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investigate, examine, prosecute, sue 

with respect to, defend against, correct, 

remedy, or otherwise combat fraud, 

waste, or abuse in such program. 

4. To another Federal agency or to an 

instrumentality of any governmental 

jurisdiction within or under the control 

of the United States (including any State 

or local governmental agency), that 

administers, or that has the authority to 

investigate potential fraud, waste, or 

abuse in, a health benefits program 

funded in whole or in part by Federal 

funds, when disclosure is deemed 

reasonably necessary by CMS to 

prevent, deter, discover, detect, 

investigate, examine, prosecute, sue 

with respect to, defend against, correct, 

remedy, or otherwise combat fraud, 

waste, or abuse in such programs. 

C. Additional Provisions Affecting 

Routine Use Disclosures: 

To the extent this system contains 

Protected Health Information (PHI) as 

defined by HHS regulation ‘‘Standards 

for Privacy of Individually Identifiable 

Health Information’’ (45 CFR Parts 160 

and 164, Subparts A and E) 65 FR 82462 

(12–28–00). Disclosures of such PHI that 

are otherwise authorized by these 

routine uses may only be made if, and 

as, permitted or required by the 

‘‘Standards for Privacy of Individually 

Identifiable Health Information.’’ (See 

45 CFR 164–512(a)(1)). 

In addition, our policy will be to 

prohibit release even of data not directly 

identifiable, except pursuant to one of 

the routine uses or if required by law, 

if we determine there is a possibility 

that an individual can be identified 

through implicit deduction based on 

small cell sizes (instances where the 

patient population is so small that an 

individual could, because of the small 

size, use this information to deduce the 

identity of the beneficiary). 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

All records are stored on computer 

diskette and magnetic storage media. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Information can be retrieved by the 

business names and addresses, owner’s 

name, owner’s SSN, UPIN, managing 

employee’s name, employer 

identification number or other tax 

reporting number, and the Medicare 

contractor assigned billing numbers. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

CMS has safeguards in place for 

authorized users and monitors such 

users to ensure against unauthorized 

use. Personnel having access to the 

system have been trained in the Privacy 

Act and information security 

requirements. Employees who maintain 

records in this system are instructed not 

to release data until the intended 

recipient agrees to implement 

appropriate management, operational 

and technical safeguards sufficient to 

protect the confidentiality, integrity and 

availability of the information and 

information systems and to prevent 

unauthorized access. 

This system will conform to all 

applicable Federal laws and regulations 

and Federal, HHS, and CMS policies 

and standards as they relate to 

information security and data privacy. 

These laws and regulations may apply 

but are not limited to: the Privacy Act 

of 1974; the Federal Information 

Security Management Act of 2002; the 

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986; 

the Health Insurance Portability and 

Accountability Act of 1996; the EGovernment Act of 2002, the ClingerCohen Act of 1996; the Medicare 

Modernization Act of 2003, and the 

corresponding implementing 

regulations. OMB Circular A–130, 

Management of Federal Resources, 

Appendix III, Security of Federal 

Automated Information Resources also 

applies. Federal, HHS, and CMS 

policies and standards include but are 

not limited to: all pertinent National 

Institute of Standards and Technology 

publications; the HHS Information 

Systems Program Handbook and the 

CMS Information Security Handbook. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Records are maintained by CMS for a 

period not to exceed 15 years. All 

claims-related records are encompassed 

by the document preservation order and 

will be retained until notification is 

received from DOJ. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Director, Division of Provider/ 

Supplier Enrollment, Program Integrity 

Group, Office of Financial Management, 

CMS, Mail Stop C3–02–16, 7500 

Security Boulevard, Baltimore, 

Maryland 21244–1850. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

For purpose of access, the subject 

individual should write to the system 

manager who will require the system 

name, address, date of birth, and gender, 

and for verification purposes, the 

subject individual’s name (woman’s 

maiden name, if applicable), and SSN. 

Furnishing the SSN is voluntary, but it 

may make searching for a record easier 

and prevent delay. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURE: 

For purpose of access, use the same 

procedures outlined in Notification 

Procedures above. Requestors should 

also specify the record contents being 

sought. (These procedures are in 

accordance with department regulation 

45 CFR 5b.5(a)(2).) 

CONTESTING RECORDS PROCEDURES: 

The subject individual should contact 

the system manager named above, and 

reasonably identify the records and 

specify the information to be contested. 

State the corrective action sought and 

the reasons for the correction with 

supporting justification. (These 

Procedures are in accordance with 

Department regulation 45 CFR 5b.7.) 

