Under the regulations, as a first step in becoming certified, mammography facilities must become accredited by an FDA approved accreditation body (AB). This requires undergoing a review of their clinical images and providing the AB with information showing that they meet the equipment, personnel, quality assurance and quality control standards, and have a medical reporting and recordkeeping program, a medical outcomes audit program, and a consumer compliant mechanism. On the basis of this accreditation, facilities are then certified by FDA or an FDA-approved State certification agency and must prominently display their certificate. These actions are taken to ensure safe, accurate, and reliable mammography on a nationwide basis.
There are no program changes. The hour burden has been adjusted to account for a slight increase in the number of respondents for § 900.3(c) “AB renewal of approval.” This resulted in a 14-hour increase to the burden estimate.
Additionally, we updated the capital costs and operating and maintenance costs by adjusting them for inflation since the last update to those estimates.* This adjustment resulted in a $1,893,071 increase to the estimated capital and operating and maintenance costs ($24,410,106 previously; $26,303,177 current extension request).
* Using the Bureau of Labor and Statistics CPI Inflation Calculator (https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm). Updates were calculated from July 2013 (date of submission to OMB of the last update to the “Estimate of the Other Total Annual Cost to Respondents and/or Recordkeepers/Capital Costs” section of the burden estimate) to January 2019. The estimates are rounded to the nearest dollar.
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
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