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Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
holding company and/or to acquire the
assets or the ownership of, control of, or
the power to vote shares of a bank or
bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies
owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well
as other related filings required by the
Board, are available for immediate
inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank
indicated. The applications also will be
available for inspection at the offices of
the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in
writing on the standards enumerated in
the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the
proposal also involves the acquisition of
a nonbanking company, the review also
includes whether the acquisition of the
nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 4 of the BHC Act
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank
holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center
website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding each of these applications
must be received at the Reserve Bank
indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors not later than September 15,
2008.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs
Officer) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis,
Missouri 63166–2034:
1. Twin Lakes Bancshares, Inc.,
Flippin, Arkansas, has applied to
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become a bank holding company by
acquiring 100 percent of the voting
shares of Twin Lakes Community Bank,
Flippin, Arkansas.
2. First National Corporation of
Wynne, Wynne, Arkansas, to acquire 35
percent of the voting shares of Twin
Lakes Bancshares, Inc., and thereby
retain voting shares of Twin Lakes
Community Bank, both of Flippin,
Arkansas.
3. Twin Lakes Bancshares, Inc., has
applied to acquire 100 percent of the
voting shares of Smith Associated
Banking Corporation, Hot Springs,
Arkansas, and thereby indirectly acquire
voting shares of Bank of Salem, Salem,
Arkansas, immediately following the
bank holding company formation.
In connection with this application,
First National Corporation of Wynne,
also has applied to indirectly acquire
Smith Associated Banking Corporation,
Hot Springs, Arkansas, and thereby
indirectly acquire Bank of Salem,
Salem, Arkansas.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (E.
Ann Worthy, Vice President) 2200
North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201–
2272:
1. MOW/RPW Holdings II, LLC, and
MOW/RPW II, Ltd., both of Victoria,
Texas, to acquire up to 21.11 percent of
the voting shares of FVNB Corp,
Victoria, Texas, and thereby indirectly
acquire voting shares of FVNB Delaware
Corp., Wilmington, Delaware, and First
Victoria National Bank, Victoria, Texas.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, August 15, 2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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otherwise noted, these activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Each notice is available for inspection
at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated.
The notice also will be available for
inspection at the offices of the Board of
Governors. Interested persons may
express their views in writing on the
question whether the proposal complies
with the standards of section 4 of the
BHC Act. Additional information on all
bank holding companies may be
obtained from the National Information
Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding the applications must be
received at the Reserve Bank indicated
or the offices of the Board of Governors
not later than September 4, 2008.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs
Officer) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis,
Missouri 63166–2034:
1. First Cecilian Bancorp, Inc., Cecilia,
Kentucky, to engage in lending
activities, pursuant to section
225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, August 15, 2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Notice of Proposals to Engage in
Permissible Nonbanking Activities or
to Acquire Companies that are
Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking
Activities
The companies listed in this notice
have given notice under section 4 of the
Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C.
1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y (12
CFR Part 225) to engage de novo, or to
acquire or control voting securities or
assets of a company, including the
companies listed below, that engages
either directly or through a subsidiary or
other company, in a nonbanking activity
that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y
(12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has
determined by Order to be closely
related to banking and permissible for
bank holding companies. Unless
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project: ‘‘AHRQ
Healthcare Innovations Exchange
Innovator Interview and AHRQ
Healthcare Innovations Exchange
Innovator E-mail Submission
Guidelines.’’ In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), AHRQ invites the
public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by October 20, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
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Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
Copies of the proposed collection
plans, data collection instruments, and
specific details on the estimated burden
can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
e-mail at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
‘‘AHRQ Healthcare Innovations
Exchange Innovator Interview and
AHRQ Healthcare Innovations
Exchange Innovator E-mail Submission
Guidelines’’
To support its objective of
accelerating the diffusion and adoption
of innovative health care delivery
changes, see, e.g., 42 U.S.C. 299b–5(a),
the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ) is launching the AHRQ
Healthcare Innovations Exchange Web
site (Innovations Exchange). The
Innovations Exchange will make
profiles of health care service
innovations accessible to the public.
