[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 6, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62658-62659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-5520]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Request for Public Comment: 30-Day Proposed Information 
Collection: Application for Participation in the IHS Scholarship 
Program

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 350(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 which requires 30 days 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 (72 FR 45054) on August 10, 2007 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 directly to OMB.
    Proposed Collection: Title: 0917-0006, ``Application for 
Participation in the IHS Scholarship Program.'' Type of Information 
Collection Request: Previously Approved Collection. Form Number(s): 
IHS-856, 856-2 through 856-8, IHS-815, IHS-816, IHS-817, IHS-818, 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 an IHS Scholarship Program 
application booklet. Need and Use of Information Collection: This IHS 
Scholarship Branch needs this information for program administration 
and uses the information to solicit, process, and award IHS Pre-
graduate, Preparatory, and/or Health Professions

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Scholarship grants and monitor the academic performance of awardees, to 
place awardees at payback sites. The IHS Scholarship Program plans to 
streamline the application to reduce the time needed by applicants to 
complete and provide the information. The IHS Scholarship Program plans 
to use information technology to make the application electronically 
available on the internet have been delayed. Affected Public: 
Individuals, non-for-profit institutes and State, local or Tribal 
Government. Type of Respondents: Students pursuing health care 
professions.
    The table below provides: Types of data collection instruments, 
Estimated number of respondents, Number of responses per respondent, 
Annual number of responses, Average burden hour per response, and 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)....................               1500
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).....               1500                  2               3000  0.83 (50 min)....................               2490
Justification (856-5)....................               1500                  1               1500  0.75 (45 min)....................               1125
Federal Debt (856-6).....................               1500                  1               1500  0.13 (8 min).....................                195
Job Experience only (856-7)..............                 25                  1                 25  0.83 (50 min)....................                 21
Accept/Decline (856-8)...................                650                  1                650  0.13 (8 min).....................                 84
Receipt of Application (815).............               1500                  1               1500  0.03 (2 min).....................                 45
Address Change Notice (816)..............                 25                  1                 25  0.02 (1 min).....................                 25
Scholarship Program Agreement (817)......                850                  1                850  0.05 (3 min).....................                 43
Stipend Checks (D-02)....................                100                  1                100  0.13 (8 min).....................                 13
Enrollment (F-02)........................               1300                  1               1300  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
Health Professions Contract (818)........                850                  1                850  0.05 (3 min).....................                 33
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
Request of Deferment (L-03)..............                 20                  1                 20  0.13 (8 min).....................                  3
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    Total................................             15,830  .................  .................  .................................             7,380
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\*\ For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.

    There are no Capital Costs, Operating Costs, and/or Maintenance 
Costs to report.
    Request 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 estimates 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: Mrs. Chris Rouleau, IHS Reports Clearance Officer, 12300 
Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852-1601; call non-toll 
free (301) 443-5938; 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 full effect if received within 30 day of the 
date of this publication.

    Dated: October 29, 2007.
Robert G. McSwain,
Acting Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 07-5520 Filed 11-5-07; 8:45 am]
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