[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 15 (Monday, January 24, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3562-3563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01250]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Request for Public Comment: 60-Day Information Collection: Indian 
Health Service Purchased/Referred Care Proof of Residency (OMB No. 
0917-0040)

AGENCY: Indian Health Service.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments; request for extension of 
approval.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, which 
requires 60 days for public comment on proposed information collection 
projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) invites the general public to 
take this opportunity to comment on the information collection Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Number 0917-0040, titled, 
Purchased/Referred Care Proof of Residency. The purpose of this notice 
is to allow 60 days for public comment. A copy of the supporting 
statement is available at www.regulations.gov (see Docket ID: 
IHS_FRDOC_0001).

DATES: March 25, 2022. Your comments regarding this information 
collection are best assured of having full effect if received within 60 
days of the date of this publication.
    For Comments: Submit comments to (Mr. Robert Jim Lyon) by Email at 
[email protected].
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be made 
available to the public by publishing them in the 30-day Federal 
Register notice for this information collection. For this reason, 
please do not include information of a confidential nature, such as 
sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If comments 
are submitted via email, the email address will be automatically 
captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the 
public docket and made available on the internet. Please note that 
responses to this public comment request containing any routine notice 
about the confidentiality of the communication will be treated as 
public comments that may be made available to the public 
notwithstanding the inclusion of the routine notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information, 
please contact Evonne Bennett, Information

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Collection Clearance Officer at: [email protected] or 301-443-
4750.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  This previously approved information 
collection project was last published in the Federal Register on 
September 25, 2018, and allowed 30 days for public comment. No public 
comment was received in response to the notice. This notice announces 
our intent to submit this collection, which expires March 31, 2022, to 
OMB for approval of an extension, and to solicit comments on specific 
aspects for the proposed information collection. Title: Purchased/
Referred Care Proof of Residency. OMB Control Number: 0917-0040. Need 
and Use of Information Collection: The IHS Purchased/Referred Care 
Program needs the information requested on the PRC Proof of Residency 
form to verify that individuals seeking medical services through a PRC 
program meet the residency requirements specific to PRC under 42 CFR 
136.23. Agency Form Number: IHS 976. Members of Affected Public: 
Individuals/Households. Status of the Proposed Information Collection: 
Renewal request. Type of Respondents: Individuals. The table below 
provides: Types of data collection instruments, Estimated number of 
respondents, Number of responses per respondent, Annual number of 
responses, Average burden hour per response, and Total annual burden 
hours.

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                                     Estimated                                    Average burden
  Data collection instrument(s)      number of     Responses per   Annual number     hour per      Total annual
                                    respondents     respondent     of responses     response *     burden hours
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Individual Patient Count........          77,185               1          77,185            3/60        3,859.25
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    Total.......................          77,185               1          77,185            3/60        3,859.25
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* For ease of understanding, the average burden per response is 3 minutes.

    There are no direct costs to respondents to report.
    Requests for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are 
invited on one or more of the following points:
    (a) Whether the information collection activity is necessary to 
carry out an agency function;
    (b) whether the agency processes the information collected in a 
useful and timely fashion;
    (c) the accuracy of the public burden estimate (the estimated 
amount of time needed for individual respondents to provide the 
requested information);
    (d) whether the methodology and assumptions used to determine the 
estimates are logical;
    (e) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information being collected; and
    (f) ways to minimize the public burden through the use of 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.

Elizabeth A. Fowler,
Acting Deputy Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-01250 Filed 1-21-22; 8:45 am]
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