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applications for BELVIQ (lorcaserin 

hydrochloride) tablets, 10 mg, and 

BELVIQ XR (lorcaserin hydrochloride) 

extended-release tablets, 20 mg, 

effective September 17, 2020. 

Accordingly, the Agency will remove 

BELVIQ (lorcaserin hydrochloride) 

tablets, 10 mg, and BELVIQ XR 

(lorcaserin hydrochloride) extendedrelease tablets, 20 mg, from the list of 

drug products published in the Orange 

Book. FDA will not accept or approve 

ANDAs that refer to this drug product. 

Dated: February 26, 2021. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Acting Principal Associate Commissioner for 

Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04449 Filed 3–3–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

‘‘Low Income Levels’’ Used for Various 

Health Professions and Nursing 

Programs Authorized in Titles III, VII, 

and VIII of the Public Health Service 

Act 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HRSA is updating income 

levels used to identify a ‘‘low income 

family’’ for the purpose of determining 

eligibility for programs that provide 

health professions and nursing training 

to individuals from disadvantaged 

backgrounds. These various programs 

are authorized in Titles III, VII, and VIII 

of the Public Health Service Act. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HHS 

periodically publishes in the Federal 

Register low-income levels to be used 

by institutions receiving grants and 

cooperative agreements to determine 

eligibility for programs providing 

training for (1) disadvantaged 

individuals, (2) individuals from 

disadvantaged backgrounds, or (3) 

individuals from low-income families. 

Many health professions and nursing 

grant and cooperative agreement 

awardees use the low-income levels to 

determine whether potential program 

participants are from an economically 

disadvantaged background and would 

be eligible to participate in the program, 

as well as to determine the amount of 

funding the individual receives. Awards 

are generally made to accredited schools 

of medicine, osteopathic medicine, 

public health, dentistry, veterinary 

medicine, optometry, pharmacy, allied 

health, podiatric medicine, nursing, and 

chiropractic; public or private nonprofit 

schools which offer graduate programs 

in behavioral health and mental health 

practice; and other public or private 

nonprofit health or educational entities 

to assist individuals from disadvantaged 

backgrounds to enter and graduate from 

health professions and nursing schools. 

Some programs provide for the 

repayment of health professions or 

nursing education loans for students 

from disadvantaged backgrounds. 

A ‘‘low-income family/household’’ for 

programs included in Titles III, VII, and 

VIII of the Public Health Service Act is 

defined as having an annual income that 

does not exceed 200 percent of the 

Department’s poverty guidelines. A 

family is a group of two or more 

individuals related by birth, marriage, or 

adoption who live together. 

Most HRSA programs use the income 

of a student’s parent(s) to compute low 

income status. However, a ‘‘household’’ 

may potentially be only one person. 

Other HRSA programs, depending upon 

the legislative intent of the program, the 

programmatic purpose related to income 

level, as well as the age and 

circumstances of the participant, will 

apply these low income standards to the 

individual student to determine 

eligibility, as long as he or she is not 

listed as a dependent on the tax form of 

his or her parent(s). Each program 

announces the rationale and choice of 

methodology for determining low 

income levels in program funding 

opportunities or applications. 

Low-income levels are adjusted 

annually based on HHS’s poverty 

guidelines. HHS’s poverty guidelines 

are based on poverty thresholds 

published by the U.S. Census Bureau, 

adjusted annually for changes in the 

Consumer Price Index. The income 

figures below have been updated to 

reflect the Department’s 2021 poverty 

guidelines as published in 86 FR 19 

(February 1, 2021). 

LOW INCOME LEVELS BASED ON THE

2021 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE

48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Persons in family/household * Income level ** 

1 ............................................ $25,760 

2 ............................................ 34,840 

3 ............................................ 43,920 

4 ............................................ 53,000 

5 ............................................ 62,080 

6 ............................................ 71,160 

7 ............................................ 80,240 

LOW INCOME LEVELS BASED ON THE

2021 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE

48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—Continued 

Persons in family/household * Income level ** 

8 ............................................ 89,320 

For families with more than 8 persons, add 

$9,080 for each additional person. 

* Includes only dependents listed on federal 

income tax forms. 

** Adjusted gross income for calendar year 

2020. 

LOW INCOME LEVELS BASED ON THE

2021 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

ALASKA

Persons in family/household * Income level ** 

1 ............................................ $32,180 

2 ............................................ 43,540 

3 ............................................ 54,900 

4 ............................................ 66,260 

5 ............................................ 77,620 

6 ............................................ 88,980 

7 ............................................ 100,340 

8 ............................................ 111,700 

For families with more than 8 persons, add 

$11,360 for each additional person. 

* Includes only dependents listed on federal 

income tax forms. 

** Adjusted gross income for calendar year 

2020. 

LOW INCOME LEVELS BASED ON THE

2021 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR HAWAII

Persons in family/household * Income level ** 

1 ............................................ $29,640 

2 ............................................ 40,080 

3 ............................................ 50,520 

4 ............................................ 60,960 

5 ............................................ 71,400 

6 ............................................ 81,840 

7 ............................................ 92,280 

8 ............................................ 102,720 

For families with more than 8 persons, add 

$10,440 for each additional person. 

* Includes only dependents listed on federal 

income tax forms. 

** Adjusted gross income for calendar year 

2020. 

Separate poverty guidelines figures 

for Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of 

Economic Opportunity administrative 

practice beginning in the 1966–1970 

period since the U.S. Census Bureau 

poverty thresholds do not have separate 

figures for Alaska and Hawaii. The 

poverty guidelines are not defined for 

Puerto Rico or other outlying 

jurisdictions. Puerto Rico and other 

outlying jurisdictions shall use income 


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guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States 

and the District of Columbia. 

