anchor: 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.
positive: Health and Human Services Department believes that the response total annually will be 3.5 million in 1997.
negative: The HHS has no estimate of how many responses there will be.