Announcement of OMB Approval for Reporting and Disclosure Requirements in the Final Rule With Comment Period for Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Announcement of OMB Approval for Reporting and Disclosure

Requirements in the Final Rule With Comment Period for Organ

Procurement and Transplantation Network

A Final Rule with Comment Period for the Organ Procurement and

Transplantation Network was published in the Federal Register on April

2, 1998, under Part II (63 FR 16298). The purpose of this rule is to

improve the effectiveness and equity of the Nation's transplantation

system and to further the purposes of the National Organ Transplant Act

of 1984, as amended.

The Rule contained information collection requirements which were

subject to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review. OMB approval

of the collection of information provides the agency the authority to

collect the information and to impose the estimated burden. This notice

serves as an announcement to the public that the following information

collection requirements for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation

Network (42 CFR Part 121) have been approved:

121.3(c)(2) Membership and application requirements

121.6(c) (Reporting) Criteria for organ acceptance

121.6(c) (Disclosure) Sending criteria to OPOs

121.7(b)(4) Reasons for refusal

121.7(e) Transplant to prevent organ wastage

121.9(b) Designated Transplant Program Requirements.

The OMB control number for this information collection is 0915-

0184. The approval expires on May 31, 2001.

For further information contact the Reports Clearance Officer,

Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., Health Resources and Services Administration,

Office of Planning, Evaluation and Legislation, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room

14-36, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Her telephone number is (301) 443-

1129.

As stated in the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and provided in 5

CFR 1320.11(k), an agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of

information unless the collection of information displays a currently

valid OMB control number and the agency informs potential persons who

are to respond to the collection of information that such persons are

not required to respond to the collection of information unless it

displays a currently valid OMB control number.

Dated: August 20, 1998.

Claude Earl Fox,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 98-23033 Filed 8-26-98; 8:45 am]

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