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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 223 (Tuesday, November 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 91412-91413]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26925]

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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; Rural Health Care Services 
Outreach Program Measures

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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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 December 
19, 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 [email protected] or call 
(301) 443-3983.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Information Collection Request Title: Rural 
Health Care Services Outreach Program Measures, OMB No. 0906-0009--
Revision.
    Abstract: The Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program is 
authorized by section 330A(e) of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 254c(e)) to ``promote rural health care services outreach by 
improving and expanding the delivery of health care services to include 
new and enhanced services in rural areas.'' The goals for the Rural 
Health Care Services Outreach Program are as follows: (1) expand the 
delivery of health care services in rural communities; (2) deliver 
health care services through a strong consortium, in which every 
consortium member organization is actively involved and engaged in the 
planning and delivery of services; (3) utilize and/or adapt an 
evidence-based or innovative, evidence-informed model(s) in the 
delivery of health care services; and (4) improve population health and 
demonstrate health outcomes and sustainability. HRSA collects 
information from grant recipients that participate in this program 
using an OMB-approved set of performance measures and seeks to extend 
its approved information collection.
    A 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register on June 21, 
2024, 89 FR 52069-70. There were no public comments. However, following 
publication of the 60-day notice, HRSA increased the average burden per 
response and total burden hours due to personnel changes resulting in 
training needs of new hires common among rural healthcare workforce in 
the Outreach Program.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program, 
performance measures were drafted to provide data to the program and to 
enable HRSA to provide aggregate program data required by Congress 
under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. These 
measures cover the principal topic areas of interest to the Federal 
Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), including: (1) access to care, 
(2) population demographics, (3) consortium/network, (4) 
sustainability, (5) project specific domains, and (6) clinical 
measures. All measures will speak to FORHP's progress toward meeting 
the goals set. FORHP collects this information to quantify the impact 
of grant funding on access to health care, quality of services, and 
improvement of health outcomes. FORHP uses the data for program 
improvement and grantees use the data for performance tracking. No 
substantive changes are proposed from the current data collection 
effort; FORHP proposes updating hyperlinks for the clinical measures 
and including an option for text entry to capture names of counties for 
the number of counties served measure.
    Likely Respondents: The respondents would be recipients of the 
Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program 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
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                                                     Number of                    Average burden
            Form name                Number of     responses per       Total       per  response   Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses      (in hours)         hours
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Rural Health Care Services                    61               1              61               8             488
 Outreach Performance Measures..
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    Total.......................              61  ..............              61  ..............             488
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-26925 Filed 11-18-24; 8:45 am]
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