RECORDS SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Sources of information contained in 

this records system include data 

collected from the application which 

the supplier completes to obtain 

Medicare billing numbers. (CMS Form 

192—prior to August 1996, CMS Form 

888—April 1996 through May 1997, and 

CMS Form 855S—after May 1997). 

SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS

OF THE ACT: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 4120–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Proposed Projects: 

Title: Form OCSE–396A: Financial 

Report; 

Form OCSE–34A: Quarterly Report 

of Collections. 

OMB No.: 0970–0181. 

Description: State agencies 

administering the Child Support 

Enforcement Program under title IV–D 

of the Social Security Act are required 

to provide information each fiscal 

quarter to the Office of Child Support 

Enforcement (OCSE) concerning 

administrative expenditures and the 

receipt and disposition of child support 

payments from non-custodial parents. 

Together with a third quarterly report, 

‘‘Itemized Undistributed Collections’’

(Schedule UDC—OMB No. 0970–0268), 

these forms provide information from 

each State that is used to compute the 

quarterly grant awards, the annual 

incentive payments and provide 

valuable information on program 

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finances. This information is also 

included in a published annual 

statistical and financial report, available 

to the general public. 

Pub. L. 109–171, the Deficit 

Reduction Act of 2005, contains a 

number of provisions that will impact 

the States’ completion and submission 

of these quarterly financial reports. 

These changes become effective in fiscal 

years 2006, 2007 and 2008. These 

changes require revisions to some of the 

data entry lines and reporting 

instructions currently contained on 

these forms. In addition, a periodic 

review of the data currently requested 

on these forms will assure that OCSE 

collections the information needed in 

the most efficient format feasible. 

Respondents: State agencies 

administering the Child Support 

Enforcement Program. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

OCSE–396A .................................................................................................... 54 4 8 1,728 

OCSE–34A ...................................................................................................... 54 4 8 1,728 

Estimate Total Annual Burden Hours: ...................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 3,456 

In compliance with the requirements 

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Administration for Children and 

Families is soliciting public comment 

on the specific aspects of the 

information collection described above. 

Copies of the proposed collection of 

information can be obtained and 

comments may be forwarded by writing 

to the Administration for Children and 

Families, Office of Information Services, 

370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW., 

Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF 

Reports Clearance Officer. All requests 

should be identified by the title of the 

information collection. E-mail address: 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

The Department specifically requests 

comments 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) 

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. 

Consideration will be given to 

comments and suggestions submitted 

within 60 days of this publication. 

Dated: November 28, 2006. 

Robert Sargis, 

Reports Clearance Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 4184–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: Third Grade Follow-up to the 

Heat Start Impact Study. 

OMB No.: 0970–0229. 

Description: The Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF) within the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) is requesting comments 

on plans to implement a third grade 

follow-up to the Head Start Impact 

Study. This study will collect 

information for determining, on a 

national basis, how Head Start affects 

outcomes in the third grade for children 

who participated in the program as 

compared to children not enrolled in 

Head Start and to determine under 

which conditions Head Start Works best 

and for which children. 

The Head Start Impact Study was 

longitudinal study that involved 

approximately 5,000 first-time-enrolled, 

three- and four-year-old preschool 

children across 84 nationally 

representative grantee/delegate agencies 

(in communities where there were more 

eligible children and families than can 

be served by the program). The 

participating children were randomly 

assigned to either a Head Start group 

(that could enroll in Head Start services) 

or a control group (that could not enroll 

in Head Start services but could enroll 

in other available services selected by 

their parents). Data collection for the 

study began in the fall of 2002 and 

extended through spring 2006. 

It is the intention of the 

Administration for Children and 

Families to examine outcomes for this 

sample of children and families during 

the spring of the children’s third grade 

year. Data will be collected in the spring 

of 2007 (for the four-year-old cohort) 

and the spring of 2008 (for the threeyear-old cohort). The domains of 

development to be assessed include 

demographic characteristics of the 

children and families, as well as 

children’s cognitive development, 

school achievement and adjustment, 

socio-emotional functioning, heath and 

access to health care, and relationships 

with peers. Information will also be 

collected on parents’ involvement in 

educational activities, mental health 

and well-being, and monitoring and 

other parenting practices, and 

information related to the characteristics 

and quality of the schools and 

classrooms that children attend. 

Respondents: Individuals or 

households and school districts 

(principals and teachers). 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of responses per 

respondent 

Average burden 

hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Year 1 (spring 2007): 

Parent Tracking Interview ....................................................................... 2,559 1 0 .166 426 

Parent Interview ...................................................................................... 1,720 1 1 .00 1,720 

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