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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comment on Information
Collection Proposal
The Agencies invite public comment
on the following information collection.
Comments are invited on the following:
a. Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the Federal Reserve’s
functions; including whether the
information has practical utility;
b. The accuracy of the Federal
Reserve’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
c. Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
d. Ways to minimize the burden of
information collection on respondents,
including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and
e. Estimates of capital or startup costs
and costs of operation, maintenance,
and purchase of services to provide
information.
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Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be shared between the
Agencies. All comments received,
including attachments and other
supporting materials, are part of the
public record and will be included in
the submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB).
Title: Prohibition on Funding of
Unlawful internet Gambling.
OMB Control Numbers:
Board: 7100–0317.
Treasury: 1505–0204.
General Description of Report: On
November 18, 2008, the Agencies
published a joint notice of final
rulemaking in the Federal Register (73
FR 69382) adopting a rule on a
prohibition on the funding of unlawful
internet gambling pursuant to the Act.
Identical sets of the final joint rule with
identically numbered sections were
adopted by the Board and the Treasury
within their respective titles of the Code
of Federal Regulations (12 CFR part 233
for the Board and 31 CFR part 132 for
the Treasury). The compliance date for
the joint rule was June 1, 2010 (74 FR
62687). The collection of information is
set out in sections 5 and 6 of the joint
rule.1 Section 5 of the joint rule, as
required by the Act, requires all nonexempt participants in designated
payment systems to establish and
implement written policies and
procedures reasonably designed to
identify and block or otherwise prevent
or prohibit transactions in connection
with unlawful internet gambling.
Section 6 of the joint rule provides nonexclusive examples of policies and
procedures deemed by the Agencies to
be reasonably designed to identify and
block or otherwise prevent or prohibit
transactions restricted by the Act.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit and not-for-profit
organizations.
Respondent Burden
For the purpose of estimating burden
and accounting for it with OMB, the
total number of depository institutions
listed for each Agency includes the
number of entities regulated by the
Agency and half of the remaining
depository institutions and third-party
processors. Each Agency is also
accounting for the burden for half of the
card system operators and money
1 Section 802 of the Act requires the agencies to
prescribe joint regulations requiring each
designated payment system, and all participants in
such systems, to identify and block or otherwise
prevent or prohibit restricted transactions through
the establishment of policies and procedures
reasonably designed to identify and block or
otherwise prevent or prohibit the acceptance of
restricted transactions.
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transmitting business operators to
which the Agencies estimate the final
rule applies.
Board
Estimated number of recordkeepers:
2,628 depository institutions, 2,839
credit unions, 7 card system operators,
43 money transmitting business
operators, and 3 new or de novo
institutions.
Estimated average annual burden
hours per recordkeeper: Ongoing annual
burden of 8 hours per recordkeeper for
depository institutions, credit unions,
card system operators, and money
transmitting business operators. Onetime burden of 100 hours for new or de
novo institutions.
Estimated frequency: Annually.
Estimated total annual recordkeeping
burden: Ongoing burden, 44,436 hours
and one-time burden, 300 hours.
Treasury
Estimated number of recordkeepers:
3,146 depository institutions, 2,839
credit unions, 7 card system operators,
43 money transmitting business
operators, and 3 new or de novo
institutions.
Estimated average annual burden
hours per recordkeeper: Ongoing annual
burden of 8 hours per recordkeeper for
depository institutions, credit unions,
card system operators, and money
transmitting business operators. Onetime burden of 100 hours for new or de
novo institutions.
Estimated frequency: Annually.
Estimated total annual recordkeeping
burden: Ongoing burden, 48,580 hours
and one-time burden, 300 hours.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System on March 23, 2018.
Ann E. Misback,
Secretary of the Board.
Dated: March 29, 2018.
By the Department of the Treasury.
Spencer W. Clark,
Clearance Officer.
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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:
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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
‘‘Outcome Measure Repository (OMR).’’
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on January 29, 2018, and
allowed 60 days for public comment.
AHRQ received no substantive
comments from the public. The purpose
of this notice is to allow an additional
30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by May 17, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by
email at OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov (attention: AHRQ’s desk
officer).
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Proposed Project
Outcome Measure Repository
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
AHRQ invites public comment on this
proposed information collection. In
accordance with the agency’s mission,
AHRQ developed the Outcome Measure
Repository (OMR), a web-based database
with the purpose of providing a readily
available public resource that includes
definitions of outcome measures
associated with patient registries. The
information being collected in each
OMR record will be visible to the public
and readily available for public use.
This effort is in alignment the AHRQ
Registry of Patient Registries (RoPR),
which provides a central point of
collection for information about all
patient registries in the United States.
The RoPR furthers AHRQ’s goals to
enhance the description of the quality,
appropriateness, and effectiveness of
health services, and patient registries in
particular, in a more readily available,
central location by enhancing patient
registry information, extracted from
ClinicalTrials.gov or modeled based on
the ClinicalTrials.gov data elements.
