[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 239 (Tuesday, December 15, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66360-66361]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-29828]


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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

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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: Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT) and 
Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship (NAT) (OMB No. 0915-0305) [Extension]

    The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) provides 
training grants to educational institutions to increase the numbers of 
advanced education nurses through the Advanced Education Nursing 
Traineeship (AENT) program and the Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship (NAT) 
program.
    HRSA developed the AENT and NAT tables for the application 
guidances and the Nurse Traineeship Database for the two nursing 
traineeship programs. The AENT and NAT tables are used annually by 
grant applicants that are applying for AENT and NAT funding. The funds 
appropriated for the AENT and NAT programs are distributed among 
eligible institutions based on a formula. Award amounts are based on 
enrollment and graduate data reported on the tables and two funding 
factors (Statutory Funding Preference and Statutory Special 
Consideration).
    The AENT and NAT tables include information on program participants 
such as the number of enrollees, projected data on enrollees and 
graduates for the following academic year, number of trainees 
supported, number of graduates, number of graduates supported and the 
types of programs they are enrolling into and/or from which they are 
graduating. AENT and NAT applicants will have a single access point to 
submit their grant applications including the tables. Applications are 
submitted in two phases: Grants.gov (Phase 1) and the HRSA Electronic 
Handbooks (Phase 2). These tables will be available electronically 
through the HRSA Electronic Handbooks (Phase 2) for applicants to 
submit their AENT and/or NAT grant application(s). The tables are also 
used in the Nurse Traineeship Database which is used by Division of 
Nursing staff and not the applicants.
    Data from the tables will be used in the award determination and 
validation process. Additionally, the data will be used to ensure 
programmatic compliance, report to Congress and policymakers on the 
program accomplishments, and formulate and justify future budgets for 
these activities submitted to OMB and Congress.
    The burden estimate for this project is as follows: AENT increased 
from 1 hour to 1.5 hours due to the revisions of AENT Tables 1, 2, 3 
and 4 to capture comprehensive data to provide for more detailed data 
analysis of the AENT Program.

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                                    Number of     Responses per                      Hours per     Total burden
           Instrument              respondents     respondent    Total responses     response          hours
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AENT...........................             500               1            500               1.5             750
NAT............................             100               1            100                 1             100
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    Total......................             600  ..............            600    ..............             850
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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: December 4, 2009.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E9-29828 Filed 12-14-09; 8:45 am]
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