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Activity Number of 

respondents 

Responses per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Alternative State/Local Program Informant 

Interview ................................................ 24 1 24 1.5 36 

Total ................................................... 72 ............................ ............................ ............................ 104 

Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent within 30 days of this notice to 

the desk officer for HRSA, either by 

email to 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by 

fax to 202–395–6974. Please direct all 

correspondence to the ‘‘attention of the 

desk officer for HRSA.’’ 

Dated: April 19, 2012. 

Reva Harris, 

Acting Director, Division of Policy and 

Information Coordination. 

[FR Doc. 2012–10032 Filed 4–25–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

Periodically, the Health Resources 

and Services Administration (HRSA) 

publishes abstracts of information 

collection requests under review by the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request a 

copy of the clearance requests submitted 

to OMB for review, email paperwork@

hrsa.gov or call the HRSA Reports 

Clearance Office on (301) 443–1984. 

The following request has been 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget for review under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995: 

Proposed Project: Uncompensated 

Services Assurance Report (OMB No. 

0915–0077)—[Revision] 

Under the Hill-Burton Act, the 

Government provides grants and loans 

for construction or renovation of health 

care facilities. As a condition of 

receiving this construction assistance, 

facilities are required to provide 

services to persons unable to pay. A 

condition of receiving this assistance 

requires facilities to provide assurances 

periodically that the required level of 

uncompensated care is being provided, 

and that certain notification and record 

keeping procedures are being followed. 

These standard requirements are 

referred to as the uncompensated 

services assurance. 

The annual estimate of burden is as 

follows: 

ESTIMATE OF INFORMATION COLLECTION BURDEN

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Disclosure Burden (42 CFR) 

Published Notices (124.504(c)) ........................................... 63 1 63 0.75 47.25 

Individual Notices (124.504(c)) ............................................ 63 1 63 43.60 2,746.80 

Determinations of Eligibility (124.507) ................................. 63 99 6,237 0.75 4,677.75 

Subtotal Disclosure Burden .......................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ 7,471.80 

Reporting 

Uncompensated Services Report—HRSA–710 Form 

(124.509(a)) ...................................................................... 10 1 10 11.00 110.00 

Application for Compliance Alternatives 

Public Facilities (124.513) .................................................... 4 1 4 6.00 24.00 

Small Obligation Facilities (124.514(c)) ............................... 0 ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................

Charitable Facilities (124.516(c)) ......................................... 0 ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................

Annual Certification for Compliance Alternatives 

Public Facilities (124.509(b)) ............................................... 32 1 32 0.50 16.00 

Charitable Facilities (124.509(b)) ......................................... 13 1 13 0.50 6.50 

Small Obligation Facilities (124.509(c)) ............................... 0 ........................ 0 ........................ ........................

Complaint Information (124.511(a)) 

Individuals ............................................................................ 10 1 10 0.25 2.50 

Facilities ............................................................................... 10 1 10 0.50 5.00 

Subtotal Reporting Burden ........................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ 164.00 


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Recordkeeping Number of record 

keepers Hours per year Total burden hours 

Recordkeeping 

Non-alternative Facilities (124.510(a)) ...................................................................... 33 50 1,650.00 

Unrestricted Availability (124.510(b)) ........................................................................ 30 50 1,500.00 

Subtotal Recordkeeping Burden ........................................................................ .............................. .............................. 3,150.00 

Email comments to 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA 

Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10–29, 

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments 

should be received within 60 days of 

this notice. 

Dated: April 20, 2012. 

Reva Harris, 

Acting Director, Division of Policy and 

Information Coordination. 

[FR Doc. 2012–10031 Filed 4–25–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Child Health and 

Human Development Submission for 

OMB Review; Comment Request; 

Provider-Based Sampling Feasibility 

Study for the Vanguard (Pilot) Study 

and Data Collection Updates for the 

National Children’s Study (NICHD) 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of 

Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the National 

Institute of Child Health and Human 

Development (NICHD), the National 

Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request for review and 

approval of the information collection 

listed below. This proposed information 

collection was previously published in 

the Federal Register on January 30, 

2012, pages 4569–4571, and allowed 60 

days for public comment. No written 

comments were received. The purpose 

of this notice is to allow an additional 

30 days for public comment. The 

National Institutes of Health may not 

conduct or sponsor, and the respondent 

is not required to respond to, an 

information collection that has been 

extended, revised, or implemented on or 

after October 1, 1995, unless it displays 

a currently valid OMB control number. 