Diana Espinosa, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04446 Filed 3–3–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4165–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) is modifying a 

department-wide system of records 

titled HHS Correspondence, Customer 

Service, and Contact List Records, 

system no. 09–90–1901, to make certain 

updates and to more clearly include 

records about individuals who provide 

comments and supporting documents to 

HHS in response to HHS rulemakings 

and other docketed proceedings. The 

modifications include changing the 

name of the system of records to HHS 

Correspondence, Comment, Customer 

Service, and Contact List Records. 

DATES: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

552a(e)(4) and (11), this notice is 

applicable March 4, 2021, subject to a 

30-day period in which to comment on 

the new and revised routine uses, 

described below. Please submit any 

comments by April 5, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: The public should submit 

written comments on this notice, by 

mail or email, to Beth Kramer, HHS 

Privacy Act Officer, 200 Independence 

Ave. SW, Suite 729H, Washington, DC 

20201, or beth.kramer@hhs.gov. 

Comments will be available for public 

viewing at the same location. To review 

comments in person, please contact 

Beth Kramer at beth.kramer@hhs.gov or 

202–690–6941. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

General questions may be submitted to 

Beth Kramer, HHS Privacy Act Officer, 

at 200 Independence Ave. SW, Suite 

729H, Washington, DC 20201, or 

beth.kramer@hhs.gov, or 202–690–6941. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background on System of Records 

Notice (SORN) 09–90–1901 

This department-wide system of 

records covers records about individuals 

within or outside HHS which are used 

in managing HHS correspondence, 

public comments in docketed 

proceedings, and customer service 

functions, including help desk and call 

center activities, dissemination of 

publications, studies, opinions, 

unrestricted datasets, and other 

information, and mailing and contact 

lists. SORN 09–90–1901 applies to such 

records if they are retrieved by personal 

identifier and are not covered by a more 

specific SORN. 

Examples of the records covered in 

SORN 09–90–1901 include: 

• Telephone and email directories 

containing office contact records about 

HHS employees, contractor personnel, 

and other personnel working at HHS, 

which are retrieved by the individuals’ 

names and used to locate them, route 

mail to them, and communicate with 

them regarding work matters. 

• Official correspondence records 

about individuals who contact, or are 

contacted by, the Secretary or Deputy 

Secretary of HHS or another HHS 

official, or are the subject of the 

correspondence, which are retrieved by 

the correspondent’s or subject’s name 

and used to control, track, and ensure 

timely and appropriate attention to and 

documentation of the correspondence. 

Particular subsets of these records 

include, for example: 

Æ Records about individuals who 

submit comments and supporting 

documents in response to HHS 

rulemakings and other docketed 

proceedings and public notices, which 

are retrieved by commenter name; 

Æ Correspondence notifying members 

of Congress of grants and other contracts 

that HHS has awarded to individual 

recipients in their districts, which are 

retrieved by awardee name; and 

Æ Records of requests about 

individual constituents received from 

members of Congress, which are 

retrieved by constituent name and used 

to track and respond to the requests. 

• Mailing and contact list records 

used to track and respond to requests 

from, or otherwise interact with, 

individual members of the public, when 

the records are retrieved by personal 

identifier. Examples include: 

Æ Email lists and other contact lists 

about individuals who ask to receive 

health information from HHS in print 

form, or to be notified of new and 

upcoming publications or web postings, 

or to subscribe to an online newsletter 

issued by HHS. 

Æ Customer engagement workflow 

platform records containing account 

records (i.e., contact information) and 

case records (e.g., request processing 

records) about frequent customers of 

particular HHS offices, such as sole 

proprietor members of the media who 

are frequent customers of HHS public 

affairs offices. 

• Contact records about individuals 

who volunteer to serve as resource 

persons to provide pro bono technical 

assistance to community organizations 

and government agencies working on 

particular health-related matters or 

campaigns 

Examples of more specific SORNs, 

which will continue to apply to 

particular types of correspondence 

records, contact list records, and 

customer service records, include: 

• Debt collection correspondence: 

SORN 09–40–0012, Debt Management 

and Collection System. 

• Correspondence about complaints 

filed with the HHS Office of Civil 

Rights: SORN 09–90–0052, Program 

Information Management System 

(PIMS). 

• Freedom of Information Act and 

Privacy Act Correspondence: SORN 09– 

90–0058, Tracking Records and Case 

Files for FOIA and Privacy Act Requests 

and Appeals. 

• Medicare Customer Service records: 

SORN 09–70–0535, 1–800 Medicare 

(HELPLINE). 

• List(s) of individuals ordering 

provider educational materials or 

registering for computer/Web-based 

training courses, satellite broadcasts and 

train-the-trainer sessions: SORN 09–70– 

0542, Medicare Learning Network 

(MLN). 

• List of consultants available for use 

in evaluation of National Heart, Lung, 

and Blood Institute special grants and 

contracts: SORN 09–25–0078, 

Administration: Consultant File. 

II. Modifications to SORN 09–90–1901 

HHS is modifying the SORN to update 

it and to ensure that it clearly and 

adequately covers records about 

individuals who submit comments and 

supporting documents to HHS in 

response to HHS rulemakings and other 

docketed proceedings. HHS is also 

expressly including customer 

engagement platform records. The 

modifications include: 

• Including the word ‘‘Comment’’ in 

the name of the system of records. 

• Referring to ‘‘comments’’ or 

‘‘commenters’’ in the Categories of 

Individuals, Categories of Records, 

Purpose(s), and Retrieval sections, and 

referring to ‘‘customer engagement’’ 

records in the System Manager(s) and 

Categories of Records sections. 

• Including the General Services 

Administration (GSA) in the System 

Location section as the shared services 

provider that operates systems HHS 

uses to manage certain docket records. 


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