[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 13, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67656-67657]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27563]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public

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comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more 
information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data 
collection plans and draft instruments, email [email protected] or 
call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.
    HRSA especially requests comments on: (1) The necessity and utility 
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of 
the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden, (3) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected, and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology to minimize the information 
collection burden.

Information Collection Request Title: The National Health Service Corps 
(NHSC) Site Retention Assessment Questionnaire (OMB No. 0915-xxxx)--New

    Abstract: The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) provides health 
professionals with loan repayment and scholarships in return for their 
service to underserved areas. The NHSC's mission is to improve access 
to primary care, which is supported by clinicians who remain in their 
sites well beyond their contracted periods of service. However, many 
sites are unaware of their influence and impact on clinician retention 
levels. The purpose of this project is to gather survey information 
from administrative officials at NHSC-approved sites that will guide 
NHSC initiatives and assist sites in improving their retention 
outcomes. The survey will ask site administrators to rate how difficult 
it is to retain clinicians, their general attitudes about the 
feasibility of good retention and awareness of its principles, their 
practices' current approaches to promoting retention, ratings on 
various aspects of their practices' organizational culture and 
administrative style, and their sites' interest in and preferred ways 
of learning how to bolster retention. Survey data will be gathered 
anonymously and presented in aggregate, to promote administrators' 
participation and full disclosure.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and 
review the collection of information; and, to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for 
this Information Collection Request are summarized in the table below.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                                     Number of                    Average burden
            Form name                Number of     responses per       Total       per response    Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses      (in hours)         hours
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NHSC Site Retention Assessment             7,000               1           7,000           0.507           3,549
 Questionnaire..................
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    Total.......................           7,000               1           7,000           0.507           3,549
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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA 
Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10-29, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
    Deadline: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be 
received within 60 days of this notice.

    Dated: November 7, 2012.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2012-27563 Filed 11-9-12; 8:45 am]
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