The BHPr Performance Report for Grants and Cooperative Agreements (formerly known as the Uniform Progress Report (UPR) for HRSA Continuation Training Grants) is an annual progress report required from each health professions and nursing education grantees who has an approved, funded project with a project period of more than one year. The report is required to determine the extent to which objectives of the project have been met so that a decision regarding continuation funding can be made.
US Code:
42 USC 296
Name of Law: Nurse Education
PL:
Pub.L. 105 - 392 101
Name of Law: Health Professions Education and Financial Assistance Program
US Code:
42 USC 292
Name of Law: Health Research and Training Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel
US Code:
42 USC 201
Name of Law: Health Professions Education and Partnership Act of 1998
There are currently over 26,000 total burden hours approved by OMB for this activity. This request is for approval of roughly 7,737 burden hours, a significant decrease of over 18,000 hours. The decrease in burden is due to 1) a significant reduction in forms which were collecting duplicative data and 2) an increase in efficiency of the electronic reporting system.
BHPr has improved the electronic reporting process by providing user-friendly templates. The new web-based reporting system features reduce the need for manual data entry thus reducing burden. The system is designed to pre-populate fields with previously entered data thus reducing date re-entry by the user; automates the calculation of total counts; and allows grantees the ability to enter data into spreadsheets that are available in the web-based reporting system. As a technological enhancement to previous years, several of the revised forms will have the option to update previous information reported--reducing the need to re-report information which does not vary during the life of a specific grant. For example, demographic information about individuals receiving direct financial support (e.g., stipends, loans, or scholarships) will only have to be reported once. Using grantee-developed unique identifiers, each grantee will only be required to update specific fields--such as financial award amounts, attrition status, graduation status, and 1-year follow-up.
There were approximately 80 different forms that were being used across the bureau for various grant programs. The number of forms being used for reporting has been reduced to approximately 20 forms. The reduction in forms has resulted in significantly decreasing the burden, but more importantly they have improved the quality and accuracy of data reported. Application instructions have been revised to provide clarity in the instructions in order to reduce the amount of data entry time when submitting the performance data. The PRGCA manual will be divided into sections that represent each division in BHPr and each division will have the forms that are specific to each grant program as well as directions for completing each form.
$270,000
No
No
Yes
No
No
Uncollected
Jodi Duckhorn 301 443-1984
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form 1 BHPr Performance Report
SDS Mapping.docx
BHPr Performance Report