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for grant funds online. A cross-agency 

work group developed the proposed SF– 

424 Project/Performance Site 

Location(s) form and data set that will 

serve as a common form for various 

grant programs. 

This form will be mandatory for all of 

the 4040 collections except for 4040– 

0005 (Individual). The form includes 

the fields for the following FFATA 

required data elements: the primary 

location of performance and the unique 

identifier (DUNS number) of the 

organization performing the project. The 

SF–424 Individual (4040–0005) does not 

require a DUNS number as individual 

applicants are not required to have 

DUNS numbers. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN TABLE

Agency Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total responses 

Average burden 

per response in 

hours 

Total burden 

hours 

Total ................................................................. 120,722 1 120,722 30/60 60,361 

Keith A. Tucker, 

Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Board of Scientific Counselors, 

National Center for Injury Prevention 

and Control: Notice of Charter Renewal 

This gives notice under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463) of October 6, 1972, that the Board 

of Scientific Counselors, National 

Center for Injury Prevention and 

Control, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS), has been 

renewed for a 2-year period through 

November 5, 2013. 

For information, contact Gwendolyn 

Cattledge, Ph.D., Designated Federal 

Officer, Board of Scientific Counselors, 

National Center for Injury Prevention 

and Control, CDC, HHS, 1600 Clifton 

Road NE., M/S F63, Atlanta, Georgia 

30333, Telephone (770) 488–4655. 

The Director, Management Analysis 

and Services Office, has been delegated 

the authority to sign Federal Register 

notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities, for both the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: December 6, 2011. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Director, Management Analysis and Services 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[CMS–9996–N2] 

Early Retiree Reinsurance Program 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

CMS, based on the projected availability 

of funding under the Early Retiree 

Reinsurance Program (ERRP), is 

exercising its authority under the ERRP 

regulations at 45 CFR 149.45(a) to deny 

ERRP reimbursement requests, in their 

entirety, that include claims that are 

incurred after December 31, 2011. 

Therefore, plan sponsors must not 

include such claims in their Claim Lists 

and Summary Cost Data submitted in 

support of a reimbursement request. 

Should circumstances related to the 

availability of ERRP funding change, 

CMS may issue a new notice 

announcing approval of ERRP 

reimbursement request that include 

claims incurred after December 31, 

2011. 

DATES: Effective Date: This notice is 

effective December 9, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Mlawsky, (410) 786–6851. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Patient Protection and Affordable 

Care Act (Pub. L. 111–148, enacted on 

March 23, 2010) (the Affordable Care 

Act), included a provision that 

establishes the temporary Early Retiree 

Reinsurance Program (ERRP), which 

provides reimbursement to eligible 

sponsors of employment-based plans for 

a portion of the costs of providing 

health coverage to early retirees (and 

eligible spouses, surviving spouses, and 

dependents of such retirees). Section 

1102(a)(1) of the Affordable Care Act 

required the Secretary to establish the 

program within 90 days of enactment of 

the law (by June 21, 2010). In the May 

5, 2010 Federal Register (75 FR 24450), 

we published an interim final regulation 

with comment period, implementing the 

program as of June 1, 2010. Section 

1102(e) of the Affordable Care Act 

appropriates funding of $5 billion for 

the temporary program. The regulation 

at 45 CFR 149.45(a) states that based on 

the projected or actual availability of 

program funding, the Secretary may 

deny applications that otherwise meet 

the requirements of this part, and if an 

application is approved, may deny all or 

part of a sponsor’s reimbursement 

request. Under that authority, in the 

April 5, 2011 Federal Register (76 FR 

18766), the Secretary announced that 

CMS would stop accepting applications 

for ERRP as of May 6, 2011. 

II. Provisions of This Notice 

CMS is exercising our authority under 

45 CFR 149.45(a) to deny certain 

reimbursement requests based on the 

available amount remaining of the $5 

billion in appropriated program 

funding, and the rate at which it is being 

disbursed. We are now announcing that 

any Claim List submitted to ERRP in 

support of a reimbursement request, that 

includes one or more claims with an 

incurred date identified as January 1, 

2012 or after, will be rejected in its 

entirety. Therefore, to avoid such a 

consequence, a plan sponsor must not 

submit any Claim List or Summary Cost 

Data that includes any claim with an 

incurred date identified as January 1, 

2012 or later. 

As specified in 45 CFR 149.325, a 

claim may be submitted to ERRP only 

after it has been incurred, and paid. 

Therefore, under this notice, and 

consistent with current policy, if a claim 

is incurred on or before December 31, 

2011, but paid after December 31, 2011, 

the sponsor may submit the claim, but 

not until it has been paid. Existing 

guidance defining the date upon which 

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to have been incurred, and paid, for 

purposes of ERRP, are detailed at 

http://www.errp.gov, by clicking on 

Common Questions, and then clicking 

on Costs and Reimbursement. 

