Attachment A-1

0925-0002 Change Request Memo Attachment A-1

Explanation of Burden Increase

Prior to this change request data collection was interpreted as limited to recipients of postdoctoral training and research support, (Postdocs), but NIH also has responsibility of all students who receive support from NIH research grants as we do for Postdocs. NIH is required, therefore, to expand the data collection to undergraduate and graduate students. NIH is requesting the addition of 26,000 annual respondents to the RPPR (2590 or 416-9) forms in order to capture the addition of graduate (21,000) and undergraduate (5,000) students that will be using the form going forward.

The burden associated with the eRA Commons data elements is 15 minutes. However, this form is part of a larger clearance that contains several post grant award forms. The burden to complete the full packet is 15 hours. To account for the 6,500 increase in burden hour the number of respondents had to increase slightly in order to properly document the burden increase in ROCIS. Both tables are given to show how the 6,500 burden hour increase was calculated.

Type of Respondents	Number of Respondents	Number of Responses per Respondents	Average Burden Per Response (in Hours)	Total Burden Hours
Graduate	21,000	1	15/60	5,250
Undergraduate	5,000	1	15/60	1,250
Total				6,500

Forms	Number of Respondents	Number of Responses per Respondents	Average Burden Per Response (in Hours)	Total Burden Hours
Currently approved RPPR (or 2590 or 416-9)	40,569	1	15	608,535
Revised Burden RPPR ( or 2590 or 416-9)	41,000	1	15.000853 (~15 )	615,035
Burden Increase				6,500