[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 22, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57122-57123]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18007]


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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; Health Workforce Connector 
OMB No. 0906-0031 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. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day 
comment period for this notice has closed.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than September 
21, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, contact Joella Roland, the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call 
(301) 443-3983.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Health Workforce Connector 
OMB No. 0906-0031--Revision.
    Abstract: The Health Workforce Connector's (HWC) goal is to help 
connect skilled professionals to communities in need by allowing 
approved Site Points of Contact (POCs) at National Health Service Corps 
(NHSC), Nurse Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs (Nurse 
Corps), Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Loan 
Repayment Program, Pediatric Specialty (PS) Loan Repayment Program, 
Nursing Training, and Teaching Health Center

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Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) sites to post available 
opportunities and update site profiles. The HWC provides a central 
platform to connect participants, including but not limited to those in 
the NHSC, Nurse Corps, STAR, PS, Nursing Training, and THCGME programs 
with facilities that are approved for performance of their service 
obligation. The HWC has become a resource that connects any health care 
professional or student interested in providing primary care services 
in underserved communities with facilities in need of health care 
providers. The HWC also allows users to create a profile, search for 
approved sites, find job and training opportunities, and connect with 
other clinicians who are similarly interested in working with 
underserved populations. The HWC is searchable by Site POCs. 
Individuals can use the HWC's search capability with Google Maps.
    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on May 30, 2023, 
88 FR 34506-07. There were no public comments.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Information will be 
collected from users in the following two ways:
    (1) Account Creation: For job seekers, creating an account is 
optional. To create an account the user must enter their first name, 
last name, and email address. Those mandatory fields will be used to 
send an automated email allowing the user to validate their login 
credentials. In addition, for job seekers participating in the programs 
listed above, their HWC account will be linked to their existing 
program file in the Bureau of Health Workforce Management Information 
Systems Solution database and allow an initial import of existing data 
at the request of the user.
    (2) Profile Completion: Users may fill out a profile, but this 
function will be optional and includes fields such as location, 
discipline, specialty, and languages spoken. The information collected, 
if published by the user, can be searched by approved Site POCs seeking 
potential candidates for health care job opportunities at their site. 
Job seekers also can set their security and privacy settings on their 
accounts to make their profiles searchable by other end users or 
private at any time. In addition, all information collected through the 
HWC will be stored within existing secure the Bureau of Health 
Workforce Management Information Systems Solution databases and will be 
used internally for report generation on an as-needed basis.
    Likely Respondents: Potential users include individuals searching 
for a health care job opportunity at a NHSC, Nurse Corps, STAR, PS, 
Nursing Training, or THCGME approved health care facility and health 
care facility POCs searching for potential candidates to fill open 
health care job opportunities at their sites.
    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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Account Creation..............  5,008...........               1           5,008            0.08          400.64
Complete Profile..............  4,164...........               1           4,164            1.00        4,164.00
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    Total.....................  5,008 \1\.......  ..............           5,008  ..............        4,564.64
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\1\ The 4,164 respondents who complete their profiles are a subset of the 5,008 respondents who create accounts.


Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-18007 Filed 8-21-23; 8:45 am]
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