[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 12 (Friday, January 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 2675]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1260]
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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 35, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed
projects being developed for submission to OMB under 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: 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 extent of managed care training
activities that are ongoing or planned within the next two years. 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 Hours Total
Type of center No. of per per burden
respondents respondent response hours
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AHECs.............................................................. 36 1 2 hrs 72 hrs.
HETCs.............................................................. 10 1 2 hrs 20 hrs.
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Total........................................................ 46 1 2 hrs 92 hrs.
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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: January 14, 1997.
J. Henry Montes,
Director, Office of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 97-1260 Filed 1-16-97; 8:45 am]
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