[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7095-7096]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02197]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

[OMB No. 0915-0386-Extension]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Public Comment Request Information Collection Request Title: Delta 
States Rural Development Network Grant Program

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 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 ICR must be received no later than April 3, 
2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, MD 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 Samantha Miller, 
the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at 301-594-4394.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the information request collection title 
for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Delta States Rural 
Development Network Grant Program, OMB No. 0915-0386-Extension.
    Abstract: The Delta States Rural Development Network Grant (Delta) 
Program is authorized by the Public Health Service Act, Section 330A(f) 
(42 U.S.C. 254c(f)). The Delta Program supports projects that 
demonstrate evidence based and/or promising approaches around 
cardiovascular disease, diabetes, acute ischemic stroke, or obesity in 
order to improve health status in rural communities throughout the 
Delta Region. Key features of Delta Program-supported projects are 
collaboration, adoption of an evidence-based approach, demonstration of 
health outcomes, program replicability, and sustainability. HRSA 
collects information from Delta Program award recipients using an OMB-
approved set of performance measures and seeks to extend that approved 
information collection.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program, 
performance measures were drafted to provide data useful to the program 
and to enable HRSA to provide aggregate program data required by 
Congress under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (Pub. 
L. 103-62). These measures cover the principal topic areas of interest 
to HRSA including the following: (a) access to care, (b) population 
demographics, (c) staffing, (d) sustainability, (e) project specific 
domains, and (f) health related clinical measures. These measures

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encompass HRSA's progress toward meeting the goals set.
    Likely Respondents: Grant recipients of the Delta 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. 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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* Number is rounded to the nearest whole number.

    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, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-02197 Filed 2-1-23; 8:45 am]
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