# Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Comment Request

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** June 30, 1997
- **Citation:** 62 FR 35214

## Text

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

[[Page 35215]]

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.
[FR Doc. 97-17063 Filed 6-27-97; 8:45 am]
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