[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46141-46142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11563]


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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; Implement Maternal, 
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program 2022 Legislative 
Changes: Assessment of Administrative Burden

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 June 27, 
2024.

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, email Joella Roland, the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call 
(301) 443-3983.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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    Information Collection Request Title: Implement Maternal, Infant, 
and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program 2022 Legislative Changes: 
Assessment of Administrative Burden
    OMB No. 0915-xxxx--[NEW]
    Abstract: The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 
117-328, section 6101, the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home 
Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022 (Section 6101 of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2023) extended funding for the Maternal, Infant, 
and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program for an additional 5 
years and adopted new program requirements. This included a new 
requirement for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assess 
and reduce burden on MIECHV funding recipients in administering the 
program by: (1) eliminating duplication and streamlining reporting 
requirements; (2) analyzing ways, in consultation with administering 
agencies (i.e., MIECHV funding recipients) to reduce the number of 
hours spent on complying with paperwork requirements by at least 15 
percent; (3) reviewing paperwork and data collection requirements for 
tribal MIECHV funding recipients and exploring, in consultation with 
tribes and tribal organizations, ways to reduce administrative burden, 
respect sovereignty, and acknowledge the different focus points for 
tribal funding recipients; (4) collecting input from relevant state 
fiscal officials to align fiscal requirements and oversight for states 
and eligible entities to ensure consistency with standards and 
guidelines for other federal formula grant programs; and (5) consulting 
with administering agencies and service delivery model representatives 
on needed and unneeded data elements regarding the dashboards provided 
for in newly added Social Security Act subsection 511(d)(1)(B), 
consistent with the data requirements of such subsection.
    Through this ICR, HRSA aims to survey state, jurisdiction, and 
tribal MIECHV funding recipients to obtain feedback regarding potential 
ways to reduce administrative burden, as described above.
    A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on December 
20, 2023, vol. 88, No. 243; pp. 88084-88085. HRSA received four 
comments and the information collection tools have been revised in 
response. These changes addressed concerns with the burden estimate and 
to modify items for clarity and increase the burden estimates for 
respondents to more accurately reflect the time it will reasonably take 
respondents to respond to this information collection. HRSA also 
considered additional feedback from certain home visiting model 
developers and is removing from this ICR the proposed plan to survey 
home visiting model developers.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Section 511(h)(6)(A) of 
the Social Security Act requires the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to assess and reduce administrative burden on MIECHV funding 
recipients in specified ways. Information gained from this information 
collection will inform recommendations to reduce administrative burden.
    Likely Respondents: State and jurisdiction MIECHV Program funding 
recipients that are states, territories, and, where applicable, 
nonprofit organizations receiving MIECHV funding to provide home 
visiting services within states; and tribal MIECHV Program funding 
recipients that are tribes and tribal organizations.
    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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State and Jurisdiction MIECHV                 56               1              56              27           1,512
 Funding Recipient Survey.......
Tribal MIECHV Funding Recipient               29               1              29               4             116
 Survey.........................
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    Total.......................              85  ..............              85  ..............           1,628
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-11563 Filed 5-24-24; 8:45 am]
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