[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 2, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31602-31603]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14078]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Public Comment Request: Information Collection Request Title: Hospital 
Campaign for Organ Donation Scorecard, OMB No. 0915-0373, Revision

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

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of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection 
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the 
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the 
ICR.

DATES: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received 
no later than September 3, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
draft instruments, email [email protected] or call Lisa Wright-
Solomon, the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 
443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the information request collection title 
for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Hospital Campaign for Organ 
Donation Scorecard OMB No. 0915-0373, Revision.
    Abstract: HRSA's Hospital Campaign for Organ Donation enlists 
healthcare organizations nationwide to increase the number of 
registered organ, eye, and tissue donors by hosting education and donor 
registration events in their facilities and communities. A scorecard 
identifies activities that participants can implement and assigns 
points to each activity. Participants that earn a certain number of 
points annually are recognized by HRSA and the campaign's national 
partners.
    For this information collection request, the proposed change to the 
Scorecard is the addition of the 2020 date. HRSA also intends to create 
a new electronic version of the Scorecard for future campaigns that 
will ultimately reduce the level of burden for participants. The 
electronic version will be designed to be user friendly, will take less 
time to complete, and will provide HRSA with data throughout the 
campaign rather than once a year. Another benefit of an electronic 
scorecard is that it will eliminate the possibility of human error as 
information will no longer be manually entered into a database.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: There is a substantial 
imbalance in the U.S. between the number of people whose lives depends 
on organ transplants (currently more than 113,000) and the annual 
number of organ donors (approximately 14,000 living and deceased 
donors). This imbalance results in about 7,300 waiting list deaths 
annually. In response to the need for increased donation, HRSA conducts 
public outreach initiatives to encourage the American public to enroll 
on state donor registries as future organ donors.
    The Scorecard motivates and facilitates healthcare organizations' 
participation in the campaign, provides the basis for rewarding 
participants for their accomplishments, and enables HRSA to measure and 
evaluate campaign process and outcome. The scorecard also enables HRSA 
to make data-based decisions and improvements for subsequent campaigns.
    Likely Respondents: The likely respondents include the following: 
Hospital development and public relations staff of organ procurement 
and other donation organizations; hospital staff such as nurses or 
public relations/communications professionals and staff members; staff 
at physician's offices, health clinics, and emergency medical services; 
or volunteers that work with healthcare organizations on organ donation 
initiatives.
    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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Activity Scorecard (online).....           1,400               1           1,400             .25             350
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    Total.......................           1,400  ..............           1,400  ..............             350
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    HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and 
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper 
performance of the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of the 
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the information to be collected; and (4) the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to 
minimize the information collection burden.

Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2019-14078 Filed 7-1-19; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4165-15-P