83 FR 22691 - Agency Information Collection Request. 30-Day Public Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 95 (May 16, 2018)
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 95 (May 16, 2018)
| Page Range | 22691-22692 | |
| FR Document | 2018-10394 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 16, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 22691-22692] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-10394] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES [Document Identifier: OS-0990--New] Agency Information Collection Request. 30-Day Public Comment Request AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following summary of a proposed collection for public comment. DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before June 15, 2018. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or via facsimile to (202) 395-5806. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sherrette Funn, [email protected] or (202) 795-7714. When submitting comments or requesting information, please include the document identifier 0990--New--30D and project title for reference. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including any of the following subjects: (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. Title of the Collection: Trafficking Victim Assistance Program Social Network Analysis--Network Survey. Type of Collection: New. OMB No. 0990-NEW--Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation--Administration for Children and Families' Trafficking Victim Assistance Program. Abstract The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requesting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a new information collection request titled, ``Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) Social Network Analysis--Network Survey.'' Under the guidance of ASPE and ACF, a contractor is carrying out this assessment. The data collected and analyzed under this submission will help HHS better understand the type and extent of the relationship between the TVAP grantees, TVAP subrecipients, and other service providers operating in TVAP subrecipient areas. It will also help illuminate each grantee's and subrecipient's types and number of services provided, estimated costs of services, service coordination between grantees or subrecipients and other services providers, and type and strength of relationships between grantees and subrecipients. This information will enable HHS to understand the structure of the grantee/subrecipient network and inform recommendations for more efficient network management and distribution of support. TVAP, as authorized by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, provides comprehensive case management services to foreign-born victims of human trafficking residing in the United States. Since its inception, TVAP funding and infrastructure have remained relatively unchanged: Services are paid on a per capita basis, and funds are managed through three primary grantees that enter into cooperative agreements with service providers (subrecipients). Given the changing landscape and the greater understanding of the nature and extent of trafficking, HHS is undertaking a program assessment to understand whether any efficiencies can be gained in the program administration and structure. To supplement an earlier fiscal year 2018 assessment to solicit qualitative feedback from a range of program stakeholders, the information collected for this program survey aims to help HHS determine if efficiencies can be gained through improved coordination among TVAP grantees, TVAP subrecipients, and other service providers. Data will be collected through an electronic survey of fiscal year 2016 TVAP grantees and subrecipients. Key staff at grantee sites and subrecipient organizations will complete a self-administered online survey that will include questions about each respondent's services provided, estimated costs of services, service coordination between grantees or subrecipients, and type and strength of [[Page 22692]] relationships between grantees and subrecipients. With this data, the contractor, to inform ASPE and ACF, will build a social/organizational network to depict how grantee and subrecipient organizations collaborate with one another through TVAP to better understand the existing network and identify potential opportunities for improving the efficiency of the network. ASPE anticipates completion of all data collection activities by October 2018. Estimated Annualized Burden Table ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Number of Number burden per Total burden Type of respondent respondents responses per response (in hours respondent hours) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TVAP grantees..................... 3 1 45/60 2.25 TVAP Subrecipients................ 253 1 45/60 189.75 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total......................... 256 1 45/60 192 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Clark, Asst. Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance Officer, Office of the Secretary. [FR Doc. 2018-10394 Filed 5-15-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4151-05-P
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TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN 1
Number of Total Average
Number of
Type of interview responses per annual burden per Total hours
respondents respondent responses response
In-Person Individual IDIs ........................................... 1,092 1 1,092 1 ............................... 1,092
IDI Screener ............................................................... 1,800 1 1,800 .083 (5 minutes) ...... 149
Focus Group Interviews ............................................. 4,701 1 4,701 1.5 ............................ 7,052
Focus Group Screener .............................................. 3,996 1 3,996 .25 (15 minutes) ...... 999
Usability Testing ........................................................ 2,322 1 2,322 .5 (30 minutes) ........ 1,161
Usability Testing Screener ......................................... 2,028 1 2,028 .083 (5 minutes) ...... 168
Total .................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ .................................. 10,621
