[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17051-17052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8508]


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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and 
Comment Request

    I. In compliance with Pub. L. 104-13, the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, SSA is providing notice of its information collection packages 
that require submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 
SSA is soliciting comments on the accuracy of the agency's burden 
estimate; the need for the information; its practical utility; ways to 
enhance its quality, utility and clarity; and on ways to minimize 
burden on respondents, including the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.
    The information collections, listed below, will be submitted to OMB 
within 60 days from the date of this notice. Comments and 
recommendations regarding the information collections would be most 
useful if received by the Agency within 60 days from the date of this 
publication. Comments should be directed to the SSA Reports Clearance 
Officer at the address listed at the end of this notice.
    1. Coverage of Employees of State and Local Governments--20 CFR 
Part 404--0960-0425. This current rule contains reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements in 20 CFR Part 404 (see table below). The 
regulation sections cited require State and/or interstate 
instrumentalities to provide certain information to SSA that is needed 
to extend Social Security coverage to public sector workers for pre-
1987 tax years, and to maintain accurate records of social security 
agreements. SSA would not be able to provide coverage to these workers 
and would be in violation of the statute requiring coverage if the 
information was not collected.
    This rule applies to 52 state agencies who could submit 
modifications to their Social Security coverage agreements and 3 
interstate instrumentalities who could submit agreements for coverage, 
and one annual response for each. In actuality, SSA may receive any 
number of reports from a few States and no reports from the remainder. 
From past experience, SSA anticipates that no error modifications will 
be filed for tax years prior to 1987, nor wage reports and 
contributions payments for an error situation where wages have never 
been reported for those years. In addition, the reporting requirements 
in sections 404.1242, .1251 and .1271(a)& (c) no longer exist so we are 
showing no public reporting burden for these sections. SSA plans to 
publish a Notice

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of Proposed Rulemaking to eliminate the obsolete reporting requirements 
from these sections. For the remaining sections, SSA is basing the 
public burden estimates on the total number of respondents that could 
potentially report to us, although we anticipate the actual number will 
be less.

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                                          Number of     Frequency of                              Annual  burden
               Section                     States         response         Individual  burden        (in hours)
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404.1203(a)..........................              52               1  1 hour...................              52
404.1204(a) & (b)....................              52               1  30 minutes...............              26
404.1214(d)..........................           \1\ 3               1  1 hour...................               3
404.1215.............................              52               1  1 hour...................              52
404.1216(a) & (b)....................              52               1  1 hour...................              52
404.1220(b) & (c)....................              52               1  5 minutes................               4
404.1225(a) & (b)....................              52               1  1 hour...................              52
404.1237(a), (b) & (c); .1239;                     52               1  1 hour...................              52
 .1243(a), (b), (c).
404.1242.............................               0               0  0........................               0
404.1247.............................              52               1  1 hour...................              52
404.1249(a), (b) &(c)................              52              52  1 hour...................              52
404.1251.............................               0               0  0........................               0
404.1265.............................               3               1  1 hour...................               3
404.1271(a) & (c)....................               0               0  hour.....................               0
404.1271(b)..........................               2               2  4 hours..................              16
404.1272.............................               3               1  1........................               3
404.1292.............................               3               1  5........................              15
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    Total............................  ..............  ..............  .........................             434
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\1\ Interstate Instrumentalities.

    2. Current Rule Regarding Continuation of Full Benefit Standard for 
Persons Institutionalized--0960-0516. The information collected by the 
Social Security Administration will be used to determine if a recipient 
of Supplemental Security Income benefits, who is temporarily 
institutionalized, is eligible to receive a full benefit. The 
respondents will be such recipients and their physicians.
    Number of Respondents: 60,000.
    Frequency of Response: 1.
    Average Burden Per Response: 5 minutes.
    Estimated Average Burden: 5,000 hours.
    II. The information collection listed below has been submitted to 
OMB for clearance. Written comments and recommendations on the 
information collection would be most useful if received within 30 days 
from the date of this publication. Comments should be directed to the 
SSA Reports Clearance Officer and the OMB Desk Officer at the addresses 
listed at the end of this notice. You can obtain a copy of the OMB 
clearance package by calling the SSA Reports Clearance Officer on (410) 
965-4145, or by writing to him.
    Statement Regarding the Inferred Death of an Individual by Reason 
of Continued and Unexplained Absence-0960-0002. The information 
collected on form SSA-723 is used to determine if the Social Security 
Administration may infer that a missing person is deceased. The 
respondents are individuals who know or are related to the missing 
person.
    Number of Respondents: 3,000.
    Frequency of Response: 1.
    Average Burden Per Response: 30 minutes.
    Estimated Average Burden: 1,500 hours.
SSA Address: Social Security Administration, DCFAM, Attn: Frederick W. 
Brickenkamp, 6401 Security Blvd., 1-A-21 Operations Bldg., Baltimore, 
MD 21235.
OMB Address: Office of Management and Budget, OIRA, Attn: Lori Schack, 
New Executive Office Building, Room 10230, 725 17th St., NW, 
Washington, D.C. 20503.

    Dated: March 31, 1999.
Frederick W. Brickenkamp,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-8508 Filed 4-6-99; 8:45 am]
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