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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Docket 2012–0076; Sequence 39; OMB
Control No. 9000–0053]
Federal Acquisition Regulation;
Information Collection; Permits,
Authorities, or Franchises
Department of Defense (DOD),
General Services Administration (GSA),
and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of request for public
comments regarding an extension of a
previously existing OMB clearance.
AGENCY:
Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, the
Regulatory Secretariat will be
submitting to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request to review
and approve an extension of a
previously approved information
collection requirement concerning
permits, authorities, or franchises for
regulated transportation.
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the Federal
Acquisition Regulations (FAR), and
whether it will have practical utility;
whether our estimate of the public
burden of this collection of information
is accurate, and based on valid
assumptions and methodology; ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
ways in which we can minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, through
the use of appropriate technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
November 9, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments
identified by Information Collection
9000–0053, Permits, Authorities, or
Franchises, by any of the following
methods:
• Regulations.gov: https://
www.regulations.gov.
Submit comments via the Federal
eRulemaking portal by searching the
OMB control number. Select the link
‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that corresponds
with ‘‘Information Collection 9000–
0053, Permits, Authorities, or
Franchises’’. Follow the instructions
provided at the ‘‘Submit a Comment’’
screen. Please include your name,
company name (if any), and
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‘‘Information Collection 9000–0053,
Permits, Authorities, or Franchises’’ on
your attached document.
• Fax: 202–501–4067.
• Mail: General Services
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat
(MVCB), 1275 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20417. ATTN: Hada
Flowers/IC 9000–0053, Permits,
Authorities, or Franchises.
Instructions: Please submit comments
only and cite Information Collection
9000–0053, Permits, Authorities, or
Franchises, in all correspondence
related to this collection. All comments
received will be posted without change
to https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal and/or business
confidential information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Michael O. Jackson, Procurement
Analyst, Office of Governmentwide
Acquisition Policy, GSA (202) 208–4949
or email michaelo.jackson@gsa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
The FAR requires insertion of clause
52.247–2, Permits, Authorities, or
Franchises, when regulated
transportation is involved. The clause
requires the contractor to indicate
whether it has the proper authorization
from the Federal Highway
Administration (or other cognizant
regulatory body) to move material. The
contractor may be required to provide
copies of the authorization before
moving material under the contract. The
clause also requires the contractor, at its
expense, to obtain and maintain any
permits, franchises, licenses, and other
authorities issued by State and local
governments. The Government may
request to review the documents to
ensure that the contractor has complied
with all regulatory requirements.
B. Annual Reporting Burden
The estimated annual reporting
burden has decreased from what was
published in the Federal Register at 74
FR 56640, on November 2, 2009. The
decrease is based on a revised estimate
of the number of respondents, responses
per year and response time per
response. According to Fiscal Year 2011
Federal Procurement Data System
(FPDS) data, 3,877 contracts were
awarded to 1021 unique vendors under
the North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS) code 484
for trucking, where the requirements for
this collection would apply. It is
estimated that a maximum of 25%, or
255 of these vendors would be required
to provide the information required by
the clause. The information need only
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be gathered and submitted on an
exception basis. We estimate that any
respondent will be required to submit
supporting information only one time
annually. In addition, we think that it
will take the contractor only half an
hour to pull existing franchises or
permits from the files.
Respondents: 255.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 255.
Hours Per Response: 0.5.
Total Burden Hours: 128.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals:
Requesters may obtain a copy of the
information collection documents from
the General Services Administration,
Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275
First Street NE., Washington, DC 20417,
telephone (202) 501–4755. Please cite
OMB Control No. 9000–0053, Permits,
Authorities, or Franchises, in all
correspondence.
Dated: August 28, 2012.
William Clark,
Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy
Division, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office
of Governmentwide Policy.
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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:
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: ‘‘A
Prototype Consumer Reporting System
for Patient Safety Events.’’ In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by November 9, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
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.
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRO.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
A Prototype Consumer Reporting
System for Patient Safety Events
The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) requests that the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approve, under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, AHRQ’s
collection of information for a Prototype
Consumer Reporting System for Patient
Safety Events. This project aims to
design and test a system for collecting
information from patients about health
care safety events following standard
definitions and formats.
