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Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 199 / Tuesday, October 15, 2019 / Notices
Dated: October 4, 2019.
Lowell J. Schiller,
Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request Information
Collection Request Title: Ending the
HIV Epidemic (EHE) Triannual Module,
OMB No. 0906–xxxx—New.
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, HRSA announces plans to
submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to
OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate,
below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than December 16,
2019.
SUMMARY:

Submit your comments to
[email protected] or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, email [email protected]
or call Lisa Wright-Solomon, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer
at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE)
Triannual Module, OMB No. 0906–
xxxx—New.
Abstract: HRSA’s Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program (RWHAP) funds and
coordinates with cities, states, and local

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clinics/community-based organizations
to deliver efficient and effective HIV
care, treatment, and support to low
income people with HIV. Nearly twothirds of clients (patients) live at or
below 100 percent of the Federal
poverty level and approximately threequarters of RWHAP clients are racial/
ethnic minorities. Since 1990, the
RWHAP has developed a
comprehensive system of safety net
providers who deliver high quality
direct health care and support services
to over half a million people with HIV—
more than 50 percent of all people with
diagnosed HIV in the United States.
Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for
America
In February 2019, the Administration
announced a new initiative, Ending the
HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America
(EHE). Authorized by section 311(c) and
title XXVI of the Public Health Service
Act, this ten-year initiative beginning in
FY 2020 seeks to achieve the important
goal of reducing new HIV infections in
the United States to less than 3,000 per
year by 2030. EHE will focus on 48
counties, Washington, DC, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, and seven states that have
a substantial rural HIV burden. By
focusing on these jurisdictions in the
first phase of the EHE, HHS plans to
reduce new HIV infections by 75%
within five years. Across the United
States, the EHE will promote and
implement four Pillars to substantially
reduce HIV transmissions—diagnose,
treat, prevent, and respond. EHE is a
collaborative effort among key HHS
agencies, primarily HRSA, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the
National Institutes of Health, the Indian
Health Service, and the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration. RWHAP will focus on
implementing activities in the Pillar
Two: Treat and supporting Pillar Four:
Respond for this important initiative.
HRSA identified proposed data
collection needs to support HRSA’s
efforts towards ending the HIV
Epidemic. In order to reach this goal,
HRSA needs to have the ability to
monitor initiative activities including
funding allocations, expenditures,
service utilization, and clients served;
and assess progress toward meeting
national goals for ending the HIV
epidemic. HRSA proposes that
recipients and service providers
(subrecipients) who receive EHE
initiative funding report on the reach of
EHE initiative activities in a new EHE
Triannual Module.

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Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: HRSA proposes that
service providers who receive EHE
Initiative funding report aggregate
information on the number of clients
receiving specific services and the
number of clients who were prescribed
antiretroviral medications in the
previous four months (beginning in
March 2020). This information would
complement the annual information
collected through the Ryan White
Services Report (RSR) and other
reporting mechanisms. Service
providers will report three times per
year on clients who received at least one
service during the previous four month
period.
This module will provide HRSA with
frequent and timely data on EHE
Initiative progress by providing
information on the number of clients
who are reached through the EHE
Initiative during each four month
reporting period. In addition, HRSA can
calculate the number of clients who did
not receive services in the previous year
by subtracting the number of clients
who received services in the previous
year and the number of new clients from
the total number of clients. This will
provide valuable information on the
scope of outreach to new clients and
clients who have had a lapse in service
which could be an indication of reengagement in care. These calculations
will be similar to calculations using the
new RSR variables. This module will
support project officer monitoring and
HRSA’s understanding of service
provision.
Likely Respondents: RWHAP Part A
and Part B Recipients and Subrecipients
funded by the EHE Initiative.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.

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TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents

Form name

Total
responses

Average
burden
per response
(in hours)

Total
burden
hours

EHE Triannual Module .........................................................

47

3

141

1

141

Total ..............................................................................

47

........................

