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There is no cost to respondents to
participate other than their time.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Respondents
Number of
respondents
Number of
responses/
respondent
Average
burden/
response
(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
State Health Departments ...............................................................................
27
1,000
2.5
67,500
Dated: May 6, 2009.
Maryam I. Daneshvar,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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Proposed Project
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AHRQ proposes to conduct a pretest
of the Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems
(CAHPSR) Hospital Survey health
literacy module. The CAHPS program is
a multi-year initiative of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality. AHRQ
first launched the program in October
1995 in response to concerns about the
lack of good information about the
quality of health plans from the
enrollees’ perspective. Numerous public
and private organizations collected
information on enrollee and patient
satisfaction, but the surveys varied from
sponsor to sponsor and often changed
from year to year. The CAHPSR program
was designed to make it possible to
compare survey results across sponsors
and over time, and to generate tools and
resources that sponsors can use to
produce understandable and usable
comparative information for consumers.
Over time, the program has expanded
beyond its original focus on health
plans to address a range of health care
services to meet the various needs of
health care consumers, purchasers,
health plans, providers, and
policymakers. Based on a literature
review and an assessment of currently
available questionnaires, AHRQ
identified the need to develop a health
literacy module for the CAHPSR
Hospital Survey. The intent of the
planned module is to examine patients’
perspectives on how well health
information is communicated to them
by healthcare professionals in the
hospital setting. The objective of the
new module is to provide information to
health plans, hospitals, clinicians, group
practices, and other interested parties
regarding the quality of health
information delivered to patients. The
set of questions about health literacy
will be evaluated as a supplement to the
CAHPSR Hospital Survey.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Conunent Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
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: ‘‘Health
Literacy Item Set Supplemental to
CAHPS Hospital Survey—Pretest of
Proposed Questions and Methodology.’’
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–
13 (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 July 13, 2009.
Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by email at doris.lefkowit@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.
ADDRESSES:
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:
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‘‘Health Literacy Item Set Supplemental
to CAHPS Hospital Survey—Pretest of
Proposed Questions and Methodology’’
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This study will be conducted for
AHRQ by its contactor, RAND
Corporation. It is being conducted
pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority
to conduct research and evaluations on
health care and systems for the delivery
of such care, including activities with
respect to the quality, effectiveness,
efficiency, appropriateness and value of
health care services. See 42 U.S.C.
299a(a)(1).
This study is a one-time field test to
be completed in the calendar years 2009
and 2010. The field test to be conducted
under this request will be done for the
following purposes:
a. Analysis of item wording—Assess
candidate wordings for items.
b. Analysis of participation rate—
Evaluate the overall response rate and
the proportion of that obtained from
mail versus telephone modes of data
collection.
c. Case mix adjustment analysis—
Evaluate variables that need to be
considered for case mix adjustment of
scores.
d. Psychometric Analysis—Provide
information for the revision of the
health literacy item set based on the
assessment of the reliability and
validity.
The end result will be collection of
the data related to the assessment of
patients’ perspective on how well health
information is communicated to them
by health care professionals in hospital
setting. The field testing will ensure that
future data collections yield high
quality data and minimize respondent
burden, increase agency efficiency, and
improve responsiveness to the public.
The survey items will be added to
currently available CAHPS R surveys
and will enhance the ability of hospitals
to assess the quality of their services.
Method of Collection
The potential respondent universe is
persons who had at least one overnight
stay at a hospital within the previous
five months. Excluded from the study
will be those who were less than 18
years old at the time of their admission,
had a psychiatric diagnosis, were
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discharged to a hospice facility or died
during the hospitalization. Testing sites
will be selected purposively based on
several considerations, including ability
to execute the activities necessary to
participate in the pilot, number of beds,
number of discharges for medical,
surgical, and obstetric patients, average
length of stay, location (urban versus
rural), profit status, and academic
medical center status.
The draw will be a sample large
enough to yield approximately 600
completes. It is assumed that
approximately 1200 patients will be
sampled across all field sites with a
response rate of 50%. This pretest will
use a mixed mail-telephone mode of
data collection which will include the
following steps:
• Mailing an advanced notification
letter
• Mailing of the questionnaire and
cover letter
• Postcard reminder
• A second mailing of the
questionnaire to non-respondents.
• Up to 10 telephone calls to every
mail non-respondent approximately two
weeks after the final mailing.
