[Federal Register: June 17, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 117)]
[Notices]               
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

[OPM 1153]

 
Proposed Collection: Comment Request for Review of an Expiring 
Information Collection: Claim for Unpaid Compensation of Deceased 
Civilian Employee

AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 
L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the U.S. Office of 
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review

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of an expiring information collection. Standard Form 1153, Claim for 
Unpaid Compensation for Deceased Civilian Employee, is used to collect 
information from individuals who have been designated as beneficiaries 
of the unpaid compensation of a deceased Federal employee or who 
believe that their relationship to the deceased entitles them to 
receive the unpaid compensation of the deceased Federal employee. OPM 
needs this information in order to adjudicate the claim and properly 
assign a deceased Federal employee's unpaid compensation to the 
appropriate individual(s).
    The proposed revision to the expiring information collection 
responds to suggestions received from users. Part B, 1. is changed to 
clarify a beneficiary may include a legal entity or estate as provided 
for in 5 CFR 178.203(c) and to provide instructions if more room is 
needed to list designated beneficiaries.
    Approximately 3,000 SF 1153 forms are submitted annually. It takes 
approximately 15 minutes to complete the form. The annual estimated 
burden is 750 hours.
    Comments are particularly invited on:

--Whether this collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of functions of OPM, 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 Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on 
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251, or e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov. 
Please include a mailing address with your request.

DATES: Comments on this proposal should be received within 60 calendar 
days from the date of this publication.

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments to--Robert D. Hendler, 
Classification and Pay Claim Program Manager, Center for Merit System 
Accountability, Division for Human Capital Leadership and Merit System 
Accountability, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, 
NW., Room 6484, Washington, DC 20415.

    U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Howard Weizmann,
Deputy Director.
 [FR Doc. E8-13516 Filed 6-16-08; 8:45 am]

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