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The development of the OMR
continues these efforts, and aims to
achieve the following objectives:
(1) Provide a searchable database of
outcome measures used in patient
registries in the United States to
promote collaboration, reduce
redundancy, and improve transparency;
(2) Facilitate the use of standardized
data elements and outcome measures;
and
(3) Facilitate the identification of
potential areas of harmonization.
The OMR system will be linked to
RoPR in two key ways. First, users
entering registry information in the
RoPR system will be able to associate
OMR measure records with the RoPR
registry records, and, measure stewards
listing a measure record in the OMR
system will be able to associate the
measure with an existing patient
registry in RoPR. Second, users will be
able to access both databases with a
single account (i.e., users with a RoPR
account will be able to log in/access the
OMR using that account, and vice
versa).
This study is being conducted by
AHRQ through its contractor, L&M
Policy Research and subcontractors
Truven Health Analytics, an IBM
Company, and OM1, 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
outcomes, cost, cost-effectiveness, and
use of health care services and access to
such services, and with respect to health
statistics and database development. 42
U.S.C. 299a(a)(3) and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the three objectives of this
project, outcome measures and related
sub-elements from measure stewards
who populate the OMR database system
will be collected.
Users of the OMR will primarily fall
into two types: Those stewarding a
registry who will provide information
on the data they collect in their registry,
and those who will search for
information about how a particular type
of outcome measure is collected within
patient registries. For the OMR to
succeed, the first group of users must be
able to enter information into the system
easily and efficiently. The second group
of users must be able to find sufficient
information efficiently on outcome
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measures to identify items for use in
their own registry or research. Meeting
the needs of both sets of users is an
important consideration in the design of
the OMR.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated
annualized burden hours for the
respondent’s time to contribute to the
OMR.
Based on the number of respondents
submitting RoPR records in 2016 (65
respondents), it is expected that a
similar number of stakeholders
(approximately 70 respondents) will
provide measure information in the
OMR on an annual basis.
All users will complete required
fields on the ‘‘Measure Profile’’ form.
Some users may also choose to complete
the ‘‘Sub-Element Profile’’ form for one
or more sub-elements associated with a
given measure although this is not
required. The number of sub-elements
for a given measure is expected to vary
widely. Many users may not provide
sub-element information, while others
may include five or more. It is expected
that on average, measure stewards will
enter information for two sub-elements.
In September 2017, Truven Health
Analytics consulted with several
stakeholders and used a sample of
existing measure definitions to estimate
the time required to enter all OMR
fields. The sample included measures
representing a range of depth and
complexity. For example, one measure
record contained no sub-element
information, only required fields, and
short responses to open text fields (e.g.,
title and description). Another record
contained two sub-elements, all
optional fields, and longer responses to
open text fields.
As a result of the knowledge gained
during these processes, it is estimated
that it will take users 16 minutes, on
average, to enter manually the
additional fields added through the selfregistration process (an average of 12
minutes to complete the Measure Profile
form and 4 minutes to complete two
Sub-Element Profile sub-forms). If 70
respondents complete the Measure
Profile form and two Sub-Element
Profile sub-forms, the estimated
annualized burden would be 18.7 hours
total.
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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Minutes per
response
Total burden
hours
OMR Measure Profile/Sub-Element Profile .....................................................
70
1
16/60
18.7
Total ..........................................................................................................
70
1
16/60
18.7
Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost
burden associated with the respondent’s
time to participate in the OMR. The
total cost burden to respondents is
estimated at an average of $711.72
annually.
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
Form name
Total burden
hours
Average
hourly wage
rate †
Total cost
burden
OMR Measure Profile/Sub-Element Profile .....................................................
70
18.7
$38.06
$711.72
Total ..........................................................................................................
70
18.7
38.06
711.72
* Based on the mean wages for Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, 29–0000. National Compensation Survey: Occupational
Wages in the United States May 2016, ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.’’ Available at: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/
oes290000.htm.
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.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–18–0792; Docket No. CDC–2018–
0031]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comment on a
proposed information collection project
titled, Environmental Health Specialists
Network (EHS–NET) Program Generic
Package. The goal of this food safety
research program is to collect data in
retail food establishments that will
identify and help to understand
environmental factors (e.g., manager
food safety certification,
implementation of food safety practices,
etc.) associated with retail-related
foodborne illness and outbreaks.
DATES: CDC must receive written
comments on or before June 18, 2018.
SUMMARY:
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You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2018–
0031 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Leroy A. Richardson,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS–
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
Regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
through the Federal eRulemaking portal
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact Leroy A.
Richardson, Information Collection
Review Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
Road NE, MS–D74, Atlanta, Georgia
30329; phone: 404–639–7570; Email:
omb@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires Federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
ADDRESSES:
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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 ``Outcome Measure Repository (OMR).''
