80 FR 78748 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 242 (December 17, 2015)
Health Resources and Services Administration
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 242 (December 17, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-31641 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 242 (Thursday, December 17, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 78748-78749] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-31641] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 16, 2016. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 10-105, 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: Bureau of Health Workforce Performance Data Collection OMB No. 0915-0061--Revision Abstract: Over 40 Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) programs award grants to health professions schools and training programs across the United States to develop, expand, and enhance training, and to strengthen the distribution of the health workforce. These programs are authorized by the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), specifically Titles III, VII, and VIII. Performance information regarding these programs is collected in the HRSA Performance Report for Grants and Cooperative Agreements (PRGCA). Data collection activities consisting of an annual progress and annual performance report satisfy statutory and programmatic requirements for performance measurement and evaluation (including specific Title III, VII and VIII requirements), as well as Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) requirements. The performance measures were last revised in 2013 to ensure they addressed programmatic changes, met evolving program management needs, and responded to emerging workforce concerns-- especially as a result of the changes in the Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148). As these revisions were successful, BHW will continue with its current performance management strategy and measures and require annual progress and performance reporting. Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The purpose of the proposed data collection is to analyze and report grantee training activities and education, identify intended practice locations and report outcomes of funded initiatives. Data collected from these grant programs will also provide a description of the program activities of approximately 1,700 reporting grantees to better inform policymakers on the barriers, opportunities, and outcomes involved in health care workforce development. The proposed measures focus on five key outcomes: (1) Increasing the workforce supply of diverse well-educated practitioners, (2) increasing the number of practitioners that practice in underserved and rural areas, (3) enhancing the quality of education, (4) increasing the recruitment, training, and placement of under- represented groups in the health workforce, and (5) supporting educational infrastructure to increase the capacity to train more health professionals. Likely Respondents: Respondents are awardees of BHW health professions grant programs. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours respondent hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Aggregate Data 600 1 600 6 3,600 Collection*.................... Individual-level Data Collection 1,100 1 1,100 2 2,200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total....................... 1,700 .............. 1,700 .............. 5,800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Program aggregate data collection will only be required for programs that do not provide direct financial support to all trainees. [[Page 78749]] 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, Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat. [FR Doc. 2015-31641 Filed 12-16-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4165-15-P
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advise ANDA applicants to submit such instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov proposed data collection is to analyze
labeling. or call the HRSA Information Collection and report grantee training activities
Dated: December 11, 2015. Clearance Officer at (301) 443–1984. and education, identify intended
Leslie Kux, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When practice locations and report outcomes
submitting comments or requesting of funded initiatives. Data collected
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
information, please include the from these grant programs will also
[FR Doc. 2015–31689 Filed 12–16–15; 8:45 am]
information request collection title for provide a description of the program
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reference.
reporting grantees to better inform
Information Collection Request Title: policymakers on the barriers,
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Bureau of Health Workforce opportunities, and outcomes involved
HUMAN SERVICES Performance Data Collection OMB No. in health care workforce development.
0915–0061—Revision The proposed measures focus on five
Health Resources and Services
Administration Abstract: Over 40 Bureau of Health key outcomes: (1) Increasing the
Workforce (BHW) programs award workforce supply of diverse well-
Agency Information Collection grants to health professions schools and educated practitioners, (2) increasing
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public training programs across the United the number of practitioners that practice
Comment Request States to develop, expand, and enhance in underserved and rural areas, (3)
training, and to strengthen the enhancing the quality of education, (4)
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services distribution of the health workforce. increasing the recruitment, training, and
Administration, HHS. These programs are authorized by the placement of under-represented groups
ACTION: Notice. Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 in the health workforce, and (5)
et seq.), specifically Titles III, VII, and supporting educational infrastructure to
SUMMARY: In compliance with the increase the capacity to train more
VIII. Performance information regarding
requirement for opportunity for public health professionals.
these programs is collected in the HRSA
comment on proposed data collection
Performance Report for Grants and Likely Respondents: Respondents are
projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Cooperative Agreements (PRGCA). Data awardees of BHW health professions
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the
collection activities consisting of an grant programs.
