[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 121 (Monday, June 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52479-52480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13713]


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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; Applications for and 
Monitoring of New, One-Time Funding Programs Administered by the Health 
Resources and Services Administration

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 July 24, 
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: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Applications for and 
Monitoring of New, One-Time Funding Programs Administered by the Health 
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)--OMB Control No. 0906-
xxxx-New
    Abstract: HRSA is seeking approval for a generic umbrella clearance 
to collect applications for awards for HRSA-funded programs that 
provide one-time funding, including pilot programs. Should any of these 
pilot programs become permanent, HRSA will seek OMB clearance for these 
programs using a mechanism outside of this generic umbrella clearance. 
OMB guidance allows for the use of generic packages in cases where 
there may be a need for a data collection, but the agency ``cannot 
determine the details of the specific individual collections until a 
later time.'' \1\ HRSA will only use this collection for HRSA-funded 
programs that provide one-time funding, including pilot programs. HRSA 
would only request OMB approval for collections under this generic 
umbrella collection if the collection is low-burden, uncontroversial, 
and is a one-time application.
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    \1\ Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and 
Agencies and Independent Regulatory Agencies (July 2016), 
``Flexibilities under the Paperwork Reduction Act for Compliance 
with Information Collection Requirements.'' Pages 4-5.
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    Furthermore, if Congress appropriates additional funding for such a 
program or HRSA plans to use the information from the applications for 
policy decisions not related to funding awards, HRSA will prepare a 
standard information collection request for that program, which will 
include the required 60- and 30-day Federal Register notices.
    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on March 22, 
2024, vol. 89, No. 57; pp. 20484-85. There were no public comments.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA seeks to use an 
umbrella generic clearance for HRSA-funded programs that provide one-
time funding, including pilot programs, so that funding can be awarded 
expeditiously. Expeditious awarding of funding is helpful not only for 
administrative ease, but also for cases in which a pilot program or a 
program receiving one-time funding has a statutory deadline for 
completion. Approval of this proposed generic

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umbrella collection would enable HRSA to collect information from 
individual and site applicants and enable HRSA to make selection 
determinations for one-time awards in a timely manner.
    Information collections under this umbrella generic collection 
would be applications for funding (solely providing applicants with an 
opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities in accordance with HRSA's 
statement of work or selection criteria and other related information) 
and forms required for monitoring funding recipients. Following the 
award, the awardee may also be required to provide progress reports or 
additional documents.
    Likely Respondents: Each fast-track ICR under this generic umbrella 
ICR will specify the manner that respondents will be enlisted. 
Respondents will vary by the specific program and are determined by 
each program's eligibility, to include but are not limited to the 
following: health providers and other paraprofessionals, health 
facilities, accredited health professions schools or programs, state 
and local governments, and other eligible entities.
    Respondents will be recruited by means of information listed on 
HRSA's website, or advertisements in public venues. The privacy of any 
potential or actual respondents will be preserved to the extent 
requested by participants and as permitted by law.
    Once applicants are selected and awards are made, these awardees 
will be respondents for monitoring collections such as progress 
reports.
    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.
    HRSA intends to use this generic umbrella ICR for applications with 
a low burden and monitoring awardees. To estimate the burden for this 
collection, HRSA estimated how much time it would take for a respondent 
to complete a two-page application with typical fields used in current 
collections that may fall under this generic umbrella ICR. HRSA then 
calculated the average burden estimate from these ICRs for the purpose 
of the estimate for this ICR. To estimate the burden for monitoring 
funding recipients, HRSA estimated how much time it would take for 
funding recipients to complete the average two-page form used for 
program monitoring. The total burden hours over a 3-year period 
estimated for this ICR are summarized in the table below.

                                    Total Estimated Burden Hours Over 3 Years
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                                     Estimated    Average number     Estimated    Average burden
         Instrument name             number of     of responses        total       per response    Total burden
                                    respondents   per respondent     responses      (in hours)         hours
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Program Applications............           5,000             1.5           7,500            1.75          13,125
Program Monitoring..............           2,500             1.0           2,500            2.00           5,000
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    Total.......................           7,500  ..............          10,000  ..............          18,125
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-13713 Filed 6-21-24; 8:45 am]
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