[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 179 (Monday, September 17, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52886-52887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-18223]


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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 OMB for review 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995:

Proposed Project: The Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP): Annual 
Operating Report (AOR) Form--NEW

    The Annual Operating Report (AOR) provides information on the Nurse 
Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) funded loan activities. Under Title VIII of 
the Public Health Service Act, as amended by Public Law 107-205, 
Section 846A, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) enters 
into an agreement with a school of nursing to establish and operate the 
NFLP fund. HHS makes an

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award to the school in the form of a Federal Capital Contribution 
(FCC). The award is used to establish a distinct account for the NFLP 
loan fund at the school or is deposited into an existing NFLP fund. The 
school of nursing makes loans from the NFLP fund to eligible students 
enrolled full-time in a master's or doctoral nursing education program 
that will prepare them to become qualified nursing faculty. Following 
graduation from the NFLP lending school, loan recipients may receive up 
to 85 percent NFLP loan cancellation over a consecutive four-year 
period in exchange for service as full-time faculty at a school of 
nursing. The NFLP lending school collects any portion of the loan that 
is not cancelled. The lending school deposits monies from loan 
collection and repayment into the NFLP loan fund to make additional 
NFLP loans. The school of nursing must keep records of all NFLP loan 
fund transactions.
    The NFLP Annual Operating Report is used to collect information 
relating to the NFLP loan fund operations and financial activities for 
a specified reporting period (July 1 through June 30 of the academic 
year). Participating schools will complete and submit an electronic 
copy of the AOR annually to provide the Federal Government with current 
and cumulative information on: (1) The number and amount of loans made, 
(2) the number of NFLP recipients and graduates, (3) the number and 
amount of loans collected, (4) the number and amount of loans in 
repayment, (5) the number of NFLP graduates employed as nurse faculty, 
and (6) NFLP loan fund receipts, disbursements and other related costs. 
The NFLP loan fund balance is used with other criteria to determine the 
annual award to the school.
    Once the AOR is completed by the participating school, the AOR will 
be submitted electronically through the HRSA Electronic Handbook.
    The estimate of burden for this form is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
              Form                  respondents     respondent       responses       responses         hours
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Nurse Faculty Loan Program                   150               1             150               8            1200
 Annual Operating Report (AOR)..
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    Total Burden................             150               1             150               8            1200
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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: September 10, 2007.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
 [FR Doc. E7-18223 Filed 9-14-07; 8:45 am]
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