[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 147 (Monday, August 1, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45804-45805]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19323]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
[Document Identifier: OS-0990-New; 60-day Notice]
Agency Information Collection Request; 60-Day Public Comment
Request
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Office of the Secretary
(OS), Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the
following summary of a proposed information collection request for
public comment. Interested persons are invited to send comments
regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection
of information, including any of the following subjects: (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.
To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, e-mail your
request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, and OS
document identifier, to [email protected], or call the
Reports Clearance Office on (202) 690-6162. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed information collections must be
directed to the OS Paperwork Clearance Officer at the above e-mail
address within 60 days.
Proposed Project: Descriptive information of solutions provided to
the Federal government in response to Challenge and Competition
solicitations posted on Challenge.gov.-- OMB No. 0990-New-Immediate
Office of the Secretary.
Abstract: This request is to seek generic clearance for the
collection of routine information requested of responders to
solicitations the Federal government makes during the issuance of
challenges and competitions posted on the General Service
Administration (GSA)'s Challenge.gov Web site. Since passage of the
America COMPETES Act of 2011, challenge competitions are increasingly
being used by Federal agencies to solve complex problems and obtain
innovative solutions. In this role, the Federal government places a
description of a problem and parameters of the solution on the
Challenge.gov Web site. The solutions are evaluated by the submitting
agency and typically prizes (monetary and non-monetary) are awarded to
the winning entries.
This clearance applies to challenges posted on Challenge.gov which
uses a common platform for the solicitation of challenges from the
public. Each agency designs the criteria for its solicitations based on
the goals of the challenge and the specific needs of the agency. There
is no standard submission format for solution providers to follow.
We anticipate that approximately 100 challenges would be issued
each year by HHS, with an average of 15 submissions to each challenge
solicitation. It is expected that other federal agencies will issue a
similar number of challenges. There is no set schedule for the issuance
of challenges; they are developed and issued on an ``as needs'' basis
in response to issues the federal agency wishes to solve. The
respondents to the challenges, who are participating voluntarily, are
unlikely to reply to more than one or several of the challenges.
Although in recent memoranda the GSA and Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) described circumstances whereby OMB approval of a PRA
request is not needed, program officials at HHS have identified several
sets of information that will typically need to be requested of
solution providers to enable the solutions to be adequately evaluated
by the federal agency issuing the challenge. These requests for
additional information have been suggested to require a PRA review as
they represent structured data requests.
There are three types of additional data that will be routinely
requested by the federal agencies. These include the following:
Title of the submission. Due to the nature of the submission and
evaluation processes, it is important that a title be requested and
submitted for each submission in order to ensure the solution is
correctly identified with its provider.
Identification of data resources. In many cases, the solution to
a problem will require the solution provider to use data resources.
Often, the nature of the data sets will be derived from Federal data
resources, such as data.gov. Evaluations of solutions will often
depend on the understanding of the selection of the data resource(s)
used in the solution.
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Description of methodology. For effective judging and
evaluation, a description of the development methods for the
solution to the challenge will be requested. For instance, a prize
may be awarded to the solution of a challenge to develop an
algorithm that enables reliable prediction of a certain event. A
responder could submit the correct algorithm, but without the
methodology, the evaluation process could not be adequately
performed.
Estimated Annualized Burden Table
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No. of Average burden
Forms Type of No. of responses per (in hours) per Total burden
respondent respondents respondent response hours
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Challenge Template A.......... Individuals or 500 1 10/60 83.3
Households.
Challenge Template A.......... Organizations... 500 1 10/60 83.3
Challenge Template A.......... Businesses...... 500 1 10/60 83.3
Challenge Template A.......... State, 30 1 10/60 5
territory,
tribal or local
governments.
Challenge Template A.......... Federal 30 1 10/60 5
government.
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Total..................... ................ 1,560 .............. .............. 255.9
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Mary Forbes,
Paperwork Reduction Act Clearance Officer, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-19323 Filed 7-29-11; 8:45 am]
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