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 Office 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: Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources and Emergency

(CARE) Act Women's Initiatives (WIN)--New

The Health Resources and Services Administration's HIV-AIDS Bureau

proposes to collect information about HIV-related services provided to

women of child-bearing age and their children. Information will be

collected annually from eight grantees funded under Sections 2671 and

2691 of the Public Health Service Act and 320 of the individual and

institutional providers who provide services to HIV-infected pregnant

women in the grantee service areas. The eight funded sites will collect

the information in person or by telephone from the providers in their

service areas, and forward the data collection forms to a HRSA

contractor. There are no plans to collect or transmit the data

electronically.

The purpose is to document current care system characteristics and

facilitate planning for services to women with HIV and their children.

The information will be used within and outside HRSA to inform the

administration and Congress about HIV counseling and testing services

for pregnant women, services and referral resources for pregnant women

with HIV, antiretroviral therapies, and outreach related to perinatal

HIV transmission reduction. Annual burden estimates are as follows:

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Number of Responses per Burden hours Total burden

Type of respondent respondents respondent per response hours

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Providers....................................... 320 1 .75 240

Funded Sites.................................... 8 40 1 320

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Total..................................... 328 .............. .............. 560

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

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

Laura Oliven, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

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

20503.

Dated: September 22, 1997.

Jane Harrison,

Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 97-25729 Filed 9-26-97; 8:45 am]

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