Billing Code: 4165-15-P
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval;
Public Comment Request; Applications for and Monitoring of New, One-Time Funding
Programs Administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA submitted an
Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be
provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA’s ICR only after the 30-day comment period for this
notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS
AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting
"Currently under Review - Open for Public Comments" or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email Joella Roland, the HRSA Information Collection Clearance
Officer, at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Information Collection Request Title: Applications for and Monitoring of New, OneTime Funding Programs Administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) - OMB Control No. 0906-xxxx - New
Abstract: HRSA is seeking approval for a generic umbrella clearance to collect
applications for awards for HRSA-funded programs that provide one-time funding, including
pilot programs. Should any of these pilot programs become permanent, HRSA will seek OMB
clearance for these programs using a mechanism outside of this generic umbrella clearance.
OMB guidance allows for the use of generic packages in cases where there may be a need for a
data collection, but the agency “cannot determine the details of the specific individual collections
until a later time.”1 HRSA will only use this collection for HRSA-funded programs that provide
one-time funding, including pilot programs. HRSA would only request OMB approval for
collections under this generic umbrella collection if the collection is low-burden,
uncontroversial, and is a one-time application.
Furthermore, if Congress appropriates additional funding for such a program or HRSA
plans to use the information from the applications for policy decisions not related to funding
awards, HRSA will prepare a standard information collection request for that program, which
will include the required 60- and 30-day Federal Register notices.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on March 22, 2024, vol. 89, No. 57;
pp. 20484-85. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA seeks to use an umbrella generic
clearance for HRSA-funded programs that provide one-time funding, including pilot programs,
so that funding can be awarded expeditiously. Expeditious awarding of funding is helpful not
only for administrative ease, but also for cases in which a pilot program or a program receiving
one-time funding has a statutory deadline for completion. Approval of this proposed generic

1Memorandum

for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies and Independent Regulatory Agencies (July
2016), “Flexibilities under the Paperwork Reduction Act for Compliance with Information Collection
Requirements.” Pages 4-5.

umbrella collection would enable HRSA to collect information from individual and site
applicants and enable HRSA to make selection determinations for one-time awards in a timely
manner.
Information collections under this umbrella generic collection would be applications for
funding (solely providing applicants with an opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities in
accordance with HRSA’s statement of work or selection criteria and other related information)
and forms required for monitoring funding recipients. Following the award, the awardee may
also be required to provide progress reports or additional documents.
Likely Respondents: Each fast-track ICR under this generic umbrella ICR will specify the
manner that respondents will be enlisted. Respondents will vary by the specific program and are
determined by each program’s eligibility, to include but are not limited to the following: health
providers and other paraprofessionals, health facilities, accredited health professions schools or
programs, state and local governments, and other eligible entities.
Respondents will be recruited by means of information listed on HRSA’s website, or
advertisements in public venues. The privacy of any potential or actual respondents will be
preserved to the extent requested by participants and as permitted by law.
Once applicants are selected and awards are made, these awardees will be respondents for
monitoring collections such as progress reports.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by persons to generate,
maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the information requested. This includes the time needed to
review instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the
purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and maintaining
information, and disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able to
respond to a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and review the
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the information.

HRSA intends to use this generic umbrella ICR for applications with a low burden and
monitoring awardees. To estimate the burden for this collection, HRSA estimated how much
time it would take for a respondent to complete a two-page application with typical fields used in
current collections that may fall under this generic umbrella ICR. HRSA then calculated the
average burden estimate from these ICRs for the purpose of the estimate for this ICR. To
estimate the burden for monitoring funding recipients, HRSA estimated how much time it would
take for funding recipients to complete the average two-page form used for program monitoring.
The total burden hours over a 3-year period estimated for this ICR are summarized in the table
below.

Total Estimated Burden Hours Over 3 Years:

Instrument Name
Program
Applications
Program Monitoring
Total

Estimated
Number
of
Respondents

Average
Number of
Responses
per
Respondent

Estimated
Total
Responses

Average
Burden per
Response
(in hours)

Total
Burden
Hours

5,000

1.5

7,500

1.75

13,125

2,500
7,500

1.0

2,500
10,000

2.00

5,000
18,125

Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-13713 Filed: 6/21/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 6/24/2024]