# Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Bureau of Health Workforce Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0906-0086-Revision
**AGENCY:**
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services.
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day comment period for this notice has closed.
**DATES:**
Comments on this ICR should be received no later than April 23, 2026.
**ADDRESSES:**
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to *www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.* Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
To request a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, email Samantha Miller, the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at *[email protected]* or call (301) 443-3983.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
*Information Collection Request Title:* Bureau of Health Workforce Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0906-0086-Revision.
*Abstract:* Over 50 Bureau of Health Workforce programs award grants to health professions schools and training programs across the United States to develop, expand, and enhance training, and to strengthen the distribution of the health workforce. These programs are governed by Titles III, VII, and VIII of the Public Health Service Act. Performance information is collected in the HRSA Performance Report for Grants and Cooperative Agreements. Data collection activities consisting of an annual progress report and an annual performance report satisfy statutory and programmatic requirements for performance measurement and evaluation (including specific Titles III, VII and VIII requirements), as well as the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 and the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 requirements. The performance measures were last revised in 2023 to ensure they addressed programmatic changes, met evolving program management needs, and responded to emerging workforce concerns. Measures were then updated in 2025 to better reflect agency priorities. HRSA will continue with its current performance management strategy and make additional changes that reduce burden, simplify reporting, reflect new legislative or Department of Health and Human Services priorities, and enable longitudinal analysis of program performance. To reduce reporting burden, HRSA will remove four complex interrelated forms and more than 50 questions that are no longer needed. To simplify reporting on the individual characteristics form, four questions will be consolidated into two. HRSA will also amend four training and employment questions to ensure consistent reporting across forms and key outcomes measures are captured. Additionally, the data collection forms will be revised for compliance with OMB's Statistical Policy Directive No. 15. Lastly, the progress report will be updated to include a new summary information section with five questions to capture outcomes at project closeout.
A 60-day notice published in the *Federal Register* on January 8, 2026, vol. 91, No. 5; pp. 713-714. There were no public comments.
*Need and Proposed Use of the Information:* The purpose of the proposed data collection is to continue analysis and reporting of grantee training activities and education, identify details about the practice locations where trainees work after program completion, and report outcomes of funded initiatives. Data collected from these grant programs will also provide a description of the program activities of approximately 1,968 reporting grantees to inform policymakers on the barriers, opportunities, and outcomes involved in health care workforce development. The proposed measures focus on four key outcomes: (1) increasing the workforce supply of well-educated practitioners in needed professions, (2) increasing the number of practitioners that practice in underserved and rural areas, (3) enhancing the quality of education, and (4) supporting educational infrastructure to increase the capacity to train more health professionals in high demand areas.
*Likely Respondents:* Respondents are grantees of Bureau of Health Workforce health professions grant programs.
*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.
| Form name | Number of | Number of | Total | Average | Total burden hours |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Direct Financial Support Program | 602 | 1 | 602 | 2.7 | 1,625.4 |
| Infrastructure Program | 159 | 1 | 159 | 4.1 | 651.9 |
| Multipurpose or Hybrid Program | 1,207 | 1 | 1,207 | 2.8 | 3,379.6 |
| Total | 1,968 | | 1,968 | | 5,656.9 |
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.