[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 199 (Friday, October 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 60970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26330]


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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, 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, 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: The Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Program (OMB 
No. 0915-0244)--Revision

    The Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-369) 
established a trust fund to provide for compassionate payments with 
regard to certain individuals with blood-clotting disorders, such as 
hemophilia, who contracted HIV due to contaminated antihemophilic 
factor within specified time periods. The statute mandated payments to 
any individual with HIV who has any blood-clotting disorder and was 
treated with antihemophilic factor any time between July 1, 1982, and 
December 31, 1987. The Act also provides for payments to certain 
persons who contracted HIV from the foregoing individuals. Specified 
survivors of these categories of individuals may also receive payments. 
In order to receive a payment, either the individual who is eligible 
for payment, or his or her personal representative, must file a 
petition for payment with sufficient documentation to prove that he or 
she meets the requirements of the statute. This data collection is 
required to provide the necessary medical and legal documentation that 
establishes eligibility for payment.
    The estimated annual response burden is as follows:

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                                                                            Responses
                            Form                               Number of       per       House per    Total hour
                                                              respondents   respondent    response      burden
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Petition form and Supporting Documentation..................        1,350            1            3        4,050
Physician Documentation.....................................          675            1            1          675
 
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Total.......................................................        2,025  ...........  ...........        4,725
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    Send comments to: John Morrall, Human Resources and Housing Branch, 
Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 
10235, Washington, DC, 20503. Written comments should be received 
within 30 days of this notice.

    Dated: October 6, 2000.
Jane Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 00-26330 Filed 10-12-00; 8:45 am]
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