[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 169 (Tuesday, September 2, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46364-46365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23183]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30DAY-20-97]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    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 Office on (404) 639-7090. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Projects

    1. National Inventory of Clinical Laboratory Testing Services 
(NICLTS)--New--This is a new data collection. CDC proposes to gather 
data through the use of a mail/telephone-assisted survey of a 
statistical sample of waived and provider performance microscopy (PPM) 
certified laboratories. The use of a mail/telephone survey instrument 
will be cost-effective approach for performing the inventory of 
clinical laboratory testing services by analytes, test systems, 
specimen types and test volume in laboratories with limited menus such 
as waived and PPM facilities.
    The data collected in this study will provide the government, 
policy makers, practitioners and researchers with national estimates of 
analytes, test systems, and test volumes being performed in each of the 
ten defined regions in the United States in waived and PPM 
laboratories.
    This baseline survey will be analyzed and used by CDC in: (1) 
Responding to questions concerning the impact of both regulatory and 
non-regulatory changes in the delivery of clinical laboratory medicine 
to Congress, DHHS, and the public; (2) allowing the government to track 
changes in public access to clinical laboratory testing and to

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determine what and where tests are available; (3) predicting the impact 
of proposed regulatory changes on laboratory services, the government 
can respond to requests for information from a position of more 
complete knowledge and understanding than the partial information 
currently available; and (4) monitoring the changes in laboratory 
testing as our health care delivery systems moves toward managed care. 
The total annual burden hours are 1,228.

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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden/
                           Respondents                               Number of      responses/     response (in 
                                                                    respondents     respondent         hrs.)    
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Contact questionnaire...........................................           1,178               1            0.25
Mail survey.....................................................           1.178               1            0.50
Telephone follow-up.............................................           1,178               1            0.25
On-site QC......................................................             100               1            0.50
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    Dated: August 25, 1997.
Wilma G. Johnson,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-23183 Filed 8-29-97; 8:45 am]
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