[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5561-5562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3152]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration on Aging


Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to the Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) for Clearance

AGENCY: Administration on Aging.
    The Administration on Aging (AoA), Department of Health and Human 
Services, has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
the following proposal for the collection of information in compliance 
with the Paperwork Reduction Act (Pub. L. 96-511):
    Title of Information Collection: State Performance Report: 
Reporting Requirements for Titles III and VII of the Older Americans 
Act;
    Type of Request: Extension and Revision;
    Use: To revise an existing information collection form to conform 
to amendments to the Older Americans Act which directed the 
Administration on Aging to improve State reporting requirements;
    Frequency: Annually;
    Respondents: State Agencies on Aging;
    Estimated Number of Responses: 57;
    Total Estimated Burden Hours: 294,000.
    Additional Information or Comments: The Administration on Aging 
intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget for approval a 
new reporting system for the State programs under the Older Americans 
Act. AoA printed a similar set of reporting specifications in the 
Federal Register on September 29, 1994 requesting a three-year phase-in 
of the reporting requirements starting in FY 1995. OMB permitted the 
implementation of the FY 1995 reporting requirements, but withheld 
approval of the FY 1996 and FY 1997 components of the reporting 
specifications, pending a field test of 

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some of the proposed information collection requirements. The field 
test has been completed with favorable results and a report on the 
field test will be provided with the proposed reporting specifications 
upon request.
    Call the Administration on Aging, Office of State and Community 
Programs at (202) 619-0011 for copies of the proposed reporting 
requirements and a report on the field test. Written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collection requirements 
should be sent within 60 days of the publication of this notice 
directly to the following address: Edwin L. Walker, Director, Office of 
Program Operations and Development, Administration on Aging, 330 
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201.

    Dated: February 7, 1996.
William F. Benson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs and Elder Rights.
[FR Doc. 96-3152 Filed 2-12-96; 8:45 am]
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