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1The Used Car Market Report 2001 (‘‘Manheim

Market Report’’), p. 24, published by Manheim

Auctions, 1400 Lake Hearn Drive NE, Atlanta,

Georgia 30319, citing NADA, CNW Marketing

Research. Prior issues of The Used Car Market

Report were published by ADT Automotive. The

Manheim Market Report reports the number of

dealerships in 2000 as 77,750 online at: http://

www.manheimauctions:com/HTML/ucmr/

dealership1.htm1#. For rounding purposes, staff

retains its prior estimate of 80,000.

2Manheim Market Report, p. 15. The Manheim

Market Report estimates the number of used cars

sold by dealers in 2000 as 29,800,000. For rounding

purposes, staff retains its prior estimate of

30,000,000.

3A relatively small number of dealers opt to

contract with outside companies to perform the

various tasks associated with complying with the

Rule. Staff assumes that outside contractors would

require about the same amount of time and incur

similar cost as dealers to perform these tasks.

Accordingly, the hour and cost burden totals

shown, while referring to ‘‘dealers,’’ incorporate the

time and cost borne by outside companies in

performing the tasks associated with the Rule.

4See notes 1 and 2.

The Used Car Rule facilitates

informed purchasing decisions by

consumers by requiring used car dealers

to disclose information about warranty

coverage, if any, and the mechanical

condition of used cars they offer for

sale. The Rule requires that used car

dealers display a Buyers Guide that,

among other things, discloses

information about warranty coverage on

each used care offered for sale.

Burden Statement

Estimated total annual hours burden:

1,925,000 hours.

The Rule has no recordkeeping

requirements. The estimated burden

relating solely to disclosure is 1,925,000

hours. This estimate is based on the

number of used car dealers

(approximately 80,000 1), the number of

used cars sold by dealers annually

(approximately 30,000,000 2), and the

time needed to fulfill the information

collection tasks required by the Rule.3

Staff retains its prior annual burden

estimate as the changes in the

approximate number of dealers and

used cars they sold are marginal.4

The Rule requires that used car

dealers display a one-page, double-sided

Buyers Guide in the window of each

used car they offer for sale. The

component tasks associated with this

requirement include: (1) Ordering and

stocking Buyers Guide forms; (2)

entering applicable data on Buyers

Guides; (3) posting the Buyers Guides

on vehicles; and (4) making any

necessary revisions in Buyers Guides.

Dealers should need no more than an

average of one hour per year to obtain

Buyers Guide forms, which are readily

available form many commercial

printers or can be produced by an office

word-processing or desk-top publishing

system. Based on a universe of 80,000

dealers, the annual hours burden for

producing or obtaining and stocking

Buyers Guides is 80,000 hours.

For used cars sold ‘‘as is,’’ copying

vehicle-specific data from dealer

inventories to the Buyers Guide forms

and checking off the ‘‘no warranty’’ box

may take up to two minutes per vehicle

if done by hand, and only seconds for

those dealers who have automated the

process. Staff conservatively assumes

that this task, on average, will require

1.5 minutes. For used cars sold under

warranty, checking off the warranty box

and adding warranty information may

take an additional one minute, i.e., 2.5

minutes. Based on input from industry

sources, staff estimates that

approximately 60% of used cars sold by

dealers are sold ‘‘as is,’’ with the

remainder sold under warranty. Thus,

staff estimates the time required to enter

data for used cars sold without warranty

is 450,000 hours (30,000,000 X 60% X

1.5 minutes ÷ 60 minutes/hour) and

500,000 hours for used cars sold under

warranty (30,000,000 X 40% X 2.5

minutes ÷ 60 minutes/hour), for an

overall total of 950,000 hours.

Although the time required to post the

Buyers Guides on each used car may

vary substantially, FTC staff estimates

that, on average, dealers will spend 1.75

minutes per vehicle to match the correct

Buyers Guide to the vehicle and place

it in or on the vehicle. For the

30,000,000 vehicles sold, the burden

associated with this task is 875,000

hours. To the extent dealers are able to

integrate this process into other

activities performed in their ordinary

course of business, this estimate likely

overstates the actual burden.

If negotiations between buyer and

seller over warranty coverage produce a

sale on terms other than those originally

entered on the Buyers Guide, the dealer

must revise the Guide to reflect the

actual terms of sale. According to the

rulemaking record, bargaining over

warranty coverage rarely occurs.

Allowing for revision in 2% of sales, at

two minutes per revision, staff estimates

that dealers will spend 20,000 hours

annually revising Buyers Guides.

Estimated annual cost burden:

$28,250,000, consisting of $19,250,000

in labor costs and $9,000,000 in nonlabor costs.

Labor costs: Labor costs are derived

by applying appropriate hourly cost

figures to the burden hours described

above. Staff has determined that all of

the tasks associated with ordering

forms, entering data on Buyers Guides,

posting Buyers Guides on vehicles, and

revising them as needed are typically

done by clerical or low-level

administrative personnel. Using a

clerical cost rate of $10 per hour and an

estimate of 1,925,000 burden hours for

disclosure requirements, the total labor

cost burden would be approximately

$19,250,000.

Capital or other non-labor costs: The

cost of the Buyers Guide form itself is

estimated to be 30 cents per form, so

that forms for 30 million vehicles would

cost dealers $9,000,000. In making this

estimate, staff conservatively assumes

that all dealers will purchase preprinted

forms instead of producing them

internally, although dealers may

produce them at minimal expense using

current office automation technology.

Capital and start-up costs associated

with the Rule are minimal.

John D. Graubert,

Acting General Counsel.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collections;

Comment Request

The Department of Health and Human

Services, Office of the Secretary will

periodically publish summaries of

proposed information collections

projects and solicit public comments in

compliance with the requirements of

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

Reduction Act of 1995. To request more

information on the project or to obtain

a copy of the information collection

plans and instruments, call the OS

Reports Clearance Officer on (202) 690–

6207.

