Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration

(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under

review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a

copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for

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review, call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301)-443-1129.

The following request has been submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995:

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....................... 687 7 0.2 920

Living Donor Follow-up.......................... 687 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............... 687 114 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

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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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Wendy A Taylor, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of

Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, DC.

Dated: September 14, 1999.

Jane Harrison,

Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

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