[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 151 (Friday, August 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48003-48004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-19303]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Public Law 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995. To request more information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft instruments, call 
the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.
Proposed Project: The Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Program (OMB No. 
0915-0244)--Extension
    The Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-369) 
established a trust fund to provide for compassionate payments with 
regard to certain individuals with blood-clotting disorders, such as 
hemophilia, who contracted HIV due to contaminated antihemophilic 
factor within specified time periods. The statute mandated payments to 
any individual with HIV who has any blood-clotting disorder and was 
treated with antihemophilic factor any time between July 1, 1982, and 
December 31, 1987. The Act also provides for payments to certain 
persons who contracted HIV from the foregoing individuals. Specified 
survivors of these categories of individuals may also receive payments. 
In order to receive a payment, either the individual who is eligible 
for payment, or his or her personal representative,

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must file a petition for payment with sufficient documentation to prove 
that he or she meets the requirements of the statute. This data 
collection is required to provide the necessary medical and legal 
documentation that establishes eligibility for payment.
    The estimated annual response burden is as follows:

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                                          Number of        Responses per        Hours per
                Form                     respondents         respondent          response      Total hour burden
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Petition form and Supporting                      5,000                  1                  3             15,000
 Documentation......................
Physician Documentation.............              1,000                  1                  1              1,000
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    Total...........................              6,000  .................  .................             16,000
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    Send comments to Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer, Room 14-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

    Dated: July 25, 2000.
Jane Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 00-19303 Filed 8-3-00; 8:45 am]
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