55906 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 184 / Friday, September 23, 2005 / Notices 

Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC), 

which provides advice and 

recommendations to us about clinical 

issues. This notice announces a public 

meeting of the Committee. 

Meeting Topic: The Committee will 

discuss evidence and hear presentations 

and public comments regarding 

therapies and outcome measures for agerelated macular degeneration. 

Background information about this 

topic, including panel materials, is 

available on the Internet at http:// 

www.cms.hhs.gov/coverage/. 

II. Procedure 

This meeting is open to the public. 

The Committee will hear oral 

presentations from the public for 

approximately 45 minutes. The 

Committee can limit the number and 

duration of oral presentations to the 

time available. If you wish to make 

formal presentations, you must notify 

the Executive Secretary named in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section and submit the following by the 

Deadline for Presentations and 

Comments date listed in the DATES

section of this notice: a brief statement 

of the general nature of the evidence or 

arguments you wish to present, the 

names and addresses of proposed 

participants, and a written copy of your 

presentation. Your presentation should 

consider the questions we have posed to 

the Committee and focus on the issues 

specific to the topic. The questions will 

be available on our Web site at http:// 

www.cms.hhs.gov/mcac/default.asp 

meetings. We require that you declare at 

the meeting whether or not you have 

any financial involvement with 

manufacturers of any items or services 

being discussed (or with their 

competitors). 

After the public and CMS 

presentations, the Committee will 

deliberate openly on the topic. 

Interested persons may observe the 

deliberations, but the Committee will 

not hear further comments during this 

time except at the request of the 

chairperson. The Committee will also 

allow a 15 minute unscheduled open 

public session for any attendee to 

address issues specific to the topic. At 

the conclusion of the day, the members 

will vote, and the Committee will make 

its recommendation. 

III. Registration Instructions 

The Coverage and Analysis Group is 

coordinating meeting registration. While 

there is no registration fee, individuals 

must register to attend. You may register 

by contacting Maria Ellis at 410–786–

0309, mailing address: Coverage and 

Analysis Group, OCSQ; Centers for 

Medicare & Medicaid Services; 7500 

Security Blvd, Mailstop: C1–09–06; 

Baltimore, MD 21244, or by e-mail at 

Maria.Ellis@cms.hhs.gov. Please provide 

your name, address, organization, 

telephone and fax number, and e-mail 

address. 

You will receive a registration 

confirmation with instructions for your 

arrival at the CMS complex. You will be 

notified if the seating capacity has been 

reached. 

This meeting is located on Federal 

property; therefore, for security reasons, 

any individuals wishing to attend this 

meeting must register by close of 

business on November 22, 2005. 

IV. Security, Building, and Parking 

Guidelines 

This meeting will be held in a Federal 

government building; therefore, Federal 

security measures are applicable. In 

planning your arrival time, we 

recommend allowing additional time to 

clear security. 

In order to gain access to the building 

and grounds, individuals must present 

photographic identification to the 

Federal Protective Service or Guard 

Service personnel before being allowed 

entrance. 

Security measures also include 

inspection of vehicles, inside and out, at 

the entrance to the grounds. In addition, 

all individuals entering the building 

must pass through a metal detector. All 

items brought to CMS, whether personal 

or for the purpose of demonstration or 

to support a demonstration, are subject 

to inspection. We cannot assume 

responsibility for coordinating the 

receipt, transfer, transport, storage, setup, safety, or timely arrival of any 

personal belongings or items used for 

demonstration or to support a 

demonstration. 

Parking permits and instructions will 

be issued upon arrival. 

Note: Individuals who are not registered in 

advance will not be permitted to enter the 

building and will be unable to attend the 

meeting. The public may not enter the 

building earlier than 30 to 45 minutes prior 

to the convening of the meeting. 

All visitors must be escorted in areas 

other than the lower and first floor 

levels in the Central Building. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 10(a). 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program No. 93.774, Medicare—

Supplementary Medical Insurance Program) 

Dated: July 21, 2005. 

Barry M. Straube, 

Acting Chief Medical Officer and Acting 

Director, Office of Clinical Standards and 

Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services. 

[FR Doc. 05–18924 Filed 9–22–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4120–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: Improper Payments Information 

Survey for the TANF Program. 

OMB No.: New Collection. 

Description: This survey for the 

Temporary Assistance for Needy 

Families (TANF) program will request 

that States voluntarily provide 

information including how they define 

improper payments in their State, the 

process used to identify such payments 

and what actions are taken in the State 

to reduce or eliminate improper 

payments. HHS/ACF intends to 

establish a repository for the State 

submissions, which will be available to 

all States for viewing on an HHS/ACF 

website. This website will provide 

information that will help States 

improve their program integrity systems 

so that improper payments in the TANF 

program can be reduced. 

