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Proposed Project: Data Collection 

Tool for the Black Lung Clinics Program 

(OMB No. 0915–0292): Revision 

The Office of Rural Health Policy 

(ORHP), Health Resources and Services 

Administration, conducts an annual 

data collection of user information for 

the Black Lung Clinics Program. The 

purpose of the Black Lung Clinics 

Program is to improve the health status 

of coal workers by providing services to 

minimize the effects of respiratory and 

pulmonary impairments of coal miners. 

Grantees provide specific diagnostic and 

treatment procedures required in the 

management of problems associated 

with black lung disease which improves 

the quality of life of the miner and 

reduces economic costs associated with 

morbidity and mortality arising from 

pulmonary diseases. The purpose of 

collecting this data is to provide HRSA 

with information on how well each 

grantee is meeting the needs of active 

and retired miners in the funded 

communities. 

Data from the annual report will 

provide quantitative information about 

the programs, specifically: (a) The 

characteristics of the patients they serve 

(gender, age, disability level, occupation 

type); (b) the characteristics of services 

provided (medical encounters, nonmedical encounters, benefits 

counseling, or outreach); and (c) the 

number of patients served. The annual 

report will be updated to include a 

qualitative measure on the percent of 

patients that show improvement in 

pulmonary function. This assessment 

will provide data useful to the program 

and will enable HRSA to provide data 

required by Congress under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993. It will also ensure that 

funds are being effectively used to 

provide services to meet the needs of 

the target population. 

The estimated burden is a follows: 

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Database .......................................................................................................... 15 1 10 150 

Send comments to Susan G. Queen, 

PhD, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer, 

Room 10–33, Parklawn Building, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. 

Written comments should be received 

within 60 days of this notice. 

Dated: February 27, 2007. 

Alexandra Huttinger, 

Acting Director, Division of Policy Review 

and Coordination. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: 

Comment Request 

In compliance with the requirement 

for opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects (44 

U.D.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), the Health 

Resources and Services Administration 

(HRSA) publishes periodic summaries 

of proposed projects being developed 

for submission to OMB under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To 

request more information on the 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and draft 

instruments, call the HRSA Reports 

Clearance Officer on (301) 443–1129. 

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. 

Proposed Project: Data System for 

Organ Procurement and 

Transplantation Network and 

Associated Forms (OMB No. 0915–

0157): Revision 

Section 372 of the Public Health 

Service (PHS) Act requires that the 

Secretary, by contract, provide for the 

establishment and operation of an Organ 

Procurement and Transplantation 

Network (OPTN). The OPTN, among 

other responsibilities, operates and 

maintains a national waiting list of 

individuals requiring organ transplants, 

maintains a computerized system for 

matching donor organs with transplant 

candidates on the waiting list, and 

operates a 24-hour system to facilitate 

matching organs with individuals 

included in the list. 

Data for the OPTN data system are 

collected from transplant hospitals, 

organ procurement organizations, and 

tissue-typing laboratories. The 

information is used to indicate the 

disease severity of transplant 

candidates, to monitor compliance of 

member organizations with OPTN rules 

and requirements, and to report 

periodically on the clinical and 

scientific status of organ donation and 

transplantation in this country. Data are 

used to develop transplant, donation 

and allocation policies, to determine if 

institutional members are complying 

with policy, to determine member 

specific performance, to ensure patient 

safety when no alternative sources of 

data exist and to fulfill the requirements 

of the OPTN Final Rule. The practical 

utility of the data collection is further 

enhanced by requirements that the 

OPTN data must be made available, 

consistent with applicable laws, for use 

by OPTN members, the Scientific 

Registry of Transplant Recipients, the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, and others for evaluation, 

research, patient information, and other 

important purposes. 

Revisions in the 26 data collection 

forms are intended to implement 

approved reduction in data collection 

for candidates and recipients, to provide 

additional information specific to 

pediatric patients, and to clarify existing 

questions. 


