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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 October 28, 2024. 

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 

Joella Roland, the HRSA Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, at 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443– 

3983. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Information Collection Request Title: 

State Maternal Health Innovation 

Maternal Health Annual Report, OMB 

No. 0906–xxxx–NEW. 

Abstract: The State Maternal Health 

Innovation program is authorized by 42 

U.S.C. 701(a)(2) (Title V, § 501(a)(2) of 

the Social Security Act), which 

authorizes awards for special projects of 

regional and national significance in 

maternal and child health. Special 

projects of regional and national 

significance support HRSA’s mission to 

improve the health and well-being of 

America’s mothers, children, and 

families. As of fiscal year 2024, HRSA 

is directly funding 35 states to 

implement maternal health innovation 

projects. The Maternal Health Annual 

Report will be completed by all grantees 

who receive funding under the program. 

A 60-day notice published in the 

Federal Register on July 8, 2024, vol. 

89, No. 130; pp. 55950–55951. There 

were no public comments. 

Need and Proposed Use of the 

Information: HRSA will use the 

information to monitor grantees’ 

progress in accessing, analyzing, and 

using state-level maternal health data 

and to summarize the data-focused work 

that grantees accomplish. 

Likely Respondents: Recipients of the 

HRSA State Maternal Health Innovation 

grants. 

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. 

Total Estimated Annualized Burden 

Hours: 

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

Maternal Health Annual Report: Respondents (Medical 

and Health Services Managers) ....................................... 30 1 30 12 360 

Total .............................................................................. 30 ........................ 30 ........................ 360 

Maria G. Button, 

Director, Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: Public 

Comment Request; Information 

Collection Request Title: The Maternal, 

Infant, and Early Childhood Home 

Visiting Program Statewide Needs 

Assessment Update 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), Department of 

Health and Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirement for opportunity for public 

comment on proposed data collection 

projects of 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 October 28, 2024. 

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 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 

Joella Roland, the HRSA Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, at 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443– 

3983. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When 

submitting comments or requesting 

information, please include the ICR title 

for reference. 

Information Collection Request Title: 

The Maternal, Infant, and Early 

Childhood Home Visiting Program 

Statewide Needs Assessment Update— 

Amendment, OMB No. 0906–0038— 

Revision. 

Abstract: HRSA is requesting 

approval to collect amended statewide 

needs assessment updates from 

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood 

Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program 

awardees. The 2020 statewide needs 

assessment update approved under 

OMB control number 0906–0038 

expired November 30, 2021, and is 

discontinued. The prior approval was 

discontinued as the requirement was for 

a one-time data collection in response to 

the 2018 reauthorizing statute. Eligible 


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entities that are states, jurisdictions, and 

non-profit organizations submitted 

statewide needs assessment updates in 

response to the 2020 Needs Assessment 

Update Supplemental Information 

Request (SIR) (and a corresponding SIR 

for jurisdiction awardees). While 

eligible entities are not required by law 

to update their statewide needs 

assessments, those that wish to amend 

their previously submitted needs 

assessment updates will have the 

opportunity to do so prior to submitting 

their fiscal year 2025 base and matching 

grant funding applications and in 

response to reissued instructions 

provided by the agency for this purpose. 

This request will reinstate this 

information collection with updated 

instructions. The updated instructions 

will be for awardees who request to 

amend their needs assessment update in 

advance of their fiscal year 2025 

funding application. 

The 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, evidencebased home visiting services during 

pregnancy and to parents with young 

children up to kindergarten entry. 

States, jurisdictions, tribal entities, and 

nonprofit organizations, in certain 

circumstances, are eligible to receive 

funding through MIECHV and have the 

flexibility, within the parameters of the 

authorizing statute, to tailor the program 

to serve the specific needs of their 

communities. The statewide needs 

assessment is a critical and foundational 

resource that assists awardees in 

identifying and understanding how to 

meet the needs of eligible families living 

in at-risk communities in their states, 

especially as awardees make decisions 

about how to expand service delivery in 

their states with annual increases in 

MIECHV matching grants. 

