98-6694. Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Clearance

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 50 (Monday, March 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 12814]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6694]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration on Aging


Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for Clearance

AGENCY: Administration on Aging.
    The Administration on Aging (AoA), Department of Health and Human 
Services, has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
the following proposal for the collection of information in compliance 
with the Paperwork Reduction Act (Public Law 96-511):
    Title of Information Collection: State Annual Long-Term Care 
Ombudsman Report.
    Type of Request: Extension, with no revision.
    Use: Extension of format for states to report on activities of 
their Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs as required under Section 712 
of the Older Americans Act, as amended.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondents: State Agencies on Aging.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 52.
    Total Estimated Burden Hours: 9,000.
    Additional Information or Comments: The Administration on Aging is 
submitting to-the Office of Management and Budget for approval an 
extension, with no revision, of a reporting form and instructions for 
the State annual Long-Term-Care Ombudsman reports, pursuant to 
requirements in Section 712(b) and (h) of the Older Americans Act.
    The form for which extension is requested was approved by the 
Office of Management and Budget, on an emergency basis, for use by the 
states in reporting on activities in FY 1997. It is the same form used 
by the states for their FY 1996 reports, except for minor changes made 
for the FY 1997 emergency request. These changes:
    (1) modified the wording of some of the complaint categories to 
assist respondents in categorizing some complaints which were being 
placed under ``other'' and
    (2) stipulated that several narrative responses which had not 
changed since the previous report do not need to be repeated.
    The reporting form is for federal fiscal years 1998-2000. Written 
comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection 
should be sent within 60 days of the publication of this notice 
directly to the following address: Office of Elder Rights Protection, 
Administration on Aging, Attention: Sue Wheaton, 330 Independence 
Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201.

    Dated: March 10, 1998.
William Benson,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging.
[FR Doc. 98-6694 Filed 3-13-98; 8:45 am]
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