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currently operating under the Rule have
an estimated total disclosure burden of
304 hours (3,645 consumers × 5 minutes
of burden ÷ 60 minutes).
Accordingly, the total PRA-related
annual hours burden attributed to the
Rule is approximately 13,266 hours
(9,114 hours for recordkeeping + 3,038
hours for reporting + 1,114 hours for
disclosures).
Total annual labor cost: $265,000
rounded to the nearest thousand.
Recordkeeping: Staff assumes that
IDSMs use clerical staff to comply with
the recordkeeping requirements
contained in the Rule at an hourly rate
of $15.15 Thus, the labor cost associated
with the 9,114 annual burden hours for
recordkeeping is approximately
$136,710 (9,114 burden hours × $15 per
hour).
Reporting: Staff assumes that IDSMs
also use clerical support staff at an
hourly rate of $15 to comply with the
reporting requirements. Thus, the labor
cost associated with the 3,038 annual
burden hours for reporting is
approximately $45,570 (3,038 burden
hours × $15 per hour).
Disclosure: Staff assumes that the
work required to comply with the
warrantors’ disclosure requirements
entails an equal mix of legal, clerical,
and graphic design work. The legal
work entails ensuring that the warranty
information and other materials contain
the information required to be disclosed
by the Rule, as well as reviewing the
annual audits for any recommendations
for how to improve the warrantors’
materials, and implementing those
recommended changes as appropriate.
The graphic design work entails creating
pamphlets, brochures, posters, or other
materials that are aimed at making
consumers aware of the existence of the
IDSM and its procedures. The clerical
work entails copying and distributing
those informational materials. Staff
assumes that one third of the total
disclosure hours for warrantors (270
hours) requires legal work at a rate of
$250 an hour, one third requires graphic
design at a rate of $23 an hour, and one
third requires clerical work at a rate of
$15 an hour. This results in a disclosure
labor burden of $77,760 for warrantors
((270 × $250) + (270 × $23) + (270 ×
$15).
In addition, staff assumes that IDSMs
use clerical support at an hourly rate of
15 The wage rates used in this Notice are based
on recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Compensation Survey at https://
www.bls.gov/ncs/ncswage2009.htm, with the
exception of the hourly wage rate for legal
professionals, which is based upon industry
knowledge. Hourly rates are rounded to the nearest
dollar.
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$15 to reproduce records and, therefore,
the labor cost associated with the 304
annual hours of disclosure burden for
IDSMs is approximately $4,560 (304
burden hours × $15 per hour).
Accordingly, the combined total
annual labor cost for PRA-related
burden under the Rule is approximately
$264,600 ($136,710 for recordkeeping +
$45,570 for reporting + $82,320 for
disclosures).
Total annual capital or other
nonlabor costs: $322,000, rounded to
the nearest thousand.
Total capital and start-up costs: The
Rule imposes no appreciable current
capital or start-up costs. The vast
majority of warrantors have already
developed systems to retain the records
and provide the disclosures required by
the Rule. Rule compliance does not
require the use of any capital goods,
other than ordinary office equipment, to
which providers would already have
access. In addition, according to a
representative of one IDSM, it has
already developed systems to collect
and retain information needed to
produce the indexes and statistical
summaries required by the Rule, and
thus, estimated very low capital or
startup costs.
The only additional cost imposed on
IDSMs operating under the Rule that
would not be incurred for other IDSMs
is the annual audit requirement.
According to representatives of the
IDSMs, the vast majority of costs
associated with this requirement are the
fees paid to the auditors and their staffs
to perform the annual audit.
Representatives of the IDSMs previously
estimated a combined cost of $300,000
for both IDSMs currently operating
under the Rule, and staff retains that
estimate.
Other non-labor costs: $22,000 in
copying costs. This total is based on
estimated copying costs of 7 cents per
page and several conservative
assumptions. Staff estimates that the
average dispute-related file is 35 pages
long and that a typical annual audit file
is approximately 200 pages in length. As
discussed above, staff assumes that
twenty percent of consumers using an
IDSM currently operating under the
Rule (approximately 3,645 consumers)
request copies of the records relating to
their disputes.
