Notice2021-20971
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act-Private Sector
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Published
September 28, 2021
Issuing agencies
Labor Department
Abstract
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 28, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53687-53688]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20971]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under
the Affordable Care Act--Private Sector
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Employee
Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)-sponsored information
collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all written comments that agency receives
on or before October 28, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the
Department, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) if the information will be processed and used in a timely
manner; (3) the accuracy of the agency's estimates of the burden and
cost of the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (4) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information collection; and (5) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mara Blumenthal by telephone at 202-
693-8538, or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#43070c0f1c1311021c1316010f0a0003272c2f6d242c35"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a7e3e8ebf8f7f5e6f8f7f2e5ebeee4e7c3c8cb89c0c8d1">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act, Public Law 111-148, (the Affordable Care Act) was enacted on March
23, 2010 and amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation
Act of 2010, Public Law 111-152 on March 30, 2010. The Affordable Care
Act added section 2713 to the Public Health Service (PHS) Act
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and incorporated this provision into ERISA and the Code. The related
regulations contain the following collections of information: (1) Each
organization seeking to be treated as an eligible organization to use
the optional accommodation process offered under the regulation must
either notify an issuer or third party administrator using the EBSA
Form 700 method of self-certification or provide notice to HHS of its
religious or moral objection to coverage of all or a subset of
contraceptive services. (2) A health insurance issuer or third party
administrator providing or arranging separate payments for
contraceptive services for participants and beneficiaries in insured
plans (or student enrollees and covered dependents in student health
insurance coverage) of eligible organizations is required to provide a
written notice to plan participants and beneficiaries (or student
enrollees and covered dependents) informing them of the availability of
such payments. The notice must be separate from but, contemporaneous
with (to the extent possible) any application materials distributed in
connection with enrollment (or re-enrollment) in group or student
coverage of the eligible organization in any plan year to which the
accommodation is to apply and will be provided annually. To satisfy the
notice requirement, issuers may, but are not required to, use the model
language set forth previously or substantially similar language. (3) An
eligible organization may also revoke its use of the accommodation
process and must provide participants and beneficiaries written notice
of such revocation as soon as possible. For additional substantive
information about this ICR, see the related notice published in the
Federal Register on March 31, 2021 (86 FR 16787).
This information collection is subject to the PRA. A Federal agency
generally cannot conduct or sponsor a collection of information, and
the public is generally not required to respond to an information
collection, unless the OMB approves it and displays a currently valid
OMB Control Number. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions
of law, no person shall generally be subject to penalty for failing to
comply with a collection of information that does not display a valid
OMB Control Number. See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for
three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than
three (3) years without renewal. The DOL notes that information
collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive
a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL-EBSA.
Title of Collection: Coverage of Certain Preventive Services under
the Affordable Care Act--Private Sector.
OMB Control Number: 1210-0150.
Affected Public: Private Sector-- Businesses or other for-profits
and not-for-profit institutions.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 114.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 777,362.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 181 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $194,963.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
Dated: September 21, 2021.
Mara Blumenthal,
Senior PRA Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2021-20971 Filed 9-27-21; 8:45 am]
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