97-16237. Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 119 (Friday, June 20, 1997)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 97-16237]


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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 [phone].
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:
    Assessment of HIV Counseling and Testing (C&T) Services for Women 
of Childbearing Age in Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) Programs--
    New--The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), 
Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) is planning to conduct a survey-
based study of its primary care programs to examine various 
implementation issues related to the design and delivery of HIV 
counseling and testing (HIV C&T) services to women of childbearing age. 
The survey population will be a probability sample of the BPHC-funded 
grantees, designed to permit analysis by type of BPHC funding received.
    The mail survey instrument will be designed to explore various HIV 
C&T implementation issues and relevant research questions, including: 
(a) Extent to which HIV C&T services are available (provided directly 
by programs or through referrals), (b) attributes of the BPHC programs 
that offer HIV C&T services to women of childbearing age; (c) 
characteristics of HIV C&T services, provided by BPHC programs; (d) 
programmatic and population-specific barriers to delivery of HIV C&T 
services; (e) lessons and best practices for replication; (f) 
recommendations for technical assistance to facilitate timely, 
effective implementation. The resulting analysis and report will 
present program-based lessons and recommendations for assisting and 
improving capacity of various BPHC programs to design and implement HIV 
C&T services for women of childbearing age, and thus assist in 
promoting community-based HIV C&T services for women, especially 
pregnant women. Response burden is as follows:

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                                                            Number of    Responses/     Hours per   Total burden
                   Type of respondent                      respondents   respondent     response        hours   
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Grantees providing HIV C&T Services.....................           141             2             2           282
Grantees not providing HIV C&T Services.................            69             1             1            69
    Total...............................................           210  ............  ............           351
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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: June 12, 1997.
James J. Corrigan,
Acting Associate Administrator for Management and Program Support.
[FR Doc. 97-16237 Filed 6-19-97; 8:45 am]
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