There is a growing body of evidence
that many adverse medical events go
unreported in current systems
(Weissman et al., 2008). A primary
reason for this reporting gap is that most
reporting systems do not presently
accept or elicit reports from patients and
their families (RTI 2010). AHRQ
recognizes that the unique perspective
of health care consumers could reveal
important information that is not
reported by health care providers.
Patient reports could complement and
enhance reports from providers and
thus produce a more complete and
accurate understanding of the
prevalence and characteristics of
medical adverse events (RTI, 2010).
In an effort to realize untapped
potential of health care consumers to
provide important information about
patient safety events, AHRQ has funded
the development of a prototype
Consumer Reporting System for Patient
Safety (CRSPS), designed to collect
information from medical patients about
medical errors that resulted or nearly
resulted in harm or injury. The purpose
of this project is to test the prototype for
its ability to record data from consumers
about patient safety events defined as an
incident or near miss by the AHRQ
Common Formats (AHRQ, 2010, details
at: www.pso.ahrq.gov/formats/
commonfmt.htm).
Currently there is no mechanism for
consumers to report information about
patient safety events defined as an
incident or near miss by the AHRQ
Common Formats. Such information is
necessary for research on how to
improve the quality of health care,
promote patient safety and reduce
medical errors. There is a need to collect
this information from consumers and
match these consumer reports to the
information collected by providers,
because the two sources may differ.
Examining data from both sources
allows the project to determine to what
extent patients are able to provide more
complete or more detailed information.
This research has the following goals:
1. To develop and design a prototype
system to collect information about
patient safety events.
2. To develop and test Web and
telephone modes of a prototype
questionnaire.
3. To develop and test protocols for a
follow-up survey of health care
providers.
This demonstration project is being
conducted by AHRQ through its
contractor, RAND Corporation with
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana
Farber Cancer Institute, and ECRI
Institute, pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory
authority to conduct and support
research on health care and on systems
for the delivery of such care, including
activities with respect to the quality,
effectiveness, efficiency,
appropriateness and value of health care
services and with respect to quality
measurement and improvement. 42
U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goal of this project the
following data collections will be
implemented:
1. Safety event intake form and follow
up. The safety event intake form asks
about a medical error or mistake, harm
or injury as well as near misses. Medical
patients, consumers, family members
and other caregivers voluntarily report
safety events through a Web site or by
telephone. The questions ask what
happened, details of the event, when,
where, whether there was harm, the
type of harm, contributing factors,
disclosure, and whether the patient
reported the event and to whom.
Information is also collected regarding
whether the respondent is willing to
have CRSPS staff follow up to clarify
information. If a respondent consents,
CRSPS staff will follow up by phone
and ask questions about any information
that was not clear in the initial report
and annotate the report with this
information.
2. Health care provider follow up. For
the subset of consumers that consent,
patient safety officers at health care
provider organizations who maintain
the adverse event reporting system will
contribute supplemental information
about the consumer-reported incident
which occurred at their facility. CRSPS
staff will contact the health care
organization to share the consumer
report with the patient safety officer or
other appointed liaison. The liaison will
determine if the consumer-reported
incident matches an event in the
provider’s Incident Reporting System,
and if so, provide additional
information.
Data collected will be analyzed to
produce estimates and basic descriptive
statistics on the quantity and type of
consumer-reported patient safety events,
examine the variability of responses to
questions, examine the mode of data
collection by event types, and conduct
correlations, cross tabulations of
responses and other statistical analysis.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for
respondents’ time to participate in this
information collection based on the
expected number of respondents, 840 to
the intake form and 84 to the provider
follow up. The number of respondents
is based on the size of the selected
community, estimates of health care
utilization, rates of adverse events, and
response rates in similar investigations.
The intake form is expected to
maximally require 25 minutes via the
Web or telephone including the optional
10 minutes of follow-up questions,
resulting in a total burden of 490 hours.
