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Dated: December 9, 2004. 

By the Office of Thrift Supervision. 

Richard M. Riccobono, 

Deputy Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request—Minority Thrift Certification 

Form

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed and continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift 

Supervision within the Department of 

the Treasury will submit the proposed 

information collection requirement 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting 

public comments on its proposal to 

extend this information collection.

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before February 14, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to 

Information Collection Comments, Chief 

Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552; send a facsimile 

transmission to (202) 906–6518;

or send an e-mail to

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov.

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet Site at http:

//www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, NW., by appointment. To 

make an appointment, call (202) 906–

5922, send an e-mail to 

publicinfo@ots.treas.gov, or send a 

facsimile transmission to (202) 906–

7755.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information 

about this proposed information 

collection from Louise Batdorf, Analyst, 

Consumer Protection and Specialized 

Programs, (202) 906–7087, Office of 

Thrift Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Comments should address one or 

more of the following points: 

a. Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of OTS; 

b. The accuracy of OTS’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed information 

collection; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of 

information technology. 

We will summarize the comments 

that we receive and include them in the 

OTS request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. In this notice, OTS is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Minority Thrift 

Certification Form. 

OMB Number: 1550–0096. 

Form Number: OTS Form 1661. 

Regulation requirement: N/A. 

Description: This information is 

needed to help OTS maintain a reliable 

source of information regarding the 

universe of minority-owned thrifts, in 

accordance with our responsibilities 

under Section 308 of FIRREA. 

Type of Review: Renewal. 

Affected Public: Savings Associations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

26. 

Estimated Burden Hours per 

Response: .5 hours. 

Estimated Frequency of Response:

Annually. 

Estimated Total Burden: 13 hours. 

Clearance Officer: Marilyn K. Burton, 

(202) 906–6467, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552. 

OMB Reviewer: Mark Menchik, (202) 

395–3176, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: December 9, 2004.

By the Office of Thrift Supervision. 

James E. Gilleran, 

Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Reasonable Charges for Inpatient DRG 

and SNF Medical Services; 2005 

Calendar Year Update

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Section 17.101 of Title 38 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations sets 

forth the Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) medical regulations concerning 

‘‘reasonable charges’’ for medical care or 

services provided or furnished by VA to 

a veteran: 

• For a nonservice-connected 

disability for which the veteran is 

entitled to care (or the payment of 

expenses of care) under a health plan 

contract; 

• For a nonservice-connected 

disability incurred incident to the 

veteran’s employment and covered 

under a worker’s compensation law or 

plan that provides reimbursement or 

indemnification for such care and 

services; or 

• For a nonservice-connected 

disability incurred as a result of a motor 

vehicle accident in a State that requires 

automobile accident reparations 

insurance. 

The regulations include 

methodologies for establishing billed 

amounts for the following types of 

charges: Acute inpatient facility charges; 

skilled nursing facility/sub-acute 

inpatient facility charges; partial 

hospitalization facility charges; 

outpatient facility charges; physician 

and other professional charges, 

including professional charges for 

anesthesia services and dental services; 

pathology and laboratory charges; 

observation care facility charges; 

ambulance and other emergency 

transportation charges; and charges for 

durable medical equipment, drugs, 

injectables, and other medical services, 

items, and supplies identified by 

Healthcare Common Procedure Coding 

System (HCPCS) Level II codes. The 

regulations also provide that data for 

calculating actual charge amounts at 

individual VA facilities based on these 

methodologies will either be published 

in a notice in the Federal Register or 

will be posted on the Internet site of the 

Veterans Health Administration Chief 

Business Office, currently at http://

www.va.gov/cbo, under ‘‘Charge Data.’’

Certain of these charges are hereby 

updated as described in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. These changes are effective 

on January 1, 2005. 

When charges for medical care or 

services provided or furnished at VA 

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expense by either VA or non-VA 

providers have not been established 

under other provisions of the 

regulations, the method for determining 

VA’s charges is set forth at 38 CFR 

17.101(a)(8).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Romona Greene, Chief Business Office 

(168), Veterans Health Administration, 

Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20420, (202) 254–0361. (This is not a 

toll free number.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Of the 

charge types listed in the Summary 

section of this notice, only the acute 

inpatient facility charges and skilled 

nursing facility/sub-acute inpatient 

facility charges are being changed. 

Charges for the following charge types: 

Partial hospitalization facility charges; 

outpatient facility charges; physician 

and other professional charges, 

including professional charges for 

anesthesia services and dental services; 

pathology and laboratory charges; 

observation care facility charges; 

ambulance and other emergency 

transportation charges; and charges for 

durable medical equipment, drugs, 

injectables, and other medical services, 

items, and supplies identified by 

HCPCS Level II codes are not being 

changed. These Outpatient facility 

charges and Professional charges remain 

the same as set forth in a notice 

published in the Federal Register on 

April 15, 2004 (69 FR 20118). 

Based on the methodologies set forth 

in 38 CFR 17.101, this document 

provides an update to acute inpatient 

charges based on 2005 DRGs. Acute 

inpatient facility charges by diagnosis 

related group (DRG) are set forth in 

Table A in the December 19, 2003, 

Federal Register notice. Table A in the 

December 19 notice document is being 

replaced by Table A in this notice, 

which provides updated charges based 

on 2005 DRGs. 

Also, this document provides for an 

updated skilled nursing facility/subacute inpatient facility all-inclusive per 

diem charge that, using the 

methodologies set forth in 38 CFR 

17.101, is adjusted by a geographic area 

factor based on the location where the 

care is provided. The skilled nursing 

facility/sub-acute inpatient facility per 

diem charge is set forth in Table B in the 

October 2, 2003, Federal Register

notice. Table B in the October 2 notice 

document is being replaced by Table B 

in this notice, which provides the 

updated all-inclusive nationwide skilled 

nursing facility/sub-acute inpatient 

facility per diem charge. 

The charges in this update for acute 

inpatient facility and skilled nursing 

facility/sub-acute inpatient facility 

services are effective on January 1, 2005. 

In this update, we are retaining the 

table designations used for acute 

inpatient facility charges by DRGs in the 

notice published in the Federal Register

on December 19, 2003 (68 FR 70867). 

We also are retaining the table 

designation used for skilled nursing 

facility/sub-acute inpatient facility 

charges in the notice published in the 

Federal Register on October 2, 2003 (68 

FR 56892). Accordingly, the tables 

identified as being updated by this 

notice correspond to the applicable 

tables published in the December 19 

and October 2 notices, beginning with 

Table A through Table B. 

We have updated the list of data 

sources presented in Supplementary 

Table 1 to reflect the updated data 

sources used to establish the updated 

charges described in this notice. 

We have also updated the list of VA 

medical facility locations. As a 

reminder, in Supplementary Table 3 

published in the Federal Register dated 

April 15, 2004, we set forth the list of 

VA medical facility locations, which 

includes their three-digit ZIP Codes and 

provider-based/non-provider-based 

designations. In accordance with the 

final rule, subsequent updates to 

Supplementary Table 3 will be posted 

on the Internet site of the Veterans 

Health Administration Chief Business 

Office. 

Consistent with the regulations, the 

updated data tables and supplementary 

tables containing the changes described 

in this notice are published with this 

notice and will be posted on the Internet 

site of the Veterans Health 

Administration Chief Business Office, 

currently at http://www.va.gov/cbo,

under ‘‘Charge Data.’’

Approved: November 30, 2004. 

Anthony J. Principi, 

Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

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