[Federal Register: June 12, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 113)]
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT


Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of an Information
Collection: Information and Instructions on Your Reconsideration
Rights, RI 38-47

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public
Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of
Management and Budget a request for review of an information
collection. Information and Instructions on Your Reconsideration
Rights, RI 38-47, outlines the procedures required to request
reconsideration of an initial OPM decision about Civil Service or
Federal Employees retirement, Retired Federal or Federal Employee
Health Benefits requests to enroll or change enrollment, or Federal
Employees' Group Life Insurance coverage. The forms lists the
procedures and time periods required for requesting reconsideration.
    Approximately 6,000 annuitants and survivors request
reconsideration annually. We estimate it takes approximately 45 minutes
to apply. The annual burden is 4500 hours.
    Comments are particularly invited on:

--Whether this collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the Office of Personnel Management, and
whether it will have practical utility;

--Whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection is
accurate, and based on valid assumptions and methodology; and
--Ways in which we can minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, through use of the appropriate
technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.

    For copies of this proposal, contact Jim Farron on (202) 418-3208,
or E-mail to jmfarron@opm.gov

DATES: Comments on this proposal should be received on or before August
11, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments to--Lorraine E. Dettman, Chief,
Operations Support Division, Retirement and Insurance Service, U.S.
Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, NW, Room 3349,
Washington, DC 20415.

FOR INFORMATION REGARDING ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION--CONTACT: Mary
Beth Smith-Toomey, Budget & Administrative Services Division, (202)
606-0623.

U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Janice R. Lachance,
Director.
[FR Doc. 98-15653 Filed 6-11-98; 8:45 am]
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