This proposed information collection was previously published in
the Federal Register on January 29, 2018, and allowed 60 days for
public comment. AHRQ received no substantive comments from the public.
The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public
comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by May 17, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: AHRQ's OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395-6974 (attention: AHRQ's desk officer) or by
email at [email protected] (attention: AHRQ's desk officer).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
Outcome Measure Repository
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501-
3521, AHRQ invites public comment on this proposed information
collection. In accordance with the agency's mission, AHRQ developed the
Outcome Measure Repository (OMR), a web-based database with the purpose
of providing a readily available public resource that includes
definitions of outcome measures associated with patient registries. The
information being collected in each OMR record will be visible to the
public and readily available for public use.
This effort is in alignment the AHRQ Registry of Patient Registries
(RoPR), which provides a central point of collection for information
about all patient registries in the United States. The RoPR furthers
AHRQ's goals to enhance the description of the quality,
appropriateness, and effectiveness of health services, and patient
registries in particular, in a more readily available, central location
by enhancing patient registry information, extracted from
ClinicalTrials.gov or modeled based on the ClinicalTrials.gov data
elements.
The development of the OMR continues these efforts, and aims to
achieve the following objectives:
(1) Provide a searchable database of outcome measures used in
patient registries in the United States to promote collaboration,
reduce redundancy, and improve transparency;
(2) Facilitate the use of standardized data elements and outcome
measures; and
(3) Facilitate the identification of potential areas of
harmonization.
The OMR system will be linked to RoPR in two key ways. First, users
entering registry information in the RoPR system will be able to
associate OMR measure records with the RoPR registry records, and,
measure stewards listing a measure record in the OMR system will be
able to associate the measure with an existing patient registry in
RoPR. Second, users will be able to access both databases with a single
account (i.e., users with a RoPR account will be able to log in/access
the OMR using that account, and vice versa).
This study is being conducted by AHRQ through its contractor, L&M
Policy Research and subcontractors Truven Health Analytics, an IBM
Company, and OM1, 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 outcomes, cost, cost-
effectiveness, and use of health care services and access to such
services, and with respect to health statistics and database
development. 42 U.S.C. 299a(a)(3) and (8).
Method of Collection
To achieve the three objectives of this project, outcome measures
and related sub-elements from measure stewards who populate the OMR
database system will be collected.
Users of the OMR will primarily fall into two types: Those
stewarding a registry who will provide information on the data they
collect in their registry, and those who will search for information
about how a particular type of outcome measure is collected within
patient registries. For the OMR to succeed, the first group of users
must be able to enter information into the system easily and
efficiently. The second group of users must be able to find sufficient
information efficiently on outcome measures to identify items for use
in their own registry or research. Meeting the needs of both sets of
users is an important consideration in the design of the OMR.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 shows the estimated annualized burden hours for the
respondent's time to contribute to the OMR.
Based on the number of respondents submitting RoPR records in 2016
(65 respondents), it is expected that a similar number of stakeholders
(approximately 70 respondents) will provide measure information in the
OMR on an annual basis.
All users will complete required fields on the ``Measure Profile''
form. Some users may also choose to complete the ``Sub-Element
Profile'' form for one or more sub-elements associated with a given
measure although this is not required. The number of sub-elements for a
given measure is expected to vary widely. Many users may not provide
sub-element information, while others may include five or more. It is
expected that on average, measure stewards will enter information for
two sub-elements.
In September 2017, Truven Health Analytics consulted with several
stakeholders and used a sample of existing measure definitions to
estimate the time required to enter all OMR fields. The sample included
measures representing a range of depth and complexity. For example, one
measure record contained no sub-element information, only required
fields, and short responses to open text fields (e.g., title and
description). Another record contained two sub-elements, all optional
fields, and longer responses to open text fields.
As a result of the knowledge gained during these processes, it is
estimated that it will take users 16 minutes, on average, to enter
manually the additional fields added through the self-registration
process (an average of 12 minutes to complete the Measure Profile form
and 4 minutes to complete two Sub-Element Profile sub-forms). If 70
respondents complete the Measure Profile form and two Sub-Element
Profile sub-forms, the estimated annualized burden would be 18.7 hours
total.
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Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Form name Number of responses per Minutes per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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OMR Measure Profile/Sub-Element Profile......... 70 1 16/60 18.7
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 70 1 16/60 18.7
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Exhibit 2 shows the estimated cost burden associated with the
respondent's time to participate in the OMR. The total cost burden to
respondents is estimated at an average of $711.72 annually.
Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Average hourly
Form name Number of Total burden wage rate Total cost
respondents hours [dagger] burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OMR Measure Profile/Sub-Element Profile......... 70 18.7 $38.06 $711.72
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... 70 18.7 38.06 711.72
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* Based on the mean wages for Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, 29-0000. National Compensation
Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States May 2016, ``U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics.'' Available at: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes290000.htm.
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.
Karen Migdail,
Chief of Staff.
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