The ICRs referenced in 42 CFR Part 493 outline the requirements necessary to determine an entities compliance with CLIA, CLIA requires laboratories that perform testing on human beings to meet performance requirements (quality standards) in order to be certified by HHS. HHS conducts inspections to determine a laboratory's compliance with the CLIA requirements. CLIA implements the certificate, laboratory standards, and inspection requirements.
There are no program changes. There has been a slight increase in burden based on calculations for labs under Section 493.1274 Cytology. In the former burden write-up from 2003, we only spoke about the 30% of the total Cytology labs that we had anticipated to be affected by the 2003 CLIA Final Rule. At that time, we estimated that 70% of the Cytology labs were already in compliance; therefore, we did not include all of those hours for that population. We have now calculated the burden using the entire universe of Cytology labs which total 4,478. This is the reason for the burden increase.
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Saleda Perryman
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
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