[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 14, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48523-48524]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19843]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier HHS-OS-17060-30D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

ACTION: Notice

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of 
Health and Human Services, will submit an Information Collection 
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR is for a new collection. 
Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be 
provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public on 
this ICR during the review and approval period.

DATES:  Deadline: Comments on the ICR must be received within 30 days 
of the issuance of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection 
Request Title and document identifier HHS-OS-17060-30D, to [email protected] or via facsimile to (202) 395-5806. Copies of 
the supporting statement and any related forms may be requested via 
email to [email protected] or by calling (202) 
690-6162.
    Information Collection Request Title: Children's Health Insurance 
Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) 10-State Evaluation, Telephone 
Interviews with State CHIP Program Administrators.
    Abstract: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and 
Evaluation (ASPE) is requesting the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approval on a new collection to interview Children's Health 
Insurance Program (CHIP) administrators in all 50 States and the 
District of Columbia. These roughly 1 hour interviews, conducted by 
phone, will focus on understanding changes in the CHIP program since 
2006, the role the CHIP

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Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-3) has played in 
influencing State CHIP programs, preparations for implementing the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-148), 
and State views on the future of CHIP. Going beyond facts and basic 
descriptive information, it will gather insights about the rationale 
behind State decisions and about issues requiring future attention. The 
information gathered will supplement two other data collection efforts 
which received clearance on December 12, 2011 (a survey of CHIP and 
Medicaid enrollees and disenrollees and case studies in 10 states, 
reference number 201110-0990-006, OMB control number 0990-0384). Data 
will only be collected once from the CHIP program administrators. We 
are seeking a 1 year approval period.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information, and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for 
this ICR are summarized in the table below.

                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
               Form name                  Number of respondents    responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                                    respondent      (in hours)         hours
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Telephone Interview Discussion Guide..  State CHIP Program                    77               1              77
                                         Administrators.
    Total.............................  77......................               1               1              77
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\a\ This includes one respondent per State in the 25 States with only a separate CHIP program or a Medicaid
  expansion CHIP program, and two respondents per State in the 26 States with combination programs.


Keith A. Tucker,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Department of Health and 
Human Services.
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