Notice2025-01959
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; Extension Without Change of a Previously Approved Collection; Recordkeeping for Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances
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Published
January 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Justice Department
Abstract
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8537-8538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01959]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1117-0049]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; Extension Without Change of a Previously Approved
Collection; Recordkeeping for Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled
Substances
AGENCY: Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice (DOJ), Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA), will be submitting the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 30 days until
March 3, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have comments especially on the
estimated public burden or associated response time, suggestions, or
need a copy of the proposed information collection instrument with
instructions or additional information, please contact Heather E.
Achbach, Regulatory Drafting and Policy Support Section, Drug
Enforcement Administration; Mailing Address: 8701 Morrissette Drive,
Springfield, Virginia 22152; Telephone: (571) 776-3882; Email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6f2f3f798e6e4f7f6d2d3d798d1d9c0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3c78797d126c6e7d7c58595d125b534a">[email protected]</span></a> or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#79311c180d111c0b573c57381a111b181a11391d1c18571e160f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="eea68b8f9a868b9cc0abc0af8d868c8f8d86ae8a8b8fc0898198">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposed information collection was
previously published in the Federal Register on November 26, 2024, at
89 FR 93348, allowing for a 60-day comment period. The 60-day notice
was also mistitled as Revision without
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Change of a Previously Approved Collection. The correct title for the
60-Day notice is Extension without Change of a Previously Approved
Collection. Written comments and suggestions from the public and
affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of information are
encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of the following
four points:
--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/or
--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
submission of responses.
Written comments and recommendations for this information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website <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 and entering either the title of the information collection or
the OMB Control Number 1117-0049. This information collection request
may be viewed at <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view
Department of Justice, information collections currently under review
by OMB.
DOJ 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 DOJ notes that information
collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive
a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.
Overview of This Information Collection
1. Type of Information Collection: Extension without change of a
currently Approved Collection.
2. Title of the Form/Collection: Recordkeeping for Electronic
Prescriptions for Controlled Substances.
3. Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the
Department of Justice sponsoring the collection: No Form number is
associated with this collection. The applicable component within the
Department of Justice is the Drug Enforcement Administration, Diversion
Control Division.
4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract:
Affected public (Primary): Business or other for-profit.
Affected public (Other): Not-for-profit institutions; Federal,
State, Local, and tribal governments.
Abstract: DEA is requiring that each registered practitioner apply
to an approved credential service provider approved to obtain identity
proofing and a credential. Hospitals and other institutional
practitioners may conduct this process in-house as part of their
credentialing. For practitioners currently working at or affiliated
with a registered hospital or clinic, the hospital/clinic have to check
a government-issued photographic identification. This may be done when
the hospital/clinic issues credentials to new hires or newly affiliated
physicians. For individual practitioners, two people need to enter
logical access control data to grant permissions for practitioners
authorized to approve and sign controlled substance prescriptions using
the electronic prescription application. For institutional
practitioners, logical access control data is entered by two people
from an entity within the hospital/clinic that is separate from the
entity that conduct identity proofing in-house. Similarly, pharmacies
have to set logical access controls in the pharmacy application so that
only authorized employees have permission to annotate or alter
prescription records. Finally, if the electronic prescription or
pharmacy application generates an incident report, practitioners,
hospitals/clinics, and pharmacies have to review the incident report to
determine if the event identified by the application represents a
security incident.
5. Obligation to Respond: Mandatory.
6. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 158,884.
7. Estimated Time per Respondent: 1.043 hours.
8. Frequency: 1 per year.
9. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 107,733 hours.
10. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.
If additional information is required, contact: Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer, Policy and Planning Staff, Justice
Management Division, United States Department of Justice, Two
Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218 Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: January 27, 2025.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2025-01959 Filed 1-29-25; 8:45 am]
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