[Federal Register: March 30, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 61)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Indian Health Service
Proposed Information Collection: Indian Health Service Chief
Executive Officer Retention Survey Request for Public Comment: 30-Day
Notice
AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.
ACTION: Request for Public Comment: 30-day Proposed Information
Collection: Indian Health Service Chief Executive Officer Retention
Survey.
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SUMMARY: The Indian Health Service (IHS), as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-
clearance consultation program to provide the general public and
Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program
helps to ensure that the requested data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of
collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. As
required by section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Act, the proposed information
collection has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval.
The IHS received no comments in response to the 60-day Federal
Register notice (71 FR 3098) published on January 19, 2006. The purpose
of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comments to
be submitted directly to OMB.
Proposed Collection: Title: 0917-NEW, ``Indian Health Service Chief
Executive Officer Retention Survey''. Type of Information Collection
Request: New Collection. Form Number: None. Forms: Retention Survey.
Need and Use of Information Collection: The National Council of Chief
Executive Officers (NCCEOs) was established to ensure that the IHS
Service Unit Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) effectively participate in
the establishment and implementation of strategies to achieve the IHS
mission. Part of their responsibility (as stated in their Charter)
includes: Ongoing recruitment, development, and retention of
professional CEOs. The NCCEOs' purpose is to ensure that the IHS
Service Unit CEO and their Tribal CEO counterparts effectively
participate in the establishment and implementation of an agency
strategy to achieve the IHS mission. The current Executive Committee is
actively addressing recruitment, retention and succession planning for
their constituents, the IHS CEOs. To enhance their ability to be
effective in this challenging tasks, the NCCEOs need to know more about
IHS CEOs and the issues that affect retention and recruitment including
the competitive influences of private sector health care delivery
systems. The chosen method to obtain this critical information from the
CEOs of IHS, Tribal and urban facilities is by electronic survey. The
goal of the IHS is to raise the health status of American Indians and
Alaska Natives to the highest possible level. The meet this goal, the
IHS is committed to providing high quality health services to he
eligible service population. An important factor in improving the
quality of services is ensuring that our clinics and hospitals recruit
and retain the best possible CEO reasonably available. The proposed
survey is designed to as certain current demographics: Age, gender,
years of experience, education, pay compared to complexity of
facilities, job satisfaction and retirement eligibility. Affected
Public: Individuals. Type of Respondents: Individuals.
The table below provide the estimated burden hours for this
information collection:
Estmated Burden Hours
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Estimated
Data collection instrument number of Responses per Average burden hour per Total annual
respondents respondent response\*\ burden hours
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CEO Retention Survey.......... 120 1 0.15 (10 mins.)................. 20
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* For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in minutes.
There are not Capital Costs, Operating Costs and/or Maintenance Costs
to report.
Request for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are
invited on one or more of the following points: (a) Whether the
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency
function; (b) whether the agency processes the information collected in
a useful and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of public burden estimate
(the estimated amount of time needed for individual respondents to
provide the requested information); (d) whether the methodology and
assumptions used to determine the estimate are logical; (e) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information being
collected; and (f) ways to minimize the public burden through the use
of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Direct Comments to OMB: Send your written comments and suggestions
regarding the proposed information collection contained in this notice,
especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated
response time, directly to: Office of Management and Budget, Office of
Regulatory Affairs,
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New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503,
Attention: Allison Eydt, Desk Officer for IHS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Send requests for more information on
the proposed collection or to obtain a copy of the data collection
instrument(s) and instructions to: Mrs. Christina Rouleau, IHS Reports
Clearance Officer, 801 Thompson Avenue, TMP Suite 450, Rockville, MD
20852-1601, call non-toll free (301) 443-5938, send via facsimile to
(301) 443-2316, or send your e-mail requests, comments, and return
address to: crouleau@hqe.ihs.gov.
Comments Due Date: Your comments regarding this information
collection are best assured of having their full effect if received
within 30-days of the date of this publication.
Dated: March 23, 2006.
Charles W. Grim,
Assistant Surgeon General, Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 06-3057 Filed 3-29-06; 8:45 am]
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