Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 30681-30682 [E6-8286]

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• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
• Health Resources and Services Administration

[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 30, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30681-30682]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-8286]


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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, 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: The Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP): NEW

    The Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP or ``Nursing Scholarship'') is 
a competitive Federal program which awards scholarships to individuals 
for attendance at schools of nursing. 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 NSP) at a health care facility 
with a critical shortage of nurses.
    Nursing scholarship recipients must be willing and are required to 
fulfill their NSP service commitment at a health care facility with a 
critical shortage of nurses in the United States (U.S.), the District 
of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Territory of Guam, 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the 
Territory of American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, or the Republic of 
the Marshall Islands of the Federated States of Micronesia. Students 
who are uncertain of their commitment to provide nursing in a health 
care facility with a critical shortage of nurses in the U.S. are 
advised not to participate in this program.
    The NSP 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 a participant's 
compliance with the NSP service obligation, and to obtain data on its 
program to ensure compliance with legislative 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 bi-annual basis, data concerning the 
participant's employment status, work schedule and leave usage.
    The burden estimates are as follows:

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                                     Number of     Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
              Form                  respondents     respondent       responses       response          hours
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Application.....................           3,500               1           3,500            1.25           4,375
Data Collection Worksheet.......            *300               1             300             .25              75
School Verification Form........            *300               2             600             .25             150
Employment Certification Form...             300               2             600             .25             150
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    Total.......................           4,100  ..............           5,000  ..............           4,750
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*Respondents for these forms are the academic institution for the applicant.

    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
John Kraemer, Desk Officer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office

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of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: May 22, 2006.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E6-8286 Filed 5-26-06; 8:45 am]
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