Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 43801-43802 [2015-18028]
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Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section below on or before
September 21, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Ms. Yoon Ferguson, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Ave. NW., Room S–3323, Washington,
DC 20210, telephone/fax (202) 354–
9647, Email ferguson.yoon@dol.gov.
Please use only one method of
transmission for comments (mail, fax, or
Email).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs (OWCP) is the
agency responsible for administration of
the Federal Employees’ Compensation
Act (FECA), 5 U.S.C. 8101 et seq., the
Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA), 30
U.S.C. 901 et seq., and the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000
(EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7384 et seq. All
three of these statutes require that
OWCP pay for medical treatment of
beneficiaries; this medical treatment can
include inpatient/outpatient hospital
services, as well as services provided by
nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities
and home health aides in the home. In
order to determine whether billed
amounts are appropriate, OWCP needs
to identify the patient, the specific
services that were rendered and their
relationship to the work-related injury
or illness. The regulations implementing
these statutes require the use of Form
OWCP–04 or UB–04 for the submission
of medical bills from institutional
providers (20 CFR 10.801, 30.701,
725.405, 725.406, 725.701 and 725.704).
The Uniform Billing form, known as the
paper UB–04, has been approved by the
American Hospital Association, the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services and the Civilian Health and
Medical Program of Uniformed Services
(CHAMPUS), by various other
government health care providers, and
the private sector, to request payment to
institutional providers of medical
services. The paper UB–04 has been
designed by the National Uniform
Billing Committee and is neither a
government-printed form nor
distributed by OWCP. However, this
collection includes the paper UB–04 as
a collection instrument, with detailed
instructions prepared by OWCP to
ensure that it obtains only the
information needed to consider requests
for payment from institutional providers
using this billing form. This information
collection is currently approved for use
through January 31, 2016.
II. Review Focus: The Department of
Labor is particularly interested in
comments which:
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* Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
* evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
* enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
* minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
III. Current Actions: The Department
of Labor seeks the approval of the
extension of this currently approved
information collection in order to carry
out its responsibility to provide
payment for covered medical services to
beneficiaries who are covered under
FECA, BLBA and EEOICPA.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs.
Title: Uniform Billing Form.
OMB Number: 1240–0019.
Agency Number: OWCP–04.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Businesses or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions.
Total Respondents: 6,277.
Total Responses: 221,992.
Time per Response: 1–7 minutes
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
25,503.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $0.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: July 17, 2015.
Yoon Ferguson,
Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs, US Department of
Labor.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
National Science Foundation.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans
to request renewal of this collection. In
accordance with the requirement of
section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we are providing
opportunity for public comment on this
action. After obtaining and considering
public comment, NSF will prepare the
submission requesting OMB clearance
of this collection for no longer than 3
years.
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 on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
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.
DATES: Written comments should be
received by September 21, 2015, to be
assured of consideration. Comments
received after that date would be
considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Written comments
regarding the information collection and
requests for copies of the proposed
information collection request should be
addressed to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports
Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm.
1265, Arlington, VA 22230, or by email
to splimpto@nsf.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzanne Plimpton on (703) 292–7556 or
send email to splimpto@nsf.gov.
Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–
8339, which is accessible 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
(including federal holidays).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Monitoring for the
National Science Foundation’s Math
and Science Partnership (MSP) Program.
OMB Control No.: 3145–0199.
SUMMARY:
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Expiration Date of Approval: January
31, 2016.
1. Abstract
• This document has been prepared
to support the clearance of data
collection instruments to be used in the
evaluation of the Math and Science
Partnership (MSP) program. The goals
for the program are to (1) ensure that all
K–12 students have access to, are
prepared for, and are encouraged to
participate and succeed in challenging
curricula and advanced mathematics
and science courses; (2) enhance the
quality, quantity, and diversity of the K–
12 mathematics and science teacher
workforce; and (3) develop evidencebased outcomes that contribute to our
understanding of how students
effectively learn the knowledge, skills
and ways of thinking inherent in
mathematics, computer science,
engineering, and/or the natural sciences.
The motivational force for realizing
these goals is the formation of
partnerships between institutions of
higher education (IHEs) and K–12
school districts. The role of IHE content
faculty is the cornerstone of this
intervention. In fact, it is the rigorous
involvement of science, mathematics,
and engineering faculty—and the
expectation that both IHEs and K–12
school systems will be transformed—
that distinguishes MSP from other
education reform efforts.