Health Resources and Services
annual progress and annual Burden Statement: Burden in this
Administration (HRSA) announces
performance report satisfy statutory and context means the time expended by
plans to submit an Information
programmatic requirements for persons to generate, maintain, retain,
Collection Request (ICR), described
performance measurement and disclose or provide the information
below, to the Office of Management and
evaluation (including specific Title III, requested. This includes the time
Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the
VII and VIII requirements), as well as needed to review instructions; to
ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments
Government Performance and Results develop, acquire, install and utilize
from the public regarding the burden
Act (GPRA) requirements. The technology and systems for the purpose
estimate, below, or any other aspect of
performance measures were last revised of collecting, validating and verifying
the ICR.
in 2013 to ensure they addressed information, processing and
DATES: Comments on this Information programmatic changes, met evolving maintaining information, and disclosing
Collection Request must be received no program management needs, and and providing information; to train
later than February 16, 2016. responded to emerging workforce personnel and to be able to respond to
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to concerns—especially as a result of the a collection of information; to search
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA changes in the Affordable Care Act (Pub. data sources; to complete and review
Information Collection Clearance L. 111–148). As these revisions were the collection of information; and to
Officer, Room 10–105, Parklawn successful, BHW will continue with its transmit or otherwise disclose the
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, current performance management information. The total annual burden
MD 20857. strategy and measures and require hours estimated for this Information
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To annual progress and performance Collection Request are summarized in
request more information on the reporting. the table below.
proposed project or to obtain a copy of Need and Proposed Use of the Total Estimated Annualized burden
the data collection plans and draft Information: The purpose of the hours:
Average
Number of
Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name responses per
respondents responses response hours
respondent (in hours)
Program Aggregate Data Collection* .................................. 600 1 600 6 3,600
Individual-level Data Collection ............................................ 1,100 1 1,100 2 2,200
Total .............................................................................. 1,700 ........................ 1,700 ........................ 5,800
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HRSA specifically requests comments 4137, fax number (202) 317–6731. For building is placed in service after
on (1) the necessity and utility of the questions about the ‘‘HUB Zone’’ December 31, 2014.
proposed information collection for the program, contact Mariana Pardo, If an area is not on a subsequent list
proper performance of the agency’s Director, HUBZone Program, Office of of DDAs, the 2015 lists are effective for
functions, (2) the accuracy of the Government Contracting and Business the area if:
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance Development, U.S. Small Business (1) The allocation of credit to an
the quality, utility, and clarity of the Administration, 409 Third Street SW., applicant is made no later than the end
information to be collected, and (4) the Suite 8800, Washington, DC 20416; of the 730-day period after the applicant
use of automated collection techniques telephone number (202) 205–2985, fax submits a complete application to the
or other forms of information number (202) 481–6443, or send an LIHTC-allocating agency, and the
technology to minimize the information email to hubzone@sba.gov. A text submission is made before the effective
collection burden. telephone is available for persons with date of the subsequent lists; or
hearing or speech impairments at 800– (2) for purposes of IRC Section
Jackie Painter, 42(h)(4), if:
877–8339. (These are not toll-free
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat. (a) The bonds are issued or the
telephone numbers.) Additional copies
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of this notice are available through HUD building is placed in service no later
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User at 800–245–2691 for a small fee to than the end of the 730-day period after
cover duplication and mailing costs. the applicant submits a complete
Copies Available Electronically: This application to the bond-issuing agency,
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND notice and additional information about and
URBAN DEVELOPMENT (b) the submission is made before the
DDAs and QCTs are available
effective date of the subsequent lists,
[Docket No. FR–5815–N–02] electronically on the Internet at http://
provided that both the issuance of the
www.huduser.org/datasets/qct.html.
Statutorily Mandated Designation of bonds and the placement in service of
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: the building occur after the application
Difficult Development Areas and
Qualified Census Tracts: Revision of This Document is submitted.
