[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 226 (Wednesday, November 24, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71707-71708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-29534]
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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 (NFLP) Annual
Operating Report (AOR) Form (OMB No. 0915-0314)--[REVISION]. This
clearance request is for approval of the modified online NFLP-AOR form
for grantees to report annual NFLP loan fund activity. The Web-based
(online) version of the NFLP-AOR form was developed and
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integrated into the existing HRSA Electronic Handbooks (EHBs)
Performance Report module in fiscal year 2009. The online NFLP-AOR form
will be modified to collect additional data from applicants that will
include information on the total number of enrollees, graduates, and
graduates employed as nurse faculty by: (1) Age and Gender, (2) Nursing
Programs, and (3) Nursing Degrees. Under Title VIII, section 846A of
the Public Health Service Act, as amended by Public Law 111-148, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) enters into an agreement
with a school of nursing and makes an award to the school. The award is
used to establish a distinct account for the NFLP loan fund at the
school. The school of nursing makes loans from the NFLP fund to
students enrolled full-time or part-time in a master's or doctoral
nursing education program that will prepare them to become qualified
nursing faculty. Following graduation from the NFLP lending school,
loan recipients may receive up to 85 percent NFLP loan cancellation
over a consecutive four-year period in exchange for service as full-
time faculty at a school of nursing. The NFLP lending 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 school of nursing must keep records of all NFLP loan fund
transactions. The NFLP-AOR is used to monitor grantee performance by
collection of information relating to the NFLP loan fund operations and
financial activities for a specified reporting period (July 1 through
June 30 of the academic year). Participating schools are required to
complete and submit the NFLP-AOR annually. In addition to the newly
required data, participating schools will provide the Federal
Government with current and cumulative information on: (1) The number
and amount of loans made, (2) the number of NFLP loan recipients and
NFLP graduates, (3) the number and amount of loans collected, (4) the
number and amount of loans in repayment, (5) the number of NFLP
graduates employed as nurse faculty, and (6) NFLP loan fund receipts,
disbursements and other related costs. The NFLP loan fund balance is
used to determine future awards to the school.
The estimate of burden for this form is as follows:
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Number of Responses per Hours per Total burden
Form respondents respondent Total responses response hours
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Nurse Faculty Loan Program Annual Operating Report (AOR)...... 150 1 150 8 1200
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Total Burden.............................................. 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: November 17, 2010.
Robert Hendricks,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
[FR Doc. 2010-29534 Filed 11-23-10; 8:45 am]
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