The health care provider follow up is
expected to take 20 minutes and only
occurs for the estimated 10% of patients
consenting; this form carries a total
burden of 28 hours. The total burden is
518 hours annually.
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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Safety event intake form and follow up ...........................................................
Health care provider follow up .........................................................................
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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total ..........................................................................................................
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated
annualized cost burden for patients,
$10,652, and for the health care
Number of
responses per
respondent
924
Hours per
response
NA
organization, $885, for a total
annualized cost burden of $11,537.
Respondents will not incur any other
NA
Total burden
hours
518
costs beyond those associated with their
time to participate.
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average hourly wage rate
Total cost
burden
Safety event intake form and follow up ...........................................................
Health care provider follow up .........................................................................
840
84
490
28
$21.74 *
31.61 **
$10,652
885
Total ..........................................................................................................
924
518
NA
11,537
* Based upon the mean of the average Wages, National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2011, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00–0000
** Based upon the mean of the average wages, National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, May 2011: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists (General Medical and Surgical Hospitals). U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://
www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes299011.htm
Estimated Annual Cost to the
Government
AHRQ is supporting the conduct of
this project as part of a contract with the
RAND Corporation and the ECRI
Institute. The estimated cost for this
work is $899,827.
EXHIBIT 3—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST
Cost component
Total cost
Annualized cost
Intake Form Development ...............................................................................................................................
System Development .......................................................................................................................................
Project Management ........................................................................................................................................
Overhead .........................................................................................................................................................
$364,375
413,860
35,325
86,267
$242,917
275,907
23,550
57,511
Total ..........................................................................................................................................................
899,827
599,885
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 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
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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 30, 2012.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research And
Quality
Special Emphasis Panel Meeting
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
AGENCY:
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In accordance with section 10
(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2),
announcement is made of an Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) Special Emphasis Panel (SEP)
meeting on ‘‘Partnerships for
Sustainable Research and Dissemination
of Evidence-Based Medicine (R24)’’.
DATES: September 20–21, 2012 (Open on
September 20 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:15
a.m. and closed for the remainder of the
meeting).
This notice is being published less
than 15 days prior to the September 20–
21 meeting, due to the time constraints
of reviews and funding cycles.
ADDRESSES: Hyatt Regency Hotel
Bethesda, One Metro Center, Bethesda,
MD 20814.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anyone wishing to obtain a roster of
members, agenda or minutes of the nonconfidential portions of this meeting
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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: ``A Prototype Consumer Reporting System for Patient Safety
Events.'' In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C.
3501-3521, AHRQ invites the public to comment on this proposed
information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by November 9, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz,
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.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by email at
doris.lefkowitz@AHRO.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
A Prototype Consumer Reporting System for Patient Safety Events
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) requests that
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve, under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, AHRQ's collection of information for a Prototype
Consumer Reporting System for Patient Safety Events. This project aims
to design and test a system for collecting information from patients
about health care safety events following standard definitions and
formats.
There is a growing body of evidence that many adverse medical
events go unreported in current systems (Weissman et al., 2008). A
primary reason for this reporting gap is that most reporting systems do
not presently accept or elicit reports from patients and their families
(RTI 2010). AHRQ recognizes that the unique perspective of health care
consumers could reveal important information that is not reported by
health care providers. Patient reports could complement and enhance
reports from providers and thus produce a more complete and accurate
understanding of the prevalence and characteristics of medical adverse
events (RTI, 2010).
In an effort to realize untapped potential of health care consumers
to provide important information about patient safety events, AHRQ has
funded the development of a prototype Consumer Reporting System for
Patient Safety (CRSPS), designed to collect information from medical
patients about medical errors that resulted or nearly resulted in harm
or injury. The purpose of this project is to test the prototype for its
ability to record data from consumers about patient safety events
defined as an incident or near miss by the AHRQ Common Formats (AHRQ,
2010, details at: www.pso.ahrq.gov/formats/commonfmt.htm).