Effective Date for 2015 Designations An application is deemed to be
This notice extends from 365 days to submitted on the date it is filed if the
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 730 days the period for which the 2015 application is determined to be
Secretary for Policy Development and lists of QCTs and DDAs are effective for complete by the credit-allocating or
Research, HUD. projects located in areas not on the 2016 bond-issuing agency. A ‘‘complete
ACTION: Notice. list of DDAs or QCTs, published application’’ means that no more than
November 24, 2015, at 80 FR 73201, but de minimis clarification of the
SUMMARY: This document revises the having submitted applications while the application is required for the agency to
effective date for designations of area was a 2015 QCT or DDA for each make a decision about the allocation of
‘‘Difficult Development Areas’’ (DDAs) of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, tax credits or issuance of bonds
and ‘‘Qualified Census Tracts’’ (QCTs) Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, requested in the application.
for purposes of the Low-Income the Northern Mariana Islands, and the In the case of a ‘‘multiphase project,’’
Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) under U.S. Virgin Islands. The actual the DDA or QCT status of the site of the
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 42 designations of 2015 QCTs and DDAs project that applies for all phases of the
(26 U.S.C. 42) published on October 3, are not affected by this notice. HUD is project is that which applied when the
2014 (79 FR 59855). This Notice extends revising the effective date of the 2015 project received its first allocation of
from 365 days to 730 days the period for QCTs and DDAs at this time to aid the LIHTC. For purposes of IRC Section
which the 2015 lists of QCTs and DDAs transition to Small Difficult 42(h)(4), the DDA or QCT status of the
are effective for projects located in areas Development Areas as announced in a site of the project that applies for all
not on the 2016 list of DDAs or QCTs, notice designating 2016 QCTs and DDAs phases of the project is that which
published November 24, 2015, at 80 FR published at 80 FR 73201 and otherwise applied when the first of the following
73201, but having submitted ensure that LIHTC and bond-financed occurred: (a) The building(s) in the first
applications while the area was a 2015 projects relying on 2015 QCT or DDA phase were placed in service, or (b) the
QCT or DDA. designations and not in areas designated bonds were issued.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For as 2016 QCTs and DDAs, but unable to For purposes of this notice, a
questions on how areas are designated meet the 365-day requirement of the ‘‘multiphase project’’ is defined as a set
and on geographic definitions, contact original effective date of the 2015 QCT of buildings to be constructed or
Michael K. Hollar, Senior Economist, and DDA designations, may still be rehabilitated under the rules of the
Economic Development and Public completed within 730 days. LIHTC and meeting the following
Finance Division, Office of Policy The sections entitled ‘‘Effective Date’’ criteria:
Development and Research, Department and ‘‘Interpretive Examples of Effective (1) The multiphase composition of the
of Housing and Urban Development, Date’’ of the 2015 DDA and QCT project (i.e., total number of buildings
451 Seventh Street SW., Room 8234, designations as published October 3, and phases in project, with a
Washington, DC 20410–6000; telephone 2014 at 79 FR 59855 are hereby revised description of how many buildings are
number (202) 402–5878, or send an to read as follows: to be built in each phase and when each
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email to Michael.K.Hollar@hud.gov. For phase is to be completed, and any other
Effective Date
specific legal questions pertaining to information required by the agency) is
Section 42, contact Branch 5, Office of The 2015 lists of QCTs and DDAs are made known by the applicant in the
the Associate Chief Counsel, effective: first application of credit for any
Passthroughs and Special Industries, (1) For allocations of credit after building in the project, and that
Internal Revenue Service, 1111 December 31, 2014; or applicant identifies the buildings in the
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, (2) for purposes of IRC Section project for which credit is (or will be)
DC 20224; telephone number (202) 317– 42(h)(4), if the bonds are issued and the sought;
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| Dates | Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received no later than February 16, 2016. | |
| Contact | To request more information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft instruments, email [email protected] or call the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984. | |
| FR Citation | 80 FR 78748 |
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