[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17051-17052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8508]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and
Comment Request
I. In compliance with Pub. L. 104-13, the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, SSA is providing notice of its information collection packages
that require submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
SSA is soliciting comments on the accuracy of the agency's burden
estimate; the need for the information; its practical utility; ways to
enhance its quality, utility and clarity; and on ways to minimize
burden on respondents, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
The information collections, listed below, will be submitted to OMB
within 60 days from the date of this notice. Comments and
recommendations regarding the information collections would be most
useful if received by the Agency within 60 days from the date of this
publication. Comments should be directed to the SSA Reports Clearance
Officer at the address listed at the end of this notice.
1. Coverage of Employees of State and Local Governments--20 CFR
Part 404--0960-0425. This current rule contains reporting and
recordkeeping requirements in 20 CFR Part 404 (see table below). The
regulation sections cited require State and/or interstate
instrumentalities to provide certain information to SSA that is needed
to extend Social Security coverage to public sector workers for pre-
1987 tax years, and to maintain accurate records of social security
agreements. SSA would not be able to provide coverage to these workers
and would be in violation of the statute requiring coverage if the
information was not collected.
This rule applies to 52 state agencies who could submit
modifications to their Social Security coverage agreements and 3
interstate instrumentalities who could submit agreements for coverage,
and one annual response for each. In actuality, SSA may receive any
number of reports from a few States and no reports from the remainder.
From past experience, SSA anticipates that no error modifications will
be filed for tax years prior to 1987, nor wage reports and
contributions payments for an error situation where wages have never
been reported for those years. In addition, the reporting requirements
in sections 404.1242, .1251 and .1271(a)& (c) no longer exist so we are
showing no public reporting burden for these sections. SSA plans to
publish a Notice
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of Proposed Rulemaking to eliminate the obsolete reporting requirements
from these sections. For the remaining sections, SSA is basing the
public burden estimates on the total number of respondents that could
potentially report to us, although we anticipate the actual number will
be less.
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Number of Frequency of Annual burden
Section States response Individual burden (in hours)
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404.1203(a).......................... 52 1 1 hour................... 52
404.1204(a) & (b).................... 52 1 30 minutes............... 26
404.1214(d).......................... \1\ 3 1 1 hour................... 3
404.1215............................. 52 1 1 hour................... 52
404.1216(a) & (b).................... 52 1 1 hour................... 52
404.1220(b) & (c).................... 52 1 5 minutes................ 4
404.1225(a) & (b).................... 52 1 1 hour................... 52
404.1237(a), (b) & (c); .1239; 52 1 1 hour................... 52
.1243(a), (b), (c).
404.1242............................. 0 0 0........................ 0
404.1247............................. 52 1 1 hour................... 52
404.1249(a), (b) &(c)................ 52 52 1 hour................... 52
404.1251............................. 0 0 0........................ 0
404.1265............................. 3 1 1 hour................... 3
404.1271(a) & (c).................... 0 0 hour..................... 0
404.1271(b).......................... 2 2 4 hours.................. 16
404.1272............................. 3 1 1........................ 3
404.1292............................. 3 1 5........................ 15
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Total............................ .............. .............. ......................... 434
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\1\ Interstate Instrumentalities.
2. Current Rule Regarding Continuation of Full Benefit Standard for
Persons Institutionalized--0960-0516. The information collected by the
Social Security Administration will be used to determine if a recipient
of Supplemental Security Income benefits, who is temporarily
institutionalized, is eligible to receive a full benefit. The
respondents will be such recipients and their physicians.
Number of Respondents: 60,000.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Burden Per Response: 5 minutes.
Estimated Average Burden: 5,000 hours.
II. The information collection listed below has been submitted to
OMB for clearance. Written comments and recommendations on the
information collection would be most useful if received within 30 days
from the date of this publication. Comments should be directed to the
SSA Reports Clearance Officer and the OMB Desk Officer at the addresses
listed at the end of this notice. You can obtain a copy of the OMB
clearance package by calling the SSA Reports Clearance Officer on (410)
965-4145, or by writing to him.
Statement Regarding the Inferred Death of an Individual by Reason
of Continued and Unexplained Absence-0960-0002. The information
collected on form SSA-723 is used to determine if the Social Security
Administration may infer that a missing person is deceased. The
respondents are individuals who know or are related to the missing
person.
Number of Respondents: 3,000.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Burden Per Response: 30 minutes.
Estimated Average Burden: 1,500 hours.
SSA Address: Social Security Administration, DCFAM, Attn: Frederick W.
Brickenkamp, 6401 Security Blvd., 1-A-21 Operations Bldg., Baltimore,
MD 21235.
OMB Address: Office of Management and Budget, OIRA, Attn: Lori Schack,
New Executive Office Building, Room 10230, 725 17th St., NW,
Washington, D.C. 20503.
Dated: March 31, 1999.
Frederick W. Brickenkamp,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-8508 Filed 4-6-99; 8:45 am]
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