[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 130 (Thursday, July 9, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32935-32936]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-16199]


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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, e-mail 
[email protected] or 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: Nursing Scholarship Program (OMB No. 0915-0301)--
Extension

    The Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP) or ``Nursing Scholarship'' is 
a competitive Federal program, which awards scholarships to individuals 
for attendance at schools of nursing. The Bureau of Clinician 
Recruitment and Service (BCRS) in HRSA administers the program. The 
scholarship consists of payment of tuition, fees, other reasonable 
educational costs, and a monthly support stipend. In return, the 
students agree to provide a minimum of 2 years of full-time clinical 
service (or an equivalent part-time commitment, as approved by the NSP) 
at a health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses as defined 
by the program.
    Nursing scholarship recipients must be willing and are required to 
fulfill their NSP service commitment at a health care facility with a 
critical shortage of nurses in the United States, the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Territory of Guam, the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the 
Territory of America Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the 
Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of Micronesia. Students who 
are uncertain of their commitment to provide nursing in a health care 
facility with a critical shortage of nurses in the United States and 
its Territories are advised not to participate in this program. The NSP 
needs to collect data to determine an applicant's eligibility for the 
program, to monitor a participant's continued enrollment in a school of 
nursing, to monitor the participant's compliance with the NSP service 
obligation, and to obtain data on its program to ensure compliance with 
legislative mandates and prepare annual reports to Congress.
    The following information will be collected: (1) From the 
applicants and/or the schools, general applicant and nursing school 
data such as full name, location, tuition/fees, and enrollment status; 
(2) from the schools, on an annual basis, data concerning tuition/fees 
and student enrollment status; and (3) from the participants and their 
health care facilities with a critical shortage of nurses, on a 
biannual basis, data concerning the participant's employment status, 
work schedule and leave usage. BCRS enters the cost information into 
its computerized data system, along with the projected amount for the 
monthly stipend, to determine the amount of each scholarship award.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
         Type of report             respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Application.....................           4,000               1           4,000               2           8,000
In-school monitoring............             500               1             500               2           1,000
In-service monitoring...........             600               1           1,200               1           1,200
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    Total.......................           5,100  ..............          10,200  ..............          10,200
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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 2, 2009.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E9-16199 Filed 7-8-09; 8:45 am]
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