[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.
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