[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 145 (Friday, July 28, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 42849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12134]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: OS-0990-0001; 60-day notice]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

Agency: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), 
Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following 
summary of a proposed collection for public comment. Interested persons 
are invited to send comments regarding this burden estimate or any 
other aspect of this collection of information, including any of the 
following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility of the proposed 
information collection for the proper performance of the agency's 
functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to 
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology to minimize the information collection 
burden.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Revision, of a currently 
approved collection.
    Title of Information Collection: Application of Waiver of the 2 
Year Foreign Residence Requirement of the Exchange Visitor Program.
    Form/OMB No.: OS-0990-0001.
    Use: Form and supplementary information sheets (Supplement A--
Research and Supplement B--Clinical Care) is used by this Department to 
make a determination, in accordance with its published regulations, as 
to whether or not to request from the Department of State, a waiver of 
the two-year foreign residence requirement for applicants in the United 
states on a J-l visa. The J-l visa is an exchange visa which carried a 
two-year return home requirement.
    Applicant institutions apply to this Department to request a waiver 
on behalf of foreign medical graduates to work in their medical 
facilities. Our current program deals with both research and clinical 
care waivers. Clinical care waivers allow medical centers, etc. to 
apply for a waiver of the residence requirement for physicians to work 
in HHS designated health manpower shortage areas doing primary care.
    Frequency: Reporting, single time.
    Affected Public: Regulatory or compliance; Application of benefits.
    Annual Number of Respondents: 250.
    Total Annual Responses: 250.
    Average Burden Hours per Response: 10.
    Total Annual Hours: 2500.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access the HHS 
Web site address at http://www.hhs.gov/oirm/infocollect/pending/ or e-
mail your request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, 
and OS document identifier, to [email protected], or call 
the Reports Clearance Office on (202) 690-6162. Written comments and 
recommendations for the proposed information collections must be 
received with 60-days, and directed to the OS Paperwork Clearance 
Officer at the following address: Department of Health and Human 
Services, Office of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Budget, 
Technology, and Finance, Office of Information and Resource Management, 
Attention: Sherrette Funn-Coleman (0990-0001), Room 531-H, 200 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.

    Dated: July 21, 2006.
Robert E. Polson,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance 
Officer.
 [FR Doc. E6-12134 Filed 7-27-06; 8:45 am]
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