[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 161 (Thursday, August 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44629-44630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22356]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-8003 and HCFA-R-185]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration, HHS.
    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Care Financing 
Administration (HCFA), Department of Health and Human Services, is 
publishing the following summary of proposed collections for public 
comment. Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding this 
burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, 
including any of the following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility 
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of 
the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology to minimize the information 
collection burden.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of a currently 
approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Home and 
Community-Based Services Waiver Requests and Supporting Regulations in 
42 CFR 440.180-.185, and 441.301-441.310; Form No.: HCFA-8003 (OMB# 
0938-0449); Use: Under a Secretarial waiver, States may offer a wide 
array of home and community-based services to individuals who would 
otherwise require institutionalization. States requesting a waiver must 
provide certain assurances, documentation and cost & utilization 
estimates which are reviewed, approved and maintained for the purpose 
of identifying/verifying States' compliance with such statutory and 
regulatory requirements. The purpose of this request is to provide 
authority for the State to furnish such individuals with services in 
the home and community-based setting; Frequency: When a State requests 
a waiver or amendment to a waiver; Affected Public: State, Local or 
Tribal Government; Number of Respondents: 50; Total Annual Responses: 
140; Total Annual Hours: 8,220.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently 
approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Granting and 
Withdrawal of Deeming Authority to Private Nonprofit Accreditation 
Organizations and of CLIA Exemption Under State Laboratory Programs and 
Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR 493.501, 493.506, 493.513, and 
493.515; Form No.: HCFA-R-185 (OMB# 0938-0686); Use: The information 
required is necessary to determine whether a private accreditation 
organization/State licensure program standards and accreditation/
licensure process is equal to or more stringent than those of CLIA. 
This information also provides a CLIA exemption of laboratories in a 
State that applies licensure requirements that are equal to or more 
stringent than those of CLIA; Frequency: Initial Application/as needed; 
Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions, and State, Local, or 
Tribal Government; Number of Respondents: 22; Total Annual Responses: 
11; Total Annual Hours: 2,112.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the

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proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access HCFA's Web Site 
address at http://www.hcfa.gov/regs/prdact95.htm, or E-mail your 
request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, and HCFA 
document identifier, to P[email protected], or call the Reports 
Clearance Office on (410) 786-1326. Written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collections must be mailed 
within 60 days of this notice directly to the HCFA Paperwork Clearance 
Officer designated at the following address: HCFA, Office of 
Information Services, Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA 
Enterprise Standards, Attention: Louis Blank, Room N2-14-26, 7500 
Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Dated: August 12, 1998.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA Office of Information Services, 
Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 98-22356 Filed 8-19-98; 8:45 am]
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