[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 175 (Tuesday, September 9, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 52393]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-20901]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request
a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, e-mail
[email protected] or call the HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301)
443-1129.
The following request has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995:
Proposed Project: Nurse Faculty Loan Program-Program Specific Data
Form--In Use Without Approval
The Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)-Program Specific Form is for
electronic submission of required data. This clearance request is for
approval of the NFLP-Program Specific Data Form to collect the data
required to make award determinations for eligible applicants.
The Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) is authorized under Title
VIII of the Public Health Service Act, Section 846A, as amended by the
Nurse Reinvestment Act, Public Law 107-205 to increase the number of
qualified nurse faculty. The HHS, acting through HRSA, may enter into
an agreement with schools of nursing and make an award to establish and
operate a distinct NFLP loan fund. The NFLP loan fund is used by the
applicant school of nursing to make loans to eligible students pursuing
an advanced nursing degree program that will prepare the student to
become qualified as a nursing faculty.
The NFLP-Program Specific Data Form will capture program-related
information provided by the applicant. NFLP applicants will complete
and submit the NFLP-Program Specific Data Form as an electronic
attachment with the required application materials. The form will
provide the Federal Government with specific data from the applicant
which include: (1) The amount of the Federal funds requested by the
applicant, (2) the expected contribution from the applicant, (3) the
student enrollment and graduation data based on current and prospective
NFLP loan recipients, (4) the graduate nursing education programs
supported under NFLP, (5) the program accreditation status, (6) the
current tuition and fee information for graduate nursing education
programs, and (7) the projected NFLP loan fund balance that may be
considered as part of the award determination. The data provided in the
form are essential for the formula-based criteria used to determine the
award amount to the applicant institutions.
Approval of the new NFLP-Program Specific Data Form will facilitate
our current effort to develop an automated data collection capability
for the NFLP. The electronic data collection capability will streamline
the application submission process, enable an efficient award
determination process, and serve as a data repository to facilitate
reporting on the use of funds and analysis of program outcomes.
Additionally, the data will be used to ensure programmatic compliance
with the legislative authority and program guidance, to report program
accomplishments to policymakers and Congress, and to formulate and
justify the appropriation request to the Office of Management and
Budget and Congress.
The annual estimate of burden is as follows:
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Total
Instrument Number of Responses per Total Hours per burden
respondents respondent responses response hours
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NFLP-Program Specific Data Form..... 150 1 150 8 1200
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''
Dated: September 3, 2008.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E8-20901 Filed 9-8-08; 8:45 am]
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