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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 236 (Monday, December 9, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 97627-97629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28803]

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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; HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS 
Program Part F Regional AIDS Education and Training Center Program 
Activities

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 January 8, 
2025.

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: HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS 
Program Part F Regional AIDS Education and Training Center Program 
Activities, OMB No. 0906-xxxx--New.
    Abstract: The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program's (RWHAP) AIDS Education 
and Training Center (AETC) Program, authorized under title XXVI of the 
Public Health Service Act, supports a network of regional centers that 
conduct targeted, multi-disciplinary education and training programs 
for health care providers treating people with HIV. The RWHAP Regional 
AETC Program's purpose is to increase the number of health care 
providers who are effectively educated and equipped to counsel, 
diagnose, treat, and medically manage people with HIV. The RWHAP 
Regional AETC Program recipients are required to report data on the 
training activities and trainees to HRSA once a year. HRSA is 
requesting the approval of new AETC data collection forms to accurately 
capture data relating to Regional AETC activities, participants, and 
site information for both Practice Transformation (PT) and 
Interprofessional Education (IPE) sites as well as involvement in the 
HIV care and treatment workforce (1-year post-participation), knowledge 
gained through participating in an activity, and satisfaction with the 
activity. The RWHAP Regional AETC Program recipients will gather data 
on the training activities they conduct using six data collection 
instruments. The Individual Participant Record is completed at least 
once every reporting period by participants actively engaging in 
Regional AETC activities. This form includes Regional AETC participant 
demographic, workplace, and clients-served data for the participant's

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respective provider sites. The Regional AETC recipient completes the 
Training Activity Record form at the end of each Regional AETC activity 
that takes place during the reporting period. This form describes the 
activity in hours, modality, and topic(s). The PT Site Characteristics/
Outcomes form collects site characteristics information for PT 
recipient sites only, such as clinic activities and procedures and 
aggregate counts of clients. PT sites provide clinical services and 
differ from IPE sites that support students, thus necessitating a 
different form. The IPE Site Characteristics/Outcomes form collects 
site characteristics information for IPE recipient sites only. The 
Participant Post-Activity Immediate Survey collects information from 
participants immediately after an activity, specifically, their 
satisfaction and potential increased knowledge due to participating in 
said activity. The IPE Long-Term form collects 1-year post-
participation information from participant students who engaged in an 
IPE program to assess involvement in the field of HIV care and 
treatment.
    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on July 19, 2024, 
89 FR 58744-45. The 60-day FRN publication elicited 15 public comments, 
including feedback from eight currently funded AETC regional 
recipients. The public comments offered input to clarify the 
definitions of the terminology used on the forms; requested additions 
and revisions to response options and categories; provided feedback to 
update demographic questions; requested more review to identify which 
professions should be included or removed from the forms; asked for 
clarity on the training track and the process for selecting a track; 
and suggested that there be a balance of questions on both HIV 
treatment and prevention.
    HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau conducted a thorough review of all the 
feedback provided by the public during the 60-day publication period. 
HRSA will incorporate much of the public feedback into the new forms, 
including through the addition of new proposed questions, removal of 
current incompatible questions, correcting spelling and grammar, 
providing definitions and instructions for clarity, incorporating skip 
logic to streamline question response options/categories, updating the 
form format, and the change of the form title from Interprofessional 
Education Site Characteristics/Outcomes Form to the Interprofessional 
Education Health Profession Program Characteristics/Outcomes Form. 
Other suggestions may be further reviewed in future OMB packages or 
non-substantive change memos.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA uses the data 
collected when conducting RWHAP AETC programmatic assessments to 
determine future program needs. These data allow HRSA to identify where 
gaps exist in training HIV professionals as well as to measure whether 
training activities are meeting the goals of the National HIV/AIDS 
Strategy and the RWHAP statute.
    Likely Respondents: RWHAP Regional AETC participants complete the 
Individual Participant Record at least once a reporting period. 
Regional AETC recipients complete a Training Activity Record for each 
training activity they conduct during the reporting period. All 
Regional AETC participants will take the Participant Post-Activity 
Survey immediately after any attended activity. The IPE Long-Term form 
will only be completed by participants who engaged in an IPE program, 
1-year post-participation in the program. Finally, PT recipients will 
complete the PT Site Characteristics/Outcomes form at least once per 
reporting period, and IPE recipients will complete the IPE Site 
Characteristics/Outcomes form at least once per reporting period.
    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 use 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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Individual Participant Record...          59,576               1          59,576            0.27       16,085.52
Training Activity Record........          12,226               1          12,226            0.21        2,567.46
PT, Site Characteristics and                 128               1             128            0.31           39.68
 Outcomes.......................
IPE, Site Characteristics and                 86               1              86            0.09            7.74
 Outcomes.......................
Participant Post-Activity                 59,576               3         178,728            0.06       10,723.68
 Immediate Survey...............
IPE, Long-Term..................           4,403               1           4,403            0.07          308.21
Combined Data Set...............               8               1               8           64.00          512.00
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    Total.......................         136,003  ..............         255,155  ..............       30,244.29
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-28803 Filed 12-6-24; 8:45 am]
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