99-20660. Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 43708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20660]


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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:

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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