Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:

Comment Request

In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public

comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of

Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed

projects being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the proposed

project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft

instruments, call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.

Comments are invited on: (a) whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of

the agency, including whether the information shall have practical

utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways

to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,

including through the use of automated collection techniques or other

forms of information technology.

Proposed Project: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network

(OPTN) Data System (OMB No. 0915-0157)--Revision

This is a request for revision of the data system for the Organ

Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and the Scientific

Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) and the following associated

forms: (1) cadaver donor registration/referral; (2) living donor

registration; (3) donor histocompatibility; (4) potential recipient

form; (5) recipient histocompatibility; (6) transplant candidate

registration; (7) thoracic organ recipient registration; (8) thoracic

organ recipient follow-up; (9) kidney transplant recipient

registration; (10) kidney transplant recipient follow-up form; (11)

liver transplant recipient registration; (12) liver transplant

recipient follow-up; (13) pancreas transplant recipient registration;

(14) pancreas transplant recipient follow-up; (15) intestine transplant

recipient registration; and (16) intestine transplant recipient follow-

up. New forms are related to intestine transplants to collect data

similar to other types of transplants.

The estimated respondent burden is as follows:

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Number of Responses per Hours per Total hour

respondents respondent response burden

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Cadaveric Registration or Referral.............. 65 277 0.3 5,400

Living Donor Registration....................... 680 7 0.2 920

Living Donor Follow-up.......................... 680 14 0.1 952

Donor Histocompatibility........................ 159 75 0.1 1,200

Potential Recipient Form........................ 65 385 0.3 7,500

Recipient Histocompatibility.................... 159 157 0.1 2,500

Transplant Candidate Registration............... 387 114 0.2 15,600

Thoracic Registration........................... 153 27 0.3 1,230

Thoracic Follow-up.............................. 153 144 0.2 4,400

Kidney Registration............................. 252 58 0.3 4,380

Kidney Follow-up................................ 252 500 0.2 25,200

Liver Registration.............................. 125 40 0.4 2,000

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Liver Follow-up................................. 125 192 0.3 7,200

Pancreas Registration........................... 125 11 0.3 420

Pancreas Follow-up.............................. 125 56 0.2 1,400

Intestine Registration.......................... 33 3 0.2 20

Intestine Follow-up............................. 33 6 0.2 40

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Total....................................... 911 .............. .............. 80,362

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Send comments to: Susan Queen, Ph.D., HRSA Reports Clearance

Officer, Room 14-36, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

Maryland 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of

this notice.

Dated: May 26, 1999.

Jane Harrison,

Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 99-13924 Filed 6-1-99; 8:45 am]

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