These innovations must meet the
following six criteria: (1) The innovation
focuses directly or indirectly on patient
care; (2) the innovation is intended to
improve one or more domains of health
care quality; (3) the activity is truly
innovative in the context of its setting
or target population; (4) information
about the innovation is publicly
available; (5) the innovator (or a
representative) is willing and able to
contribute information to the Health
Care Innovations Exchange; and (6)
there is reason to believe that the
innovation will be effective. These are
minimum requirements. The ultimate
decision to publish a detailed profile of
the innovation will depend on several
factors, including an evaluation by
AHRQ, AHRQ’s priorities, and the
number of similar ideas in the
Innovations Exchange. AHRQ’s
priorities include identifying and
highlighting innovations that will help
reduce disparities in health care and
health status, that will have significant
impact on the overall value of health
care, where the innovators have a strong
interest in participating, and that have
received support from AHRQ.
A purposively selected group of 825
health care innovations will be selected
to be considered for the profiles that
will be published on the Innovations
Exchange. These 825 innovations will
be selected to ensure that innovations
included in the Innovations Exchange
cover a broad range of health care
settings, care processes, priority
populations, and clinical conditions. To
collect the information required for
these profiles, approximately 825 health
care innovators associated with these
innovations will submit information on
their innovation using the AHRQ
Healthcare Innovations Exchange E-mail
Submission Guidelines or be contacted
by project staff. Innovators will be
interviewed by telephone about their
innovative activities.
Method of Collection
Approximately 825 innovators
associated with innovations selected for
consideration will either submit their
innovation through e-mail for
consideration or be contacted by
telephone and asked to participate.
Once their agreement to participate is
secured, the innovators will be
interviewed by telephone as needed (email submitters will be instructed to
provide specific information about their
innovation in their initial submissions
and may require only abbreviated
telephone interviews) about the
following aspects of their innovation:
health care problem addressed, impetus
for the innovation, goals of the
innovation, description of the
innovation, evaluation results for the
innovation, setting for the innovation,
history of planning and implementation
for the innovation, and lessons learned
concerning the implementation of the
innovation. If the innovation is
approved, a draft profile will be
developed based on the information and
sent by e-mail to the innovator for
review and approval to publish. After
the profile is published, on a yearly
basis, innovators will be asked to review
and update their profiles. No assurances
of confidentiality will be made to the
innovator.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondents. Approximately 275
innovators will participate in the initial
data collection each year for a total of
825 over the three year period. Of the
275 respondents per year, we estimate
that approximately 15% (41) will
submit information via e-mail and will
thus be interviewed for a shorter period
of time. The remaining 234 respondents
that did not submit information via email will be interviewed more
extensively to capture the information
required. The estimated annualized
hours for the respondents’ time to
participate in the project is 401 hours.
Based on a review of materials from
potential innovations, we estimate that
approximately 10% of the candidate
innovations either will not meet the
inclusion criteria or their innovators
will decide not to continue their
participation. Therefore, about 90%
(750) of the original 825 profiles will
move into the publication stage.
For the 750 published profiles, annual
follow-up interviews will be conducted
to update the information about the
innovation, which will average 30
minutes. Because the profiles will be
prepared on a rolling basis over three
years, the average number of yearly
follow-up reviews per innovator will
vary:
Æ One third (250) of the profiles will
be prepared in the first year and will
have 2 annual reviews;
Æ One third (250) of the profiles will
be prepared in the second year and will
have 1 annual review; and
Æ One third (250) of the profiles will
be prepared in the third year and will
have 0 annual reviews.
Approximately 750 follow-up
interviews will be conducted over the 3
years of this project resulting in an
annualized average of 250 follow-up
interviews per year, even though no
follow-up interviews will be conducted
in the first year.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
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Form name
Number of responses per
respondent
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
E-mail submission ............................................................................................
Health care innovator interview—following e-mail submission .......................
Health care innovator interview—without e-mail submission ..........................
Annual follow-up interview ...............................................................................
41
41
234
250
1
1
1
1
30/60
30/60
1
30/60
21
21
234
125
Total ..........................................................................................................
566
........................
........................
401
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Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden for the
respondents. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported that the average
hourly wage for ‘‘healthcare practitioner
and technical occupations’’ in the
United States was $29.82 in May 2006.
An estimate of $30 per hour allows for
inflation and represents a conservative
estimate of the wages of the
respondents. Therefore, the total
estimated cost burden for respondents is
$12,030, based on the total estimated
annualized burden of 401 hours.
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average hourly wage rate *
Total cost
burden
E-mail submission ............................................................................................
