[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4474-4475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-01555]


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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.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Information Collection Request Title: Nurse Faculty Loan Program 
(NFLP)--Annual Performance Report Financial Data Form.
    OMB No.: 0915-0314--Revision.
    Abstract: This clearance request is for approval of a revision to 
the Nurse Faculty Loan Program, Annual Performance Report (NFLP-APR) 
Financial Data Form. The form was previously titled the Nurse Faculty 
Loan Program, Annual Operating Report (NFLP-AOR).
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The online NFLP-APR 
Financial Data Form is an online form that exists in the HRSA 
Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) Performance Report module as part of the 
NFLP, BHPr performance report under OMB Approval No: 0915-0061, 
expiration date: June 30, 2016. The revised NFLP-APR Financial Data 
Form will collect less data from applicants and will no longer include 
nursing student demographic data that was previously included. The 
nursing student demographic data is currently collected under OMB 
Approval No: 0915-0149. The revised NFLP-APR Financial Data Form will 
only collect financial data to capture the NFLP loan fund account 
activity related to financial receivables, disbursements, and borrower 
account data for employment status, loan cancellation, loan repayment, 
and collections. Participating schools will provide the federal 
government with current and cumulative information on: (1) NFLP loan 
funds received, (2) number and amount of NFLP loans made, (3) number 
and amount of loans collected, (4) number and amount of loans in 
repayment, (5) loan default rate percent, (6) number of NFLP graduates 
employed as nurse faculty, and (7) other related loan fund costs and 
activities.
    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 loan fund account 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 4-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-APR Financial Data Form 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-APR Financial Data 
Form semi-annually. The data provided in the form are essential for 
HRSA to effectively monitor the school's use of NFLP funds in 
accordance with program guidelines. Approval of the revised NFLP-APR 
Financial Data Form will facilitate our current effort to determine 
future awards to the school.
    The electronic data collection capability will streamline the 
report submission process, enable an efficient annual performance 
review process, and serve as a data repository to facilitate reporting 
on the use of funds and analysis of program outcomes.
    Likely Respondents: Participating NFLP schools are required to 
adhere to reporting requirements.
    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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                                                     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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NFLP--Annual Performance Report              250               1             250               8           2,000
 Financial Data Form............
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    Total.......................             250               1             250               8           2,000
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    Dated: January 22, 2014.
Jackie Painter,
Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2014-01555 Filed 1-27-14; 8:45 am]
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