[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 52 (Friday, March 17, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16454-16455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05478]


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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; Nurse Corps Scholarship 
Program--Revision

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA 
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. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day 
comment period for this notice has closed.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than April 17, 
2023.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

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 Samantha Miller, 
the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at 301-594-4394.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Nurse Corps Scholarship 
Program.
    OMB No. 0915-0301--Extension.
    Abstract: The Nurse Corps Scholarship Program (Nurse Corps SP), 
administered by HRSA, provides scholarships to nursing students in 
exchange for a minimum 2-year full-time service commitment (or part-
time equivalent), at an eligible health care facility with a critical 
shortage of nurses (i.e., Critical Shortage Facility (CSF)). The 
scholarship consists of payment of tuition, fees, other reasonable 
educational costs, and a monthly support stipend. Program recipients 
are required to fulfill Nurse Corps SP service commitments at CSFs 
located in the 50 states, 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.
    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on December 5, 
2023, vol. 87, No. 232; pp. 74428-29. There were no public comments.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The Nurse Corps SP 
collects data to determine an applicant's eligibility for the program, 
monitor a participant's continued enrollment in a school of nursing, 
monitor the participant's compliance with the Nurse Corps SP service 
obligation, and prepare annual reports to Congress. The following 
information will be collected (1) from the schools, on a quarterly 
basis--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 overall student 
enrollment status; and (3) from the participants and their employing 
CSF on a biannual basis--data concerning the participant's employment 
status, work schedule, and leave usage. This notice includes several 
changes to the information collection forms that were included in the 
60-day notice, and requests comments on the revised information 
collection. Specifically, these changes are:
    (1) Form Name Change: The ``Initial Employment Verification Form'' 
changed to ``Employment Verification Form;'' and ``Employer--
Participant Service Verification Form'' changed to ``In-Service 
Verification Form.'' These titles more adequately describe the forms.
    (2) Additional Forms: This notice includes two additional forms. 
(1) The Verification of Acceptance Form, to be completed by the 
academic institution to verify that the participant remains in good 
academic standing under the policies of the institutions; and (2) the 
Authorization to Release Information Form, which permits the disclosure 
of information pertaining to the participant's school enrollment, 
transcripts and grades, academic standing, enrollment and degree 
status, curriculum and examination requirements for graduation, tuition 
and fees, leave-of-absence, withdrawal, or dismissal from school. This 
information will be used to determine eligibility to continue to 
receive scholarship benefits and the amount of those benefits. These 
forms were not included in the 60-day notice, but due to programmatic 
need to ensure a method to adequately track academic standing of 
participants and to identify ongoing eligibility information of 
participants, they are now being included in this notice.
    (3) Form Removal: The CSF Verification Form was included in the 60-
day notice but is not included in this notice because the data formerly 
collected through the CSF has been included in the revised version of 
the Employment Verification Form.

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    Likely Respondents: Nurse Corps SP scholars in school, graduates, 
educational institutions, and CSFs.
    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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Eligible Applications/                     2,600               1           2,600            2.00           5,200
 Application Program Guidance...
School Enrollment Verification               500               4           2,000             .33             660
 Form...........................
Confirmation of Interest Form...             250               1             250             .20              50
Data Collection Worksheet Form..             500               1             500            1.00             500
Graduation Close Out Form.......             200               1             200             .17              34
Employment Verification Form....             500               1             500             .42             210
In-Service Verification Form....           1,000               2           2,000             .12             240
Verification of Acceptance Form.             500               1             500             .33             165
Authorization to Release                     200               1             200             .20              40
 Information Form...............
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    Total.......................           6,250  ..............           8,750  ..............           7,099
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-05478 Filed 3-16-23; 8:45 am]
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