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15The wage rates used in this Notice are based 

on recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics 

National Compensation Survey at http:// 

www.bls.gov/ncs/ncswage2009.htm, with the 

exception of the hourly wage rate for legal 

professionals, which is based upon industry 

knowledge. Hourly rates are rounded to the nearest 

dollar. 

currently operating under the Rule have 

an estimated total disclosure burden of 

304 hours (3,645 consumers × 5 minutes 

of burden ÷ 60 minutes). 

Accordingly, the total PRA-related 

annual hours burden attributed to the 

Rule is approximately 13,266 hours 

(9,114 hours for recordkeeping + 3,038 

hours for reporting + 1,114 hours for 

disclosures). 

Total annual labor cost: $265,000 

rounded to the nearest thousand. 

Recordkeeping: Staff assumes that 

IDSMs use clerical staff to comply with 

the recordkeeping requirements 

contained in the Rule at an hourly rate 

of $15.15 Thus, the labor cost associated 

with the 9,114 annual burden hours for 

recordkeeping is approximately 

$136,710 (9,114 burden hours × $15 per 

hour). 

Reporting: Staff assumes that IDSMs 

also use clerical support staff at an 

hourly rate of $15 to comply with the 

reporting requirements. Thus, the labor 

cost associated with the 3,038 annual 

burden hours for reporting is 

approximately $45,570 (3,038 burden 

hours × $15 per hour). 

Disclosure: Staff assumes that the 

work required to comply with the 

warrantors’ disclosure requirements 

entails an equal mix of legal, clerical, 

and graphic design work. The legal 

work entails ensuring that the warranty 

information and other materials contain 

the information required to be disclosed 

by the Rule, as well as reviewing the 

annual audits for any recommendations 

for how to improve the warrantors’ 

materials, and implementing those 

recommended changes as appropriate. 

The graphic design work entails creating 

pamphlets, brochures, posters, or other 

materials that are aimed at making 

consumers aware of the existence of the 

IDSM and its procedures. The clerical 

work entails copying and distributing 

those informational materials. Staff 

assumes that one third of the total 

disclosure hours for warrantors (270 

hours) requires legal work at a rate of 

$250 an hour, one third requires graphic 

design at a rate of $23 an hour, and one 

third requires clerical work at a rate of 

$15 an hour. This results in a disclosure 

labor burden of $77,760 for warrantors 

((270 × $250) + (270 × $23) + (270 × 

$15). 

In addition, staff assumes that IDSMs 

use clerical support at an hourly rate of 

$15 to reproduce records and, therefore, 

the labor cost associated with the 304 

annual hours of disclosure burden for 

IDSMs is approximately $4,560 (304 

burden hours × $15 per hour). 

Accordingly, the combined total 

annual labor cost for PRA-related 

burden under the Rule is approximately 

$264,600 ($136,710 for recordkeeping + 

$45,570 for reporting + $82,320 for 

disclosures). 

Total annual capital or other 

nonlabor costs: $322,000, rounded to 

the nearest thousand. 

Total capital and start-up costs: The 

Rule imposes no appreciable current 

capital or start-up costs. The vast 

majority of warrantors have already 

developed systems to retain the records 

and provide the disclosures required by 

the Rule. Rule compliance does not 

require the use of any capital goods, 

other than ordinary office equipment, to 

which providers would already have 

access. In addition, according to a 

representative of one IDSM, it has 

already developed systems to collect 

and retain information needed to 

produce the indexes and statistical 

summaries required by the Rule, and 

thus, estimated very low capital or 

startup costs. 

The only additional cost imposed on 

IDSMs operating under the Rule that 

would not be incurred for other IDSMs 

is the annual audit requirement. 

According to representatives of the 

IDSMs, the vast majority of costs 

associated with this requirement are the 

fees paid to the auditors and their staffs 

to perform the annual audit. 

Representatives of the IDSMs previously 

estimated a combined cost of $300,000 

for both IDSMs currently operating 

under the Rule, and staff retains that 

estimate. 

Other non-labor costs: $22,000 in 

copying costs. This total is based on 

estimated copying costs of 7 cents per 

page and several conservative 

assumptions. Staff estimates that the 

average dispute-related file is 35 pages 

long and that a typical annual audit file 

is approximately 200 pages in length. As 

discussed above, staff assumes that 

twenty percent of consumers using an 

IDSM currently operating under the 

Rule (approximately 3,645 consumers) 

request copies of the records relating to 

their disputes. 

Staff also estimates that a very small 

minority of consumers request a copy of 

the annual audit. This assumption is 

based on (1) the number of consumer 

requests actually received by the IDSMs 

in the past; and (2) the fact that the 

IDSMs’ annual audits are available 

online. For example, annual audits are 

available on the FTC’s Web site, where 

consumers may view and or print pages 

as needed, at no cost to the IDSM. In 

addition, the Better Business Bureau 

makes available on its Web site the 

annual audit of the BBB AUTO LINE. 

Therefore, staff conservatively estimates 

that only five percent of consumers 

using an IDSM covered by the Rule 

(approximately 911 consumers) will 

request a copy of the IDSM’s audit 

report. 

