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IV. Submission Information 

A. Submission Process 

To receive funding, eligible entities 

must provide a Letter of Assurance and 

an Initial Spend Plan (if applicable) 

containing all the information outlined 

in Section III A. & B. above. 

Materials should be addressed to: 

Alison Barkoff, Acting Administrator 

and Assistant Secretary for Aging, 

Administration for Community Living, 

330 C Street SW, Washington, DC 

20201. 

Letters of Assurance and the Initial 

Spend Plan should be submitted 

electronically via email to aps@

acl.hhs.gov. 

B. Submission Dates and Times 

To receive consideration, Letters of 

Assurance and the Initial Spend Plan 

must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern 

Time on EST June 24, 2022, Letters of 

Assurance and the Initial Spend Plan 

should be submitted electronically via 

email to aps@acl.hhs.gov and have an 

electronic time stamp indicating the 

date/time submitted. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

A. Programmatic Issues/Questions 

Direct programmatic inquiries to: 

Elizabeth Petruy, Email: 

elizabeth.petruy@acl.hhs.gov, Phone: 

202.260.0868. 

B. Submission Issues/Questions 

Direct inquiries regarding submission 

of applications to aps@acl.hhs.gov. ACL 

will provide a response within 2 

business days. 

Dated: May 19, 2022. 

Alison Barkoff, 

Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary 

for Aging. 

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BILLING CODE 4154–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: Public 

Comment Request Bureau of Health 

Workforce Program Specific Form; 

OMB No. 0915–XXXX–New 

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 announces plans to 

submit an Information Collection 

Request (ICR), described below, to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to 

OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the 

public regarding the burden estimate, 

below, or any other aspect of the ICR. 

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be 

received no later than July 25, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or by mail to the 

HRSA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600 Fishers 

Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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 Samantha Miller, the acting 

HRSA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer at (301) 443–9094. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When 

submitting comments or requesting 

information, please include the 

information collection request title for 

reference. 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) 

Program Specific Form OMB No. 0915– 

XXXX–New 

Abstract: HRSA seeks to collect 

disparity related data on two forms, the 

Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) 

Program Specific Form and the 

Scholarships for Disadvantaged 

Students (SDS) Application Program 

Specific Form. This clearance request is 

for approval of both forms. The SDS 

Application Program Specific Form is 

currently approved under OMB 

Approval No. 0915–0149 with the 

expiration date of November 30, 2022. 

For programmatic efficiency, HRSA is 

consolidating this previous separate ICR 

with this new ICR and will be 

discontinuing OMB No. 0915—0149. 

Need and Proposed Use of the 

Information: Currently, disparity related 

data is not uniformly collected from 

applicants across all BHW programs. 

Historically, only the SDS Program 

collects disparity related data from 

applicants. In addition to the SDS data, 

HRSA seeks to obtain general 

demographic data for its other health 

workforce programs to assess the 

experience and performance of 

applicants in strengthening the health 

workforce and the populations in which 

they serve. Examples of this data 

include but are not limited to: 

• Demographic Information: 

Students/trainees gender, race, and 

ethnicity; 

• Class Enrollment Information: 

Student/trainees from disadvantaged 

backgrounds; and 

• Graduate Service Information: 

Graduates or program completers 

serving in Medically Underserved 

Communities, rural communities and in 

primary care. 

Collecting disparity related data from 

BHW applicants will close an important 

data gap. 

The Public Health Service Act 

authorizes the Secretary of Health and 

Human Services (Secretary) to collect 

data for workforce information and 

analysis activities for BHW’s Title VII 

and VIII programs in sections 799(c) and 

806(b) and (f) (42 U.S.C. 295o–1(c); 42 

U.S.C 296e(b) and (f)). The Public 

Health Service Act section 799(c) 

specifically authorizes the Secretary to 

ensure that such data collection takes 

into account age, sex, race, and ethnicity 

and sections 806(b) and (f) specifically 

provides the Secretary with authority to 

collect information and carry out 

workforce analytical activities. 

Collecting these data in the HRSA 

Electronic Handbook will help grant 

reviewers, policy makers, and HRSA 

staff make decisions that promote the 

health equity mission of the 

Department. 

The SDS Application Program 

Specific Form seeks to assist HRSA in 

assessing applicants for the SDS 

Program, which makes grant awards to 

eligible schools to provide scholarships 

to full-time, financially needy students 

from disadvantaged backgrounds 

enrolled in health professions programs. 

To qualify for participation in the SDS 

program, a school must be carrying out 

a program for recruiting and retaining 

students from disadvantaged 

backgrounds, including students who 

are members of racial and ethnic 

minority groups, as required by section 

737(d)(1)(B) of the Public Health Service 

Act (42 U.S.C 293a(d)(1)(B)). To meet 

this requirement, a school must provide 

data via the SDS Application Program 

Specific Form that at least 20 percent of 

the school’s full-time enrolled students 

and graduates are from a disadvantaged 

background. 