Every effort will be made to maximize
the response rate, while retaining the
voluntary nature of the effort. An
advanced notice will be mailed prior to
mailing the survey and will include a
letter explaining what the survey is
about, who is doing it and why, and
providing contact information for
questions. The second mailing and
telephone follow-up are expected to
result in significant increases in
response. Every effort to maximize the
response rate among Spanish-speaking
respondents will be made. A Spanish
version of the advance notice, the
questionnaire, cover letters, and the
reminder card, as well as a Spanish
version of the telephone transcript have
been developed. The cover letters in
English include a note in Spanish
instructing respondents to call a toll free
number if they would like to receive a
copy of the survey in Spanish. In
addition, participating field sites will
ask for information on language
preference and/or race/ethnicity of
sample patients so that the mailing of
the survey can be tailored for Spanishspeakers.
Finally, phone follow-up to
respondents who do not complete the
survey by mail will be conducted by
bilingual interviewers so that those who
want to complete the survey by
telephone in either English or Spanish
can be accommodated.
Surveys generally do not yield
complete responses from every
individual sampled from the
population. In this analysis, patterns of
both unit and item nonresponse will be
examined and modeled, and the
potential impact of nonresponse bias
assessed. A common set of
administrative variables (e.g., age,
gender, race/ethnicity) will be used to
predict unit nonresponse. These
variables and others collected on the
survey itself will be used as predictors
of item nonresponse. Case mix
adjustment and nonresponse weights
will be used to more accurately reflect
consumer experiences with health care
in the field test hospitals. Multivariate
logistic regression models will be used
to analyze the factors associated with
unit nonresponse and item
nonresponse.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden for the respondents’
time to participate in this data
collection. The CAHPS Hospital Survey
Health Literacy Module will be
completed by about 600 persons in total,
or an annual average of 400 persons per
year for the 18 months of the pretest.
The estimated response time of 20
minutes is based on the written length
of the survey and AHRQ’s experience
with previous CAHPS® surveys of
comparable length that were fielded
with similar samples. The total
annualized burden hours are estimated
to be 133 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the respondents’ cost
burden associated with their time to
participate in this data collection. The
total annualized cost burden is
estimated to be $2,601.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of responses per
respondent
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Mail survey with reminder card, mail and phone follow-up mail and phone
follow-up .......................................................................................................
400
1
20/60
133
Total ..........................................................................................................
400
1
na
133
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average hourly wage rate*
Total cost
burden
Mail survey with reminder card, mail and phone ............................................
follow-up ...........................................................................................................
400
133
$19.56
$2,601
Total ..........................................................................................................
400
133
na
2,601
* Based upon the average wages, ‘‘National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2007,’’ U.S. Department of
Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal
Government
The total cost for the contracted
service is approximately $245,000 and
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the cost for AHRQ staff to oversee the
project is $50,000, including benefits.
The project was initiated in October of
2008 and it is forecasted that it will be
completed in 18 months. It is estimated
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that the total cost of the project is
approximately $295,000. The
annualized cost of the project is
approximately $196,669.
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EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED COST
Cost component
Total cost
Annualized
cost
Review of literature ..................................................................................................................................................
Cognitive interviews .................................................................................................................................................
Field test ..................................................................................................................................................................
Data analyses ..........................................................................................................................................................
Finalize survey .........................................................................................................................................................
AHRQ project management ....................................................................................................................................
$20,000
60,000
90,000
40,000
35,000
50,000
$13,334
40,000
60,000
26,667
23,334
33,334
Total ..................................................................................................................................................................
295,000
196,669
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 and health
care 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: May 4, 2009.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
[FR Doc. E9–11012 Filed 5–12–09; 8:45 am]
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Compliance Guidance for Small
Business Entities on Labeling Overthe-Counter Human Drug Products;
Availability
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) is announcing the
availability of a compliance guidance
for small business entities entitled
‘‘Labeling OTC Human Drug Products;
Small Entity Compliance Guide.’’ FDA
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accordance with the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act. It
is intended to help small businesses
better understand and comply with the
agency’s over-the-counter (OTC)
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new labeling. This compliance guidance
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DATES: Submit written or electronic
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and Research, Food and Drug
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electronic access to the compliance
guidance document.
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Marina Y. Chang, Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research, Food and
Drug Administration, 10903 New
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 22, rm. 5418,
Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002, 301–
796–2090.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
FDA is announcing the availability of
a compliance guidance for small
business entities entitled ‘‘Labeling OTC
Human Drug Products; Small Entity
Compliance Guide.’’ FDA has prepared
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this guidance in accordance with
section 212 of the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act.
