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View Generic ICR - OIRA Conclusion

OMB Control No: 0990-0421	ICR Reference No: 202403-0990-009
Status: Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202312-0990-003
Agency/Subagency: HHS/HHSDM	Agency Tracking No: OS/ASPE
Title: ASPE Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Research and Assessment
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 03/28/2024
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 03/27/2024
Terms of Clearance: ASPE will submit individual collections under this generic clearance to OMB. These submissions will include the actual study instruments along with a memo describing the specific study goal, the study design, any incentives to be used, and the sampling and analysis plans.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	02/28/2027	02/28/2027	02/28/2027
Responses	5,000	0	5,000
Time Burden (Hours)	5,000	0	5,000
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	5,000	5,000
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	5,000	5,000
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The annual burden hours requested (5,000) are based on the number of collections we expect to conduct over the requested period for this clearance and based on the previous three years. To calculate the annualized burden to respondents, we talked with Agency staff and reviewed the number of requests received in recent years. One change since the last clearance request is the ASPE has increased use of IDIQ/blanket contacts to conduct a larger number of small projects that can benefit from the type of qualitative research covered by this generic clearance. With the current interest in this mechanism and a focus on expanding our intramural policy research portfolio, we anticipate that this mechanism will be used more than it has in the prior years therefore we are increasing the annual burden request to 5,000 annual burden hours.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $600,000

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? Yes Part B of Supporting Statement

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Yes

Agency Contact: Sherette Funn-Coleman