The SDS Application Program 

Specific form previously approved 

under OMB Control No. 0915–0149 does 

not include substantive changes. Both 

forms will be used to collect 3 years of 

student and participant data from BHW 

program applicants only. 

Likely Respondents: Respondents vary 

by the specific program and are 

determined by each program’s 

eligibility, to include but are not limited 

to the following: Accredited schools of 


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1Public Law 104–191, 110 Stat. 1936 (Aug. 21, 

1996), available at: https://www.congress.gov/104/ 

plaws/publ191/PLAW-104publ191.pdf. 

2Public Law 111–148, 124 Stat. 119 (Mar. 23, 

2010), available at https://www.congress.gov/111/ 

plaws/publ148/PLAW-111publ148.pdf. 

3NCVHS Standards Subcommittee Project Scope: 

Standardization of Information for Burden 

Reduction and Post-Pandemic America 

(‘‘Convergence 2.0’’), available at https://

ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ 

NCVHS-SS-project-scoping-convergence-2021-06- 

21-508.pdf. NCVHS Predictability Roadmap work, 

which addressed the need for the HIPAA standards 

to be adopted on a regular cadence, has evolved 

into a convergence project with a broader scope. 

The Subcommittee has been considering whether 

opportunities exist for updates to the HIPAA 

regulatory framework as well as standards adoption. 

In addition to these foundational topics, the 

Committee has incorporated the harmonization of 

public health and clinical standards in its scope, 

particularly with their relevance to interoperable 

data exchange. Underlying the data flows are 

privacy and security considerations. 

nursing with advanced education 

nursing programs; accredited allopathic 

schools of medicine; accredited schools 

of osteopathic medicine, dentistry, 

pharmacy, and graduate programs in 

behavioral or mental health; schools of 

nursing; nurse managed health clinics/ 

centers; academic health centers; state 

or local governments; public or private 

nonprofit entities determined 

appropriate by the Secretary; and 

consortiums and partnerships of eligible 

entities when applicable. 

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 

BHW Program Specific Form .............................................. 2,069 1 2,069 14 28,966 

SDS Application Program Specific Form ............................. 323 1 323 31 10,013 

Total .............................................................................. 2,392 ........................ 2,392 ........................ 38,979 

HRSA specifically requests comments 

on (1) the necessity and utility of the 

proposed information collection for the 

proper performance of the agency’s 

functions, (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected, and (4) the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology to minimize the information 

collection burden. 

Maria G. Button, 

Director, Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Committee on Vital and Health 

Statistics 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) announces the following 

advisory committee meeting. This 

meeting is open to the public. The 

public is welcome to obtain the link to 

attend this meeting by following the 

instructions posted on the Committee 

website: https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/ 

meetings/standards-subcommitteemeeting-3/. 

NAME: National Committee on Vital and 

Health Statistics (NCVHS), Meeting of 

the Subcommittee on Standards. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Thursday, June 9, 2022: 10:00 a.m.–5:30 

p.m. EDT. 

ADDRESSES: Virtual open meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Substantive program information may 

be obtained from Rebecca Hines, MHS, 

Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National 

Center for Health Statistics, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 

Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 

20782, or via electronic mail to vgh4@

cdc.gov; or by telephone (301) 458– 

4715. Summaries of meetings and a 

roster of Committee members are 

available on the home page of the 

NCVHS website https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/, 

where further information including an 

agenda and instructions to access the 

broadcast of the meeting will be posted. 

Should you require reasonable 

accommodation, please telephone the 

CDC Office of Equal Employment 

Opportunity at (770) 488–3210 as soon 

as possible. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose: As outlined in its Charter, 

the National Committee on Vital and 

Health Statistics assists and advises the 

Secretary of HHS on health data, data 

standards, statistics, privacy, national 

health information policy, and the 

Department’s strategy to best address 

those issues. This includes the adoption 

and implementation of transaction 

standards, unique identifiers, and code 

sets adopted under the Health Insurance 

Portability and Accountability Act of 

1996 (HIPAA),1 and operating rules 

adopted under the Patient Protection 

and Affordable Care Act (ACA).2

Based on input and information 

gathered during its current project, 

‘‘Standardization of Information for 

Burden Reduction and Post-Pandemic 

America’’ (Convergence 2.0), NCVHS is 

working to finalize strategic concepts for 

health information technology standards 

to support more expansive health data 

flows than are currently encompassed 

under HIPAA and other federal 

legislation.3 Data flows common today 

did not exist at the time the HIPAA 

frameworks were adopted in regulation, 

e.g., HIPAA is statutorily limited to 

Covered Entities, but patient data now 

flows routinely to other parties who are 

not Covered Entities. The NCVHS 

Subcommittee on Standards’ 

Convergence 2.0 work also assessed the 

strengths and weaknesses of the current 

standards development and federal 

rulemaking processes and would set the 


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