[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 10, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11446-11447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-5304]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request a 
copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project: Data System for Organ Procurement and Transplantation 
Network and Associated Forms (OMB No. 0915-0157)--Revision

    Section 372 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act requires that 
the Secretary, by contract, provide for the establishment and operation 
of an Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). The OPTN, 
among other responsibilities, operates and maintains a national waiting 
list of individuals requiring organ transplants, maintains a 
computerized system for matching donor organs with transplant 
candidates on the waiting list, and operates a 24-hour telephone 
service to facilitate matching organs with individuals included in the 
list.
    Data for the OPTN data system are collected from transplant 
hospitals, organ procurement organizations, and tissue-typing 
laboratories. The information is used to match donor organs with 
recipients, to monitor compliance of member organizations with OPTN 
rules and requirements, and to report periodically on the clinical and 
scientific status of organ donation and transplantation in this 
country. Data are used in the development and revision of OPTN rules 
and requirements, operating procedures, and standards of quality for 
organ acquisition and preservation, some of which have provided the 
foundation for development of Federal regulations. The practical 
utility of the data collection is further enhanced by requirements that 
the OPTN data must be made available without restriction for use by 
OPTN members, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, the 
Department of Health and Human Services, and others for evaluation, 
research, patient information, and other important purposes.
    Revisions in the 28 data collection forms are intended to clarify 
existing questions, to provide additional detail and categories to 
avoid confusion and be more inclusive, to remove obsolete data, and to 
comply with requests for more complete and precise data.

                                       Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden
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                                                            Responses
                 Worksheet                    Number of        per          Total       Hours per   Total burden
                                             respondents   respondent     responses     response        hours
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Deceased Donor Registration...............            59           173        10,207           0.3      3,062.10

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Death referral data.......................            59            12           708            10      7,080.00
Living Donor Registration.................           692            10         6,920           0.2      1,384.00
Living Donor Follow-up....................           692            19        13,148           0.1      1,314.80
Donor Histocompatibility..................           152            87        13,224           0.1      1,322.40
Recipient Histocompatibility..............           152           163        24,776           0.1      2,477.60
Heart Candidate Registration..............           139            23         3,197           0.3        959.10
Lung Candidate Registration...............            70            28         1,960           0.3        588.00
Heart/Lung Candidate Registration.........            72             1            72           0.3         21.60
Thoracic Registration.....................           139            24         3,336           0.3      1,000.80
Thoracic Follow-up........................           139           174        24,186           0.2      4,837.20
Kidney Candidate Registration.............           247           109        26,923           0.2      5,384.60
Kidney Registration.......................           247            65        16,055           0.3      4,816.50
Kidney Follow-up*.........................           247           493       121,771           0.2     24,354.20
Liver Candidate Registration..............           123            82        10,086           0.2      2,017.20
Liver Registration........................           123            46         5,658           0.4      2,263.20
Liver Follow-up...........................           123           299        36,777           0.3     11,033.10
Kidney/Pancreas Candidate Registration....           139            12         1,668           0.2        333.60
Kidney/Pancreas Registration..............           139             7           973           0.4        389.20
Kidney/Pancreas Follow-up.................           139            64         8,896           0.3      2,668.80
Pancreas Candidate Registration...........           139             7           973           0.2        194.60
Pancreas Registration.....................           139             4           556           0.3        166.80
Pancreas Follow-up........................           139            20         2,780           0.2        556.00
Intestine Candidate Registration..........            44             5           220           0.2         44.00
Intestine Registration....................            44             3           132           0.2         26.40
Intestine Follow-up.......................            44             8           352           0.2         70.40
Immunosuppression Treatment...............           692            38        26,296         0.025        657.40
Immunosuppression Treatment Follow-up.....           692           281       194,452         0.025      4,861.30
Post Transplant Malignancy................           692             5         3,460          0.05        173.00
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    Total.................................           903  ............       559,762  ............    84,057.90
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* Includes an estimated 6,000 kidney transplant patients transplanted prior to the initiation of the data
  system.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Desk Officer, Health Resources and Services Administration, Human 
Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management and Budget, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC.

    Dated: March 3, 2004.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 04-5304 Filed 3-9-04; 8:45 am]
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