• The components of the overall MSP
portfolio include active projects whose
initial awards were made in prior MSP
competitions: (1) Comprehensive
Partnerships that implement change in
mathematics and/or science educational
practices in both higher education
institutions and in schools and school
districts, resulting in improved student
achievement across the K–12
continuum; (2) Targeted Partnerships
that focus on improved K–12 student
achievement in a narrower grade range
or disciplinary focus within
mathematics or science; (3) Institute
Partnerships: Teacher Institutes for the
21st Century that focus on the
development of mathematics and
science teachers as school—and districtbased intellectual leaders and master
teachers; (4) Research, Evaluation and
Technical Assistance (RETA) projects
that build and enhance large-scale
research and evaluation capacity for all
MSP awardees and provide them with
tools and assistance in the
implementation and evaluation of their
work; (5) MSP-Start Partnerships are for
awardees new to the MSP program,
especially from minority-serving
institutions, community colleges and
primarily undergraduate institutions, to
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support the necessary data analysis,
project design, evaluation and team
building activities needed to develop a
full MSP Targeted or Institute
Partnership; and (6) Phase II
Partnerships for prior MSP Partnership
awardees focus on specific innovation
areas of their work where evidence of
significant positive impact is clearly
documented and where an investment
of additional resources and time would
produce more robust findings and
results.
The MSP monitoring information
system, comprised of eight web-based
surveys, collects a common core of data
about each component of MSP. The Web
application for MSP has been developed
with a modular design that incorporates
templates and self-contained code
modules for rapid development and
ease of modification. A downloadable
version will also be available for
respondents who prefer a paper version
that they can mail or fax to the external
contractor.
Use of the information: This
information is required for effective
program planning, administration,
communication, program and project
monitoring and evaluation, and for
measuring attainment of NSF’s program,
project and strategic goals; the Deficit
Reduction Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109–171)
which established the Academic
Competitiveness (ACC). The MSP
program is also directly aligned with
two of NSF’s long-term investment
categories: (1) Transform the Frontiers
and (2) Innovate for Society.
2. Expected Respondents
The expected respondents are
principal investigators of all Targeted
and Institute partnership projects;
STEM and education faculty members
and administrators who participated in
MSP; school districts and IHEs that are
partners in an MSP project; and teachers
participating in Institute Partnerships.
3. Burden on the Public
Number of Respondents: 1936.
Burden of the Public: The estimated
total annual response burden for this
collection is 17,727 hours.
This figure is based upon the previous
3 years of collecting information under
this clearance and anticipated
collections. The average annual
reporting burden is estimated to be
between less than 1 and 50 hours per
respondent depending on whether a
respondent is a direct participant who is
self-reporting or representing a project
and reporting on behalf of many project
participants. The majority of
respondents (60%) are estimated to
require fewer than two hours to
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complete the survey. The burden on the
public is negligible because the study is
limited to project participants that have
received funding from the MSP
Program.
Dated: July 17, 2015.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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Updated Standardized Research
Performance Progress Report Format
to be Used for Both Interim and Final
Performance Progress Reporting
AGENCY:
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an updated standardized Research
Performance Progress Report (RPPR)
format to be used for both interim and
final performance progress reporting.
ACTION:
The RPPR that was originally
developed for use in preparation and
submission of annual and other interim
performance progress reports resulted
from an initiative of Research Business
Models (RBM), an Interagency Working
Group of the Social, Behavioral &
Economic Research Subcommittee of
the Committee on Science (CoS), a
committee of the National Science and
Technology Council (NSTC). The
original version of the RPPR format was
approved for implementation in the
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1816–1819, January 13, 2010]. As part of
this FR notice, it was stated that the
development of a final RPPR format
would take place upon completion of
the interim RPPR exercise.
A revised draft of the format has been
developed to incorporate lessons
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implementation of the RPPR. The
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using the format for interim
performance progress reports only to
using the format for both interim and
final performance progress reports.
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continue to serve as the sponsor of the
updated version of this Federal-wide
performance progress reporting format.
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are invited to comment on the proposed
revised format during the 60-day public
comment period. A ‘‘For Comment’’
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submission of interim and final
Research Performance Progress Reports,
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to
request renewal of this collection. In accordance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are
providing opportunity for public comment on this action. After
obtaining and considering public comment, NSF will prepare the
submission requesting OMB clearance of this collection for no longer
than 3 years.
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 on respondents, including
through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, 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.
