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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Docket 2012–0076; Sequence 39; OMB 

Control No. 9000–0053] 

Federal Acquisition Regulation; 

Information Collection; Permits, 

Authorities, or Franchises 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of request for public 

comments regarding an extension of a 

previously existing OMB clearance. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the 

Regulatory Secretariat will be 

submitting to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) a request to review 

and approve an extension of a 

previously approved information 

collection requirement concerning 

permits, authorities, or franchises for 

regulated transportation. 

Public comments are particularly 

invited on: Whether this collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of functions of the Federal 

Acquisition Regulations (FAR), and 

whether it will have practical utility; 

whether our estimate of the public 

burden of this collection of information 

is accurate, and based on valid 

assumptions and methodology; ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

ways in which we can minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, through 

the use of appropriate technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

November 9, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

identified by Information Collection 

9000–0053, Permits, Authorities, or 

Franchises, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Regulations.gov: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Submit comments via the Federal 

eRulemaking portal by searching the 

OMB control number. Select the link 

‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that corresponds 

with ‘‘Information Collection 9000– 

0053, Permits, Authorities, or 

Franchises’’. Follow the instructions 

provided at the ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ 

screen. Please include your name, 

company name (if any), and 

‘‘Information Collection 9000–0053, 

Permits, Authorities, or Franchises’’ on 

your attached document. 

• Fax: 202–501–4067. 

• Mail: General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

(MVCB), 1275 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20417. ATTN: Hada 

Flowers/IC 9000–0053, Permits, 

Authorities, or Franchises. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite Information Collection 

9000–0053, Permits, Authorities, or 

Franchises, in all correspondence 

related to this collection. All comments 

received will be posted without change 

to http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal and/or business 

confidential information provided. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Michael O. Jackson, Procurement 

Analyst, Office of Governmentwide 

Acquisition Policy, GSA (202) 208–4949 

or email michaelo.jackson@gsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose 

The FAR requires insertion of clause 

52.247–2, Permits, Authorities, or 

Franchises, when regulated 

transportation is involved. The clause 

requires the contractor to indicate 

whether it has the proper authorization 

from the Federal Highway 

Administration (or other cognizant 

regulatory body) to move material. The 

contractor may be required to provide 

copies of the authorization before 

moving material under the contract. The 

clause also requires the contractor, at its 

expense, to obtain and maintain any 

permits, franchises, licenses, and other 

authorities issued by State and local 

governments. The Government may 

request to review the documents to 

ensure that the contractor has complied 

with all regulatory requirements. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

The estimated annual reporting 

burden has decreased from what was 

published in the Federal Register at 74 

FR 56640, on November 2, 2009. The 

decrease is based on a revised estimate 

of the number of respondents, responses 

per year and response time per 

response. According to Fiscal Year 2011 

Federal Procurement Data System 

(FPDS) data, 3,877 contracts were 

awarded to 1021 unique vendors under 

the North American Industry 

Classification System (NAICS) code 484 

for trucking, where the requirements for 

this collection would apply. It is 

estimated that a maximum of 25%, or 

255 of these vendors would be required 

to provide the information required by 

the clause. The information need only 

be gathered and submitted on an 

exception basis. We estimate that any 

respondent will be required to submit 

supporting information only one time 

annually. In addition, we think that it 

will take the contractor only half an 

hour to pull existing franchises or 

permits from the files. 

Respondents: 255. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 255. 

Hours Per Response: 0.5. 

Total Burden Hours: 128. 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the General Services Administration, 

Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20417, 

telephone (202) 501–4755. Please cite 

OMB Control No. 9000–0053, Permits, 

Authorities, or Franchises, in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: August 28, 2012. 

