[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 131 (Friday, July 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 37142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17471]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[HCFA-R-0276]


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 Request: Extension of a currently approved 
collection; Title of Information Collection: Feedback Postcard; HCFA 
Form Number: HCFA-R-0276 (OMB approval #: 0938-0766); Use: The purpose 
of this collection is post-distribution testing. This feedback postcard 
will be printed with Medicare & You 2000. This is the primary vehicle 
for presenting Medicare information to beneficiaries. Each household 
with up to 4 Medicare beneficiaries will receive one book. Households 
with over 4 beneficiaries will have one book sent to each beneficiary. 
(It is assumed these may be nursing homes/care facilities.) The 
beneficiaries have the option of completing the postcard, which will 
provide HCFA with valuable information that will assist in improving 
future versions of the publication.; Frequency: On occasion, Semi-
annually, and Annually; Affected Public: Individuals or Households, 
Business or other for-profit, Not-for-profit institutions, Federal 
Government, State, Local or Tribal Gov; Number of Respondents: 
16,834,000 (estimate); Total Annual Responses: 510,000 (3% estimate); 
Total Annual Burden Hours: 25,500.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the 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: July 1, 1999.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA Office of Information Services, 
Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 99-17471 Filed 7-8-99; 8:45 am]
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