Proposed Collection 

Title: Provider-Based Sampling 

Feasibility Study for the Vanguard 

(Pilot) Study and Data Collection 

Updates for the National Children’s 

Study (NICHD). 

The National Children’s Study, 

Vanguard (Pilot) Study. 

Type of Information Collection 

Request: Revision. 

Need and Use of Information Collection 

The purpose of the proposed 

methodological study is to continue the 

Vanguard phase of the National 

Children’s Study with updated 

instruments and additional biospecimen 

collections and physical measures and 

to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, 

and cost of a different sampling strategy 

for enrollment of pregnant women. This 

study is one component of a larger 

group of studies being conducted during 

the Vanguard Phase of the National 

Children’s Study (NCS), a prospective, 

national longitudinal study of child 

health and development. In 

combination, these studies will be used 

to inform the design of the Main Study 

of the National Children’s Study. 

Background 

The National Children’s Study is a 

prospective, national longitudinal study 

of the interaction between environment, 

genetics on child health and 

development. The Study defines 

‘‘environment’’ broadly, taking a 

number of natural and man-made 

environmental, biological, genetic, and 

psychosocial factors into account. 

Findings from the Study will be made 

available as the research progresses, 

making potential benefits known to the 

public as soon as possible. 

The National Children’s Study (NCS) 

has several components, including a 

pilot or Vanguard Study, and a Main 

Study to collect exposure and outcome 

data. The sample frame for the NCS 

Vanguard and Main Study was initially 

based on a national probability sample 

using geography as the basis and 

selecting about 100 of the about 3,000 

counties in the United States as the 

basis for Primary Sampling Units. 

Within the Primary Sampling Units, 

smaller geographic segments were 

selected as Secondary Sampling Units 

in an attempt to normalize live birth 

rates per area sampled. Women who 

resided at the time of enrollment within 

a designated Secondary Sampling Unit 

and were either pregnant or between 18 

and 49 were eligible for enrollment. The 

initial recruitment technique within the 

selected geographic areas was 

household contact by field workers 

going door to door. 

The Vanguard Study was launched in 

January 2009 and, by the summer of 

2009, field experience suggested that the 

household contact recruitment strategy 

was not feasible with available 

resources. Thus, in 2010, new 

recruitment strategies were launched to 

evaluate options. By late 2011, the NCS 

had sufficient data to evaluate 

operational aspects of various 

recruitment strategies. Preliminary 

analyses suggested that a ProviderBased Recruitment strategy was the 

most efficient, but due to constrictions 

of the geographic sampling frame, the 

potential of the strategy was limited. 

Specifically, many women had to be 

screened at a particular provider to 

locate the relatively few who resided in 

a designated segment. Anticipating this 

limitation, the NCS Program Office 

developed and discussed with the NCS 

Federal Advisory Committee a different 

sampling frame using provider location. 

This new sampling strategy is termed 

Provider-Based Sampling (PBS). 

Information from this data collection is 

critical to determine the plausibility of 

a provider-based sampling frame as an 

option for some parts of the NCS Main 

Study. 

Research Questions 

Two research goals will be 

accomplished by this information 

collection. One goal is to test the 

feasibility of Provider-Based Sampling 

using three study locations. Another 

goal is to systematically pilot additional 

study visit measures and collections to 

assess the scientific robustness, burden 

to participants and study infrastructure, 

and cost for use in the Vanguard (Pilot) 

Study and to inform the design of the 

Main Study. 

Methods 

Provider Based Sampling 

We will compile a list of prenatal 

providers serving women who reside 

within the Primary Sampling Unit at 

three study locations. Providers will be 

asked to complete a brief questionnaire 


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