A 60-day notice was published in the 

Federal Register on May 24, 2024 at 89 

FR 45903–04. HRSA received four 

comments from interested parties and 

MIECHV-funded program 

administrators. The first comment 

discussed interest in HRSA providing 

updated data tables (similar to those 

provided to awardees for the 2020 needs 

assessment update), subpopulation level 

data, requesting additional funding to 

facilitate the needs assessment update, 

and concerns about removing services 

from previously served communities. 

HRSA considered this comment; 

however, no changes will be made to 

the information collection, which 

allows for awardees to amend their 

statewide needs assessment update that 

was submitted and approved in 

response to the 2020 SIR guidance by 

identifying additional at-risk 

communities and does not require that 

awardees conduct a full needs 

assessment update at this time. Because 

a full needs assessment update is not 

required, HRSA is not providing 

funding or updated data. HRSA is 

providing flexibility for awardees to cite 

their own data to identify at-risk 

communities. The primary focus of the 

current information collection allows 

MIECHV awardees to identify additional 

at-risk communities where families with 

the most need are located using 

national, state, or local data sources to 

support their selection, with no 

collection of information regarding 

potential removal of services from 

currently served communities. 

The second comment discussed 

concerns regarding the structure of the 

needs assessment update submission 

timeline and limitations of the needs 

assessment criteria for serving specific 

populations, such as communities 

experiencing homelessness. HRSA 

considered this comment; however, no 

changes will be made to the information 

collection because instructions have 

already provided flexibility for 

awardees to leverage data sources across 

programs and systems, such as data 

regarding families’ housing status, to 

provide justification for their selections 

of additional at-risk communities. 

Rather than completing a full needs 

assessment, HRSA is asking awardees 

for updated information on additional 

at-risk counties and minimal edits to 

previously approved statewide needs 

assessments and anticipates that the 

information collection can be achieved 

in a short timeline. 

The third comment discussed the 

benefits of promoting coordination and 

referrals across early childhood systems 

and services within states and 

communities through the inclusion of 

other statewide needs assessments and 

additional data sources for identifying 

at-risk counties. The comment also 

suggested that HRSA’s guidance allow 

for awardees to cite data from other 

needs assessment and state-level early 

childhood grants, such as those funded 

through the Preschool Development 

Grant Birth through Five. HRSA 

considered this comment; however, no 

changes will be made to the information 

collection because the 2020 SIR 

guidance has already provided 

flexibility for awardees to leverage 

national, state, or local data sources 

across programs and systems to provide 

justification for their selections of 

additional at-risk communities. 

The fourth comment discussed the 

accuracy of the burden estimate and the 

usage of automated collection 

techniques to minimize the information 

collection burden. HRSA considered 

this comment; however, no changes will 

be made to the information collection 

because the burden estimate reflects that 

the instructions only require 

respondents to add additional 

communities and provide supporting 

data and narrative for only those 

additions, rather than completing a full 

needs assessment that will support an 

increased burden estimate, and based on 

similar data collection and grant 

reporting requirements, this burden 

estimate reflects and aligns with the 

experience of awardees. 

Need and Proposed Use of the 

Information: Congress, through 

enactment of the Social Security Act, 

title V, section 511 (42 U.S.C. 711), as 

amended, established the MIECHV 

Program. The MIECHV Program is 

designed to: (1) strengthen and improve 

the programs and activities carried out 

under title V of the Social Security Act, 

(2) improve coordination of services for 

at-risk communities, and (3) identify 

and provide comprehensive services to 

improve outcomes for families who 

reside in at-risk communities. Section 

511(b)(1) of the Social Security Act 

requires that states review and update 

their statewide needs assessments 

(which may be separate from, but in 

coordination with, the Title V statewide 

needs assessment) no later than October 

1, 2020, as a condition of receiving 

payments from Title V Block Grant 

allotments. Since completing the needs 

assessment update, state and 

jurisdiction awardees may wish to 

amend their needs assessment update to 

identify additional communities where 

families with the most need are in their 

state or jurisdiction. 

