[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47231-47232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-22667]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Indian Health Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.
ACTION: Information collection activity: proposed collection: IHS
Scholarship Program Application; request for public comment: 30-day
notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed
information collection projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) has
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to
review and approve the information collection listed below. This
proposed information collection project was previously published in the
Federal Register on December 7, 2000 (65 FR 76648), and allowed 60 days
for public comment. No public comment was received in response to the
notice. The purpose of this notice is to allow 30 days for public
comment to be submitted to OMB.
Proposed Collection
Title: 0917-0006, ``IHS Scholarship Program Application.'' This
collection known formerly as, ``Application for Participation in the
IHS Scholarship Program.'' Type of Information Collection Request: 3-
year reinstatement, with change, of previously approved information
collection, 0917-0006. Form Number(s): IHS-856, 856-2, through 856-8,
D-02, F-02, F-04, G-02, G-04, H-07, H-08, J-04, J-05, K-03, K-04, and
L-03. Reporting formats are contained in the student handbook and the
applicant booklet. Need and Use of Information Collection: The IHS
Scholarship Program needs this information for program administration
and uses the information to solicit, process and award IHS Pre-
graduate, Preparatory and/or Health Professions Scholarship grantees
and monitor the academic performance of awardees, to place awardees at
payback sites, and for awardees to request additional program. The IHS
Scholarship Program's plans to streamline the application to reduce the
time needed by applicants to complete and provide the information and
to use information technology to make the application electronically
available on the Internet have been delayed until the 2003-2004
academic year. Affected Public: Individuals, not-for-profit
institutions and State, local or Tribal Government. Type of
Respondents: Students pursuing health care professions.
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Table of Total Annual Burden Hour(s)
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Number of Responses per Total annual Annual burden
Data Collection Instrument(s) respondents respondent response Burden hour per response * hours
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Scholarship Application (IHS-856)........ 1500 1 1500 1.00 (60 min)................................ 1,500
Checklist (856-2)........................ 1500 1 1500 0.13 (8 min)................................. 195
Course Verification (856-3).............. 1500 1 1500 0.70 (42 min)................................ 1050
Faculty/Employer Application (856-4)..... 3000 1 3000 0.83 (50 min)................................ 2490
Justication (8567-5)..................... 1500 1 1500 0.75 (45 min)................................ 1125
Federal Debt (856-6)..................... 1500 1 1500 0.13 (8 min)................................. 195
MPH only (856-7)......................... 25 1 25 0.83 (50 min)................................ 21
Accept/Decline (856-8)................... 650 1 650 0.13 (8 min)................................. 84
Stipend Checks (D-02).................... 100 1 100 0.13 (8 min)................................. 13
Enrollment (F-02)........................ 1,300 1 1,300 0.13 (8 min)................................. 169
Academic Problem/Change (F-04)........... 50 1 50 0.13 (8 min)................................. 6
Request Assistance (G-02)................ 217 1 217 0.13 (8 min)................................. 28
Summer School (G-04)..................... 193 1 193 0.10 (6 min)................................. 19
Placement (H-07)......................... 250 1 250 0.18 (11 min)................................ 45
Graduation (H-08)........................ 250 1 250 0.17 (10 min)................................ 43
Site Preference (J-04)................... 150 1 150 0.13 (8 min)................................. 20
Travel Reimb (J-05)...................... 150 1 150 0.10 (6 min)................................. 15
Status Report (K-03)..................... 250 1 250 0.25 (15 min)................................ 63
Preferred Assignment (K-04).............. 200 1 200 0.75 (45 min)................................ 150
Deferment (L-03)......................... 20 1 20 0.13 (8 min)................................. 3
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Total................................ 14,305 .............. .............. ............................................. 7,234
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* For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.
The annual burden hour increase from 5,390 to 7,234 hours is due to
the ever increasing number of applications being received for the
scholarship program. There are no capital costs, operating costs and/or
maintenance costs to report for this collection of information.
Comments
Requests for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are
invited on one or more of the following points: (a) Whether the
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency
function; (b) whether the agency processes the information collected in
a useful and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of public burden estimate
(the estimated amount of time needed for individual respondents to
provide the requested information); (d) whether the methodology and
assumptions used to determine the estimate are logical; (e) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information being
collected; and (f) ways to minimize the public burden through the use
of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Direct Comments to OMB: Send your written comments and suggestions
regarding the proposed information collection contained in this notice,
especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated
response time, to: Office of Management and Budget, Office of
Regulatory Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for IHS.
To request more information on the proposed collection or to obtain
a copy of the data collection instrument(s) and/or instruction(s),
contact: Mr. Lance Hodahkwen, Sr., M.P.H., IHS Reports Clearance
Office, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852-1601,
or call non-toll free (301) 433-5938 or send via facsimile to (301)
443-2316, or send your E-mail requests, comments, and return address
to: [email protected].
Comment Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having their full effect if received on or before
October 11, 2001.
Dated: August 31, 2001.
Michael H. Trujillo,
Assistant Surgeon General, Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 01-22667 Filed 9-10-01; 8:45 am]
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