Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:

Comment Request

In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public

comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of

Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1995, Public Law 104-13), the Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed

projects being developed for submission to OMB under

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the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the

proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans, call

the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of

the agency, including whether the information shall have practical

utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection 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 on respondents,

including through the use of automated collection techniques or other

forms of information technology.

Proposed Project: SPRANS/CISS Uniform Data Collection Instruments

(OMB No. 0915-0169)--Extension and Revision--The Health Resources and

Services Administration (HRSA) proposes to revise and reformat the

Maternal and Child Health Special Projects of National and Regional

Significance (SPRANS) and Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS)

Uniform Data Collection Instruments. These revised instruments will be

used to include information from grantees to comply with the

legislative mandate for an annual report to Congress, and to include

data for meeting the requirements of the Government Performance and

Results Act (GPRA).

The SPRANS/CISS Programs complement and improve the MCH Block

grants to the 50 states and 9 territories under Title V of the Social

Security Act. Approximately 600 grants are awarded annually in the

SPRANS/CISS programs, usually to state and local health departments,

universities and other institutions of higher learning, and a smaller

number of non-profit and for-profit organizations or associations.

There are four separate SPRANS/CISS Uniform Data Collection

Instruments, reflecting variations in the four basic types of SPRANS/

CISS grantees and their unique data needs: (1) Training, (2) Research,

(3) Data, and (4) Other Discretionary Programs.

The revisions to these data collection instruments are designed to

ensure the collection of data needed by program managers to prepare the

mandated annual report to Congress, and may be designed to ensure the

collection of data required by GPRA without the introduction of

additional collection instruments. We estimate that the burden hours

will be decreased by more than 10%, due to further improvements to the

instruments based on lessons learned from the initial use of the form,

as well as improved technology that will be used to collect the data.

Estimates of burden to complete the Uniform Data Collection Instruments

are as follows:

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Responses Burden

Type of form Number of per hours per Total burden

respondents respondent response hours

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Training................................................... 150 1 1.75 262.5

Research................................................... 50 1 1.75 87.5

Data....................................................... 30 1 1.75 52.5

Other Discretionary Programs............................... 350 1 1.75 612.5

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Total.................................................. 580 1 1.75 1,015

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Send comments to Patricia Royston, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer,

Room 14-36, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857.

Written comments should be received within 60 days of this Notice.

Dated: June 24, 1997.

James J. Corrigan,

Acting Associate Administrator for Management and Program Support.

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