Emergency Clearance: Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration

[HCFA-2567-A]

Emergency Clearance: Public Information Collection Requirements

Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Care Financing

Administration (HCFA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),

has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the

following request for Emergency review. We are requesting an emergency

review because the collection of this information is needed prior to

the expiration of the normal time limits under OMB's regulations at 5

C.F.R., Part 1320, in order to permit recertification of OPOs as

required by statute. Failure to issue these rules in time for the 1996

redesignation process may result in the termination of OPO agreements.

This means that persons in need of organs may not receive them. The

Agency cannot reasonably comply with the normal clearance procedures

because public harm is likely to result if normal clearance procedures

are followed. Without this information, HCFA could not assure

compliance with this Congressional mandate.

HCFA is requesting that OMB review this document on 5/31/96 and

grant a 90-day approval. During this 90-day period HCFA will publish a

separate Federal Register notice announcing the initiation of an

extensive 60-day agency review and public comment period on these

requirements. Then HCFA will submit the requirements for OMB review and

an extension of this emergency approval.

Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of a currently

approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Statement of

Deficiencies and Plan of Correction; Form No.: HCFA-2567-A; Use: This

Paperwork package provides information regarding deficiencies for

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Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO) as well as deficiencies noted

during periodic facility and laboratory certification surveys. This

information is used to make decisions concerning OPO redesignation,

certification/recertification of health care facilities participating

in the Medicare/Medicaid Programs, and laboratories regulated by CLIA.

Frequency: Annually and Biennially; Affected Public: State, Local or

Tribal Governments, Business or other for-profit, Not-for-profit

institutions, Federal Government; Number of Respondents: 49,200; Total

Annual Responses: 98,400; Total Annual Hours Requested: 196,800.

To request copies of the proposed paperwork collections referenced

above, call the Reports Clearance Office on (410) 786-1326. Written

comments and recommendations for the proposed information collections

should be sent by 5/31/96 to the OMB Desk Officer designated at the

following address: OMB Human Resources and Housing Branch, Attention:

Allison Eydt, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington,

D.C. 20503.

Dated: May 22, 1996.

Kathleen B. Larson,

Director, Management Planning and Analysis Staff, Office of Financial

and Human Resources, Health Care Financing Administration.

[FR Doc. 96-13519 Filed 5-28-96; 8:45 am]

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