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

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** May 29, 1996
- **Citation:** 61 FR 26914

## Text

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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