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compliance policies. This workshop is 

also consistent with the Small Business 

Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 

1996 (Pub. L. 104–121), as outreach 

activities by government agencies to 

small businesses. 

The goal of this public workshop is to 

present information that will enable 

manufacturers and regulated industry to 

better comply with labeling 

requirements, especially in light of 

growing concerns about obesity and 

food allergens. Information presented 

will be based on Agency position as 

articulated through regulation, 

compliance policy guides, and 

information previously made available 

to the public. Topics to be discussed at 

the workshop include: (1) Mandatory 

label elements, (2) the Food Allergen 

Labeling and Consumer Protection Act 

of 2004, (3) nutrition labeling 

requirements, (4) health and nutrition 

claims, and (5) special labeling issues, 

such as exemptions. FDA expects that 

participation in this public workshop 

will provide regulated industry with 

greater understanding of the Agency’s 

regulatory and policy perspectives on 

food labeling and increase voluntary 

compliance with labeling requirements. 

Dated: February 23, 2012. 

Leslie Kux, 

Acting Assistant Commissioner for Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: 

Comment Request 

In compliance with the requirement 

for opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects 

(section 3506(c)(2)(A) of Title 44, United 

States Code, as amended by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. 

L. 104–13), the Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA) 

publishes periodic summaries of 

proposed projects being developed for 

submission to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. To request more 

information on the proposed project or 

to obtain a copy of the data collection 

plans and draft instruments, email 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA 

Reports Clearance Officer at (301) 443– 

1984. 

Comments are invited on: (a) The 

proposed collection of information for 

the proper performance of the functions 

of the Agency; (b) the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Proposed Project: Maternal, Infant and 

Early Childhood Home Visiting 

Program FY 2012 Competitive Funding 

Opportunity Announcement (OMB No. 

0915–xxxx)—[New] 

On March 23, 2010, the President 

signed into law the Patient Protection 

and Affordable Care Act (the Act). 

Section 2951 of the Act amended Title 

V of the Social Security Act by adding 

a new section, 511, which authorized 

the creation of the Maternal, Infant, and 

Early Childhood Home Visiting 

Program, (http://frwebgate.access.gpo.

gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_

cong_bills&docid=f:h3590enr.txt.pdf, 

pages 216–225). The Act responds to the 

diverse needs of children and families 

in communities at risk and provides an 

unprecedented opportunity for 

collaboration and partnership at the 

Federal, State, and community levels to 

improve health and development 

outcomes for at risk children through 

evidence-based home visiting programs. 

Under this program, a funding 

opportunity announcement for formulabased funding for States was issued in 

June 2011. The same level of funding, 

$125,000,000, was made available to 

States according to the same formula as 

in FY 2010. These two-year grants were 

awarded to support States in 

implementing their Updated State Plans 

that were submitted during the summer 

of 2011. 

Additionally, a competitive Funding 

Opportunity Announcement (FOA) was 

issued in June 2011 to allow interested 

States to apply for one of two possible 

grants: Development Grants and 

Expansion Grants. Development Grants 

were intended to support States and 

jurisdictions with modest evidencebased home visiting programs to expand 

the depth and scope of these efforts, 

with the intent to develop the 

infrastructure and capacity needed to 

seek an Expansion Grant in the future. 

Expansion Grants were intended to 

recognize states and jurisdictions that 

had already made significant progress 

towards a high-quality home visiting 

program or embedding their home 

visiting program into a comprehensive, 

high-quality early childhood system. 

Among eligible applicants to the 

competitive grant program, 13 States 

were awarded Development Grants and 

nine States were awarded Expansion 

Grants. Currently, the 54 States and 

eligible jurisdictions participating in the 

formula-funded program have begun 

implementing their State Home Visiting 

Plans. Because the FY 2011 grants were 

for two-years, no additional FOA will be 

issued this year for the formula 

program, but the State grantees will be 

completing non-competing progress 

reports in order to secure the release of 

their FY 2012 allocations. The 22 States 

that received competitive grant funding 

have also begun to carry out their 

proposed programs, integrating them 

with their formula-based programming. 

These competitive grants are for two 

years (Development Grants) and four 

years (Expansion Grants) respectively, 

and those grantees will also be 

completing non-competitive progress 

reports for FY 2012. 

