SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Information Collection Request Title: Health Center Program Forms, OMB No. 0915-0285—Revision.

Abstract: The Health Center Program, administered by HRSA, is authorized under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b). Health centers are patient-directed organizations that deliver affordable, accessible, quality, and cost-effective primary health care services to patients and adjust fees based on income and family size. Nearly 1,400 health centers operate more than 16,000 service delivery sites that provide primary health care to more than 32 million people in every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin. HRSA uses forms for health centers to report progress and change their scope of project.

Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The information HRSA collects from health centers via the Health Center Program-specific forms is necessary for the agency's oversight of Health Center Program awards. HRSA uses the information for program monitoring and for evaluating award recipients' compliance with Health Center Program statutory and regulatory requirements. These forms were approved by OMB on May 31, 2026, following 60- and 30-day public comment periods. Eight forms that were previously approved are being updated and three forms are being added to facilitate monitoring, improve scope of project documentation and oversight, increase the efficiency of the change in scope process, and enhance the accuracy of change in scope requests.

HRSA will modify the following forms to update and clarify data currently being collected:

HRSA will add the following forms necessary for data collection and change in scope requests to simplify the process:

• Checklist for Replacing a Service Site in Scope
• Quality Improvement Fund (QIF) Final Report
• Loan Guarantee Progress Report

Likely Respondents: Health Center Program award recipients (those funded under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act) and Health Center Program look-alikes.

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.

These updates will reduce the estimated annual burden by 1,483.50 hours compared with the burden approved in the ICR on May 31, 2026. This is due to the modification of existing forms that is expected to reduce burden. In the burden table below, new forms are indicated through bold text, and revised forms are indicated through italicized text. All other forms are unchanged.

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.

91 FR 48170