[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 84 (Monday, May 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23656-23657]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11053]


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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 for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Public Law 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes 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 and draft instruments, call 
the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1891.
    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: Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP) Application 
(OMB No. 0915-0150)--Extension

    Under the Health Resources and Services Administration Faculty Loan 
Repayment Program, disadvantaged graduates from certain health 
professions schools may enter into a contract under which HRSA, with 
the Department of Health and Human Services, will make payments on 
eligible graduate educational loans in exchange for a minimum of two 
years of service as a full-time or part-time faculty member of a health 
professions school. Applicants must complete an application and provide 
information on all eligible education loans. Upon selection of 
participants, HRSA will

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request verification from their lenders of loan balances and terms of 
their outstanding educational loans.
    The estimated response burden is as follows:

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                                    Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per      Total burden
           Respondent              respondents      response        responses        response          hours
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Applicants.....................              75               1              75              1                75
Lenders........................             112               1             112               .5              56
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    Total......................  ..............  ..............             187  ...............             131
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    Send comments to Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer, Room 14-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

    Dated: April 27, 1999.
Jane Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 99-11053 Filed 4-30-99; 8:45 am]
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