75164 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 242 / Wednesday, December 17, 2014 / Notices 

Jackie Painter, 

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: Proposed Collection: Public 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirement for opportunity for public 

comment on proposed data collection 

projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration (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 Information 

Collection Request must be received no 

later than February 17, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Room 10C–03, Parklawn 

Building, 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 the HRSA Information Collection 

Clearance Officer at (301) 443–1984. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When 

submitting comments or requesting 

information, please include the 

information request collection title for 

reference. 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Voluntary Partner Surveys to Implement 

Executive Order 12862 in the Health 

Resources and Services Administration 

OMB No. 0915–0212—Extension 

Abstract: In response to Executive 

Order 12862, the Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA) is 

proposing to conduct voluntary 

customer surveys of its partners to 

assess strengths and weaknesses in 

program services and processes. HRSA 

partners are typically state or local 

governments, health care facilities, 

health care consortia, health care 

providers, and researchers. HRSA is 

requesting a generic approval from OMB 

to conduct the partner surveys. 

Partner surveys to be conducted by 

HRSA might include, for example, mail 

or telephone surveys of grantees to 

determine satisfaction with grant 

processes or technical assistance 

provided by a contractor, or in-class 

evaluation forms completed by 

providers who receive training from 

HRSA grantees, to measure satisfaction 

with the training experience. Results of 

these surveys will be used to plan and 

redirect resources and efforts as needed 

to improve services and processes. 

Focus groups may also be used to gain 

partner input into the design of mail 

and telephone surveys. Focus groups, 

in-class evaluation forms, mail surveys, 

and telephone surveys are expected to 

be the preferred data collection 

methods. 

A generic approval allows HRSA to 

conduct a limited number of partner 

surveys without a full-scale OMB 

review of each survey. If generic 

approval is approved, information on 

each individual partner survey will not 

be published in the Federal Register. 

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 Information 

Collection Request 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 

In-class evaluations .......................................................................... 40,000 1 40,000 .05 2,000 

Mail/Telephone surveys .................................................................... 12,000 1 12,000 .25 3,000 

Focus groups .................................................................................... 250 1 250 1.5 375 

Total ........................................................................................... 52,250 1 52,250 .103 5,375 

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. 

Jackie Painter, 

Acting Director, Division of Policy and 

Information Coordination. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Statement of Organization, Functions 

and Delegations of Authority 

This notice amends Part R of the 

Statement of Organization, Functions 

and Delegations of Authority of the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), Health Resources and 

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