[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 216 (Thursday, November 7, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66944-66945]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-26692]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments 
submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided 
to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the 
review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received within 30 days of this 
notice.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the Information Collection 
Request Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information 
Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or call (301) 443-
1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Information Collection Request Title: Scholarships for Disadvantaged 
Students Application and Performance Report (SDSPR); OMB No. 0915-
0149--Revision

    Abstract: The purpose of the Scholarships for Disadvantaged 
Students (SDS) Program is to promote diversity among health profession 
students and practitioners by providing funds to eligible schools to 
provide scholarships to full-time, financially needy students from 
disadvantaged backgrounds enrolled in health professions and nursing 
programs.
    To qualify for participation in the SDS program, a school must be 
carrying out a program for recruiting and retaining students from 
disadvantaged backgrounds, including students who are members of racial 
and ethnic minority groups (section 737(d)(1)(B) of the PHS Act). A 
school must meet the eligibility criteria to demonstrate that the 
program has achieved success based on the number and/or percentage of 
disadvantaged students who graduate from the school. In awarding SDS 
funds to eligible schools, funding points must be given to schools 
based on the proportion of graduate students practicing in primary 
care, the proportion of underrepresented minority students, and the 
proportion of graduates working in medically underserved communities 
(section 737(c) of the PHS Act).
    Information collected from the SDS application and SDS report is 
needed by the Department to determine whether applicant schools meet 
the statutory and regulatory requirements, to determine eligibility for 
program participation, and to establish priority points for funding. 
Applicant schools are requested to complete an application for each 
discipline or program. Data are provided on numbers of full-time 
student enrollment and the applicant schools' racial/ethnicity data, 
disadvantaged full-time enrollment by class year, full-time students 
graduated, full-time disadvantaged students graduated, and full-time 
graduates serving in Medically Underserved Communities. Numbers of 
full-time graduates serving in primary care must be provided only for 
schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, nursing (graduate 
degree program), physician assistants, dental hygiene, and mental and 
behavioral health.
    Each school will determine the eligibility of students based on 
financial need and whether a student is from a disadvantaged 
background.
    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 ICR are summarized in the table below.

                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                     Number of       Number of         Total        burden per     Total burden
            Form name               respondents    responses per     responses     response  (in       hours
                                                    respondent                        hours)
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SDS Application Program Specific             400               1             400              13           5,200
 form...........................
SDS Performance Report Form.....              99               1              99              24           2,376
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    Total.......................             499  ..............             499  ..............           7,576
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    Dated: November 1, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2013-26692 Filed 11-6-13; 8:45 am]
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