Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Home Visiting Budget Assistance Tool, OMB No. 0906-0025-Revision

Published date01 August 2019
Citation84 FR 37655
Record Number2019-16376
SectionNotices
CourtHealth And Human Services Department,Health Resources And Services Administration
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 148 (Thursday, August 1, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 148 (Thursday, August 1, 2019)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 37655-37656]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2019-16376]
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                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
                Health Resources and Services Administration
                Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
                Public Comment Request; Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
                Visiting Program Home Visiting Budget Assistance Tool, OMB No. 0906-
                0025--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 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 September
                30, 2019.
                ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA
                Information Collection Clearance Officer, 14N136B, 5600 Fishers Lane,
                Rockville, Maryland 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 Lisa Wright-
                Solomon, the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301)
                443-1984.
                SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
                information, please include the information request collection title
                for reference.
                 Information Collection Request Title: Maternal, Infant, and Early
                Childhood Home Visiting Program Home Visiting Budget Assistance Tool,
                OMB No. 0906-0025--Revision.
                 Abstract: HRSA is requesting continued approval and revision to the
                Home Visiting Budget Assistance Tool (HV-BAT) based on results of the
                previous pilot test. The tool collects information on standardized cost
                metrics from programs that deliver home visiting services, as outlined
                in the HV-BAT. Prior to Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, entities receiving
                Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) formula
                funds that are states, jurisdictions, territories, and nonprofit
                awardees may submit cost data using the HV-BAT to HRSA. HRSA will
                review the data submitted for accuracy and quality control, to test the
                tool's capacity to support state program functions such as program
                planning and budgeting, and to collect data to estimate national
                program costs. Beginning in FY 2021, HRSA will require reporting of HV-
                BAT data for one-third of awardees in each year for the purpose of
                informing program planning and budgeting described in awardee
                submissions of the annual formula funding application.
                 MIECHV Program, authorized by section 511 of the Social Security
                Act, 42 U.S.C. 711, and administered by HRSA in partnership with the
                Administration for Children and Families, supports voluntary, evidence-
                based home visiting services during pregnancy and to parents with young
                children up to kindergarten entry. States, Tribal entities, and certain
                nonprofit organizations are eligible to receive funding from the MIECHV
                Program and have the flexibility to tailor the program to serve the
                specific needs of their communities. Funding recipients may subaward
                grant funds to local implementing agencies (LIAs) in order to provide
                services to eligible families in at-risk communities.
                 HRSA revised the intended purpose of the data collection using the
                HV-BAT. Original clearance under this OMB control number was for pilot
                testing the reliability of a standardized cost reporting tool among
                evidence-based home visiting programs. HRSA revised the data collection
                tool to reflect findings and recommendations from the pilot study to
                ensure ease of use among LIAs. Changes were made to instructions and
                definitions based on feedback collected from participants in the pilot
                study. As this revision seeks to continue collection of comprehensive
                home visiting cost data for all LIAs in each state, the data can be
                aggregated to produce state and national cost estimates in addition to
                supporting procurement activities and sub-recipient monitoring. The
                burden increased as the pilot study identified a longer average amount
                of time to complete the tool than was originally estimated.
                 Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Immediately following OMB
                clearance, HRSA intends to make the tool available as an optional
                resource for all awardees. If awardees choose to immediately use the
                HV-BAT as an optional tool, awardees will be required to submit the
                data collected with the tool to HRSA. This will allow HRSA to test the
                feasibility of collecting comprehensive cost data at the state level;
                estimate national level costs for use in conducting research and
                analysis of home visiting costs; understand cost variation; assess how
                comprehensive program cost data can inform other policy priorities,
                such as innovative financing strategies; review the data to ensure
                accuracy; and analyze the data for the purpose of federal research.
                 Beginning in FY 2021, HRSA will require reporting of HV-BAT data
                for one-third of awardees in each year for the purpose of informing
                program planning and budgeting described in awardee submissions of the
                annual formula funding application. HRSA anticipates that one-third of
                the awardees will participate in this data collection each year and
                HRSA will identify which third of the awardees will be required to
                submit HV-BAT data in that year. This process will ease burden on
                awardees by requiring data collection for each awardee once every 3
                years and allowing HRSA to capture a national data set every three
                years.
                 Likely Respondents: MIECHV Program awardees (n=19).
                 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 Information Collection Request 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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                Home Visiting Budget Assistance 19 13 247 11 2,717
                 Tool (HV-BAT)..................
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                 Total....................... 19 .............. 247 .............. 2,717
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                Note: The burden estimate assumes that \1/3\ of all MIECHV awardees will respond in each year. On average
                 awardees have 13 LIAs (based on 2018 MIECHV program data) that will complete the HV-BAT, and on average it
                 took LIAs 11 hours to complete the HV-BAT in the pilot study (OMB Control No. 0906-0025) of the tool.
                 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, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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