Non Substantive Change Memo_December 2023

5600 Fishers Lane

Rockville, MD 20857

DATE: December 14, 2023

TO: Dan Cline, OMB Desk Officer

FROM: Joella Roland, HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer

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Request: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Workforce requests approval for non-substantive changes to the “Evaluation Survey of Eligible National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Entity Users: Relevance of Information Collected via NPDB Query Forms” package, approved under the Umbrella Package titled “Voluntary Partner Surveys to Implement Executive Order 12862 in the Health Resources and Services Administration” (OMB 0915-0212, expiration date 4/30/2024).

Purpose: The purpose of this request is to add an introductory e-mail from the Director of the National Practitioner Data Bank to the survey recipients alerting them to the upcoming survey.

Changes: There are no changes to the instrument. The non-substantive change memo is to add the introductory e-mail from Director of the National Practitioner Data Bank to the survey recipients alerting them to the upcoming survey. The e-mail provides information about the survey and how it will be conducted.

Time Sensitivity: The data collection changes must be completed in a timely manner to ensure that the survey data collection schedule will not experience significant delay. Approval of these changes is needed by December 28, 2023, to implement the changes in the data collection instruments and to prepare for the timely collection of data critical to HRSA researchers.

Burden: There is no change in burden due to the addition of the introductory e-mail to the package.