Thus, the total annual copying cost 

for dispute-related files is 

approximately $8,930 (35 pages per file 

× $.07 per page × 3,645 consumer 

requests) and the total annual copying 

cost for annual audit reports is 

approximately $12,754 (200 pages per 

audit report × $.07 per page × 911 

consumer requests). Accordingly, the 

total cost attributed to copying under 

the Rule is approximately $21,684. 

Thus, the total non-labor cost under the 

Rule is approximately $321,684 

($300,000 for auditor fees + $21,684 for 

copying costs). 

Willard K. Tom, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29607 Filed 11–23–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

Periodically, the Health Resources 

and Services Administration (HRSA) 

publishes abstracts of information 

collection requests under review by the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of 

the clearance requests submitted to 

OMB for review, e-mail 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA 

Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443– 

1129. 

The following request has been 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget for review under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995: 

Proposed Project: Nurse Faculty Loan 

Program (NFLP) Annual Operating 

Report (AOR) Form (OMB No. 0915– 

0314)—[REVISION]. This clearance 

request is for approval of the modified 

online NFLP–AOR form for grantees to 

report annual NFLP loan fund activity. 

The Web-based (online) version of the 

NFLP–AOR form was developed and 

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integrated into the existing HRSA 

Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) 

Performance Report module in fiscal 

year 2009. The online NFLP–AOR form 

will be modified to collect additional 

data from applicants that will include 

information on the total number of 

enrollees, graduates, and graduates 

employed as nurse faculty by: (1) Age 

and Gender, (2) Nursing Programs, and 

(3) Nursing Degrees. Under Title VIII, 

section 846A of the Public Health 

Service Act, as amended by Public Law 

111–148, the Secretary of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) enters into an 

agreement with a school of nursing and 

makes an award to the school. The 

award is used to establish a distinct 

account for the NFLP loan fund at the 

school. The school of nursing makes 

loans from the NFLP fund to students 

enrolled full-time or part-time in a 

master’s or doctoral nursing education 

program that will prepare them to 

become qualified nursing faculty. 

Following graduation from the NFLP 

lending school, loan recipients may 

receive up to 85 percent NFLP loan 

cancellation over a consecutive fouryear period in exchange for service as 

full-time faculty at a school of nursing. 

The NFLP lending school collects any 

portion of the loan that is not cancelled 

and any loans that go into repayment 

and deposits these monies into the 

NFLP loan fund to make additional 

NFLP loans. 

The school of nursing must keep 

records of all NFLP loan fund 

transactions. The NFLP–AOR is used to 

monitor grantee performance by 

collection of information relating to the 

NFLP loan fund operations and 

financial activities for a specified 

reporting period (July 1 through June 30 

of the academic year). Participating 

schools are required to complete and 

submit the NFLP–AOR annually. In 

addition to the newly required data, 

participating schools will provide the 

Federal Government with current and 

cumulative information on: (1) The 

number and amount of loans made, (2) 

the number of NFLP loan recipients and 

NFLP graduates, (3) the number and 

amount of loans collected, (4) the 

number and amount of loans in 

repayment, (5) the number of NFLP 

graduates employed as nurse faculty, 

and (6) NFLP loan fund receipts, 

disbursements and other related costs. 

The NFLP loan fund balance is used to 

determine future awards to the school. 

The estimate of burden for this form 

is as follows: 

Form Number of 

respondents 

Responses per 

respondent Total responses Hours per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Nurse Faculty Loan Program Annual Operating Report (AOR) ...................................... 150 1 150 8 1200 

Total Burden ............................................. 150 1 150 8 1200 

Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent within 30 days of this notice to 

the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov 

or by fax to 202–395–6974. Please direct 

all correspondence to the ‘‘attention of 

the desk officer for HRSA.’’ 

Dated: November 17, 2010. 

Robert Hendricks, 

Director, Division of Policy and Information 

Coordination. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29534 Filed 11–23–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4165–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60 Day–11–11AT] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call the CDC Reports 

Clearance Officer at 404–639–5960 or 

send comments to CDC Assistant 

Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton 

Road, MS D–74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or 

send an e-mail to omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

The National Hospital Care Survey 

(NHCS)—New—National Center for 

Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

Section 306 of the Public Health 

Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242k), as 

amended, authorizes that the Secretary 

of Health and Human Services (DHHS), 

acting through NCHS, shall collect 

statistics on the extent and nature of 

illness and disability of the population 

of the United States. This three-year 

clearance request includes data 

collection from hospital inpatient 

departments; hospital ambulatory 

departments including emergency 

departments (ED), outpatient 

departments (OPD), and ambulatory 

surgery centers (ASC); and freestanding 

ASCs of the new National Hospital Care 

Survey. 

The National Center for Health 

Statistics’ (NCHS) surveys on hospital 

care include the National Hospital 

Discharge Survey (NHDS) (OMB 

No.0920–0212) and the National 

Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care 

Survey (NHAMCS) (OMB No. 0920– 

0234). NHDS has, since 1965, provided 

critical information on the utilization of 

the nation’s non-Federal short-stay 

hospitals and on the nature and 

treatment of illness among the inpatient 

hospitalized population. NHAMCS has 

provided data annually since 1992 

concerning the nation’s use of hospital 

emergency and outpatient departments, 

and since 2009 and 2010, on hospital 

based and free-standing ambulatory 

surgery centers, respectively. These data 

have been extensively used for 

monitoring changes and analyzing the 

types of care provided in the nation’s 

hospitals. NCHS is planning to integrate 

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