William Clark, 

Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy 

Division, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office 

of Governmentwide Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approve the proposed 

information collection project: ‘‘A 

Prototype Consumer Reporting System 

for Patient Safety Events.’’ In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521, 

AHRQ invites the public to comment on 

this proposed information collection. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by November 9, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

Copies of the proposed collection plans, 

data collection instruments, and specific 

details on the estimated burden can be 

obtained from the AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer. 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRO.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

A Prototype Consumer Reporting 

System for Patient Safety Events 

The Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ) requests that the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approve, under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, AHRQ’s 

collection of information for a Prototype 

Consumer Reporting System for Patient 

Safety Events. This project aims to 

design and test a system for collecting 

information from patients about health 

care safety events following standard 

definitions and formats. 

There is a growing body of evidence 

that many adverse medical events go 

unreported in current systems 

(Weissman et al., 2008). A primary 

reason for this reporting gap is that most 

reporting systems do not presently 

accept or elicit reports from patients and 

their families (RTI 2010). AHRQ 

recognizes that the unique perspective 

of health care consumers could reveal 

important information that is not 

reported by health care providers. 

Patient reports could complement and 

enhance reports from providers and 

thus produce a more complete and 

accurate understanding of the 

prevalence and characteristics of 

medical adverse events (RTI, 2010). 

In an effort to realize untapped 

potential of health care consumers to 

provide important information about 

patient safety events, AHRQ has funded 

the development of a prototype 

Consumer Reporting System for Patient 

Safety (CRSPS), designed to collect 

information from medical patients about 

medical errors that resulted or nearly 

resulted in harm or injury. The purpose 

of this project is to test the prototype for 

its ability to record data from consumers 

about patient safety events defined as an 

incident or near miss by the AHRQ 

Common Formats (AHRQ, 2010, details 

at: www.pso.ahrq.gov/formats/ 

commonfmt.htm). 

Currently there is no mechanism for 

consumers to report information about 

patient safety events defined as an 

incident or near miss by the AHRQ 

Common Formats. Such information is 

necessary for research on how to 

improve the quality of health care, 

promote patient safety and reduce 

medical errors. There is a need to collect 

this information from consumers and 

match these consumer reports to the 

information collected by providers, 

because the two sources may differ. 

Examining data from both sources 

allows the project to determine to what 

extent patients are able to provide more 

complete or more detailed information. 

This research has the following goals: 

1. To develop and design a prototype 

system to collect information about 

patient safety events. 

2. To develop and test Web and 

telephone modes of a prototype 

questionnaire. 

3. To develop and test protocols for a 

follow-up survey of health care 

providers. 

This demonstration project is being 

conducted by AHRQ through its 

contractor, RAND Corporation with 

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana 

Farber Cancer Institute, and ECRI 

Institute, pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory 

authority to conduct and support 

research on health care and on systems 

for the delivery of such care, including 

activities with respect to the quality, 

effectiveness, efficiency, 

appropriateness and value of health care 

services and with respect to quality 

measurement and improvement. 42 

U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2). 

Method of Collection 

To achieve the goal of this project the 

following data collections will be 

implemented: 

1. Safety event intake form and follow 

up. The safety event intake form asks 

about a medical error or mistake, harm 

or injury as well as near misses. Medical 

patients, consumers, family members 

and other caregivers voluntarily report 

safety events through a Web site or by 

telephone. The questions ask what 

happened, details of the event, when, 

where, whether there was harm, the 

type of harm, contributing factors, 

disclosure, and whether the patient 

reported the event and to whom. 

Information is also collected regarding 

whether the respondent is willing to 

have CRSPS staff follow up to clarify 

information. If a respondent consents, 

CRSPS staff will follow up by phone 

and ask questions about any information 

that was not clear in the initial report 

and annotate the report with this 

information. 

2. Health care provider follow up. For 

the subset of consumers that consent, 

patient safety officers at health care 

provider organizations who maintain 

the adverse event reporting system will 

contribute supplemental information 

about the consumer-reported incident 

which occurred at their facility. CRSPS 

staff will contact the health care 

organization to share the consumer 

report with the patient safety officer or 

other appointed liaison. The liaison will 

determine if the consumer-reported 

incident matches an event in the 

provider’s Incident Reporting System, 

and if so, provide additional 

information. 