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 Projects 1. National Centers

of Excellence in Women’s Health;

supplemental Community Survey—

NEW—The Office on Women’s Health

(OWH) is currently conducting a study

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of patient satisfaction and service

utilization to assess the National Centers

of Excellence in Women’s Health

program. This proposed collection of

information would survey women in

three communities with a Center of

Excellence in Women’s Health (CoE), to

compare the data with CoE patient data

and national benchmark data. The

information will be used to inform the

analysis conducted for the CoE study.

Respondents: Individuals; Number of

Respondents: 600; Frequency of

Response: one time; Burden per

Response: 15 minutes; Total Burden:

150 hours.

Send comments to Cynthia Agens

Bauer, OS Reports Clearance Officer,

Room 503H, Humphrey Building, 200

Independence Avenue SW.,

Washington, DC 20201. Written

comments should be received within 60

days of this notice.

Dated: May 9, 2001.

Kerry Weems,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Budget.

[FR Doc. 01–12776 Filed 5–21–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services

Administration

National Vaccine Injury Compensation

Program: Addition of Pneumococcal

Conjugate Vaccines to the Vaccine

Injury Table

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services

Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Through this notice, the

Secretary announces that pneumococcal

conjugate vaccines are now covered

vaccines under the National Vaccine

Injury Compensation Program (VICP),

which provides a system of no-fault

compensation for certain individuals

who have been injured by covered

childhood vaccines. This notice serves

to include pneumococcal conjugate

vaccines under Category XIII (new

vaccines) of the Vaccine Injury Table

(Table), which lists the vaccines covered

under the VICP. This notice ensures that

petitioners may file petitions relating to

pneumococcal conjugate vaccines with

the VICP even before such vaccines are

added as a separate and distinct

category to the Table through

rulemaking.

DATES: This Notice is effective on May

22, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Geoffrey Evans, Medical Director,

Division of Vaccine Injury

Compensation, BHPr, HRSA, Parklawn

Building, Room 8A–46, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857;

telephone number (301) 443–4198.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

statute authorizing the VICP provides

for the inclusion of additional vaccines

in the VICP when they are

recommended by the CDC to the

Secretary for routine administration to

children. (See section 2114(e)(2) of the

Public Health Service (PHS) Act, 42

U.S.C. 300aa–14(e)(2).) Consistent with

section 13632(a)(3) of Pub. L. 103–66,

the regulations governing the VICP

provide that such vaccines will be

included in the Table as of the effective

date of an excise tax to provide funds

for the payment of compensation with

respect to such vaccines. (42 CFR

100.3(c)(4)).

The two prerequisites for adding

pneumococcal conjugate vaccines to the

VICP as covered vaccines as well as to

the Table have been satisfied. First, on

December 17, 1999, the excise tax for

pneumococcal conjugate vaccines was

enacted by Pub. L. 106–170, the Ticket

to Work and Work Incentives

Improvement Act of 1999, with an

effective date of December 18, 1999.

Section 523 of this Act provides that all

conjugate vaccines against streptococcus

pneumoniae (pneumococcus) are added

to section 4132(a)(1) of the Internal

Revenue Code of 1986, which defines

all taxable vaccines. Second, the CDC

published its recommendation that

pneumococcal conjugate vaccines be

routinely administered to children up to

23 months of age in the October 6, 2000,

issue of the Morbidity and Mortality

Weekly Report.

Under the regulations governing the

VICP, Item XIII of the Table specifies

that ‘‘[a]ny new vaccine recommended

by the [CDC] for routine administration

to children, after publication by the

Secretary of a notice of coverage’’ is a

covered vaccine under the Table. (42

CFR 100.3(a), Item XIII.) As explained

above, CDC’s recommendation has been

made. This Notice serves to satisfy the

regulation’s publication requirement.

Through this notice, pneumococcal

conjugate vaccines are now included as

covered vaccines under Category XIII of

the Table. Because the CDC only

recommended pneumococcal conjugate

vaccines to the Secretary for routine

administration to children,

polysaccharide-type pneumococcal

vaccines are not covered under the VICP

or included on the Table.

Under section 2114(e) of the PHS Act,

as amended by section 13632(a) of the

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of

1993, a revision to the Table adding a

vaccine recommended by the CDC for

routine administration to children shall

take effect upon the effective date of the

tax enacted to provide funds for

compensation with respect to the

vaccine added to the Table. Thus,

pneumococcal conjugate vaccines are

included in the Table under Category

XIII with an effective date of December

18, 1999. Petitioners may file petitions

related to pneumococcal conjugate

vaccines as of May 22, 2001.

The Secretary plans to amend the

Table through the rulemaking process

by including pneumococcal conjugate

vaccines as a separate category of

vaccines in the Table. December 18,

1999, will remain the applicable

effective date when the Secretary makes

a corresponding amendment to add

pneumococcal conjugate vaccines as a

separate category on the Table through

rulemaking.

Dated: May 15, 2001.

Elizabeth James Duke,

Acting Administrator.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[30 DAY–31–01]

Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork

Reduction Act Review

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of

information collection requests under

review by the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

chapter 35). To request a copy of these

requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance

Officer at (404) 639–7090. Send written

comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human

Resources and Housing Branch, New

Executive Office Building, Room 10235;

Washington, DC 20503. Written

comments should be received within 30

days of this notice.

Proposed Project

Alaska Air Carrier Operator and Pilot

Survey—NEW—National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC). The mission of

the National Institute for Occupational

Safety and Health is to promote safety

and health at work for all people

through research and prevention.

There is evidence that a

disproportionate number of all U.S.