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: Project To Assess Ethnicity/Race and Services to

Bi/Multilingual Populations in Community Health Centers--NEW

The Office of Minority and Women's Health (OMWH) in the Bureau of

Primary Health Care (BPHC), Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA), recognizes that full understanding of the

ethnicity of clients and providers and the provision of language

appropriate services are vital to guaranteeing full and effective

health care. OMWH proposes to conduct a voluntary survey, the purpose

of which will be two-fold: (1) To obtain detailed data on the ethnic/

racial composition of health center users and providers, and (2) to

collect information about the composition and provision of

bimultilingual services. This information will be collected from a

sample of approximately 128 health centers.

These data will provide HRSA with information which will be used to

make resource and staffing decisions related to reducing barriers to

health care often faced by ethnic/racial minorities an by non- or

limited-English-speaking populations.

The burden estimate for this project is follows:

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Hours per

Form Number of Responses per Total response Total hour

respondents respondent responses (minutes) burden

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Survey............................................................. 128 1 128 20 42

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

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

Wendy A. Taylor, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of

Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: August 3, 1999.

Jane Harrison,

Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 99-20660 Filed 8-10-99; 8:45 am]

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