[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 69 (Friday, April 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19324-19325]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08285]


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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 no later than May 11, 
2015.

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: 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 
to attend 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 as 
well as 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 SP 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 
SP 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. BHW enters the cost

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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 SP scholars in school, graduates, 
educational institutions, and critical shortage facility employers.
    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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Eligible Applications/                     2,600               1           2,600               2           5,200
 Application Program Guidance...
School Enrollment Verification               500               4           2,000           20/60             667
 Form...........................
Confirmation of Interest Form...             250               1             250           12/60              50
DCW Form........................             500               1             500               1             500
Graduation Close Out Form.......             200               1             200           10/60              33
Initial Employment Verification              500               1             500           25/60             208
 Form...........................
Service Verification Form--                  500               2           1,000            8/60             133
 Employer.......................
Service Verification Form--                  500               2           1,000            6/60             100
 Participant....................
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    Total.......................  ..............  ..............  ..............  ..............           6,891
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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. 2015-08285 Filed 4-9-15; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4165-15-P