[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 25 (Friday, February 6, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6732-6733]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02314]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) announces plans to submit an Information 
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks 
comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any 
other aspect of the ICR.

DATES: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received 
no later than April 7, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA 
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 10C-03, Parklawn 
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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 
Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the information request collection title 
for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Nurse Corps Scholarship 
Program, OMB No. 0915-0301--Revision.
    Abstract: The Nurse Corps Scholarship Program (Nurse Corps SP) is a 
competitive Federal program, which awards scholarships to individuals 
for attendance at accredited schools of nursing. The Bureau of Health 
Workforce (BHW) 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 Nurse Corps SP) at 
a health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses as defined by 
the program. Nurse Corps SP recipients must be willing to (and are 
required to) fulfill their Nurse Corps SP service commitment at a 
health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses in the United 
States, which includes, in addition to the several states, only: 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 the program.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The Nurse Corps 
Scholarship Program 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 Nurse Corps Scholarship Program 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

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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. BHW enters the cost information into its 
data system, along with the projected amount for the monthly stipend, 
to determine the amount of each scholarship award.
    Likely Respondents: Nurse Corps Scholarship Program scholars in 
school and graduates.
    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.
    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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Eligible Applications...........           2,600               1           2,600               2           5,200
In-School Monitoring............             500               2           1,000               2           2,000
In-Service Monitoring...........             500               2           1,000               1           1,000
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    Total.......................           3,600  ..............           4,600  ..............           8,200
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    HRSA specifically 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.

Jackie Painter,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2015-02314 Filed 2-5-15; 8:45 am]
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