DATES: Written comments should be received by September 21, 2015, to be
assured of consideration. Comments received after that date would be
considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Written comments regarding the information collection and
requests for copies of the proposed information collection request
should be addressed to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer,
National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm. 1265, Arlington, VA
22230, or by email to splimpto@nsf.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Suzanne Plimpton on (703) 292-7556 or
send email to splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339, which is accessible
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (including federal
holidays).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Monitoring for the National Science
Foundation's Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program.
OMB Control No.: 3145-0199.
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Expiration Date of Approval: January 31, 2016.
1. Abstract
This document has been prepared to support the clearance
of data collection instruments to be used in the evaluation of the Math
and Science Partnership (MSP) program. The goals for the program are to
(1) ensure that all K-12 students have access to, are prepared for, and
are encouraged to participate and succeed in challenging curricula and
advanced mathematics and science courses; (2) enhance the quality,
quantity, and diversity of the K-12 mathematics and science teacher
workforce; and (3) develop evidence-based outcomes that contribute to
our understanding of how students effectively learn the knowledge,
skills and ways of thinking inherent in mathematics, computer science,
engineering, and/or the natural sciences. The motivational force for
realizing these goals is the formation of partnerships between
institutions of higher education (IHEs) and K-12 school districts. The
role of IHE content faculty is the cornerstone of this intervention. In
fact, it is the rigorous involvement of science, mathematics, and
engineering faculty--and the expectation that both IHEs and K-12 school
systems will be transformed--that distinguishes MSP from other
education reform efforts.
The components of the overall MSP portfolio include active
projects whose initial awards were made in prior MSP competitions: (1)
Comprehensive Partnerships that implement change in mathematics and/or
science educational practices in both higher education institutions and
in schools and school districts, resulting in improved student
achievement across the K-12 continuum; (2) Targeted Partnerships that
focus on improved K-12 student achievement in a narrower grade range or
disciplinary focus within mathematics or science; (3) Institute
Partnerships: Teacher Institutes for the 21st Century that focus on the
development of mathematics and science teachers as school--and
district-based intellectual leaders and master teachers; (4) Research,
Evaluation and Technical Assistance (RETA) projects that build and
enhance large-scale research and evaluation capacity for all MSP
awardees and provide them with tools and assistance in the
implementation and evaluation of their work; (5) MSP-Start Partnerships
are for awardees new to the MSP program, especially from minority-
serving institutions, community colleges and primarily undergraduate
institutions, to support the necessary data analysis, project design,
evaluation and team building activities needed to develop a full MSP
Targeted or Institute Partnership; and (6) Phase II Partnerships for
prior MSP Partnership awardees focus on specific innovation areas of
their work where evidence of significant positive impact is clearly
documented and where an investment of additional resources and time
would produce more robust findings and results.
The MSP monitoring information system, comprised of eight web-based
surveys, collects a common core of data about each component of MSP.
The Web application for MSP has been developed with a modular design
that incorporates templates and self-contained code modules for rapid
development and ease of modification. A downloadable version will also
be available for respondents who prefer a paper version that they can
mail or fax to the external contractor.
Use of the information: This information is required for effective
program planning, administration, communication, program and project
monitoring and evaluation, and for measuring attainment of NSF's
program, project and strategic goals; the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
(Pub. L. 109-171) which established the Academic Competitiveness (ACC).
The MSP program is also directly aligned with two of NSF's long-term
investment categories: (1) Transform the Frontiers and (2) Innovate for
Society.
2. Expected Respondents
The expected respondents are principal investigators of all
Targeted and Institute partnership projects; STEM and education faculty
members and administrators who participated in MSP; school districts
and IHEs that are partners in an MSP project; and teachers
participating in Institute Partnerships.
3. Burden on the Public
Number of Respondents: 1936.
Burden of the Public: The estimated total annual response burden
for this collection is 17,727 hours.
This figure is based upon the previous 3 years of collecting
information under this clearance and anticipated collections. The
average annual reporting burden is estimated to be between less than 1
and 50 hours per respondent depending on whether a respondent is a
direct participant who is self-reporting or representing a project and
reporting on behalf of many project participants. The majority of
respondents (60%) are estimated to require fewer than two hours to
complete the survey. The burden on the public is negligible because the
study is limited to project participants that have received funding
from the MSP Program.
Dated: July 17, 2015.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2015-18028 Filed 7-22-15; 8:45 am]
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