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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service

 

Agency Forms Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for 
Clearance

    Each Friday the Public Health Service (PHS) publishes a list of 
information collection requests it has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance in compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The following requests 
have been submitted to OMB since the list was last published on 
Thursday, November 10, 1994.
    (Call PHS Reports Clearance Officer on 202-690-7100 for copies of 
request).
    1. Survey of 1994 Hospital Development Activities of Organ 
Procurement Organizations--New--Organ procurement organizations (OPOs) 
vary widely in their rates of organ donors per million population and 
other measures of performance. Targeted hospital development activities 
may improve OPO performance. This survey of all OPOs will enable the 
Division of Organ Transplantation to assess the influence of specific 
hospital development activities on OPO performance. Respondents: Non-
profit institutions, Small businesses or organizations, Number of 
Respondents: 66; Number of Responses per Respondent: 1; Average Burden 
per Response: 1 hour; Estimated Annual Burden: 66 hours.
    2. Evaluation of the Comprehensive Mental Health Services Program 
for Children--New--The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services 
Program for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances supports the 
development of more accessible and appropriate services for children 
and adolescents with serious emotional, behavioral or mental disorders 
in 19 sites. The evaluation will be conducted for a five-year period in 
all sites and will collect process and outcome data, using MIS data, 
standardized assessment instruments and qualitative data. Respondents: 
Individuals or households, State or local governments, Businesses or 
other for-profit, Non-profit institutions, Small businesses or 
organizations. Number of Respondents: 17,720; Number of Responses per 
Respondent: 4.66; Average Burden per Response: 0.156 hour; Estimated 
Annual Burden: 12,864 hours.
    3. Abbreviated New Drug Application Regulations; Patent and 
Exclusivity Provisions, Final Rule--New--These regulations provide 
instructions on how to file patent information, request market 
exclusivity, and describe the Food and Drug Administration's guidelines 
regarding patents and exclusivity. Respondents: Businesses or other 
for-profit, Small businesses or organizations.

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                                                                Average 
                                                     No. of      burden 
                Title                    No. of     responses     per   
                                      respondents      per      response
                                                   respondent   (hours) 
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Reporting:                                                              
  314.50(i).........................           8            1          2
  314.50(j).........................          50            1          2
  314.52............................          30            1          8
  314.53............................         200            1          1
  314.54............................          10            1          1
  314.70............................          43            1          1
  314.94(a)(12).....................         215            1          2
  314.95............................          30            1         16
  314.107...........................          10            1          1
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Estimated total annual burden: 1,529 hours.                             

    4. Evaluation of the Community-Based Mosquito Control Programs for 
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) Prevention and Control at the San Juan 
Laboratories, Puerto Rico--New--The information generated from this 
evaluation project will be used to improve the DHF prevention program 
in Puerto Rico, and programs modeled after the Centers for Disease 
Control (CDC) program in other countries in the Americas. The lessons 
learned from this evaluation would be of great use for similar 
situations, regarding dengue in other countries, or situations 
involving the emergence of other new diseases, or diseases that are 
changing in epidemiologic pattern. Respondents: Individuals or 
households; Respondents: 1,500; Number of Responses per Respondent: 1; 
Average Burden per Response: .68 hour; Estimated Annual Burden: 1,022 
hours.
    5. OMAR Quick Launch Physician Practice Survey--0925-0367 
(Extension, no change)--The Office of Medical Applications of Research 
(OMAR) will conduct surveys of physicians to evaluate changes in their 
practice behavior related to biomedical technologies that are assessed 
in Consensus Development Conferences (CDC). For each CDC, identical 
surveys will be conducted at three times: one year before, just before, 
and one-year following a CDC. Respondents: Individuals or households, 
Businesses or other for-profit, Small businesses or organizations. 
Total Annual Burden: 1 hour.*

    *Note: This is a concept approval, only. Under terms of the 
current approval, questionnaires for each CDC survey must be 
submitted to OMB for approval. OMB has agreed to give those 
submissions an expedited 30-day review.

    6. Evaluation of Tuberculosis Outreach Worker Activities--New--This 
survey is a necessary step prior to developing a plan to evaluate the 
outreach activities of State and local tuberculosis control programs. 
The purpose of this project is to describe the outreach activities and 
outreach workers. This will be accomplished by conducting a mail survey 
of State and local tuberculosis control programs. Respondents: State or 
local governments; Number of Respondents: 64; Number of Responses per 
Respondent: 1; Average Burden per Response: 2.65 hours; Estimated 
Annual Burden: 170 hours.
    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collections should be sent within 30 days of this notice 
directly to the OMB Desk Officer designated below at the following 
address: Shannah Koss, Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: November 11, 1994.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of Health Planning and 
Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 94-29184 Filed 11-23-94; 8:45 am]
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