1 There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information.
The number of respondents to be comments or requesting information, subrecipient’s types and number of
included in each new pretest may vary, please include the document identifier services provided, estimated costs of
depending on the nature of the material 0990—New—30D and project title for services, service coordination between
or message being tested and the target reference. grantees or subrecipients and other
audience. Table 1 provides examples of services providers, and type and
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested
the types of studies that may be strength of relationships between
persons are invited to send comments
administered and estimated burden grantees and subrecipients. This
regarding this burden estimate or any
levels during a 3-year period. Time to information will enable HHS to
other aspect of this collection of
read, view, or listen to the message understand the structure of the grantee/
information, including any of the
being tested is built into the ‘‘Hours per subrecipient network and inform
following subjects: (1) The necessity and
Response’’ figures. recommendations for more efficient
utility of the proposed information
FDA has updated the estimated network management and distribution
collection for the proper performance of of support.
burden that was published in the 60-day
the agency’s functions; (2) the accuracy TVAP, as authorized by the
notice. The estimated burden for this
of the estimated burden; (3) ways to Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
collection has increased by 4,437 hours
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 2000, provides comprehensive case
from 6,184 to 10,621. FDA attributes
of the information to be collected; and management services to foreign-born
this increase to adding usability testing,
(4) the use of automated collection victims of human trafficking residing in
and increasing the overall number of
techniques or other forms of information the United States. Since its inception,
studies planned the next 3 years.
technology to minimize the information TVAP funding and infrastructure have
Dated: May 10, 2018. collection burden. remained relatively unchanged: Services
Leslie Kux, Title of the Collection: Trafficking are paid on a per capita basis, and funds
Associate Commissioner for Policy. Victim Assistance Program Social are managed through three primary
[FR Doc. 2018–10457 Filed 5–15–18; 8:45 am] Network Analysis—Network Survey. grantees that enter into cooperative
BILLING CODE 4164–01–P Type of Collection: New. agreements with service providers
OMB No. 0990–NEW—Office of the (subrecipients). Given the changing
Assistant Secretary for Planning and landscape and the greater understanding
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Evaluation—Administration for of the nature and extent of trafficking,
HUMAN SERVICES Children and Families’ Trafficking HHS is undertaking a program
[Document Identifier: OS–0990—New]
Victim Assistance Program. assessment to understand whether any
Abstract efficiencies can be gained in the
Agency Information Collection program administration and structure.
Request. 30-Day Public Comment The Office of the Assistant Secretary To supplement an earlier fiscal year
Request for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in 2018 assessment to solicit qualitative
partnership with the Administration for feedback from a range of program
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. Children and Families (ACF), U.S. stakeholders, the information collected
ACTION: Notice. Department of Health and Human for this program survey aims to help
Services (HHS) is requesting Office of HHS determine if efficiencies can be
SUMMARY: In compliance with the Management and Budget (OMB) gained through improved coordination
requirement of the Paperwork approval for a new information among TVAP grantees, TVAP
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the collection request titled, ‘‘Trafficking subrecipients, and other service
Secretary (OS), Department of Health Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) providers.
and Human Services, is publishing the Social Network Analysis—Network Data will be collected through an
following summary of a proposed Survey.’’ Under the guidance of ASPE electronic survey of fiscal year 2016
collection for public comment. and ACF, a contractor is carrying out TVAP grantees and subrecipients. Key
DATES: Comments on the ICR must be this assessment. The data collected and staff at grantee sites and subrecipient
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received on or before June 15, 2018. analyzed under this submission will organizations will complete a self-
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to help HHS better understand the type administered online survey that will
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or via and extent of the relationship between include questions about each
facsimile to (202) 395–5806. the TVAP grantees, TVAP subrecipients, respondent’s services provided,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and other service providers operating in estimated costs of services, service
Sherrette Funn, Sherrette.Funn@hhs.gov TVAP subrecipient areas. It will also coordination between grantees or
or (202) 795–7714. When submitting help illuminate each grantee’s and subrecipients, and type and strength of
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relationships between grantees and network to depict how grantee and and identify potential opportunities for
subrecipients. With this data, the subrecipient organizations collaborate improving the efficiency of the network.
