[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 235 (Thursday, December 6, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63419-63420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30246]


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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request for Reclearance of a 
Revised Information Collection: RI 38-31

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public 
Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of 
Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) a request for reclearance of a revised information 
collection. RI 38-31, We Need More Information About Your Missing 
Payment, is sent out by the Office of Retirement Programs in response 
to notification of the loss or non-receipt of payment from the Civil 
Service Retirement and Disability Fund. The form requests the 
information needed to enable OPM to trace and/or reissue the payment. 
Missing payments may also be reported to OPM by a telephone call.
    Approximately 8,000 reports of missing payment requests for both 
Treasury checks and electronic funds

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transfers (EFT's) are processed each year; 200 RI 38-31 forms will be 
completed annually while 7,600 telephone calls are received at OPM. We 
estimate it takes approximately 10 minutes to complete the form for 
missing Treasury checks or to report the missing payment by telephone. 
The annual burden for reporting missing checks is 1,300 hours. The 
remaining 200 reports are about missing EFT payments. Since people have 
realized that they can report on the telephone, no missing EFT payments 
are reported using RI 38-31. The annual burden of reporting 200 missing 
EFT payments by telephone is 33 hours. The combined burden for 
collecting this information is 1,333 hours. In 1998 we included a total 
burden of 25 hours because 50 missing EFT payments were reported using 
RI 38-31. It takes an estimated 30 minutes to report a missing EFT 
payment using RI 38-31. The total burden is 17 hours lower because RI 
38-31 is no longer used to report missing EFT payments.
    For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on 
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or e-mail to [email protected]. 
Please include a mailing address with your request.

DATES: Comments on this proposal should be received January 7, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments to--

Ronald W. Melton, Chief, Operations Support Division, Retirement and 
Insurance Service, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, 
NW, Room 3349A, Washington, DC 20415-3540 and
Joseph Lackey, OPM Desk Officer, Office of Information & Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office 
Building, NW, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.

FOR INFORMATION REGARDING ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION--CONTACT: Donna 
G. Lease, Team Leader, Forms Analysis and Design, (202) 606-0623.

Office of Personnel Management.
Kay Coles James,
Director.
[FR Doc. 01-30246 Filed 12-5-01; 8:45 am]
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