[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 7, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10226-10227]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-3918]


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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 (44 U.D.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), 
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: 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 system 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 indicate the disease severity 
of transplant candidates, 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 to develop transplant, donation and 
allocation policies, to determine if institutional members are 
complying with policy, to determine member specific performance, to 
ensure patient safety when no alternative sources of data exist and to 
fulfill the requirements of the OPTN Final Rule. The practical utility 
of the data collection is further enhanced by requirements that the 
OPTN data must be made available, consistent with applicable laws, 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 26 data collection forms are intended to implement 
approved reduction in data collection for candidates and recipients, to 
provide additional information specific to pediatric patients, and to 
clarify existing questions.

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                                       Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden
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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
              Form                  respondents     respondents      responses       response          hours
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Deceased Donor Registration.....              58             215          12,470          0.4200      5,237.4000
Death referral data.............              58              12             696         10.0000      6,960.0000
Living Donor Registration.......             711              10           7,110          0.4100      2,915.1000
Living Donor Follow-up..........             711              18          12,798          0.3300      4,223.3400
Donor Histocompatibility........             154              95          14,630          0.0600        877.8000
Recipient Histocompatibility....             154             172          26,488          0.1100      2,913.6800
Heart Candidate Registration....             135              23           3,105          0.2800        869.4000
Lung Candidate Registration.....              67              27           1,809          0.2800        506.5200
Heart/Lung Candidate                          59               1              59          0.2800         16.5200
 Registration...................
Thoracic Registration...........             135              27           3,645          0.4400      1,603.8000
Thoracic Follow-up..............             135             229          30,915          0.4130     12,767.8950
Kidney Candidate Registration...             250             133          33,250          0.2800      9,310.0000
Kidney Registration.............             250              69          17,250          0.4400      7,590.0000
Kidney Follow-up................             250             544         136,000          0.3332     45,315.2000
Liver Candidate Registration....             125              89          11,125          0.2800      3,115.0000
Liver Registration..............             125              54           6,750          0.4000      2,700.0000
Liver Follow-up.................             125             383          47,875          0.3336     15,971.1000
Kidney/Pancreas Candidate                    146              12           1,752          0.2800        490.5600
 Registration...................
Kidney/Pancreas Registration....             146               7           1,022          0.5300        541.6600
Kidney/Pancreas Follow-up.......             146              65           9,490          0.5027      4,770.6230
Pancreas Candidate Registration.             146               7           1,022          0.2800        286.1600
Pancreas Registration...........             146               3             438          0.4400        192.7200
Pancreas Follow-up..............             146              23           3,358          0.4133      1,387.8614
Intestine Candidate Registration              45               8             360          0.2400         86.4000
Intestine Registration..........              45               4             180          0.5300         95.4000
Intestine Follow-up.............              45              17             765          0.5059        387.0135
Post Transplant Malignancy......             711               6           4,266          0.0800        341.2800
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    Total.......................             923  ..............         388,628  ..............    131,472.4329
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    Send comments to Susan G. Queen, PhD, HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

    Dated: February 27, 2007.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
 [FR Doc. E7-3918 Filed 3-6-07; 8:45 am]
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