[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 144 (Friday, July 27, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 41335]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-14525]


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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 Loan Repayment 
Program (OMB No. 0915-0127)--Extension

    The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program 
(LRP) was established to assure an adequate supply of trained primary 
care health care 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-designated HPSA approved by the Secretary 
for LRP participants.
    The NHSC LRP forms provide information that is needed for selecting 
participants and making determinations regarding repayment of 
qualifying loans for education. The LRP forms include the following: 
The NHSC LRP Application; the Loan Information and Verification form; 
the Community Site Information form; the Applicant Checklist; the 
Payment Information form; and the Authorization to Release Information 
form.
    The estimated annual burden is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per   Total number      Hours per     Total burden
          Type of form              respondents     respondent     of responses      response          hours
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NHSC LRP Application............            1920               1            1920             .5              960
Community Site Information form.            1920               1            1920             .25             480
Loan Information and                        1920               3            5760             .25            1440
 Verification form..............
Authorization to Release                    1920               1            1920             .1              192
 Information....................
Applicant Checklist.............            1920               1            1920             .2              384
Lenders.........................              80               1              80             .25              20
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    Total.......................            2000  ..............            9680            1.55            3476
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: July 5, 2007.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
 [FR Doc. E7-14525 Filed 7-26-07; 8:45 am]
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