HHS estimates that the total annual responses will be 3.5 million in 1997 and 3 million in 1998 and 1999 with the total annual burden hours estimated to range from 335,000 to 586,000 hours in 1997; 384,000 to 882,000 hours in 1998; and 377,000 to 882,000 in 1999.
Health and Human Services Department believes that the response total annually will be 3.5 million in 1997.
The HHS has no estimate of how many responses there will be.  