Staff also estimates that a very small
minority of consumers request a copy of
the annual audit. This assumption is
based on (1) the number of consumer
requests actually received by the IDSMs
in the past; and (2) the fact that the
IDSMs’ annual audits are available
online. For example, annual audits are
available on the FTC’s Web site, where
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consumers may view and or print pages
as needed, at no cost to the IDSM. In
addition, the Better Business Bureau
makes available on its Web site the
annual audit of the BBB AUTO LINE.
Therefore, staff conservatively estimates
that only five percent of consumers
using an IDSM covered by the Rule
(approximately 911 consumers) will
request a copy of the IDSM’s audit
report.
Thus, the total annual copying cost
for dispute-related files is
approximately $8,930 (35 pages per file
× $.07 per page × 3,645 consumer
requests) and the total annual copying
cost for annual audit reports is
approximately $12,754 (200 pages per
audit report × $.07 per page × 911
consumer requests). Accordingly, the
total cost attributed to copying under
the Rule is approximately $21,684.
Thus, the total non-labor cost under the
Rule is approximately $321,684
($300,000 for auditor fees + $21,684 for
copying costs).
Willard K. Tom,
General Counsel.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Health Resources
and Services Administration (HRSA)
publishes abstracts of information
collection requests under review by the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of
the clearance requests submitted to
OMB for review, e-mail
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA
Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443–
1129.
The following request has been
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget for review under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995:
Proposed Project: Nurse Faculty Loan
Program (NFLP) Annual Operating
Report (AOR) Form (OMB No. 0915–
0314)—[REVISION]. This clearance
request is for approval of the modified
online NFLP–AOR form for grantees to
report annual NFLP loan fund activity.
The Web-based (online) version of the
NFLP–AOR form was developed and
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integrated into the existing HRSA
Electronic Handbooks (EHBs)
Performance Report module in fiscal
year 2009. The online NFLP–AOR form
will be modified to collect additional
data from applicants that will include
information on the total number of
enrollees, graduates, and graduates
employed as nurse faculty by: (1) Age
and Gender, (2) Nursing Programs, and
(3) Nursing Degrees. Under Title VIII,
section 846A of the Public Health
Service Act, as amended by Public Law
111–148, the Secretary of Health and
Human Services (HHS) enters into an
agreement with a school of nursing and
makes an award to the school. The
award is used to establish a distinct
account for the NFLP loan fund at the
school. The school of nursing makes
loans from the NFLP fund to students
enrolled full-time or part-time in a
master’s or doctoral nursing education
program that will prepare them to
become qualified nursing faculty.
Following graduation from the NFLP
lending school, loan recipients may
receive up to 85 percent NFLP loan
cancellation over a consecutive fouryear period in exchange for service as
full-time faculty at a school of nursing.
The NFLP lending school collects any
portion of the loan that is not cancelled
and any loans that go into repayment
and deposits these monies into the
NFLP loan fund to make additional
NFLP loans.
The school of nursing must keep
records of all NFLP loan fund
transactions. The NFLP–AOR is used to
monitor grantee performance by
collection of information relating to the
NFLP loan fund operations and
financial activities for a specified
Number of
respondents
Form
Responses per
respondent
reporting period (July 1 through June 30
of the academic year). Participating
schools are required to complete and
submit the NFLP–AOR annually. In
addition to the newly required data,
participating schools will provide the
Federal Government with current and
cumulative information on: (1) The
number and amount of loans made, (2)
the number of NFLP loan recipients and
NFLP graduates, (3) the number and
amount of loans collected, (4) the
number and amount of loans in
repayment, (5) the number of NFLP
graduates employed as nurse faculty,
and (6) NFLP loan fund receipts,
disbursements and other related costs.
The NFLP loan fund balance is used to
determine future awards to the school.
The estimate of burden for this form
is as follows:
Total responses
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Nurse Faculty Loan Program Annual Operating Report (AOR) ......................................
150
1
150
8
1200
Total Burden .............................................
150
1
150
8
1200
Written comments and
recommendations concerning the
proposed information collection should
be sent within 30 days of this notice to
the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov
or by fax to 202–395–6974. Please direct
all correspondence to the ‘‘attention of
the desk officer for HRSA.’’
Dated: November 17, 2010.
Robert Hendricks,
Director, Division of Policy and Information
Coordination.
