[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 166 (Monday, August 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 43776]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21650]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; 
Comment Request
    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget, in compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a 
copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301)-443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:
    Survey of Exchange Visitor Physicians Remaining in the United 
States on a Waiver--NEW--A survey is planned of exchange visitor 
physicians, i.e., physicians who entered the United States on a J-1 
visa to engage in graduate medical education, who have been granted 
waivers to the return home requirement. Exchange visitor foreign 
physicians receive a J-1 visa and agree to return to their home country 
or country of last residence for a minimum of two years upon completing 
their training. The Department of Health and Human Services plans to 
collect information about practice specialty and site of these 
physicians to make informed decisions regarding the implementation of 
waiver policy. The information to be collected includes: basis of 
waiver; initial and current geographic location; initial and current 
medical specialty; number of years of training completed in the U.S.; 
changes of venue after initial practice site; sequence of specialties 
after initial practice specialty; and related information.

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                                                                                                        Total   
                        Type of Form                           Number of    Frequency    Hours per      burden  
                                                              respondents  of response    response      hours   
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Survey of Physicians with J-1 Visa Waivers..................        1,240            1          .33          413
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C. 
20503.

    Dated: August 19, 1996.
J. Henry Montes,
Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination.
[FR Doc. 96-21650 Filed 8-23-96; 8:45 am]
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