This is one of several guidances the
agency has developed to help
manufacturers, packers, and distributors
implement the final rule establishing
standardized content and format
requirements for the labeling of all OTC
drug products. Once finalized, these
guidances supersede all other
statements, feedback, and
correspondence provided by the agency
on these matters since the issuance of
the final rule.
In the Federal Register of March 17,
1999 (64 FR 13254), FDA published a
final rule establishing standardized
content and format requirements for the
labeling of OTC drug products (21 CFR
201.66). This regulation is intended to
standardize labeling for all OTC drug
products so consumers can easily read
and understand OTC drug product
labeling and use these products safely
and effectively. The regulation requires
manufacturers to present OTC drug
labeling information in a prescribed
order and format. The standardized
format requires revision of all existing
labeling and covers all OTC drug and
drug-cosmetic products, whether
marketed under a new drug application,
abbreviated new drug application, or
OTC drug monograph (or drug product
not yet the subject of a final OTC drug
monograph).
Following issuance of the final rule,
the agency received a number of
inquiries from manufacturers seeking
guidance on how to present the labeling
information for their OTC drug products
using the standardized content and
format requirements. To address these
inquiries, FDA published a notice in the
Federal Register of December 9, 2004
(69 FR 71420), announcing the
availability of a draft compliance
guidance for small business entities
entitled ‘‘Labeling OTC Human Drug
Products; Small Entity Compliance
Guide.’’ The draft compliance guidance
summarizes the new Drug Facts labeling
requirements set forth in § 201.66. The
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Conunent 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: ``Health Literacy Item Set Supplemental to CAHPS Hospital
Survey--Pretest of Proposed Questions and Methodology.'' In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (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 July 13, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by e-mail at
doris.lefkowit@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
``Health Literacy Item Set Supplemental to CAHPS Hospital Survey--
Pretest of Proposed Questions and Methodology''
AHRQ proposes to conduct a pretest of the Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPSR) Hospital Survey health
literacy module. The CAHPS program is a multi-year initiative of the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. AHRQ first launched the
program in October 1995 in response to concerns about the lack of good
information about the quality of health plans from the enrollees'
perspective. Numerous public and private organizations collected
information on enrollee and patient satisfaction, but the surveys
varied from sponsor to sponsor and often changed from year to year. The
CAHPSR program was designed to make it possible to compare survey
results across sponsors and over time, and to generate tools and
resources that sponsors can use to produce understandable and usable
comparative information for consumers.
Over time, the program has expanded beyond its original focus on
health plans to address a range of health care services to meet the
various needs of health care consumers, purchasers, health plans,
providers, and policymakers. Based on a literature review and an
assessment of currently available questionnaires, AHRQ identified the
need to develop a health literacy module for the CAHPSR Hospital
Survey. The intent of the planned module is to examine patients'
perspectives on how well health information is communicated to them by
healthcare professionals in the hospital setting. The objective of the
new module is to provide information to health plans, hospitals,
clinicians, group practices, and other interested parties regarding the
quality of health information delivered to patients. The set of
questions about health literacy will be evaluated as a supplement to
the CAHPSR Hospital Survey.
This study will be conducted for AHRQ by its contactor, RAND
Corporation. It is being conducted pursuant to AHRQ's statutory
authority to conduct research and evaluations on health care and
systems for the delivery of such care, including activities with
respect to the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and
value of health care services. See 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1).
This study is a one-time field test to be completed in the calendar
years 2009 and 2010. The field test to be conducted under this request
will be done for the following purposes:
a. Analysis of item wording--Assess candidate wordings for items.
b. Analysis of participation rate--Evaluate the overall response
rate and the proportion of that obtained from mail versus telephone
modes of data collection.
c. Case mix adjustment analysis--Evaluate variables that need to be
considered for case mix adjustment of scores.
d. Psychometric Analysis--Provide information for the revision of
the health literacy item set based on the assessment of the reliability
and validity.
The end result will be collection of the data related to the
assessment of patients' perspective on how well health information is
communicated to them by health care professionals in hospital setting.
The field testing will ensure that future data collections yield high
quality data and minimize respondent burden, increase agency
efficiency, and improve responsiveness to the public. The survey items
will be added to currently available CAHPS R surveys and will enhance
the ability of hospitals to assess the quality of their services.
