[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 184 (Friday, September 21, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48686-48687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-23577]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

[Document Identifier: CMS-R-306]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, HHS.
    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services (CMS) (formerly known as 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: Extension of 
a currently approved collection; Title of Information Collection: 
Restraint and Seclusion Standards for Psychiatric Residential Treatment 
Facilities; Form

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No.: CMS-R-306 (OMB# 0938-0833); Use: Psychiatric residential treatment 
facilities are required to report deaths, serious injuries and 
attempted suicides to State Medicaid Agency and Protection and Advocacy 
Organization. They are also required to provide residents restraint and 
seclusion policy in writing and to document resident record of all 
activities involving use of restraint and seclusion; Frequency: On 
occasion; Affected Public: Business or other for-profit, Not for profit 
institutions; Number of Respondents: 500; Total Annual Responses: 
2,600,000; Total Annual Hours: 877,750. To obtain copies of the 
supporting statement and any related forms for the proposed paperwork 
collections referenced above, access CMS'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 
[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 CMS Paperwork Clearance Officer designated at the following 
address: CMS, Office of Information Services, Security and Standards 
Group, Division of CMS Enterprise Standards, Attention: Room N2-14-26, 
7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Dated: September 11, 2001.
John P. Burke, III,
Reports Clearance Officer, Security and Standards Group, Division of 
CMS Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 01-23577 Filed 9-20-01; 8:45 am]
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