141

........................

141

HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Notice of Single Source Award to the
Rural Communities Opioid Response
Program—Technical Assistance
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Rural Communities
Opioid Response Program—Technical
Assistance (RCORP-TA), program
supports rural consortiums and opioid
recipients that provide treatment for and
prevention of substance use disorder
with a focus on opioid use disorder. The
TA efforts will enhance the
organizational and infrastructural
capacity of multi-sector consortiums at
the community, county, state, and/or
regional levels. The overall goal is the
reduction of morbidity and mortality
associated with opioid overdoses in
high-risk rural communities. The
RCORP-TA award recipient provides
resources and expertise in support of
the execution of the following focus
areas: (1) Prevention—reducing the
occurrence of opioid use disorder (OUD)
among new and at-risk users as well as
fatal opioid-related overdoses through
community and provider education and
harm reduction measures including the
strategic placement of overdose

SUMMARY:

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reversing devices, such as naloxone; (2)
treatment—implementing or expanding
access to evidence-based practices for
opioid addiction/OUD treatment such as
medication-assisted treatment,
including developing strategies to
eliminate or reduce treatment costs to
uninsured and underinsured patients;
and (3) recovery—expanding peer
recovery and treatment options to help
people start and stay in recovery.
The RCORP-TA initiative is part of a
multi-year, opioid focused effort by
HRSA that will include: Improving
access to and recruitment of new
substance use disorder providers;
building sustainable treatment
resources; increasing the use of
telehealth; establishing cross-sector
community partnerships; implementing
new models of care, including
integrated behavioral health; and
providing technical assistance.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Intended Recipient of the Award: JBS
International, Inc. (U6BRH32364).
Amount of Award: $3,000,000.
Project Period: September 30, 2019–
September 29, 2020.
CFDA Number: 93.912.
Authority: Public Health Service Act,
Section 330A (f) (42 U.S.C. 254c (f)), as
amended.

Justificaton: Additional funding will
be awarded annually through FY 2022
contingent on satisfactory performance
of the recipient, and continued
availability of funds.
The RCORP-TA program was
announced under HRSA–18–124. In FY
2018, HRSA funded this program at up
to $3,000,000 per year to one awardee,
JBS International, Inc., for a period of
performance for up to 4 years. RCORPTA program was competed in late FY
2018. At the time of the award, RCORPTA recipient was expected to provide
technical assistance to 75 opioid award
recipients. The current RCORP-TA
recipient is expected to support
approximately 318 opioid award
recipients. As a result of this increase in
opioid award recipients, the RCORP-TA
recipient will need additional funds to
expand its capacity to provide TA
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required for the current RCOPR-TA
award recipient to provide TA services
to the additional 243 opioid award
recipients. These additional funds will
enable the current recipient to provide
high quality TA.
Further information on the Telehealth
Focused Rural Health Research Center is
available at: https://www.hrsa.gov/
ruralhealth/programopportunities/
fundingopportunities/
default.aspx?id=482de32c-8b8d-4960bb86-caad8c9d6905
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Marcia Colburn, Program Coordinator,
RCORP-TA, (301) 443–3261, MColburn@
hrsa.gov.
Dated: October 4, 2019.
Thomas J. Engels,
Acting Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
[Document Identifier: OS–0990-xxxx]

Agency Information Collection
Request. 60-Day Public Comment
Request
Office of the Secretary, HHS.
Notice.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

In compliance with the
requirement of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the
Secretary (OS), Department of Health
and Human Services, is publishing the
following summary of a proposed
collection for public comment.
DATES: Comments on the ICR must be
received on or before December 16,
2019.
SUMMARY:

Submit your comments to
[email protected] or by calling
(202) 795–7714.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
When submitting comments or
requesting information, please include
the document identifier 0990–New–
60D, and project title for reference, to
Sherrette Funn, the Reports Clearance
Officer, [email protected], or call
202–795–7714.
ADDRESSES:

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