ANE Supporting Statement A

Supporting Statement A

Extension Request for Data Collection by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Health Professions Division of Nursing

The Advanced Nursing Education Program Specific Form Application

OMB Control No. 0915-0375

Revision

Terms of Clearance: None

A. Justification

1. Circumstances Making the Collection of Information Necessary

This request is for continued approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for information collection activities from applicants of the Advanced Nursing Education (ANE) Programs within the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Health Workforce. The current approval (OMB #915-0375) expires on May 31, 2023 and covers data collection efforts for the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) program. This revision request includes a title change from the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program-Specific Data Collection Forms to ANE Program Specific Form. HRSA requests approval to continue to use this information collection over the next three years.

The ANE Programs are authorized by Section 811 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 296j) and provides advanced education nursing training grants to educational institutions and other eligible entities, to increase the supply of advanced education nurses such as, nurse anesthetists, primary care nurse practitioners, primary care clinical nurse specialists, and nurse midwives.

2. Purpose and Use of Information Collection

Funds appropriated for the ANE Program are distributed among eligible institutions based on a competitive review or formula-based process, as permitted by PHS Act Section 806(e)(1). This information collection is completed by applicants to the ANEW, Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship (NAT), Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency (ANE-NPR), Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency Integration Program (ANE-NPRIP) and Advanced Nursing Education Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (ANE-SANE) Programs, as part of the funding application process. HRSA uses the data from the ANE Program-Specific Data Collection Form as part of the process for determining the award amount, ensuring compliance with programmatic and grant requirements, and to provide information to the public and Congress.

The ANE Program Specific Data Form requests information from applicants on program participants from the previous year including:

• Projected data on number of Participants/Trainees to be supported by the project

• Number of graduates supported, and

• Percentage of graduates who practice in underserved, rural, public health, or other practice settings.

3. Use of Improved Information Technology and Burden Reduction

The ANE Program Specific Data Form captures only the information that is essential for use in processing the application including determining the funding preference, special consideration and the award amount.

4. Efforts to Identify Duplication and Use of Similar Information

There is no duplication of reporting with this activity. The ANE data collection briefly captures information during the application process that is necessary for determining eligibility for funding preferences, special considerations, and determining award amount. Those applicants who receive grants later report post-award performance information in the Bureau of Health Workforce Performance Measures system. However, this system is only available to grantees (not applicants) and requires that grantees submit significantly more information.

5. Impact on Small Businesses or Other Small Entities

This data collection should not have a significant impact on small businesses or other small entities.

6. Consequences of Collecting the Information Less Frequently

This data collection must occur at the time of application, as it is essential for determining funding preferences, special considerations, and award amounts. If this data was not collected at the time of application, then the agency would not be able to (1) implement the statutory funding preferences and/or special considerations, (2) determine award amounts, or (3) provide program specific information.

7. Special Circumstances Relating to the Guidelines of 5 CFR 1320.5

The request fully complies with the regulation.

8. Comments in Response to the Federal Register Notice/Outside Consultation

The 60-day notice was published in the Federal Register, 86 Fed. Reg. pp. 36756 (July 13, 2021). There were no public comments.

9. Explanation of any Payment/Gift to Respondents

Respondents will not receive any payments or gifts.

10. Assurance of Confidentiality Provided to Respondents

The Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 522a) is not applicable to this request, as this information collection will not obtain confidential information.

11. Justification for Sensitive Questions

There are no questions of a sensitive nature; the data collection does not request Social Security Numbers or Personal Identifiable Information on the enrollees (trainees) or graduates.

12. Estimates of Annualized Hour and Cost Burden

The table below includes estimates of the total burden hours for completing applications for the ANEW, NAT, ANE-NPR, ANE-NPRIP, and ANE-SANE Program Notices of Funding Opportunity, which include this information collection.

12A. Estimated Annualized Burden Hours

Total Estimated Annualized burden hours:

Form Name	Number of Respondents	Number of Responses per Respondent	Total Responses	Average Burden per Response (in hours)	Total Burden Hours
ANEW	236	1	236	7	1,652
NAT	115	1	115	7	805
ANE-NPR	101	1	101	7	707
ANE-NPRIP	15	1	15	7	105
ANE-SANE	54	1	54	7	378
Total	521		521		3,647

12B.

Based on the estimated total number of burden hours for all five ANE grant programs, it is estimated that the annualized cost to each respondent is approximately $363.65 for a total of $189,461.65. This result was obtained by multiplying the number of burden hours by the average hourly wage rate of an individual employed in an academic setting (Note: wage rates were obtained from the United States Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm. Average Hourly Rate for this labor category is $ 51.95.) Data collection and reporting activities are a grant requirement authorized under 45 CFR Part 74.

Estimated Annualized Cost to Respondents

Type of Respondent	Total Burden Hours	Hourly Wage Rate	Total Respondent Costs
Applicant	7	$ 51.95	$363.65
Total	3,647		$189,461.65

13. Estimates of other Total Annual Cost Burden to Respondents or Recordkeepers/Capital Costs

Other than their time, there is no cost to respondents. Applicant institutions already collect and maintain the required information such as number and characteristics of enrollees, graduates, students supported, and the types and characteristics of programs from which trainees are enrolling, receiving traineeship support and/or graduating.

14. Annualized Cost to Federal Government

There is no additional cost to the Federal Government for this information collection. The information is collected as part of the application process and housed in existing systems. The systems used to collect information for the applications are maintained at each applicant organization and the information is maintained in the HRSA EHBs system when submitted to this Federal agency.

15. Explanation for Program Changes or Adjustments

This is a renewal data collection and the estimated hourly burden remains the same.

16. Plans for Tabulation, Publication, and Project Time Schedule

The information collection forms will be published in the Notice of Funding Opportunity, which will be posted on the worldwide web, Grants.gov and the HRSA EHBs. Submitted information will be used to during the application process for determining eligibility for funding preferences and/or special considerations and for determining award amount. Summarized data may be used in reports and in communications with the public and Congress. Clearance is requested for the maximum of 3 years.

17. Reason(s) Display of OMB Expiration Date is Inappropriate

The OMB number and Expiration date will be displayed on every page of every form/instrument.

18. Exceptions to Certification for Paperwork Reduction Act Submissions

There are no exceptions to the certification.

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