Currently there is no mechanism for consumers to report information
about patient safety events defined as an incident or near miss by the
AHRQ Common Formats. Such information is necessary for research on how
to improve the quality of health care, promote patient safety and
reduce medical errors. There is a need to collect this information from
consumers and match these consumer reports to the information collected
by providers, because the two sources may differ. Examining data from
both sources allows the project to determine to what extent patients
are able to provide more complete or more detailed information.
This research has the following goals:
1. To develop and design a prototype system to collect information
about patient safety events.
2. To develop and test Web and telephone modes of a prototype
questionnaire.
3. To develop and test protocols for a follow-up survey of health
care providers.
This demonstration project is being conducted by AHRQ through its
contractor, RAND Corporation with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana
Farber Cancer Institute, and ECRI Institute, pursuant to AHRQ's
statutory authority to conduct and support research on health care and
on systems for the delivery of such care, including activities with
respect to the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and
value of health care services and with respect to quality measurement
and improvement. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2).
Method of Collection
To achieve the goal of this project the following data collections
will be implemented:
1. Safety event intake form and follow up. The safety event intake
form asks about a medical error or mistake, harm or injury as well as
near misses. Medical patients, consumers, family members and other
caregivers voluntarily report safety events through a Web site or by
telephone. The questions ask what happened, details of the event, when,
where, whether there was harm, the type of harm, contributing factors,
disclosure, and whether the patient reported the event and to whom.
Information is also collected regarding whether the respondent is
willing to have CRSPS staff follow up to clarify information. If a
respondent consents, CRSPS staff will follow up by phone and ask
questions about any information that was not clear in the initial
report and annotate the report with this information.
2. Health care provider follow up. For the subset of consumers that
consent, patient safety officers at health care provider organizations
who maintain the adverse event reporting system will contribute
supplemental information about the consumer-reported incident which
occurred at their facility. CRSPS staff will contact the health care
organization to share the consumer report with the patient safety
officer or other appointed liaison. The liaison will determine if the
consumer-reported incident matches an event in the provider's Incident
Reporting System, and if so, provide additional information.
Data collected will be analyzed to produce estimates and basic
descriptive statistics on the quantity and type of consumer-reported
patient safety events, examine the variability of responses to
questions, examine the mode of data collection by event types, and
conduct correlations, cross tabulations of responses and other
statistical analysis.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for
respondents' time to participate in this information collection based
on the expected number of respondents, 840 to the intake form and 84 to
the provider follow up. The number of respondents is based on the size
of the selected community, estimates of health care utilization, rates
of adverse events, and response rates in similar investigations. The
intake form is expected to maximally require 25 minutes via the Web or
telephone including the optional 10 minutes of follow-up questions,
resulting in a total burden of 490 hours. The health care provider
follow up is expected to take 20 minutes and only occurs for the
estimated 10% of patients consenting; this form carries a total burden
of 28 hours. The total burden is 518 hours annually.
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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Safety event intake form and follow up.......... 840 1 35/60 490
Health care provider follow up.................. 84 1 20/60 28
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Total....................................... 924 NA NA 518
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Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden for patients,
$10,652, and for the health care organization, $885, for a total
annualized cost burden of $11,537. Respondents will not incur any other
costs beyond those associated with their time to participate.
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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Safety event intake form and follow up.......... 840 490 $21.74 * $10,652
Health care provider follow up.................. 84 28 31.61 ** 885
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Total....................................... 924 518 NA 11,537
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* Based upon the mean of the average Wages, National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United
States, May 2011, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000
\**\ Based upon the mean of the average wages, National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United
States, May 2011: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists (General Medical and Surgical Hospitals). U.S.
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes299011.htm
Estimated Annual Cost to the Government
AHRQ is supporting the conduct of this project as part of a
contract with the RAND Corporation and the ECRI Institute. The
estimated cost for this work is $899,827.
Exhibit 3--Estimated Annualized Cost
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cost component Total cost Annualized cost
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intake Form Development............. $364,375 $242,917
System Development.................. 413,860 275,907
Project Management.................. 35,325 23,550
Overhead............................ 86,267 57,511
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Total........................... 899,827 599,885
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 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: August 30, 2012.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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