[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 112 (Monday, June 11, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34390-34391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-14001]


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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, email 
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 
443-1984.

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    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)--
[Revision]

    The Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP) is a competitive Federal 
program, which awards scholarships to individuals for attendance at 
accredited 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.
    NSP recipients must be willing to and are required to fulfill their 
NSP service commitment at a health care facility with a critical 
shortage of nurses in the United States, which includes, in addition to 
the States, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American 
Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall 
Islands, and the Republic of Palau. Students who are uncertain of their 
commitment to provide nursing care in a health care facility with a 
critical shortage of nurses in the United States or these 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 statutory 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 information 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
           Instrument               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               2           1,200               1           1,200
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    Total.......................           5,100  ..............           5,700  ..............          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 email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''

    Dated: June 5, 2012.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2012-14001 Filed 6-8-12; 8:45 am]
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