98-15653. Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of an Information Collection: Information and Instructions on Your Reconsideration Rights, RI 38-47

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 113 (Friday, June 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 32256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15653]


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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT


Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of an Information 
Collection: Information and Instructions on Your Reconsideration 
Rights, RI 38-47

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public 
Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of 
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of 
Management and Budget a request for review of an information 
collection. Information and Instructions on Your Reconsideration 
Rights, RI 38-47, outlines the procedures required to request 
reconsideration of an initial OPM decision about Civil Service or 
Federal Employees retirement, Retired Federal or Federal Employee 
Health Benefits requests to enroll or change enrollment, or Federal 
Employees' Group Life Insurance coverage. The forms lists the 
procedures and time periods required for requesting reconsideration.
    Approximately 6,000 annuitants and survivors request 
reconsideration annually. We estimate it takes approximately 45 minutes 
to apply. The annual burden is 4500 hours.
    Comments are particularly invited on:

--Whether this collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of functions of the Office of Personnel Management, and 
whether it will have practical utility;

--Whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection is 
accurate, and based on valid assumptions and methodology; and
--Ways in which we can minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on those who are to respond, through use of the appropriate 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

    For copies of this proposal, contact Jim Farron on [phone], 
or E-mail to [e-mail]

DATES: Comments on this proposal should be received on or before August 
11, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments to--Lorraine E. Dettman, Chief, 
Operations Support Division, Retirement and Insurance Service, U.S. 
Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, NW, Room 3349, 
Washington, DC 20415.

FOR INFORMATION REGARDING ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION--CONTACT: Mary 
Beth Smith-Toomey, Budget & Administrative Services Division, (202) 
606-0623.

U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Janice R. Lachance,
Director.
[FR Doc. 98-15653 Filed 6-11-98; 8:45 am]
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