Method of Collection
The potential respondent universe is persons who had at least one
overnight stay at a hospital within the previous five months. Excluded
from the study will be those who were less than 18 years old at the
time of their admission, had a psychiatric diagnosis, were
[[Page 22559]]
discharged to a hospice facility or died during the hospitalization.
Testing sites will be selected purposively based on several
considerations, including ability to execute the activities necessary
to participate in the pilot, number of beds, number of discharges for
medical, surgical, and obstetric patients, average length of stay,
location (urban versus rural), profit status, and academic medical
center status.
The draw will be a sample large enough to yield approximately 600
completes. It is assumed that approximately 1200 patients will be
sampled across all field sites with a response rate of 50%. This
pretest will use a mixed mail-telephone mode of data collection which
will include the following steps:
Mailing an advanced notification letter
Mailing of the questionnaire and cover letter
Postcard reminder
A second mailing of the questionnaire to non-respondents.
Up to 10 telephone calls to every mail non-respondent
approximately two weeks after the final mailing.
Every effort will be made to maximize the response rate, while
retaining the voluntary nature of the effort. An advanced notice will
be mailed prior to mailing the survey and will include a letter
explaining what the survey is about, who is doing it and why, and
providing contact information for questions. The second mailing and
telephone follow-up are expected to result in significant increases in
response. Every effort to maximize the response rate among Spanish-
speaking respondents will be made. A Spanish version of the advance
notice, the questionnaire, cover letters, and the reminder card, as
well as a Spanish version of the telephone transcript have been
developed. The cover letters in English include a note in Spanish
instructing respondents to call a toll free number if they would like
to receive a copy of the survey in Spanish. In addition, participating
field sites will ask for information on language preference and/or
race/ethnicity of sample patients so that the mailing of the survey can
be tailored for Spanish-speakers.
Finally, phone follow-up to respondents who do not complete the
survey by mail will be conducted by bilingual interviewers so that
those who want to complete the survey by telephone in either English or
Spanish can be accommodated.
Surveys generally do not yield complete responses from every
individual sampled from the population. In this analysis, patterns of
both unit and item nonresponse will be examined and modeled, and the
potential impact of nonresponse bias assessed. A common set of
administrative variables (e.g., age, gender, race/ethnicity) will be
used to predict unit nonresponse. These variables and others collected
on the survey itself will be used as predictors of item nonresponse.
Case mix adjustment and nonresponse weights will be used to more
accurately reflect consumer experiences with health care in the field
test hospitals. Multivariate logistic regression models will be used to
analyze the factors associated with unit nonresponse and item
nonresponse.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden for the
respondents' time to participate in this data collection. The CAHPS
Hospital Survey Health Literacy Module will be completed by about 600
persons in total, or an annual average of 400 persons per year for the
18 months of the pretest. The estimated response time of 20 minutes is
based on the written length of the survey and AHRQ's experience with
previous CAHPS[supreg] surveys of comparable length that were fielded
with similar samples. The total annualized burden hours are estimated
to be 133 hours.
Exhibit 2 shows the respondents' cost burden associated with their
time to participate in this data collection. The total annualized cost
burden is estimated to be $2,601.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of
Form name Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mail survey with reminder card, mail and phone 400 1 20/60 133
follow-up mail and phone follow-up.............
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 400 1 na 133
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Total burden Average hourly Total cost
Form name respondents hours wage rate* burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mail survey with reminder card, mail and phone.. 400 133 $19.56 $2,601
follow-up.......................................
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 400 133 na 2,601
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Based upon the average wages, ``National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May
2007,'' U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Estimated Annual Costs to the Federal Government
The total cost for the contracted service is approximately $245,000
and the cost for AHRQ staff to oversee the project is $50,000,
including benefits. The project was initiated in October of 2008 and it
is forecasted that it will be completed in 18 months. It is estimated
that the total cost of the project is approximately $295,000. The
annualized cost of the project is approximately $196,669.
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Exhibit 3--Estimated Cost
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Annualized
Cost component Total cost cost
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Review of literature.................... $20,000 $13,334
Cognitive interviews.................... 60,000 40,000
Field test.............................. 90,000 60,000
Data analyses........................... 40,000 26,667
Finalize survey......................... 35,000 23,334
AHRQ project management................. 50,000 33,334
-------------------------------
Total............................... 295,000 196,669
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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 and health care 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: May 4, 2009.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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