Agency Forms Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for Clearance

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Public Health Service

Agency Forms Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for

Clearance

Each Friday the Public Health Service (PHS) publishes a list of

information collection requests it has submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The following requests

have been submitted to OMB since the list was last published on

Thursday, November 10, 1994.

(Call PHS Reports Clearance Officer on 202-690-7100 for copies of

request).

1. Survey of 1994 Hospital Development Activities of Organ

Procurement Organizations--New--Organ procurement organizations (OPOs)

vary widely in their rates of organ donors per million population and

other measures of performance. Targeted hospital development activities

may improve OPO performance. This survey of all OPOs will enable the

Division of Organ Transplantation to assess the influence of specific

hospital development activities on OPO performance. Respondents: Non-

profit institutions, Small businesses or organizations, Number of

Respondents: 66; Number of Responses per Respondent: 1; Average Burden

per Response: 1 hour; Estimated Annual Burden: 66 hours.

2. Evaluation of the Comprehensive Mental Health Services Program

for Children--New--The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services

Program for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances supports the

development of more accessible and appropriate services for children

and adolescents with serious emotional, behavioral or mental disorders

in 19 sites. The evaluation will be conducted for a five-year period in

all sites and will collect process and outcome data, using MIS data,

standardized assessment instruments and qualitative data. Respondents:

Individuals or households, State or local governments, Businesses or

other for-profit, Non-profit institutions, Small businesses or

organizations. Number of Respondents: 17,720; Number of Responses per

Respondent: 4.66; Average Burden per Response: 0.156 hour; Estimated

Annual Burden: 12,864 hours.

3. Abbreviated New Drug Application Regulations; Patent and

Exclusivity Provisions, Final Rule--New--These regulations provide

instructions on how to file patent information, request market

exclusivity, and describe the Food and Drug Administration's guidelines

regarding patents and exclusivity. Respondents: Businesses or other

for-profit, Small businesses or organizations.

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Average

No. of burden

Title No. of responses per

respondents per response

respondent (hours)

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Reporting:

314.50(i)......................... 8 1 2

314.50(j)......................... 50 1 2

314.52............................ 30 1 8

314.53............................ 200 1 1

314.54............................ 10 1 1

314.70............................ 43 1 1

314.94(a)(12)..................... 215 1 2

314.95............................ 30 1 16

314.107........................... 10 1 1

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Estimated total annual burden: 1,529 hours.

4. Evaluation of the Community-Based Mosquito Control Programs for

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) Prevention and Control at the San Juan

Laboratories, Puerto Rico--New--The information generated from this

evaluation project will be used to improve the DHF prevention program

in Puerto Rico, and programs modeled after the Centers for Disease

Control (CDC) program in other countries in the Americas. The lessons

learned from this evaluation would be of great use for similar

situations, regarding dengue in other countries, or situations

involving the emergence of other new diseases, or diseases that are

changing in epidemiologic pattern. Respondents: Individuals or

households; Respondents: 1,500; Number of Responses per Respondent: 1;

Average Burden per Response: .68 hour; Estimated Annual Burden: 1,022

hours.

5. OMAR Quick Launch Physician Practice Survey--0925-0367

(Extension, no change)--The Office of Medical Applications of Research

(OMAR) will conduct surveys of physicians to evaluate changes in their

practice behavior related to biomedical technologies that are assessed

in Consensus Development Conferences (CDC). For each CDC, identical

surveys will be conducted at three times: one year before, just before,

and one-year following a CDC. Respondents: Individuals or households,

Businesses or other for-profit, Small businesses or organizations.

Total Annual Burden: 1 hour.*

*Note: This is a concept approval, only. Under terms of the

current approval, questionnaires for each CDC survey must be

submitted to OMB for approval. OMB has agreed to give those

submissions an expedited 30-day review.

6. Evaluation of Tuberculosis Outreach Worker Activities--New--This

survey is a necessary step prior to developing a plan to evaluate the

outreach activities of State and local tuberculosis control programs.

The purpose of this project is to describe the outreach activities and

outreach workers. This will be accomplished by conducting a mail survey

of State and local tuberculosis control programs. Respondents: State or

local governments; Number of Respondents: 64; Number of Responses per

Respondent: 1; Average Burden per Response: 2.65 hours; Estimated

Annual Burden: 170 hours.

Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collections should be sent within 30 days of this notice

directly to the OMB Desk Officer designated below at the following

address: Shannah Koss, Human Resources and Housing Branch, New

Executive Office Building, room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: November 11, 1994.

James Scanlon,

Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of Health Planning and

Evaluation.

[FR Doc. 94-29184 Filed 11-23-94; 8:45 am]

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