[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 30, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61125-61126]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16719]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Public Comment 
Request; The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting 
Program Performance Measurement Information System

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 August 29, 
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: Maternal, Infant, and Early 
Childhood Home Visiting Program Performance Measurement Information 
System, OMB No. 0906-0017--Revision.
    Abstract: This request is for continued approval of the Maternal, 
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Performance 
Measurement Information System. The MIECHV Program is administered by 
the Maternal and Child Health Bureau within HRSA in partnership with 
the Administration for Children and Families, and provides support to 
all 56 states and jurisdictions, as well as tribes and tribal 
organizations. Through a needs assessment, states, jurisdictions, 
tribes, and tribal organizations identify target populations and select 
the home visiting service delivery model(s) that best meet their needs. 
There is no proposed change to the previously approved information 
collection instruments. Over the next 3 years, as part of efforts to 
implement new statutory provisions enacted as part of the 
reauthorization of the MIECHV program, HRSA intends to engage with 
MIECHV awardees, home visiting model developers, and federal partners 
to identify opportunities to reduce administrative burden related to 
performance reporting, to enhance performance measures to measure 
disparities, and to align performance measures with other programs 
administered by HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on April 3, 2024, 
89 FR 23028-29. HRSA received one comment from a local MIECHV-funded 
program administrator. The comment discussed obtaining additional 
qualitative information for program benchmark data, improving response 
categories for race and ethnicity, and changing breastfeeding 
performance measure. HRSA has considered this comment; however, per 
congressional direction, HRSA's current primary focus is minimizing 
burden for local MIECHV-funded programs. The changes sought by the 
comment would impose additional burden. As a result, no change to the 
proposed information collection tools is proposed at this time. As 
previously stated, HRSA intends to re-assess the current performance 
measurement system over the next 3 years, including considering and 
addressing the issues raised by the commenter.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA uses performance 
information to demonstrate program accountability and continuously 
monitor and provide oversight to MIECHV program awardees. The 
information is also used to provide quality improvement guidance and 
technical assistance to awardees and help inform the development of 
early childhood systems at the national, state, and local level. HRSA 
is seeking to continue to collect information on demographic, service 
utilization, and select clinical indicators for participants enrolled 
in home visiting services and a set of standardized performance and 
outcome indicators that correspond with the statutorily identified 
benchmark areas. This information will be used to demonstrate awardees' 
compliance with statutory and programmatic requirements. It will also 
be used to monitor and provide continued oversight for awardee 
performance and to target technical assistance resources to awardees.
    Likely Respondents: MIECHV Program awardees that are states, 
jurisdictions, and, where applicable, nonprofit organizations providing 
home visiting services within states.
    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.

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                                     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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Form 1: Demographic, Service                  56               1              56             560          31,360
 Utilization, and Select
 Clinical Indicators............
Form 2: Performance Indicators                56               1              56             221          12,376
 and Systems Outcome Measures...
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    Total.......................              56  ..............              56  ..............          43,736
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-16719 Filed 7-29-24; 8:45 am]
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