67536 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 250 / Monday, December 31, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services

Administration

Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical

Education (CHGME) Payment Program

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services

Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of Children’s Hospitals

Graduate Medical Education (CHGME)

Payment Program conference calls.

SUMMARY: This document announces

scheduled CHGME Payment Program

conference calls for calendar year 2002.

The purpose for these conference calls

is to provide technical assistance related

to the CHGME Payment Program.

DATES: The conference calls will be held

on Friday, January 25, 2002, from 1:30

p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST; Friday, April 26,

2002, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST;

and Friday, October 25, 2002, from 1:30

p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ayah E. Johnson, Ph.D., telephone: (301)

443–1058; Division of Medicine and

Dentistry, Bureau of Health Professions,

Room 9A–27, ParklawnBuilding, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland

20857; or by e-mail at:

ajohnson@hrsa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

CHGME Payment Program, as

authorized by section 340E of the Public

Health Service (PHS) Act (the Act) (42

U.S.C. 256e), provides funds to

children’s hospitals to address disparity

in the level of Federal funding for

children’s hospitals (as opposed to other

teaching hospitals) that result from

Medicare funding for graduate medical

education (GME). Pub. L. 106–310

amended the CHGME statute to

continue the program until Federal

fiscal year (FY) 2005.

The statute authorized $280 million

for both direct and indirect medical

education payments in FY 2000, $285

million in FFY 2001, and for each of the

FFY 2002 through FFY 2005 such sums

as necessary. In FFY 2000, Congress

appropriated $40 million for the

program and $235 million in FY 2001.

These funds have supported over 4,000

residents receiving training in children’s

teaching hospitals in 31 States.

The agenda for the conference calls

will include but not be limited to: (1)

Welcome and opening comments; (2)

news releases/updates; (3) reminders;

and (4) ‘‘on the horizon’’ topics of

interest. Time will also be available for

a question and answer period. Agenda

items will be determined as priorities

dictate. Participating children’s

hospitals will be queried for relevant

agenda issues/topics. Individuals are

expected to register for participation in

the conference call(s). Information about

the Children’s Hospitals Graduate

Medical Education Payment Program

can be found on the CHGME Web site

(bhpr.hrsa.gov/childrenshospitalgme).

Prior to a scheduled conference call,

a notification letter with detailed

information for participation in the call

and a registration form will be sent to

representatives of participating

hospitals. Other interested parties may

obtain details for participating in the

conference call by accessing the CHGME

Web site.

Dated: December 21, 2001.

James J. Corrigan,

Associate Administrator for Management and

Program Support.

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BILLING CODE 4165–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, DHHS.

ACTION: Information collection request

for public comment: 30-day notice

proposed collection: Stakeholder

satisfaction with IHS tribal consultation.

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section

3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity

for public comment on proposed

information collection projects, the

Indian Health Service (IHS) has

submitted to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) a request to review

and approve the information collection

listed below. This proposed information

collection project was previously

published in the Federal Register (66

FR 52774) and allowed 60 days for

public comment. No public comment

was received in response to the notice.

The purpose of this notice is to allow 30

days for public comment to be

submitted to OMB.

Proposed Collection

A voluntary survey will be conducted

of elected leaders representing federally

recognized tribes, and any board

member or executive director

authorized to represent a tribal

organization or an urban Indian health

program to assess the level of customer

(stakeholder) satisfaction with the

agency’s tribal consultation process.

Title: Stakeholder Satisfaction with

IHS Tribal Consultation.

Type of Information Collection

Request: New collection.

Form Number(s): None.

Need and Use of Information

Collection: The information gathered

will be used by management and staff to

establish baseline data, to identify

strengths and weaknesses in the current

consultation process, to assess how well

the processes are working, to make

improvements that are practical and

feasible, and to provide feedback to

local tribal officials, health boards, tribal

organizations, urban Indian health

programs, and community members

regarding stakeholder satisfaction with

the agency’s tribal consultation process.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Individuals, not-forprofit institutions and State, local or

Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 605.

Annual Number of Responses per

Respondents: 1.

Total Annual Responses: 605.

Average Burden per response: 20

minutes.

Total Annual Hours Requested: 202.

There are no Capital Costs, Operating

Costs and/or Maintenance Costs to

report for this collection of information.

Request for Comment

Your written comments and/or

suggestions are invited on one or more

of the following points: (a) Whether the

information collection activity is

necessary to carry out an agency

function; (b) whether the IHS processes

the information collection in a useful

and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of

the public burden estimate (the

estimated amount of time needed for

individual respondents to provide the

requested information); (d) whether

methodology and assumptions used to

determine the estimate are logical; (e)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information being

collected; and (f) ways to minimize the

public burden through the use of

automated, electronic, mechanical, or

other technological collection

techniques or other forms of information

technology.

Direct Comments to OMB: Send your

written comments and suggestions

regarding the proposed information

collection contained in this notice,

especially regarding the estimated

public burden and associated response

time, to: Office of Management and

Budget, Office of Regulatory Affairs,

New Executive Office Building, Room

10235, Washington, DC 20503,

Attention: Desk Officer for IHS. To

request more information on the