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ESTIMATES OF ANNUALIZED HOUR BURDEN

Form Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondents 

Total 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Deceased Donor Registration .............................................. 58 215 12,470 0.4200 5,237.4000 

Death referral data ............................................................... 58 12 696 10.0000 6,960.0000 

Living Donor Registration .................................................... 711 10 7,110 0.4100 2,915.1000 

Living Donor Follow-up ........................................................ 711 18 12,798 0.3300 4,223.3400 

Donor Histocompatibility ...................................................... 154 95 14,630 0.0600 877.8000 

Recipient Histocompatibility ................................................. 154 172 26,488 0.1100 2,913.6800 

Heart Candidate Registration .............................................. 135 23 3,105 0.2800 869.4000 

Lung Candidate Registration ............................................... 67 27 1,809 0.2800 506.5200 

Heart/Lung Candidate Registration ..................................... 59 1 59 0.2800 16.5200 

Thoracic Registration ........................................................... 135 27 3,645 0.4400 1,603.8000 

Thoracic Follow-up ............................................................... 135 229 30,915 0.4130 12,767.8950 

Kidney Candidate Registration ............................................ 250 133 33,250 0.2800 9,310.0000 

Kidney Registration .............................................................. 250 69 17,250 0.4400 7,590.0000 

Kidney Follow-up ................................................................. 250 544 136,000 0.3332 45,315.2000 

Liver Candidate Registration ............................................... 125 89 11,125 0.2800 3,115.0000 

Liver Registration ................................................................. 125 54 6,750 0.4000 2,700.0000 

Liver Follow-up ..................................................................... 125 383 47,875 0.3336 15,971.1000 

Kidney/Pancreas Candidate Registration ............................ 146 12 1,752 0.2800 490.5600 

Kidney/Pancreas Registration .............................................. 146 7 1,022 0.5300 541.6600 

Kidney/Pancreas Follow-up ................................................. 146 65 9,490 0.5027 4,770.6230 

Pancreas Candidate Registration ........................................ 146 7 1,022 0.2800 286.1600 

Pancreas Registration .......................................................... 146 3 438 0.4400 192.7200 

Pancreas Follow-up ............................................................. 146 23 3,358 0.4133 1,387.8614 

Intestine Candidate Registration .......................................... 45 8 360 0.2400 86.4000 

Intestine Registration ........................................................... 45 4 180 0.5300 95.4000 

Intestine Follow-up ............................................................... 45 17 765 0.5059 387.0135 

Post Transplant Malignancy ................................................ 711 6 4,266 0.0800 341.2800 

Total .............................................................................. 923 ........................ 388,628 ........................ 131,472.4329 

Send comments to Susan G. Queen, 

PhD, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer, 

Room 10–33, Parklawn Building, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. 

Written comments should be received 

within 60 days of this notice. 

Dated: February 27, 2007. 

Alexandra Huttinger, 

Acting Director, Division of Policy Review 

and Coordination. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

National Practitioner Data Bank; 

Announcement of Proactive Disclosure 

Service (PDS) Opening Date and User 

Fees 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA), 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), is announcing the 

implementation of a Proactive 

Disclosure Service (PDS) Prototype. The 

PDS is being offered as an alternative to 

the periodic querying of the National 

Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). It was 

developed in response to the growing 

interest of healthcare entities in ongoing monitoring of practitioner 

credentials. 

Authorized Data Bank entities can 

choose to enroll all of their practitioners 

in PDS or enroll some practitioners 

while continuing to periodically query 

on others using the regular query 

methods. The query fee for periodic 

queries remains $4.75 per name. Entities 

with PDS enrolled practitioners will be 

notified within one business day of the 

NPDB’s receipt of a report on any of 

their enrollees. While entities can 

expect to receive reports sooner with 

PDS, the format of and the information 

contained in a report, as well as the 

information required to be reported will 

remain the same. Initially, the PDS is 

being offered as a prototype. The annual 

subscription fee, during the prototype 

period, is $3.25 per practitioner. This 

rate is subject to change after the 

prototype period is complete. 

DATES: This fee will be effective April 

30, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Pincus, Branch Chief, Practitioner 

Data Banks Branch, Office of Workforce 

Evaluation and Quality Assurance, 

Bureau of Health Professions, Health 

Resources and Services Administration, 

Parklawn Building, Rm 8C–103, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, Tel: 

301–443–2300, E-mail: 

policyanalysis@hrsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. PDS Enrollment Availability 

The PDS prototype will be available 

April 30, 2007. An invitation to enroll 

practitioners in the prototype has been 

extended first to organizations that 

assisted HRSA with designing and 

pricing, which occurred between 2003 

and 2005. All NPDB registered entities 

have been invited to enroll their 

practitioners to meet a predetermined 

number for enrollees. Once this number 

is achieved, enrollment in the prototype 

will close. It is anticipated that the PDS 

prototype period will last approximately 

18 to 24 months before it is opened to 

all authorized Data Bank entities. 

2. User Fee Amount 

The NPDB is authorized by the Health 

Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 

(the Act), Title IV of Public Law 99–660, 

as amended (42 U.S.C. 11101 et seq.). 

Section 427(b)(4) of the Act authorizes 

the establishment of fees for the costs of 

processing related to receiving and 

disclosing information. 


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