Respondents: The 50 States of the 

United States, the District of Columbia, 

and the Territories of Guam, Puerto Rico 

and the Virgin Islands 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of respondents 

Number of responses per 

respondent 

Average burden hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Improper Payments Information Survey for the TANF Program ..................... 54 1 24 1,296 

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1From the Department of Health and Human 

Services RFP No.: 233–01–0012. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,296 hours 

Additional Information: 

Copies of the proposed collection may 

be obtained by writing to the 

Administration for Children and 

Families, Office of Administration, 

Office of Information Services, 370 

L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, 

DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance 

Officer. All requests should be 

identified by the title of the information 

collection. E-mail address: 

grjohnson@acf.hhs.gov. 

OMB Comment: 

OMB is required to make a decision 

concerning the collection of information 

between 30 and 60 days after 

publication of this document in the 

Federal Register. Therefore, a comment 

is best assured of having its full effect 

if OMB receives it within 30 days of 

publication. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

directly to the following: Office of 

Management and Budget, Paperwork 

Reduction Project, Attn: Desk Officer for 

ACF, E-mail address: 

Katherine_T._Astrich@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: September 16, 2005. 

Robert Sargis, 

Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–19011 Filed 9–22–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Proposed Projects 

Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL 

Enhanced Services for the Hard-toEmploy Demonstration and Evaluation: 

Rhode Island 15-Month Survey 

Amendment. 

OMB No.: 0970–0276. 

Description: The Enhanced Services 

for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration 

and Evaluation Project (HtE) is the most 

ambitious, comprehensive effort to learn 

what works in this area to date and is 

explicitly designed to build on previous 

and on going research by rigorously 

testing a wide variety of approaches to 

promote employment and improve 

family functioning and child well-being. 

The HtE project will ‘‘conduct a multisite evaluation that studies the 

implementation issues, program design, 

net impact and benefit-costs of selected 

programs’’ 1 designed to help Temporary 

Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 

recipients, former TANF recipients, or 

low-income parents who are hard-toemploy. The project is sponsored by the 

Office of Planning, Research and 

Evaluation (OPRE) of the 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Planning and 

Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), and the U.S. 

Department of labor (DOL). 

The evaluation involves an 

experimental, random assignment 

design in four sites, testing a diverse set 

of strategies to promote employment for 

low-income parents who face serious 

obstacles to employment. The four 

include: (1) Intensive care management 

to facilitate the use of evidence-base 

treatment for major depression among 

parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode 

Island; (2) job-readiness training, 

worksite placements, job coaching, job 

development and other training 

opportunities for recent parolees in New 

York City; (3) pre-employment services 

and transitional employment for longterm TANF participants in Philadelphia; 

and (4) home- and center-based care, 

enhanced with self-sufficiency services, 

for low-income families who have 

young children or are expecting in 

Kansas and Missouri. 

Materials for follow-up surveys for 

each of these sites were previously 

submitted to OMB and were approved 

on April 29, 2005. The purpose of this 

submission is to introduce an addition 

to the OMB-approved follow-up survey 

effort in the Rhode Island site that will 

be used to collect follow-up data on 

children’s development. 

The additional content we propose for 

the follow-up survey effort will be used 

to address two questions: (1) What are 

the effects of a telephonic care 

management intervention for parents’

depression on parents’ parenting and on 

children’s health, behavior, and 

development; and (2) To what extent 

can intervention effects on children’s 

development be attributed to changes in 

maternal depressive symptomatology 

that result from the intervention? 

Two follow-up surveys are included 

in this submission: 

1. A 15-month follow-up parent 

survey that will supplement other 

information already collected from 

parents by addressing questions about 

parenting and children’s well-being. 

2. A 15-month follow-up direct child 

assessment for up to two selected 

children of these parents. For younger 

children, this assessment will consist of 

cognitive and behavioral assessments 

conducted directly with the children; 

older children will be administered a 

survey, in addition to direct 

assessments. 

Respondents: The respondents to 

these follow-up surveys will be lowincome parents and their children from 

the Rhode Island site currently 

participating in the HtE Project. As 

described in the prior OMB submission, 

these parents are Medicaid recipients 

between the ages of 18 and 45 receiving 

Medicaid through the managed care 

provider United Behavioral Health 

(UBH) in Rhode Island who meet study 

criteria with regard to their risk for 

depression. Children are the biological, 

adopted, and step-children of these 

parents, between the ages of 1 and 18 

years of age. 

Prior to this follow-up survey, all 

parents will have completed a more 

detailed baseline survey, which is 

required to establish baseline measures 

of depression and related conditions, in 

addition to providing critical 

demographic data. The baseline survey 

was previously approved by OMB. 

The annual burden estimates are 

detailed below, and the substantive 

content of each survey will be detailed 

in the supporting statement attached to 

the forthcoming 30-day notice. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of respondents 

Number of responses per 

respondent 

Average burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

RI 15-month, parent survey .................................................... 560 1 45 minutes or .75 hrs ............ 420 

RI 15-month, direct child assessment ..................................... 980 1 45 minutes or .75 hrs ............ 735