Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration

(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under

review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a

copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the

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

The following request has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995:

Proposed Project: Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) and Health

Education Training Centers (HETC): Managed Care Inventory Project--

New--Section 746(a) of the Public Health Service Act authorizes Federal

assistance to schools of medicine (allopathic and osteopathic) which

have cooperative arrangements with one or more public or nonprofit

private area health education centers (AHECs) for the planning,

development and operation of area health education center programs.

Section 746(f) of the PHS Act authorizes Federal assistance to schools

of allopathic and osteopathic medicine, or parent institutions on

behalf of such schools, or a consortium of such schools to plan,

develop, establish, maintain or operate HETCs. The support is designed

to improve the supply, distribution, quality, and efficiency of (a)

personnel providing health services in the State of Florida or along

the border between the United States and Mexico and (b) personnel

providing, in other urban and rural areas of the U.S., health services

to any population group, including Hispanic individuals and recent

refugees, that have demonstrated serious health care needs. Program

support is also used to encourage health promotion and disease

prevention through public education.

A telephone survey is proposed of federally funded AHEC and HETC

programs to determine the variety and

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extent of managed care training activities that are ongoing or planned

in the near future. The survey results will be used to formulate

recommendations for managed care training, and to help guide the AHEC/

HETCs in planning and directing training programs and clinical

experience in managed care. The burden estimates are as follows:

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Responses Total

Type of center Number of per Hours per burden

respondents respondent response hours

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AHECs....................................................... 36 1 2 72

HETCs....................................................... 10 1 2 20

TOTAL....................................................... 46 1 2 92

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: July 7, 1997.

Jane Harrison,

Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 97-18212 Filed 7-10-97; 8:45 am]

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