant. Data 
collection activities consist of two reports--an annual progress report 
and annual performance report--that are submitted by awardees to comply 
with statutory and programmatic requirements for performance 
measurement and evaluation (including specific Title III, VII and VIII 
requirements), as well as the Government Performance and Results Act of 
1993 (GPRA) and the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 requirements. The 
performance measures were last revised in 2016 to ensure they addressed 
programmatic changes, met evolving program management needs, and 
responded to emerging workforce concerns. As these changes successfully 
enabled BHW to demonstrate accurate outputs and outcomes associated 
with the health professions programs, BHW will continue with its 
current performance management strategy and make only minor changes 
that reflect new HHS and HRSA priorities with the addition of a 
question asking awardees how many trainees received training in 
telehealth, substance use treatment, and/or medication-assisted 
treatment.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The purpose of the 
proposed data collection is to continue analysis and reporting of 
awardee training activities and educational programs, identify intended 
practice locations and report outcomes of funded initiatives. Data 
collected from these grant programs will also provide a description of 
the program activities of approximately 1,500 reporting grantees to 
inform policymakers on the barriers, opportunities, and outcomes 
involved in health care workforce development. The proposed measures 
focus on five key outcomes: (1) Increasing the workforce supply of 
well-educated practitioners in needed professions; (2) increasing the 
number of practitioners that practice in underserved and rural areas; 
(3) enhancing the quality of education; (4) increasing the recruitment, 
training, and placement of under-represented groups in the health 
workforce; and (5) supporting educational infrastructure to increase 
the capacity to train more health professionals in high demand areas.
    Likely Respondents: Respondents are awardees of BHW health 
professions grant programs.
    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 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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Direct Financial Support Program             500               1             500             3.1           1,550
Infrastructure Program..........             100               1             100             4.5             450
Multipurpose or Hybrid Program..             900               1             900             4.3           3,870
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    Total.......................           1,500  ..............           1,500  ..............           5,870
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Amy P. McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2019-00402 Filed 1-30-19; 8:45 am]
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