contractor, to inform ASPE and ACF, with one another through TVAP to ASPE anticipates completion of all data
will build a social/organizational better understand the existing network collection activities by October 2018.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE
Average
Number
Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondent responses per
respondents response hours
respondent (in hours)
TVAP grantees ................................................................................................ 3 1 45/60 2.25
TVAP Subrecipients ......................................................................................... 253 1 45/60 189.75
Total .......................................................................................................... 256 1 45/60 192
Terry Clark, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The increase fair market access for American
Asst. Paperwork Reduction Act Reports United States is the world’s leader in innovators. Furthermore, HHS seeks to
Clearance Officer, Office of the Secretary. biopharmaceutical innovation. identify when developed nations are
[FR Doc. 2018–10394 Filed 5–15–18; 8:45 am] American innovation has improved paying less for drugs than the prices
BILLING CODE 4151–05–P health and quality of life for billions of paid by Federal health programs, and
people, and was made possible by our correct these inequities through better
intellectual property system, decades of negotiation.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND government and privately-funded HHS has already acted to increase the
HUMAN SERVICES research, strong capital markets, and the affordability of medicines for millions of
world’s largest scientific research base. our citizens, but is also going much
Office of the Secretary By rewarding innovation through patent further in response to President Trump’s
and data protection, American call to action. Through the work of the
RIN 0991–ZA49
companies hold the intellectual Food and Drug Administration and the
HHS Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices property rights for most new, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs potentially life changing, medicines. Services, HHS has tremendous ability to
Our regulatory system is the most change how drugs are developed and
AGENCY: Department of Health and rigorous in the world, ensuring the paid for in the United States.
Human Services. safety and efficacy of drugs for The status quo is no longer
ACTION: Policy Statement; Request for American patients. Medicare, Medicaid, acceptable. Millions of Americans face
information. other Federal health programs, and soaring drug prices and higher out-of-
private payers ensure Americans have pocket costs, while manufacturers and
SUMMARY: Through this request for access to medicines, from innovative middlemen such as pharmacy benefit
information, HHS seeks comment from new cures, to generic versions of managers (PBMs) and distributors
interested parties to help shape future medications that have markedly benefit from rising list prices and their
policy development and agency action. lowered costs for consumers. resulting higher rebates and
DATES: Comments must be submitted on As part of President Trump’s bold administrative fees. An unprecedented
or before July 16, 2018. plan to put American patients first, the re-examination of the whole system and
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
Department of Health and Human opportunities for reform is long
in one of three ways (please choose only Services has developed a overdue. We believe a national focus on
one of the ways listed): comprehensive blueprint that addresses lowering list prices and out-of-pocket
1. Electronically. You may submit many of the challenges and costs has the potential to create new and
electronic comments to http:// opportunities impacting American disruptive alternatives to the current
www.regulations.gov. Follow the patients and consumers. The blueprint system, while maintaining its many
‘‘Submit a comment’’ instructions. covers multiple areas including, but not virtues. It is time to realign the system
2. By regular mail. You may mail limited to: in a way that promotes the development
• Improving competition and ending of affordable innovations that improve
written comments to the following
the gaming of the regulatory process, health outcomes and lower both out-of-
address ONLY: Department of Health • supporting better negotiation of
and Human Services, 200 Independence pocket cost and the total cost of care.
drug discounts in government-funded Through this request for information,
Ave. SW, Room 600E, Washington, DC insurance programs,
20201. HHS seeks comment from interested
• creating incentives for parties to help shape future policy
Please allow sufficient time for mailed pharmaceutical companies to lower list
comments to be received before the development and agency action.
prices, and,
close of the comment period. • reducing out-of-pocket spending for Table of Contents:
3. By express or overnight mail. You
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patients at the pharmacy and other sites
may send written comments to the of care. I. Previous Actions by the Trump
following address ONLY: Department of HHS also recognizes that achieving Administration
Health and Human Services, 200 A. Increasing Competition
the goal of putting American patients B. Better Negotiation
Independence Ave. SW, Room 600E, first will require interagency C. Creating Incentives to Lower List Prices
Washington, DC 20201. collaboration on pharmaceutical trade D. Reducing Patient Out-of-Pocket
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John policies that promote innovation, and Spending
O’Brien, (202) 690–7886. are transparent, nondiscriminatory, and II. Responding to President Trump’s Call to
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