82 FR 24704 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 102 (May 30, 2017)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 102 (May 30, 2017)
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| FR Document | 2017-11099 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 102 (Tuesday, May 30, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 24704-24705] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-11099] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: ``Voluntary Customer Survey Generic Clearance for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.'' DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by July 31, 2017. ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at [email protected]. Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by email at [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposed Project Voluntary Customer Survey Generic Clearance for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501- 3520, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed information collection. This is a request for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to re-approve for an additional 3 years, under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the generic clearance for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to survey the users of AHRQ's work products and services, OMB control number 0935-0106. The current clearance was approved on November 12, 2014 and will expire on November 30, 2017. AHRQ will undertake customer surveys to assess its work products and services provided to its customers, to identify problem areas, and to determine how they can be improved. Surveys conducted under this generic clearance are not required by regulation and will not be used by AHRQ to [[Page 24705]] regulate or sanction its customers. Surveys will be entirely voluntary, and information provided by respondents will be combined and summarized so that no individually identifiable information will be released. Proposed information collections submitted under this generic clearance will be reviewed and acted upon by OMB within 14 days of submission. Method of Collection The information collected through focus groups and voluntary customer surveys will be used by AHRQ to identify strengths and weaknesses in products and services to make improvements that are practical and feasible. Information from these customer surveys will be used to plan and redirect resources and efforts to improve or maintain a high quality of service to the lay and health professional public. Estimated Annual Respondent Burden Exhibit 1 shows the estimated total burden hours for the respondents. Mail surveys are estimated to average 15 minutes, telephone surveys 40 minutes, web-based surveys 10 minutes, focus groups two hours, and in-person interviews are estimated to average 50 minutes. Mail surveys may also be sent to respondents via email, and may include a telephone non-response follow-up. Telephone non-response follow-up for mailed surveys does not count as a telephone survey. The total burden hours for the 3 years of the clearance is estimated to be 10,900 hours. Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost burden for the respondents. The total cost burden for the 3 years of the clearance is estimated to be $128,757. Exhibit 1--Estimated Burden Hours Over 3 Years ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Type of information collection Number of responses per Hours per Total burden respondents respondent response hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail/email *.................................... 5,000 1 15/60 1,250 Telephone....................................... 200 1 40/60 133 Web-based....................................... 5,000 1 10/60 833 Focus Groups.................................... 500 1 2.0 1,000 In-person....................................... 200 1 50/60 167 --------------------------------------------------------------- Total....................................... 10,900 na na 3,383 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * May include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change. Exhibit 2--Estimated Cost Burden Over 3 Years ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Type of information collection Number of Total burden hourly wage Total cost respondents hours rate * burden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail/email...................................... 5,000 1,250 $38.06 $47,575 Telephone....................................... 200 133 38.06 5,062 Web-based....................................... 5,000 833 38.06 31,704 Focus Groups.................................... 500 1,000 38.06 38,060 In-person....................................... 200 167 38.06 6,356 --------------------------------------------------------------- Total....................................... 10,900 3,383 38.06 128,757 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Bureau of Labor & Statistics on ``Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2016'' found at the following URL: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes290000.htm for the respondents. The total cost burden for the 3 years of the clearance is estimated to be $386,271. Request for Comments In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ's information collection are requested with regard to any of the following: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of AHRQ health care research and health care information dissemination functions, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of AHRQ's estimate of burden (including hours and costs) of the proposed collection(s) of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information upon the respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and included in the Agency's subsequent request for OMB approval of the proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of public record. Sharon B. Arnold, Deputy Director. [FR Doc. 2017-11099 Filed 5-26-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4160-90-P
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Correction Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
Robert E. Feldman, HUMAN SERVICES
In the notice FR Doc. 2017–10672,
Executive Secretary.
published in the issue of Thursday, May Agency for Healthcare Research and
[FR Doc. 2017–11062 Filed 5–26–17; 8:45 am]
25, 2017 (82 FR 24120), make the Quality
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following correction:
Agency Information Collection
On page 24121, in the third column,
Activities: Proposed Collection;
first full paragraph, in the ninth line,
Comment Request
remove the date ‘‘July 21, 2017’’ and FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
add in its place the date ‘‘June 30, AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research
2017’’. Formations of, Acquisitions by, and and Quality, HHS.
