Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 40 / Wednesday, February 29, 2012 / Notices 12315 

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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