66836 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 212 / Thursday, November 3, 2005 / Notices 

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Dated: October 28, 2005. 

George Alapas, 

Director, National Center for Environmental 

Assessment 

[FR Doc. 05–21939 Filed 11–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Meeting of the Citizens’ Health Care 

Working Group 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act, this notice announces a meeting of 

the Citizens’ Health Care Working 

Group (the Working Group) mandated 

by section 1014 of the Medicare 

Modernization Act. 

DATES: The Business meeting of the 

Working Group will be held on 

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 from 2:30 

a.m. to 5 p.m. and continue on 

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 from 

8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place 

at the Tremont Park Hotel in Baltimore, 

Maryland. The Tremont Park Hotel is 

located at 8 East Pleasant Street. 

The meeting is open to the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Caroline Taplin, Citizens’ Health Care 

Working Group, at (301) 443–1514 or 

ctaplin@ahrq.gov. If sign language 

interpretation or other reasonable 

accommodation for a disability is 

needed, please contact Mr. Donald L. 

Inniss, Director, Office of Equal 

Employment Opportunity Program, 

Program Support Center, on (301) 443–

1144. 

The agenda for this Working Group 

meeting will be available on the 

Citizens’ Working Group Web site, 

www.citizenshealthcare.gov. Also 

available at that site is a roster of 

Working Group members. When 

transcripts of the Group’s November 

15th–16th meeting is completed, it will 

also be available on the Web site. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

1014 of Public Law 108–173, (known as 

the Medicare Modernization Act) directs 

the Secretary of the Department of 

Health and Human Services (DHHS), 

acting through the Agency for 

Healthcare Research and Quality, to 

establish a Citizens’ Health Care 

Working Group (Citizen Group). This 

statutory provision, codified at 42 

U.S.C. 299 n., directs the Working 

Group to: (1) Identify options for 

changing our health care system so that 

every American has the ability to obtain 

quality, affordable health care coverage; 

(2) provide for a nationwide public 

debate about improving the health care 

system; and (3) submit its 

recommendations to the President and 

the Congress. 

The Citizens’ Health Care Working 

Group is composed of 15 members: the 

Secretary of DHHS is designated as a 

member by statute and the Comptroller 

General of the U.S. Government 

Accountability Office (GAO) was 

directed to name the remaining 14 

members whose appointments were 

announced on February 28, 2005. 

Working Group Meeting Agenda 

The Working Group business meeting 

on November 15th and 16th will be 

devoted to ongoing Working Group 

business. Topics to be addressed are 

expected to include: Working Group 

partners, plans for community meetings 

and other activities to engage the public, 

questions to be asked in public 

engagement activities, and the process 

for developing recommendations. 

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Submission of Written Information 

The Working Group invites written 

submissions on those topics to be 

addressed at the Working Group 

business meeting listed above. In 

general, individuals or organizations 

wishing to provide written information 

for consideration by the Citizens’ Health 

Care Working Group should submit 

information electronically to 

citizenshealth@ahrq.gov. Since all 

electronic submissions will be posted 

on the Working Group Web site, 

separate submissions by topic will 

facilitate review of ideas submitted on 

each topic by the Working Group and 

the public. 

Carolyn M. Clancy, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 05–21863 Filed 11–1–05; 11:42 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–90–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–06–0334] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

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) 639–4766 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

National Survey of Ambulatory 

Surgery—Reinstatement—National 

Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

The National Survey of Ambulatory 

Surgery (NSAS) was previously 

conducted by the CDC National Center 

for Health Statistics from 1994 through 

1996. It is the principal source of data 

on ambulatory surgery center (ASC) 

services in the United States. It 

complements surgery data obtained in 

the NCHS National Hospital Discharge 

Survey (NHDS) (OMB No. 0920–0212), 

which provides annual data concerning 

the nation’s use of inpatient medical 

and surgical care provided in short-stay, 

non-Federal hospitals. The NSAS is a 

national probability sample survey of 

ambulatory surgery visits in hospitals 

and freestanding ambulatory surgery 

centers. It has been the benchmark 

against which special programmatic 

data sources are compared. 

Data for the NSAS will be collected 

annually beginning in 2006 from a 

nationally representative sample of 

hospitals and freestanding ambulatory 

surgery centers. The hospital universe 

includes noninstitutional hospitals 

exclusive of Federal, military, and 

Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals 

located in the 50 States and the District 

of Columbia. The universe of 

freestanding facilities includes the 

freestanding ambulatory surgery centers 

licensed by states and/or certified as 

ambulatory surgery centers for Medicare 

reimbursement. As in the earlier survey, 

facilities specializing in dentistry, 

podiatry, abortion, family planning, or 

birthing will be excluded. As with 

previous years, the data items which 

will be abstracted from medical records 

are the basic core variables from the 

Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set 

(UHDDS) as well as surgery times, total 

charges and information on anesthesia, 

complications from surgery and 

anesthesia. Since the publication of the 

60-day notice in the Federal Register on 

March 10, 2005 (FR 70 No. 46. p. 

11985), changes made to the conduct of 

the NSAS include collecting data from 

fewer medical records and collecting 

more information from each 

participating facility, such as the use of 

electronic medical records, facility 

hours of operation, physician specialty 

and board certification, complications 

from surgery and anesthesia, plans to 

handle unexpected emergencies, and 

post-surgical follow-up. There is no cost 

to respondents other than their time. 

The annualized burden hours are 

11,231. 

ESTIMATES OF ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Data collection forms and type of respondents Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses/ 

respondent 

Averge burden 

response 

(in hrs.) 

Induction ...................................................................................................................................... 227 1 105/60 

Out-of-scope verification .............................................................................................................. 150 1 4/60 

Sample Listing Sheet: 

ASC Personnel ..................................................................................................................... 224 12 30/60 

Census Personnel ................................................................................................................ 264 12 0 

Medical Abstract: 

ASC Personnel ..................................................................................................................... 324 132 12/60 

Census Personnel ................................................................................................................ 164 132 2/60 

Annual Update ............................................................................................................................. 488 1 5/60 

Quality Control ............................................................................................................................. 245 20 2/60