In response to the 2020 Needs 

Assessment Update SIR, state and 

jurisdiction awardees were required to 

submit an updated statewide needs 

assessment that identified all the 

following information, as required by 

the MIECHV authorizing statute: 

(1) Communities with concentrations 

of (a) premature birth, low-birth weight 

infants, and infant mortality, including 

infant death due to neglect, or other 

indicators of at-risk prenatal, maternal, 

newborn, or child health; (b) poverty; (c) 

crime; (d) domestic violence; (e) high 

rates of high school drop-outs; (f) 

substance abuse; (g) unemployment; or 

(h) child maltreatment. 

(2) The quality and capacity of 

existing programs or initiatives for early 

childhood home visitation in the state 

including the number and types of 


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individuals and families who are 

receiving services under such programs 

or initiatives, the gaps in early 

childhood home visitation in the state, 

and the extent to which such programs 

or initiatives are meeting the needs of 

eligible families. 

(3) The state’s capacity for providing 

substance abuse treatment and 

counseling services to individuals and 

families in need of such treatment or 

services. 

The SIR provided guidance to states 

in updating their statewide needs 

assessments and submitting the required 

information to HRSA. States that elected 

not to apply or be awarded MIECHV 

funds were encouraged to work with 

nonprofit organizations that received 

awards to provide MIECHV-supported 

services within the state and determine 

whether they will submit their needs 

assessments directly or through the 

nonprofit organization awardee. HRSA 

and recipients providing MIECHV 

services within states used the 

information collected through the needs 

assessment update to ensure the 

continued provision of MIECHV home 

visiting services in at-risk communities. 

The information is also used to support 

program planning, improvement, and 

decision-making. States wishing to 

amend their needs assessment will be 

asked to provide new information and 

supporting data. HRSA will provide 

specific instructions on timeline and the 

amendment process to awardees who 

request to amend their needs assessment 

update in advance of their fiscal year 

2025 funding application. HRSA is not 

proposing any changes to the previously 

approved Needs Assessment SIR. 

Likely Respondents: MIECHV Program 

Awardees that are states, jurisdictions, 

and where applicable, nonprofit 

organizations providing services within 

states. Based on preliminary interest 

expressed by MIECHV awardees to date, 

HRSA anticipates that approximately 35 

of the 56 awardees may respond to this 

opportunity. 

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. Burden 

hours reflect that existing needs 

assessments will be amended rather 

than fully developed. 

TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

hours 

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Statewide Needs Assessment Update—Amended 35 1 35 30 1,050 

Total .............................................................................. 35 ........................ 35 ........................ 1,050 

Maria G. Button, 

Director, Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Heart, Lung, and Blood 

Institute; Notice of Closed Meeting 

Pursuant to section 1009 of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Heart, Lung, and 

Blood Initial Review Group; NHLBI SingleSite and Pilot Clinical Trials Study Section. 

Date: October 23–24, 2024. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Canopy by Hilton 940 Rose Avenue 

North Bethesda, MD 20852. 

Contact Person: YingYing Li-Smerin, MD, 

Ph.D. Scientific Review Officer Office of 

Scientific Review/DERA National Heart, 

Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes 

of Health, 6705 Rockledge Drive,Room 207– 

P, Bethesda, MD 20892–7924 301–827–7942 

email: lismerin@nhlbi.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.233, National Center for 

Sleep Disorders Research; 93.837, Heart and 

Vascular Diseases Research; 93.838, Lung 

Diseases Research; 93.839, Blood Diseases 

and Resources Research, National Institutes 

of Health, HHS) 

Dated: September 13, 2024. 

Bruce A. George, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 1009 of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Allergy and Infectious Diseases Special 

Emphasis Panel; NIAID Investigator Initiated 

Program Project Applications (P01 Clinical 

Trial Not Allowed). 


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