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1. Type of Request: Revision of a

currently approved collection; Title of

Information Collection: Drug Utilization

Review (DUR) (Medicaid); Form No.:

HCFA–R–153 and HCFA–R–153a; Use:

This is a revision of a currently

approved collection of the OMB

approved requirements on DUR

programs that will expire on 9/30/97.

The program and requirements are the

same, but HCFA intends to add survey/

instructions for the annual report. This

framework in form HCFA–R153a would

allow for reports to be more easily

prepared by the states while also

enhancing the usefulness of these

reports for analysis and comparison by

HCFA. Submission of reports has been

required by Section 1927(g) of the Social

Security Act; Frequency: Annually;

Affected Public: State, local, or tribal

government; Business or other for profit;

and Not-for-profit institutions; Number

of Respondents: 50; Total Annual

Responses: 50; Total Annual Hours:

608,400.

2. Type of Request: Extension of a

currently approved collection; Title of

Information Collection: Systems

Performance Review (SPR); Form No.:

HCFA–R–86; Use: The System

Performance Review (SPR) is a vehicle

used to evaluate State Medicaid

Management Information Systems

(MMIS) to determine whether or not a

State system satisfies the functional

requirements and statistical levels of

output relating to accuracy and

timeliness. This review necessitates the

documentation or maintenance of

specific records; Frequency: Annually;

Affected Public: State, local, or tribal

government; Business or other for profit;

and Federal Government; Number of

Respondents: 17; Total Annual

Responses: 17; Total Annual Hours:

22,100.

3. Type of Request: Revision of a

currently approved collection; Title of

Information Collection: Medicaid

Posteligibility Preprint; Form No.:

HCFA–SP0001; Use: To standardize the

display of information on the

posteligibility process in the State’s

Medicaid plan. The State plan is issued

as a basis for Federal financial

participation in the State program;

Frequency: Annually; Affected Public:

State, local, or tribal government; and

Federal Government; Number of

Respondents: 56; Total Annual

Responses: 896; Total Annual Hours:

529.

To request copies of the proposed

paperwork collection referenced above,

E-mail your request, including your

address, to Paperwork@hcfa.gov, or call

the Reports Clearance Office on (410)

786–1326. Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collections should be sent

within 60 days of this notice directly to

the HCFA Paperwork Clearance Officer

designated at the following address:

HCFA, Office of Financial and Human

Resources, Management Analysis and

Planning Staff, Attention: Linda

Mansfield, Room C2–26–17, 7500

Security Boulevard, Baltimore,

Maryland 21244–1850.

Dated: March 17, 1997

Edwin J. Glatzel

Director, Management Analysis and Planning

Staff, Office of Financial and Human

Resources, Health Care Financing

Administration.

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Submitted for Collection of Public

Comment: Submission for OMB

Review

In compliance with the requirement

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the

Health Care Financing Administration

(HCFA), Department of Health and

Human Services, has submitted to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) the following proposals for the

collection of information. Interested

persons are invited to send comments

regarding this burden estimate or any

other aspect of this collection of

information, including any of the

following subjects: (1) The necessity and

utility of the proposed information

collection for the proper performance of

the agency’s functions; (2) the accuracy

of the estimated burden; (3) ways to

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity

of the information to be collected; and

(4) the use of automated collection

techniques or other forms of information

technology to minimize the information

collection burden.

1. Type of Request: Revision of a

currently approved collection; Title of

Information Collection: Statistical

Report on Medical Care: Eligibles,

Recipients, Payments and Services;

Form No.: HCFA–2082; Use: The data

reported in the HCFA–2082 are the basis

of actuarial forecasts for Medicaid

service utilization and costs; of analysis

and cost savings estimates required for

legislative initiatives relating to

Medicaid and for responding to requests

for information from HCFA

components, the Department, Congress

and other customers; Frequency:

Annually; Affected Public: State, local,

or tribal government; Number of

Respondents: 54; Total Annual

Responses: 54; Total Annual Hours:

17,214.

To request copies of the proposed

paperwork collection referenced above,

E-mail your request, including your

address, to Paperwork@hcfa.gov, or call

the Reports Clearance Office on (410)

786–1326. Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collections should be sent

within 30 days of this notice directly to

the OMB Desk Officer designated at the

following address: OMB Human

Resources and Housing Branch,

Attention: Allison Eydt, New Executive

Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: March 17, 1997.

Edwin J. Glatzel,

Director, Management Analysis and Planning

Staff, Office of Financial and Human

Resources, Health Care Financing

Administration.

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[HCFA–1957]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

In compliance with the requirement

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the

Health Care Financing Administration

(HCFA), Department of Health and

Human Services, has submitted to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) the following proposal for the

collection of information. Interested

persons are invited to send comments

regarding the burden estimate or any

other aspect of this collection of

information, including any of the

following subjects: (1) The necessity and

utility of the proposed information

collection for the proper performance of

the agency’s functions; (2) the accuracy

of the estimated burden; (3) ways to

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity

of the information to be collected; and

(4) the use of automated collection

techniques or other forms of information

technology to minimize the information

collection burden.