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
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proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call the CDC Reports
Clearance Officer at 404–639–5960 or
send comments to CDC Assistant
Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton
Road, MS D–74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or
send an e-mail to omb@cdc.gov.
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. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
The National Hospital Care Survey
(NHCS)—New—National Center for
Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306 of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242k), as
amended, authorizes that the Secretary
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of Health and Human Services (DHHS),
acting through NCHS, shall collect
statistics on the extent and nature of
illness and disability of the population
of the United States. This three-year
clearance request includes data
collection from hospital inpatient
departments; hospital ambulatory
departments including emergency
departments (ED), outpatient
departments (OPD), and ambulatory
surgery centers (ASC); and freestanding
ASCs of the new National Hospital Care
Survey.
The National Center for Health
Statistics’ (NCHS) surveys on hospital
care include the National Hospital
Discharge Survey (NHDS) (OMB
No.0920–0212) and the National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care
Survey (NHAMCS) (OMB No. 0920–
0234). NHDS has, since 1965, provided
critical information on the utilization of
the nation’s non-Federal short-stay
hospitals and on the nature and
treatment of illness among the inpatient
hospitalized population. NHAMCS has
provided data annually since 1992
concerning the nation’s use of hospital
emergency and outpatient departments,
and since 2009 and 2010, on hospital
based and free-standing ambulatory
surgery centers, respectively. These data
have been extensively used for
monitoring changes and analyzing the
types of care provided in the nation’s
hospitals. NCHS is planning to integrate
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[Notices]
[Pages 71707-71708]
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[FR Doc No: 2010-29534]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request
a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, e-mail
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301)
443-1129.
The following request has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995:
Proposed Project: Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) Annual
Operating Report (AOR) Form (OMB No. 0915-0314)--[REVISION]. This
clearance request is for approval of the modified online NFLP-AOR form
for grantees to report annual NFLP loan fund activity. The Web-based
(online) version of the NFLP-AOR form was developed and
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integrated into the existing HRSA Electronic Handbooks (EHBs)
Performance Report module in fiscal year 2009. The online NFLP-AOR form
will be modified to collect additional data from applicants that will
include information on the total number of enrollees, graduates, and
graduates employed as nurse faculty by: (1) Age and Gender, (2) Nursing
Programs, and (3) Nursing Degrees. Under Title VIII, section 846A of
the Public Health Service Act, as amended by Public Law 111-148, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) enters into an agreement
with a school of nursing and makes an award to the school. The award is
used to establish a distinct account for the NFLP loan fund at the
school. The school of nursing makes loans from the NFLP fund to
students enrolled full-time or part-time in a master's or doctoral
nursing education program that will prepare them to become qualified
nursing faculty. Following graduation from the NFLP lending school,
loan recipients may receive up to 85 percent NFLP loan cancellation
over a consecutive four-year period in exchange for service as full-
time faculty at a school of nursing. The NFLP lending school collects
any portion of the loan that is not cancelled and any loans that go
into repayment and deposits these monies into the NFLP loan fund to
make additional NFLP loans.
The school of nursing must keep records of all NFLP loan fund
transactions. The NFLP-AOR is used to monitor grantee performance by
collection of information relating to the NFLP loan fund operations and
financial activities for a specified reporting period (July 1 through
June 30 of the academic year). Participating schools are required to
complete and submit the NFLP-AOR annually. In addition to the newly
required data, participating schools will provide the Federal
Government with current and cumulative information on: (1) The number
and amount of loans made, (2) the number of NFLP loan recipients and
NFLP graduates, (3) the number and amount of loans collected, (4) the
number and amount of loans in repayment, (5) the number of NFLP
graduates employed as nurse faculty, and (6) NFLP loan fund receipts,
disbursements and other related costs. The NFLP loan fund balance is
used to determine future awards to the school.
The estimate of burden for this form is as follows:
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Number of Responses per Hours per Total burden
Form respondents respondent Total responses response hours
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Nurse Faculty Loan Program Annual Operating Report (AOR)...... 150 1 150 8 1200
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Total Burden.............................................. 150 1 150 8 1200
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
Dated: November 17, 2010.
Robert Hendricks,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-29534 Filed 11-23-10; 8:45 am]
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