[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52951-52952]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25913]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
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proposed data collection projects, the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed
projects being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the proposed
project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans, call the HRSA
Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology.
Proposed Project
The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Application Process (OMB
No. 0915-0146)--Revision and Extension--The National Health Service
Corps (NHSC) Scholarship Program was established to help alleviate the
geographical and specialty maldistribution of physicians and other
health practitioners in the United States. Under this program, health
professions students are offered scholarships in return for service in
a federally-designated Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).
In an effort to improve the procedures for selecting NHSC scholars,
a revised application and a semi-structured interview were pilot tested
in the spring of 1996. The revised selection process is designed to
broaden the scope of the information available on applicants in order
to improve the Agency's ability to identify those applicants with the
greatest potential to fulfill the objectives of the Scholarship
Program. The application form is being expanded, and the unstructured
interview is being replaced by a semistructured interview conducted by
a team of two interviewers who use a structured scoring procedure.
Approval will be requested to implement the new process in two
phases; the new interview will be used in 1997 along with the current
application, with the intent to implement the full process for the 1998
awards.
Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden
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Responses Total
Form name Number of per Hours per burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Application................................................. 3000 1 1.0 3000
Interview................................................... 900 1 1.67 1500
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Estimated Total Annual Burden: 4500 hours. The interview burden
includes 1 hour for travel time to the interview site.
Send comments to Patricia Royston, HRSA Reports Clearance Officer,
Room 14-36, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
Dated: October 3, 1996.
J. Henry Montes,
Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination.
[FR Doc. 96-25913 Filed 10-8-96; 8:45 am]
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