Health care innovator interview—following e-mail submission .......................
Health care innovator interview without e-mail submission ............................
Annual follow-up interview ...............................................................................
41
41
234
250
21
21
234
125
$30
30
30
30
$630
630
7,020
3,750
Total ..........................................................................................................
566
401
........................
12,030
* Based upon the average wages, ‘‘National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2006,’’ U.S. Department of
Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
The total cost to the Government is
approximately $3,349,560 over three
years (on average, $1,116,520 per year).
These costs cover the total editorial and
content development processes
associated with the project; which
include developing an on-line authoring
tool for preparing the profiles,
identifying innovation leads, reviewing
e-mail submissions, contacting the
innovators, conducting interviews,
preparing the draft profiles, securing
innovator approval, and publishing the
profiles on the Innovations Exchange
Web site.
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited
Paperwork Reduction Act legislation,
comments on AHRQ’s information
collection are requested with regard to
any of the following: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
AHRQ health care research, quality
improvement and information
dissemination functions, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including
hours and costs) of the proposed
collection(s) 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 upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: August 12, 2008.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
Title: State Plan for the Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
OMB No.: 0970–0145.
Description: The State plan is a
mandatory statement submitted to the
Secretary of the Department of Health
and Human Services by the State. It
consists of an outline of how the States
TANF program will be administered
and operated and certain required
certifications by the States Chief
Executive Officer. Its submittal triggers
the States family assistance grant
funding and it is used to provide the
public with information about the
program. If a State makes changes in its
program, it must submit a State plan
amendment.
Respondents: The 50 States, the
District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of respondents
Number of responses per
respondent
Average burden hours per
response
Total burden
hours
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Instrument
54
0.50
33
891
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 891.
Additional Information: Copies of the
proposed collection may be obtained by
writing to the Administration for
Children and Families, Office of
Administration, Office of Information
Services, 370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW.,
Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF
Reports Clearance Officer. All requests
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should be identified by the title of the
information collection. E-mail address:
infocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
OMB Comment: OMB is required to
make a decision concerning the
collection of information between 30
and 60 days after publication of this
document in the Federal Register.
Therefore, a comment is best assured of
having its full effect if OMB receives it
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within 30 days of publication. Written
comments and recommendations for the
proposed information collection should
be sent directly to the following: Office
of Management and Budget, Paperwork
Reduction Project, Fax: 202–395–6974,
Attn: Desk Officer for the
Administration for Children and
Families.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection
project: ``AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange Innovator Interview and
AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange Innovator E-mail Submission
Guidelines.'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), AHRQ invites the public to comment on this
proposed information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by October 20, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
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Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by e-mail at
doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
Copies of the proposed collection plans, data collection
instruments, and specific details on the estimated burden can be
obtained from the AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by e-mail at
doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
``AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange Innovator Interview and AHRQ
Healthcare Innovations Exchange Innovator E-mail Submission
Guidelines''
To support its objective of accelerating the diffusion and adoption
of innovative health care delivery changes, see, e.g., 42 U.S.C. 299b-
5(a), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is
launching the AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange Web site
(Innovations Exchange). The Innovations Exchange will make profiles of
health care service innovations accessible to the public. These
innovations must meet the following six criteria: (1) The innovation
focuses directly or indirectly on patient care; (2) the innovation is
intended to improve one or more domains of health care quality; (3) the
activity is truly innovative in the context of its setting or target
population; (4) information about the innovation is publicly available;
(5) the innovator (or a representative) is willing and able to
contribute information to the Health Care Innovations Exchange; and (6)
there is reason to believe that the innovation will be effective. These
are minimum requirements. The ultimate decision to publish a detailed
profile of the innovation will depend on several factors, including an
evaluation by AHRQ, AHRQ's priorities, and the number of similar ideas
in the Innovations Exchange. AHRQ's priorities include identifying and
highlighting innovations that will help reduce disparities in health
care and health status, that will have significant impact on the
overall value of health care, where the innovators have a strong
interest in participating, and that have received support from AHRQ.