Data collected will be analyzed to 

produce estimates and basic descriptive 

statistics on the quantity and type of 

consumer-reported patient safety events, 

examine the variability of responses to 

questions, examine the mode of data 

collection by event types, and conduct 

correlations, cross tabulations of 

responses and other statistical analysis. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Exhibit 1 shows the estimated 

annualized burden hours for 

respondents’ time to participate in this 

information collection based on the 

expected number of respondents, 840 to 

the intake form and 84 to the provider 

follow up. The number of respondents 

is based on the size of the selected 

community, estimates of health care 

utilization, rates of adverse events, and 

response rates in similar investigations. 

The intake form is expected to 

maximally require 25 minutes via the 

Web or telephone including the optional 

10 minutes of follow-up questions, 

resulting in a total burden of 490 hours. 

The health care provider follow up is 

expected to take 20 minutes and only 

occurs for the estimated 10% of patients 

consenting; this form carries a total 

burden of 28 hours. The total burden is 

518 hours annually. 

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Safety event intake form and follow up ........................................................... 840 1 35/60 490 

Health care provider follow up ......................................................................... 84 1 20/60 28 

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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued 

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Total .......................................................................................................... 924 NA NA 518 

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated 

annualized cost burden for patients, 

$10,652, and for the health care 

organization, $885, for a total 

annualized cost burden of $11,537. 

Respondents will not incur any other 

costs beyond those associated with their 

time to participate. 

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Total burden 

hours 

Average hourly wage rate Total cost 

burden 

Safety event intake form and follow up ........................................................... 840 490 $21.74 * $10,652 

Health care provider follow up ......................................................................... 84 28 31.61 ** 885 

Total .......................................................................................................... 924 518 NA 11,537 

* Based upon the mean of the average Wages, National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2011, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00–0000 **Based upon the mean of the average wages, National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2011: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists (General Medical and Surgical Hospitals). U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. http:// 

www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes299011.htm 

Estimated Annual Cost to the 

Government 

AHRQ is supporting the conduct of 

this project as part of a contract with the 

RAND Corporation and the ECRI 

Institute. The estimated cost for this 

work is $899,827. 

EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST

Cost component Total cost Annualized cost 

Intake Form Development ............................................................................................................................... $364,375 $242,917 

System Development ....................................................................................................................................... 413,860 275,907 

Project Management ........................................................................................................................................ 35,325 23,550 

Overhead ......................................................................................................................................................... 86,267 57,511 

Total .......................................................................................................................................................... 899,827 599,885 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, comments on AHRQ’s 

information collection are requested 

with regard to any of the following: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of AHRQ health care 

research and health care information 

dissemination functions, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including 

hours and costs) of the proposed 

collection(s) 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 upon the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the Agency’s subsequent 

request for OMB approval of the 

proposed information collection. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. 

Dated: August 30, 2012. 

Carolyn M. Clancy, 

Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research And 

Quality 

Special Emphasis Panel Meeting 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of SEP meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 10 

(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2), 

announcement is made of an Agency for 

Healthcare Research and Quality 

(AHRQ) Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) 

meeting on ‘‘Partnerships for 

Sustainable Research and Dissemination 

of Evidence-Based Medicine (R24)’’. 

DATES: September 20–21, 2012 (Open on 

September 20 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:15 

a.m. and closed for the remainder of the 

meeting). 

This notice is being published less 

than 15 days prior to the September 20– 

21 meeting, due to the time constraints 

of reviews and funding cycles. 

ADDRESSES: Hyatt Regency Hotel 

Bethesda, One Metro Center, Bethesda, 

MD 20814. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anyone wishing to obtain a roster of 

members, agenda or minutes of the nonconfidential portions of this meeting 

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