[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 197 (Thursday, October 10, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54616-54617]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22163]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Public Comment Request; Public Comment Request; 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 Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA 
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 November 
12, 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: 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

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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.
    A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on July 2, 
2019, Vol. 84, 127; pp. 31602-31603.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: There is a substantial 
imbalance in the U.S. between the number of people whose lives depend 
on organ transplants (currently more than 113,000) and the annual 
number of organ donors (approximately 14,000 living and deceased). 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 sign up 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 outcomes. 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; staff at physician's 
offices, health clinics, and emergency medical services; and 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. 2019-22163 Filed 10-9-19; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4165-15-P