Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 120 / Thursday, June 23, 2022 / Notices 37557 

Dated: June 17, 2022. 

Bradley T. Smith, 

Deputy Director, Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13432 Filed 6–22–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request for Notice of Medical 

Necessity Criteria Under the Mental 

Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act 

of 2008 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

Currently, the IRS is soliciting 

comments concerning Notice of Medical 

Necessity Criteria under the Mental 

Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act 

of 2008. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before August 22, 2022 

to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Andres Garcia, Internal Revenue 

Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224, or 

by email to pra.comments@irs.gov. 

Please include OMB Number 1545–2165 

in the subject line of the message. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of this collection should be 

directed to Sara Covington, at (202) 

317–5744, at Internal Revenue Service, 

Room 6526, 1111 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20224, or through 

the internet sara.l.covington@irs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Notice of Medical Necessity 

Criteria under the Mental Health Parity 

and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. 

OMB Number: 1545–2165. 

Abstract: This document contains 

previously approved final rules 

implementing the Paul Wellstone and 

Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and 

Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 

2008, which requires parity between 

mental health or substance use disorder 

benefits and medical/surgical benefits 

with respect to financial requirements 

and treatment limitations under group 

health plans and group and individual 

health insurance coverage. 

Current Actions: The Consolidated 

Appropriation Act (the Act) amended 

MHPAEA, in part, by expressly 

requiring group health plans to perform 

and document a comparative analysis of 

the design and application of any nonquantitative treatment limitations 

(NQTLs) that apply to medical/surgical 

and mental health and substance use 

disorder benefits. The increase in hour 

burden is associated with the ICRs 

related to the comparative analysis that 

is required to meet the MHPAEA related 

requirements. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations, individuals or 

households, and not for profit 

institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,413,420. 

Estimated Time per Response: 2.1557. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 3,046,961. 

The following paragraph applies to all 

the collections of information covered 

by this notice: 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a valid OMB control number. 

Books or records relating to a collection 

of information must be retained if their 

contents may become material in the 

administration of any internal revenue 

law. Generally, tax returns and tax 

return information are confidential, as 

required by 26 U.S.C. 6103. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the 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 collection of 

information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (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; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. 

Approved: June 17, 2022. 

Andres Garcia Leon, 

Supervisory Tax Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13431 Filed 6–22–22; 8:45 am] 

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