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies ACTION: Notice.
Dated: May 25, 2017.
Nicole Owens, The companies listed in this notice SUMMARY: This notice announces the
Director, Office of Regulatory Management have applied to the Board for approval, intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Division. pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
[FR Doc. 2017–11166 Filed 5–25–17; 11:15 am] Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) that the Office of Management and
BILLING CODE 6560–50–P (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
225), and all other applicable statutes information collection project:
and regulations to become a bank ‘‘Voluntary Customer Survey Generic
holding company and/or to acquire the Clearance for the Agency for Healthcare
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE assets or the ownership of, control of, or Research and Quality.’’
CORPORATION the power to vote shares of a bank or DATES: Comments on this notice must be
bank holding company and all of the received by July 31, 2017.
Notice to All Interested Parties of the banks and nonbanking companies ADDRESSES: Written comments should
Termination of the Receivership of owned by the bank holding company, be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
10086—Security Bank of Gwinnett including the companies listed below. Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by
County, Suwanee, Georgia The applications listed below, as well email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
as other related filings required by the Copies of the proposed collection
Notice is hereby given that the Federal Board, are available for immediate plans, data collection instruments, and
Deposit Insurance Corporation (‘‘FDIC’’) inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank specific details on the estimated burden
as Receiver for Security Bank of indicated. The applications will also be can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Gwinnett County, Suwanee, Georgia available for inspection at the offices of Clearance Officer.
(‘‘the Receiver’’) intends to terminate its the Board of Governors. Interested FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
receivership for said institution. The persons may express their views in Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
FDIC was appointed receiver of Security writing on the standards enumerated in Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
Bank of Gwinnett County on July 24, the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
2009. The liquidation of the proposal also involves the acquisition of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
receivership assets has been completed. a nonbanking company, the review also
To the extent permitted by available includes whether the acquisition of the Proposed Project
funds and in accordance with law, the nonbanking company complies with the Voluntary Customer Survey Generic
Receiver will be making a final dividend standards in section 4 of the BHC Act Clearance for the Agency for Healthcare
payment to proven creditors. (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise Research and Quality
noted, nonbanking activities will be
Based upon the foregoing, the In accordance with the Paperwork
conducted throughout the United States.
Receiver has determined that the Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520,
continued existence of the receivership Unless otherwise noted, comments
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
will serve no useful purpose. regarding each of these applications
this proposed information collection.
Consequently, notice is given that the must be received at the Reserve Bank
This is a request for the Office of
receivership shall be terminated, to be indicated or the offices of the Board of
Management and Budget (OMB) to re-
effective no sooner than thirty days after Governors not later than June 26, 2017.
approve for an additional 3 years, under
the date of this Notice. If any person A. Federal Reserve Bank of San the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
wishes to comment concerning the Francisco (Gerald C. Tsai, Director, the generic clearance for the Agency for
termination of the receivership, such Applications and Enforcement) 101 Healthcare Research and Quality
comment must be made in writing and Market Street, San Francisco, California (AHRQ) to survey the users of AHRQ’s
sent within thirty days of the date of 94105–1579: work products and services, OMB
this Notice to: Federal Deposit 1. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, control number 0935–0106. The current
Insurance Corporation, Division of Lodi, California; to acquire 39.45 clearance was approved on November
Resolutions and Receiverships, percent of the outstanding voting shares 12, 2014 and will expire on November
Attention: Receivership Oversight of Bank of Rio Vista, Rio Vista, 30, 2017.
AHRQ will undertake customer
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Department 34.6, 1601 Bryan Street, California.
