[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 166 (Thursday, August 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 45831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23033]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Announcement of OMB Approval for Reporting and Disclosure 
Requirements in the Final Rule With Comment Period for Organ 
Procurement and Transplantation Network

    A Final Rule with Comment Period for the Organ Procurement and 
Transplantation Network was published in the Federal Register on April 
2, 1998, under Part II (63 FR 16298). The purpose of this rule is to 
improve the effectiveness and equity of the Nation's transplantation 
system and to further the purposes of the National Organ Transplant Act 
of 1984, as amended.
    The Rule contained information collection requirements which were 
subject to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review. OMB approval 
of the collection of information provides the agency the authority to 
collect the information and to impose the estimated burden. This notice 
serves as an announcement to the public that the following information 
collection requirements for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation 
Network (42 CFR Part 121) have been approved:

121.3(c)(2) Membership and application requirements
121.6(c) (Reporting) Criteria for organ acceptance
121.6(c) (Disclosure) Sending criteria to OPOs
121.7(b)(4) Reasons for refusal
121.7(e) Transplant to prevent organ wastage
121.9(b) Designated Transplant Program Requirements.

    The OMB control number for this information collection is 0915-
0184. The approval expires on May 31, 2001.
    For further information contact the Reports Clearance Officer, 
Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., Health Resources and Services Administration, 
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Legislation, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 
14-36, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Her telephone number is (301) 443-
1129.
    As stated in the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and provided in 5 
CFR 1320.11(k), an agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of 
information unless the collection of information displays a currently 
valid OMB control number and the agency informs potential persons who 
are to respond to the collection of information that such persons are 
not required to respond to the collection of information unless it 
displays a currently valid OMB control number.

    Dated: August 20, 1998.
Claude Earl Fox,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 98-23033 Filed 8-26-98; 8:45 am]
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