Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Voluntary Partner Surveys To Implement Executive Order 12862 in the Health Resources and Services Administration
| Published date | 16 March 2021 |
| Record Number | 2021-05349 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Health Resources And Services Administration |
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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 49 / Tuesday, March 16, 2021 / Notices
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; Voluntary Partner Surveys To
Implement Executive Order 12862 in
the Health Resources and Services
Administration
AGENCY
: Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION
: Notice.
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 April 15, 2021.
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 Lisa
Wright-Solomon, the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer at
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443–
1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
Information Collection Request Title:
Voluntary Partner Surveys to Implement
Executive Order 12862 in the Health
Resources and Services Administration,
OMB No. 0915–0212—Extension.
Abstract: In response to Executive
Order 12862, HRSA is proposing to
conduct voluntary customer surveys of
its partners to assess strengths and
weaknesses in program services and
processes. HRSA partners are typically
state or local governments, health care
facilities, health care consortia, health
care providers, and researchers. HRSA
is requesting continued approval of a
generic clearance from OMB to conduct
the partner surveys.
Partner surveys to be conducted by
HRSA might include, for example, mail,
electronic, and/or telephone surveys of
grantees to determine satisfaction with
grant processes or technical assistance
provided by a contractor, or in-class or
virtual evaluation forms completed by
providers who receive training from
HRSA grantees to measure satisfaction
with the training experience. Results of
these surveys will be used to plan and
redirect resources and efforts as needed
to improve services and processes.
Focus groups may also be used to gain
partner input that will inform the design
of mail, electronic and/or telephone
surveys. Focus groups, in-class
evaluation forms, mail surveys,
electronic surveys, and telephone
surveys are expected to be the preferred
data collection methods for this
information collection.
A generic approval allows HRSA to
conduct a limited number of partner
surveys without a full-scale OMB
review of each survey. If this generic
information collection request receives
continued approval, information on
each individual partner survey will not
be published in the Federal Register.
A 60-day notice published in the
Federal Register on December 15, 2020,
vol. 85, No. 241; pp. 81210–11. There
were no public comments.
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.
T
OTAL
E
STIMATED
A
NNUALIZED
B
URDEN
—H
OURS
Form name Number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
In-class evaluations ............................................................. 40,000 1 40,000 .05 2,000
Mail/Telephone surveys ....................................................... 12,000 1 12,000 .25 3,000
Focus groups ....................................................................... 250 1 250 1.50 375
Total .............................................................................. 52,250 ........................ 52,250 ........................ 5,375
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, Executive Secretariat.
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