We note that our decision to deny 

reimbursement requests that include 

claims with incurred dates of January 1, 

2012, or after, is based on the actual 

availability of remaining appropriated 

ERRP funds and the rate at which 

reimbursements have been disbursed, as 

opposed to the projected amounts of 

ERRP reimbursements that applicants 

listed in their ERRP applications. 

Should circumstances related to the 

availability of ERRP funding change, we 

may decide it is appropriate to approve 

reimbursement requests that include 

claims incurred after December 31, 

2011. If this occurs, we will provide 

such notice in the Federal Register. 

III. Collection of Information 

Requirements 

This document does not impose any 

new information collection and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Consequently, it need not be reviewed 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget under the authority of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

However, the information collection 

requirements associated with the ERRP 

are currently approved under OMB 

control number 0938–1087, with an 

expiration date of September 30, 2014. 

Authority: 45 CFR 149.45(a). 

Dated: December 6, 2011. 

Marilyn Tavenner, 

Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare 

& Medicaid Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Family and Youth Services Bureau; 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Title: Personal Responsibility 

Education Program (PREP) MultiComponent Evaluation. 

OMB No.: 0970–0398 

Description: The Family and Youth 

Services Bureau (FYSB) and the Office 

of Planning, Research, and Evaluation 

(OPRE), Administration for Children 

and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS), are 

proposing data collection activity as 

part of the PREP Multi-Component 

Evaluation. 

The goals of the PREP MultiComponent Evaluation are to document 

how PREP programs are operationalized 

in the field, collect performance 

measure data for PREP programs, and 

assess the effectiveness of selected 

PREP-funded programs. The PREP 

Multi-Component Evaluation will make 

a significant contribution to the teen 

pregnancy prevention literature and will 

produce useful findings for state and 

federal policymakers, researchers, and 

program administrators. 

The evaluation will include the 

following three primary, interconnected 

components, or ‘‘studies’’: 

1. The Impact and Implementation 

Study (IS): This study will involve 

impact and in-depth implementation 

evaluations of four to five specific 

PREP-funded sites. The study will 

consider how selected programs 

implemented key components of the 

PREP program, such as adult 

preparation subjects and substantial 

emphasis on abstinence and 

contraception and addressed key 

implementation considerations, such as 

adherence, dosage, quality of service 

delivery, and participant response. The 

impact of the selected PREP programs 

will be determined based on a random 

assignment (at the individual, 

classroom, or school level) evaluation 

design, which will involve baseline 

surveys and two follow-up surveys. This 

will allow short- and long-term impacts 

to be measured. One information 

collection request for a field instrument, 

focused on discussions with individuals 

involved in PREP programs (i.e. statelevel PREP program coordinators, 

program directors, program staff, and 

school administrators) in order to 

inform site selection for this study, was 

approved on November 6, 2011. 

2. The Design and Implementation 

Study (DIS): This study will be a broad 

descriptive analysis of how States 

designed and implemented PREP 

programs. The study will use multiple 

methods of information collection, 

including telephone interviews that will 

be conducted in every state operating a 

PREP program, to better understand the 

general design and implementation of 

PREP programs. For this study, two 

rounds of interviews will be conducted: 

The first round of interviews, known as 

the ‘‘Design Survey’’, will focus on how 

states designed programs, and the 

second round of interviews, known as 

the ‘‘Implementation Survey’’, will 

focus on how states and sub-awardees 

actually implemented their programs. 

An information collection request has 

already been submitted to OMB for the 

‘‘Design Survey’’ discussion guide. 

3. The Performance Analysis Study 

(PAS): This study will focus on the 

development and collection of 

performance data for the purpose of 

semi-annual and annual reporting on 

state PREP performance outcomes, in 

order to determine if PREP grantees (i.e. 

states and sub-awardees) are meeting 

performance benchmarks related to the 

program’s mission and priorities. At 

present, there is only one information 

collection request for the PAS. 

This 60 Day Notice covers (a) the 

baseline and administrative instruments 

for the Impact and Implementation 

Study; (b) all instruments for the 

Performance Analysis Study; and (c) a 

request for OMB to waive subsequent 

60-day Federal Register notices 

pertaining to the PREP MultiComponent Evaluation. 

Impact and Implementation Study 

Respondents: Respondents to the 

baseline survey will be participants in 

PREP-funded programs, including 

school students and other youth. 

Administrative respondents include 

schools and organizations that oversee 

PREP-funded programs or that have 

program and/or school participation 

data. 

Performance Analysis Study 

Respondents: Performance measurement 

data collection instruments will be 

administered to individuals 

representing states (i.e. PREP state-level 

coordinators), as well as sub-awardees 

(i.e. program directors), program 

facilitators, other program staff, and 

program participants. 

Annual Burden Estimates 

The following instruments, part of the 

Impact and Implementation Study (IIS), 

were approved on November 6, 2011. 

Instrument Annual number 

of respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden 

hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Discussion Guide for use with Macro-Level Coordinators .............. 10 1 1 10 

Discussion Guide for Use with Program Directors .......................... 20 2 2 80 

Discussion Guide for Use with Program Staff ................................. 40 1 2 80 


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