[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 226 (Wednesday, November 24, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71707-71708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-29534]


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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: Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) Annual 
Operating Report (AOR) Form (OMB No. 0915-0314)--[REVISION]. This 
clearance request is for approval of the modified online NFLP-AOR form 
for grantees to report annual NFLP loan fund activity. The Web-based 
(online) version of the NFLP-AOR form was developed and

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integrated into the existing HRSA Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) 
Performance Report module in fiscal year 2009. The online NFLP-AOR form 
will be modified to collect additional data from applicants that will 
include information on the total number of enrollees, graduates, and 
graduates employed as nurse faculty by: (1) Age and Gender, (2) Nursing 
Programs, and (3) Nursing Degrees. Under Title VIII, section 846A of 
the Public Health Service Act, as amended by Public Law 111-148, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) enters into an agreement 
with a school of nursing and makes an award to the school. The award is 
used to establish a distinct account for the NFLP loan fund at the 
school. The school of nursing makes loans from the NFLP fund to 
students enrolled full-time or part-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 and any loans that go 
into repayment and deposits these monies 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-AOR is used to monitor grantee performance by 
collection of 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 are required to 
complete and submit the NFLP-AOR annually. In addition to the newly 
required data, participating schools will provide the Federal 
Government with current and cumulative information on: (1) The number 
and amount of loans made, (2) the number of NFLP loan recipients and 
NFLP 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 to determine future awards to the school.
    The estimate of burden for this form is as follows:

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                                                                    Number of       Responses per                         Hours per       Total burden
                             Form                                  respondents       respondent      Total responses      response            hours
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Nurse Faculty Loan Program Annual Operating Report (AOR)......               150                 1               150                 8              1200
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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: November 17, 2010.
Robert Hendricks,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-29534 Filed 11-23-10; 8:45 am]
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