Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 36 / Friday, February 22, 2008 / Notices 9807 

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Terry Nicolosi, 

Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction 

Act Reports Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Clinical Laboratory Improvement 

Advisory Committee (CLIAC) 

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC) 

announces the following meeting for the 

aforementioned committee: 

Times and Dates: 

8 a.m.–5 p.m., February 20, 2008. 

8 a.m.–3:30 p.m., February 21, 2008. 

Place: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., 

Tom Harkin Global Communications 

Center, Building 19, Room 232, 

Auditorium B, Atlanta, Georgia 30333. 

Status: Open to the public, limited 

only by the space available. The meeting 

room accommodates approximately 100 

people. 

Purpose: This Committee is charged 

with providing scientific and technical 

advice and guidance to the Secretary of 

Health and Human Services, the 

Assistant Secretary for Health, and the 

Director, CDC, regarding the need for, 

and the nature of, revisions to the 

standards under which clinical 

laboratories are regulated; the impact on 

medical and laboratory practice of 

proposed revisions to the standards; and 

the modification of the standards to 

accommodate technological advances. 

Matters To Be Discussed: The agenda 

will include updates from the CDC, the 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services, and the Food and Drug 

Administration; and presentations and 

discussion addressing ‘‘20 Years of 

CLIA: Needs for Quality Then vs. Now;’’

evidence gathered since CLIA 

implementation demonstrating the 

impact of standards/accreditation on 

laboratory quality; perspectives on 

Quality Management System 

implementation; and laboratory 

biosafety. Agenda items are subject to 

change as priorities dictate. 

Due to administrative issues that had 

to be resolved, the Federal Register 

notice is being published less than 

fifteen days before the date of the 

meeting. 

Contact Person for More Information: 

Nancy Anderson, Chief, Laboratory 

Practice Standards Branch, Division of 

Laboratory Systems, National Center for 

Preparedness, Detection, and Control of 

Infectious Diseases, Coordinating Center 

for Infectious Diseases, CDC, 1600 

Clifton Road, NE., Mailstop F–11, 

Atlanta, Georgia 30333; telephone (404) 

718–1025; fax (404) 718–1085; or via email at Nancy.Anderson@cdc.hhs.gov. 

The Director, Management Analysis 

and Services Office, has been delegated 

the authority to sign Federal Register 

notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities, for both CDC 

and the Agency for Toxic Substances 

and Disease Registry. 

Dated: February 19, 2008. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Director, Management Analysis and Services 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

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Medicare Program; Extension of 

Certain Hospital Wage Index 

Reclassifications 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS) HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

extension of the expiration date for 

certain wage index geographic 

reclassifications and special exceptions 

as implemented by section 117 of the 

Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP 

Extension Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110–

173). Certain geographic 

reclassifications and special exception 

hospitals’ wage indices that were set to 

expire on September 30, 2007 are now 

extended through September 30, 2008. 

In addition, for hospital reclassifications 

extended by Division B, Title I, section 

106(a) of the Tax Relief and Health Care 

Act of 2006, Pub. L. 109–432, that 

resulted in a lower wage index for the 

second half of FY 2007, we will apply 

the higher wage index that was 

applicable to such hospitals during the 

first half of FY 2007, for the entire fiscal 

year. 

DATES: Effective date: This notice is 

effective on February 22, 2008. 

Applicability date: This notice is 

applicable to the hospitals identified in 

section II.A. of this notice on October 1, 

2007 and to the hospitals identified in 

section II.B. of this notice on April 1, 

2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Slater, (410) 786–5229. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 508 of the Medicare 

Prescription Drug, Improvement and 

Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) (Pub. 

L. 108–173) permitted a qualifying 

hospital to appeal the wage index 

classification otherwise applicable to 

the hospital and apply for 

reclassification to another area of the 

State in which the hospital was located 

(or, at the discretion of the Secretary, to 

an area within a contiguous State). 

Hospitals were required to submit their 

applications by February 15, 2004. In 

the February 13, 2004 Federal Register 

(69 FR 7340), we published a notice that 

described our implementation of section 

508 of MMA. The Congress limited the 

reclassifications under section 508 of 

MMA to a 3-year period beginning April 

1, 2004 and ending March 31, 2007. 

Section 106(a) of the Medicare 

Improvements and Extension Act, 

Division B of the Tax Relief and Health 

Care Act of 2006 (MIEA–TRHCA) (Pub. 

L. 109–432) extended any geographic 

reclassification that was set to expire on 

March 31, 2007 by 6 months until 

September 30, 2007. In the March 23, 

2007 Federal Register (72 FR 13799), we 

published a notice explaining how we 

would implement section 106 of MIEA–

TRHCA. We also explained that for a 

subset of hospitals whose 

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