The Maternal, Infant, and Early 

Childhood Home Visiting Program 

intends to make an additional 

$84,484,397 available for Development 

and Expansion Grants in FY 2012. With 

the concurrence of the Secretary, ten 

more Expansion Grants, totaling 

$71,359,043, will be awarded (by rank 

order) from among high-ranking 

applicants under the FY 2011 

announcement. The FY 2012 

competitive FOA will announce 

approximately $12,000,000 for new 

Development Grants. The intent of these 

Development Grants is identical to that 

announced in FY 2011, which is to 

support States and jurisdictions with 

modest evidence-based home visiting 

programs to expand the depth and scope 

of these efforts, with the intent to 

develop the infrastructure and capacity 

needed to seek an Expansion Grant in 

the future. It is anticipated that there 

will be awarded between four and eight 

Development Grants. The total grant 

award may range between $1 million to 

$3 million annually. Applicants may 

apply for a ceiling amount of up to $3 

million per year. The project period is 

two (2) years. 

The annual estimate of burden is as 

follows: 


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Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Hours per 

response 

Total 

burden 

hours 

Introduction ...................................................................................................... 30 1 8 240 

Needs Assessment .......................................................................................... 30 1 16 480 

Methodology .................................................................................................... 30 1 24 720 

Work Plan ........................................................................................................ 30 1 16 480 

Resolution of Challenges ................................................................................. 30 1 8 240 

Evaluation and Technical Support Capacity ................................................... 30 1 24 720 

Organizational Information ............................................................................... 30 1 8 240 

Additional Attachments .................................................................................... 30 1 24 720 

Total .......................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 3840 

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: February 22, 2012. 

Reva Harris, 

Acting Director, Division of Policy and 

Information Coordination. 

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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: Area Health 

Education Centers Project on the 

Mental and Behavioral Health and 

Substance Abuse Issues of Veterans/ 

Service Members and Their Families 

(OMB No. 0915–xxxx)—[New] 

The Area Health Education Centers 

(AHEC) Program consists of 

interdisciplinary, community-based, 

primary care training programs where 

academic and community-based leaders 

work to improve the distribution, 

diversity, supply, and quality of health 

care personnel. The AHEC Program 

grantees include schools of medicine or 

osteopathic medicine, incorporated 

consortiums of such schools, or the 

parent institutions of such schools. In a 

state with no AHEC program in 

operation, a school of nursing is eligible 

to apply. AHEC grantees contract with 

community-based AHEC centers to 

implement educational activities that 

involve several health professions 

disciplines and expose students to 

primary care and the needs of 

underserved areas and health disparity 

populations. The training of primary 

care personnel is a central focus of 

AHEC programs, where emphasis is 

placed on training individuals in 

primary care delivery sites (in both rural 

and other underserved areas). The 

AHEC programs and centers, along with 

state and local partners, implement 

student training programs, continuing 

education for healthcare providers, and 

health careers outreach activities that 

are responsive to the current healthcare 

workforce and service needs of 

underserved areas and health disparity 

populations of a state or region. 

The AHEC Program is implementing a 

project to provide high quality, 

culturally competent care to veterans/ 

service members and their families by 

providing continuing education (CE) to 

civilian primary care, mental and 

behavioral health, and other healthcare 

providers. The purpose of these data 

collection instruments, including the CE 

Participant Evaluation Form and the CE 

Participant Evaluation Follow-Up Form, 

is to provide data to inform and support 

the evaluation of the project, assess the 

extent to which the CE provided 

affected a provider’s clinical or 

administrative practice, and provide 

aggregate information about the 

providers trained and project activities. 

The annual estimate of burden is as 

follows: 

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total 

burden 

hours 

CE Participant Evaluation Form .......................................... 10,000 1 10,000 .5 5,000 

CE Participant Evaluation Follow-Up Form ......................... 2,000 1 2,000 .17 340 

Total .............................................................................. 1 10,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ 5,340 

1The CE Evaluation Follow-Up Form will only be completed by a sample of the total CE participants. Thus, the 2,000 respondents will not be 

unique respondents, but instead a sub-set of the CE Participant Evaluation Form respondents. 

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: February 22, 2012. 

Reva Harris, 

Acting Director, Division of Policy and 

Information Coordination. 

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