Dallas, TX 75201. surveys to assess its work products and
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services provided to its customers, to
No comments concerning the System, May 24, 2017.
identify problem areas, and to
termination of this receivership will be Yao-Chin Chao, determine how they can be improved.
considered which are not sent within Assistant Secretary of the Board. Surveys conducted under this generic
this time frame. [FR Doc. 2017–11038 Filed 5–26–17; 8:45 am] clearance are not required by regulation
Dated: May 24, 2017. BILLING CODE 6210–01–P and will not be used by AHRQ to
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regulate or sanction its customers. products and services to make interviews are estimated to average 50
Surveys will be entirely voluntary, and improvements that are practical and minutes. Mail surveys may also be sent
information provided by respondents feasible. Information from these to respondents via email, and may
will be combined and summarized so customer surveys will be used to plan include a telephone non-response
that no individually identifiable and redirect resources and efforts to follow-up. Telephone non-response
information will be released. Proposed improve or maintain a high quality of follow-up for mailed surveys does not
information collections submitted under service to the lay and health count as a telephone survey. The total
this generic clearance will be reviewed professional public. burden hours for the 3 years of the
and acted upon by OMB within 14 days clearance is estimated to be 10,900
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
of submission. hours.
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated total
Method of Collection burden hours for the respondents. Mail Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost
The information collected through surveys are estimated to average 15 burden for the respondents. The total
focus groups and voluntary customer minutes, telephone surveys 40 minutes, cost burden for the 3 years of the
surveys will be used by AHRQ to web-based surveys 10 minutes, focus clearance is estimated to be $128,757.
identify strengths and weaknesses in groups two hours, and in-person
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS OVER 3 YEARS
Number of
Number of Hours per Total burden
Type of information collection responses per
respondents response hours
respondent
Mail/email * ....................................................................................................... 5,000 1 15/60 1,250
Telephone ........................................................................................................ 200 1 40/60 133
Web-based ....................................................................................................... 5,000 1 10/60 833
Focus Groups .................................................................................................. 500 1 2.0 1,000
In-person .......................................................................................................... 200 1 50/60 167
Total .......................................................................................................... 10,900 na na 3,383
* May include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change.
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED COST BURDEN OVER 3 YEARS
Average
Number of Total burden Total cost
Type of information collection hourly wage
respondents hours burden
rate *
Mail/email ......................................................................................................... 5,000 1,250 $38.06 $47,575
Telephone ........................................................................................................ 200 133 38.06 5,062
Web-based ....................................................................................................... 5,000 833 38.06 31,704
Focus Groups .................................................................................................. 500 1,000 38.06 38,060
In-person .......................................................................................................... 200 167 38.06 6,356
Total .......................................................................................................... 10,900 3,383 38.06 128,757
* Bureau of Labor & Statistics on ‘‘Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2016’’ found at the following URL: https://www.bls.gov/oes/cur-
rent/oes290000.htm for the respondents. The total cost burden for the 3 years of the clearance is estimated to be $386,271.
Request for Comments automated collection techniques or DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
other forms of information technology. HUMAN SERVICES
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s Comments submitted in response to
Agency for Healthcare Research and
information collection are requested this notice will be summarized and
Quality
with regard to any of the following: (a) included in the Agency’s subsequent
Whether the proposed collection of request for OMB approval of the Agency Information Collection
information is necessary for the proper proposed information collection. All Activities: Proposed Collection:
performance of AHRQ health care comments will become a matter of Generic Clearance for the Collection of
research and health care information public record. Qualitative Feedback on Agency
dissemination functions, including Service Delivery
Sharon B. Arnold,
whether the information will have Deputy Director. AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of [FR Doc. 2017–11099 Filed 5–26–17; 8:45 am] and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including ACTION: Notice.
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hours and costs) of the proposed
collection(s) of information; (c) ways to SUMMARY: As part of a Federal
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity Government-wide effort to streamline
of the information to be collected; and the process to seek feedback from the
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the public on service delivery, AHRQ has
collection of information upon the submitted a Generic Information
respondents, including the use of Collection Request (Generic ICR):
‘‘Generic Clearance for the Collection of
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