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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
Agency Forms Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for
Clearance
Each Friday the Public Health Service (PHS) publishes a list of
information collection requests it has submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The following requests
have been submitted to OMB since the list was last published on
Thursday, November 10, 1994.
(Call PHS Reports Clearance Officer on 202-690-7100 for copies of
request).
1. Survey of 1994 Hospital Development Activities of Organ
Procurement Organizations--New--Organ procurement organizations (OPOs)
vary widely in their rates of organ donors per million population and
other measures of performance. Targeted hospital development activities
may improve OPO performance. This survey of all OPOs will enable the
Division of Organ Transplantation to assess the influence of specific
hospital development activities on OPO performance. Respondents: Non-
profit institutions, Small businesses or organizations, Number of
Respondents: 66; Number of Responses per Respondent: 1; Average Burden
per Response: 1 hour; Estimated Annual Burden: 66 hours.
2. Evaluation of the Comprehensive Mental Health Services Program
for Children--New--The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services
Program for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances supports the
development of more accessible and appropriate services for children
and adolescents with serious emotional, behavioral or mental disorders
in 19 sites. The evaluation will be conducted for a five-year period in
all sites and will collect process and outcome data, using MIS data,
standardized assessment instruments and qualitative data. Respondents:
Individuals or households, State or local governments, Businesses or
other for-profit, Non-profit institutions, Small businesses or
organizations. Number of Respondents: 17,720; Number of Responses per
Respondent: 4.66; Average Burden per Response: 0.156 hour; Estimated
Annual Burden: 12,864 hours.
3. Abbreviated New Drug Application Regulations; Patent and
Exclusivity Provisions, Final Rule--New--These regulations provide
instructions on how to file patent information, request market
exclusivity, and describe the Food and Drug Administration's guidelines
regarding patents and exclusivity. Respondents: Businesses or other
for-profit, Small businesses or organizations.
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Average
No. of burden
Title No. of responses per
respondents per response
respondent (hours)
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Reporting:
314.50(i)......................... 8 1 2
314.50(j)......................... 50 1 2
314.52............................ 30 1 8
314.53............................ 200 1 1
314.54............................ 10 1 1
314.70............................ 43 1 1
314.94(a)(12)..................... 215 1 2
314.95............................ 30 1 16
314.107........................... 10 1 1
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Estimated total annual burden: 1,529 hours.
4. Evaluation of the Community-Based Mosquito Control Programs for
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) Prevention and Control at the San Juan
Laboratories, Puerto Rico--New--The information generated from this
evaluation project will be used to improve the DHF prevention program
in Puerto Rico, and programs modeled after the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) program in other countries in the Americas. The lessons
learned from this evaluation would be of great use for similar
situations, regarding dengue in other countries, or situations
involving the emergence of other new diseases, or diseases that are
changing in epidemiologic pattern. Respondents: Individuals or
households; Respondents: 1,500; Number of Responses per Respondent: 1;
Average Burden per Response: .68 hour; Estimated Annual Burden: 1,022
hours.
5. OMAR Quick Launch Physician Practice Survey--0925-0367
(Extension, no change)--The Office of Medical Applications of Research
(OMAR) will conduct surveys of physicians to evaluate changes in their
practice behavior related to biomedical technologies that are assessed
in Consensus Development Conferences (CDC). For each CDC, identical
surveys will be conducted at three times: one year before, just before,
and one-year following a CDC. Respondents: Individuals or households,
Businesses or other for-profit, Small businesses or organizations.
Total Annual Burden: 1 hour.*
*Note: This is a concept approval, only. Under terms of the
current approval, questionnaires for each CDC survey must be
submitted to OMB for approval. OMB has agreed to give those
submissions an expedited 30-day review.
6. Evaluation of Tuberculosis Outreach Worker Activities--New--This
survey is a necessary step prior to developing a plan to evaluate the
outreach activities of State and local tuberculosis control programs.
The purpose of this project is to describe the outreach activities and
outreach workers. This will be accomplished by conducting a mail survey
of State and local tuberculosis control programs. Respondents: State or
local governments; Number of Respondents: 64; Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1; Average Burden per Response: 2.65 hours; Estimated
Annual Burden: 170 hours.
Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collections should be sent within 30 days of this notice
directly to the OMB Desk Officer designated below at the following
address: Shannah Koss, Human Resources and Housing Branch, New
Executive Office Building, room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: November 11, 1994.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of Health Planning and
Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 94-29184 Filed 11-23-94; 8:45 am]
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