A purposively selected group of 825 health care innovations will be
selected to be considered for the profiles that will be published on
the Innovations Exchange. These 825 innovations will be selected to
ensure that innovations included in the Innovations Exchange cover a
broad range of health care settings, care processes, priority
populations, and clinical conditions. To collect the information
required for these profiles, approximately 825 health care innovators
associated with these innovations will submit information on their
innovation using the AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange E-mail
Submission Guidelines or be contacted by project staff. Innovators will
be interviewed by telephone about their innovative activities.
Method of Collection
Approximately 825 innovators associated with innovations selected
for consideration will either submit their innovation through e-mail
for consideration or be contacted by telephone and asked to
participate. Once their agreement to participate is secured, the
innovators will be interviewed by telephone as needed (e-mail
submitters will be instructed to provide specific information about
their innovation in their initial submissions and may require only
abbreviated telephone interviews) about the following aspects of their
innovation: health care problem addressed, impetus for the innovation,
goals of the innovation, description of the innovation, evaluation
results for the innovation, setting for the innovation, history of
planning and implementation for the innovation, and lessons learned
concerning the implementation of the innovation. If the innovation is
approved, a draft profile will be developed based on the information
and sent by e-mail to the innovator for review and approval to publish.
After the profile is published, on a yearly basis, innovators will be
asked to review and update their profiles. No assurances of
confidentiality will be made to the innovator.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondents. Approximately 275 innovators will participate in the
initial data collection each year for a total of 825 over the three
year period. Of the 275 respondents per year, we estimate that
approximately 15% (41) will submit information via e-mail and will thus
be interviewed for a shorter period of time. The remaining 234
respondents that did not submit information via e-mail will be
interviewed more extensively to capture the information required. The
estimated annualized hours for the respondents' time to participate in
the project is 401 hours.
Based on a review of materials from potential innovations, we
estimate that approximately 10% of the candidate innovations either
will not meet the inclusion criteria or their innovators will decide
not to continue their participation. Therefore, about 90% (750) of the
original 825 profiles will move into the publication stage.
For the 750 published profiles, annual follow-up interviews will be
conducted to update the information about the innovation, which will
average 30 minutes. Because the profiles will be prepared on a rolling
basis over three years, the average number of yearly follow-up reviews
per innovator will vary:
[cir] One third (250) of the profiles will be prepared in the first
year and will have 2 annual reviews;
[cir] One third (250) of the profiles will be prepared in the
second year and will have 1 annual review; and
[cir] One third (250) of the profiles will be prepared in the third
year and will have 0 annual reviews.
Approximately 750 follow-up interviews will be conducted over the 3
years of this project resulting in an annualized average of 250 follow-
up interviews per year, even though no follow-up interviews will be
conducted in the first year.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Form name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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E-mail submission............................... 41 1 30/60 21
Health care innovator interview--following e- 41 1 30/60 21
mail submission................................
Health care innovator interview--without e-mail 234 1 1 234
submission.....................................
Annual follow-up interview...................... 250 1 30/60 125
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 566 .............. .............. 401
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Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden for the
respondents. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the average
hourly wage for ``healthcare practitioner and technical occupations''
in the United States was $29.82 in May 2006. An estimate of $30 per
hour allows for inflation and represents a conservative estimate of the
wages of the respondents. Therefore, the total estimated cost burden
for respondents is $12,030, based on the total estimated annualized
burden of 401 hours.
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost
Form name respondents hours wage rate * burden
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E-mail submission............................... 41 21 $30 $630
Health care innovator interview--following e- 41 21 30 630
mail submission................................
Health care innovator interview without e-mail 234 234 30 7,020
submission.....................................
Annual follow-up interview...................... 250 125 30 3,750
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 566 401 .............. 12,030
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* Based upon the average wages, ``National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May
2006,'' U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal Government
The total cost to the Government is approximately $3,349,560 over
three years (on average, $1,116,520 per year). These costs cover the
total editorial and content development processes associated with the
project; which include developing an on-line authoring tool for
preparing the profiles, identifying innovation leads, reviewing e-mail
submissions, contacting the innovators, conducting interviews,
preparing the draft profiles, securing innovator approval, and
publishing the profiles on the Innovations Exchange Web site.
Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited Paperwork Reduction Act
legislation, comments on AHRQ's information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
AHRQ health care research, quality improvement and information
dissemination functions, including whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of AHRQ's estimate of burden
(including hours and costs) of the proposed collection(s) 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 upon the respondents, including the use
of automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and included in the Agency's subsequent request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: August 12, 2008.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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