Type of Information Collection

Request: Extension of a currently

approved collection; Title of

Information Collection: SSO Report of

State Buy In Problems, 42 CFR 407.40;

Form No.: HCFA–1957; Use: The

HCFA–1957 is issued to assist with

communications between the Social

Security District Offices, Medicaid State

Agencies and HCFA Central Offices in

the resolution of beneficiary complaints,

regarding entitlement under state buyins. It is used when a problem arises

which cannot be resolved thru normal
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data exchange. Frequency: On occasion;

Affected Public: Individuals or

Households, and State, Local or Tribal

Government; Number of Respondents:

22,000; Total Annual Hours: 6,417.

To obtain copies of the supporting

statement for the proposed paperwork

collections referenced above, access

HCFA’s WEB SITE ADDRESS at http://

www.hcfa.gov/regs/prdact95.htm, or to

obtain the supporting statement and any

related forms, E-mail your request,

including your address and phone

number, to Paperwork@hcfa.gov, or call

the Reports Clearance Office on (410)

786–1326. Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collections must be mailed

within 30 days of this notice directly to

the HCFA Paperwork Clearance Officer

designated at the following address:

OMB Human Resources and Housing

Branch, Attention: Allison Eydt, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: March 17, 1997.

Edwin J. Glatzel,

Director, Management Analysis and Planning

Staff, Office of Financial and Human

Resources, Health Care Financing

Administration.

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National Institutes of Health

National Heart, Lung, and Blood

Institute; Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request; The Framingham

Study

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of

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

Reduction Act of 1995, the National

Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

(NHLBI), the National Institutes of

Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) a

request to review and approve the

information collection listed below.

This proposed information collection

was previously published in the Federal

Register on August 23, 1996, page 43557

and allowed 60-days for public

comment. No public comments were

received. The purpose of this notice is

to allow an additional 30 days for public

comment. The National Institutes of

Health may not conduct or sponsor, and

the respondent is not required to

respond to, an information collection

that has been extended, revised, or

implemented on or after October 1,

1995, unless it displays a currently valid

OMB control number.

PROPOSED COLLECTION: Title: The

Framingham Study. Type of Information

Collection Request: Extension of a

currently approved collection (OMB No.

0925–0216). Need and Use of

Information Collection: This project

involves physical examination and

testing of the surviving members of the

original Framingham Study cohort and

the surviving members of the offspring

cohort. Investigators will contact

doctors, hospitals, and nursing homes to

ascertain participants’ cardiovascular

events occurring outside the study

clinic. Information gathered will be

used to further describe the risk factors,

occurrence rates, and consequences of

cardiovascular disease in middle aged

and older men and women. Frequency

of Response: The cohort participants

respond every two years; the offspring

participants respond every four years.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households; Businesses or other for

profit; Small businesses or

organizations. Type of Respondents:

Middle aged and elderly adults; doctors

and staff of hospitals and nursing

homes. The annual reporting burden is

as follows:

Type of respondents

Estimated

number of

respondents

Estimated

number of

responses

per respondent

Average

burden

hours per

response

Estimated

total annual

burden

hours requested

Original cohort .................................................................................................................. 490 1.0 1.54 641

Offspring cohort ................................................................................................................ 1,400 1.0 4.0 5,600

Event information 1 ........................................................................................................... 1,258 1.0 0.38 472

Total ....................................................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 6,713

1Annual burden is placed on doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and respondent relatives/informants through requests for information which will

help in the compilation of the number and nature of new fatal and nonfatal events occurring outside the Framingham examining clinic.

The cost to the respondents consists

of their time and travel; time is

estimated using a rate of $10.00 per

hour and travel is estimated using a cost

of $0.35 per mile. The annualized cost

to original and offspring cohort

respondents is estimated at: $56,640.

The annualized cost for event

information is $23,173. The Capital

Costs are $229,000. The Operating and

Maintenance Costs are $2,692,000.

REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Written

comments and/or suggestions from the

public and affected agencies are invited

on one or more of the following points:

(1) 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;

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s

estimate of the burden of the proposed

collection of information, including the

validity of the methodology and

assumptions used; (3) Ways to enhance

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected; and (4)

Ways to minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including the use of

appropriate automated, electronic,

mechanical, or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

DIRECT COMMENTS TO OMB: Written

comments and/or suggestions regarding

the item(s) contained in this notice,

especially regarding the estimated

public burden and associated response

time, should be directed to the: Office

of Management and Budget, Office of

Regulatory Affairs, New Executive

Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk

Officer for NIH. To request more

information on the proposed project or

to obtain a copy of the data collection

plans and instruments, contact: Ms.

Suzanne Anthony, Project Clearance

Liaison, National Heart, Lung, and

Blood Institute, NIH, Building 31, Room

5A–10, MSC 2490, 31 Center Dr.,

Bethesda, MD 20892–2490 or call nontoll free number (301) 496–9737, or Email your request, including your

address, to: AnthonyS@nih.gov.

COMMENTS DUE DATE: Comments

regarding this information collect are

best assured of having their full effect if

received by April 24, 1997.