[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 77 (Friday, April 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20919-20920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-8106]


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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 (OMB), 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:

Proposed Project: The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan 
Repayment Program (LRP) (OMB No. 0915-0127)--Revision

    The NHSC LRP was established to assure an adequate supply of 
trained primary care health professionals to provide services in the 
neediest Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) of the United 
States. Under this program, the Department of Health and Human Services 
agrees to repay the educational loans of the primary care health 
professionals. In return, the health professionals agree to serve for a 
specified period of time in a federally-

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designated HPSA approved by the Secretary for LRP participants.
    This request for extension of OMB approval will include the NHSC 
LRP Application, Loan Verification Form, Site Information Form, Request 
for Method of Advanced Loan Repayment Form and Authorization to Release 
Information Form.
    The estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                                              Responses                                 Total
              Type of respondents                Number of       per         Total       Hours per      burden
                                                respondents   respondent   responses     responses      hours
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Applicants....................................         1430         \*\1         1430          1.5          2145
Lenders.......................................           70        \**\1           70           .25           18
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    Total.....................................         1500  ...........         1500  ............        2163
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\*\An applicant response includes completion of one of each of the above-listed forms, and may include the
  completion of additional Loan Verification Forms (one for each educational loan for which he or she is seeking
  repayment).
\**\A lender response includes completion of one Loan Verification Form for each educational loan of an
  applicant it holds.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
John Kraemer, Desk Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office 
of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: April 18, 2005.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 05-8106 Filed 4-21-05; 8:45 am]
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