[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33148-33150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10929]


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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 Faculty Loan 
Program--Program Specific Data Form, Annual Performance Report 
Financial Data Form and NFLP Due Diligence Form; OMB No. 0915-0314-
Revision

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

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 June 22, 
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 a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Samantha Miller, the HRSA 
Information

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Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call (301) 443-
1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Nurse Faculty Loan Program--
Program Specific Data Form, Annual Performance Report Financial Data 
Form and NFLP Due Diligence Form OMB No. 0915-0314-Revision
    Abstract: This clearance request is for approval of the Nurse 
Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)--Program Specific Data Form, NFLP--Annual 
Performance Report (APR) Financial Data Form, and the NFLP Due 
Diligence Form. The Program Specific Data Form and the NFLP--APR 
Financial Data Form are currently approved under OMB Approval No. 0915-
0314, with the expiration date of August 31, 2023. The NFLP Due 
Diligence Form is a new form. HRSA seeks to use the NFLP Due Diligence 
Form for recipients to formally notify HRSA of any write-off amounts 
due to uncollectible debt and loan cancellation due to death and 
permanent/total disability. For program efficiency, HRSA is adding the 
new NFLP Due Diligence Form to the current NFLP ICR under OMB No. 0915-
0314.
    A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on March 8, 2023, 
vol. 88, No. 45; pp. 14378-79. There were no public comments.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Section 846A of the 
Public Health Service Act provides the Secretary of HHS with the 
authority to enter into agreements with accredited schools of nursing 
for the establishment and operation of student loan funds to increase 
the number of qualified nurse faculty. Under the agreements, HRSA makes 
awards to accredited schools of nursing and the schools provide loans 
to students enrolled in advanced education nursing degree programs who 
are committed to becoming nurse faculty. Following graduation from the 
NFLP grant recipient school, NFLP borrowers may receive up to 85 
percent of loan cancellation over a 4-year period in exchange for 
service as full-time faculty at a school of nursing. The NFLP grant 
recipient 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 NFLP--Program Specific Data Form is a required electronic 
attachment within the NFLP application materials. The data provided in 
the form is essential for the formula-based criteria used to determine 
the award amount to the applicant schools. The form collects 
application related data from applicants such as the amount requested, 
number of students to be funded, tuition information, and projected 
unused loan fund balance. This data collection assists HRSA in 
streamlining the application submission process, enabling an efficient 
award determination process, and facilitating reporting on the use of 
funds and analysis of program outcomes. There have been no changes to 
this form.
    The NFLP--APR Financial Data Form is an online form that exists in 
the HRSA Electronic Handbooks Performance Report module. The NFLP--APR 
Financial Data Form collects outcome and financial data to capture the 
NFLP loan fund account activity related to financial receivables, 
disbursements, and borrower account data related to employment status, 
loan cancellation, loan repayment and collections. NFLP grant recipient 
schools will provide HHS 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 cancelled, (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. NFLP grant recipient schools must keep records of all NFLP 
loan fund transactions. The NFLP--APR Financial Data Form is used to 
monitor grantee performance by collecting information related to the 
NFLP loan fund operations and financial activities for a specified 
reporting period (July 1 through June 30 of the academic year). NFLP 
grant recipient schools are required to complete and submit the NFLP--
APR Financial Data Form annually. The data provided in the form is 
essential for HRSA to effectively monitor the school's use of NFLP 
funds in accordance with the statute and program guidelines. There have 
been no changes to this form.
    The NFLP Due Diligence Form will be a required form to be completed 
and submitted electronically by NFLP grant recipient schools. This form 
indicates that due diligence has been exercised in the cancellation of 
any remaining loan funds for NFLP borrowers due to permanent/total 
disability, death, and uncollectible/bad debt write-offs. The data 
collected on the due diligence form will include the student borrower's 
unique ID number, reason for cancellation, the amount of principal 
loaned, the total amount of principal loan funds and corresponding 
interest canceled, and the outstanding amount of principal/interest 
being canceled or written-off. The NFLP Due Diligence Form is essential 
for monitoring performance measure outcomes and to verify and validate 
accuracy of information submitted on the NFLP Annual Performance 
Reports.
    Likely Respondents: NFLP grant recipient schools and applicants to 
the NFLP program.
    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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Nurse Faculty Loan Program--                  90               1              90               8             720
 Program Specific Data Form.....
Nurse Faculty Loan Program--                 207               1             207               6            1242
 Annual Performance Report
 Financial Data Form............
Nurse Faculty Loan Program--Due--             20               1              20               1              20
 Diligence Form.................
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    Total Burden................             317               3             317              15            1982
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-10929 Filed 5-22-23; 8:45 am]
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