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Report and the Service Provider Report,
as well as a data file containing the
client-level data elements. Data will be
submitted annually. The RWHAP
statute specifies the importance of
recipient accountability and linking
performance to budget. The RSR will be
used to ensure recipient compliance
with the law, including evaluating the
effectiveness of programs, monitoring
recipient and provider performance, and
informing annual reports to Congress.
Information collected through the RSR
will be critical for HRSA, state and local
grant recipients, and individual
providers to assess the status of existing
HIV-related service delivery systems,
assess trends in service utilization,
assess the impact of data reporting and
identify areas of greatest need.
This new ICR is being developed to
replace the existing ICR (OMB control
number 0915–0323), for which HRSA
has collected RSR data since 2009.
These revisions will account for
significant modifications to several
variables within the client report and
XML file, which will improve data
quality and align data collection efforts
with recent Policy Clarification Notices
(PCN 16–02). HRSA will continue to
collect and report the client-level data
elements supplied by the existing ICR
through 2019. In 2019, the existing ICR
will expire and HRSA will collect and
report on the data elements defined in
the new ICR. While there will be no
overlap in the data collected and
reported between the existing and new
ICR, HRSA is submitting this new ICR
in tandem with the existing ICR to allow
recipients the ability to make
modifications to their RSR systems
between the two reporting periods, and
continue to collect and report on both
the old and new variables without
interruption.
Likely Respondents: RWHAP Part A,
Part B, Part C, and Part D recipients and
their contracted service providers.
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
Number of
respondents
Form name
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total
responses
Total burden
hours
Grantee Report ....................................................................
Provider Report ....................................................................
Client Report ........................................................................
595
1793
1,312
1
1
1
595
1793
1,312
7
17
67
4,165
30,481
87,904
Total ..............................................................................
3,700
........................
3,700
........................
122,550
HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Amy McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive
Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request; Information
Collection Request Title: NURSE Corps
Loan Repayment Program OMB No.
0915–0140—Revision
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, HRSA announces plans to
submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to
OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate,
below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than January 26, 2018.
SUMMARY:
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Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
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 paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call Lisa Wright-Solomon, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer
at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program
OMB No. 0915–0140–Revision.
Abstract: The NURSE Corps Loan
Repayment Program (NURSE Corps
LRP) assists in the recruitment and
retention of professional Registered
Nurses (RNs) by decreasing the financial
barriers associated with pursuing a
nursing education. RNs in this instance
include advanced practice RNs (e.g.,
nurse practitioners, certified registered
nurse anesthetists, certified nursemidwives, and clinical nurse
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specialists) dedicated to working at
eligible health care facilities with a
critical shortage of nurses (i.e., a Critical
Shortage Facility) or working as nurse
faculty in eligible, accredited schools of
nursing. The NURSE Corps LRP
provides loan repayment assistance to
these nurses to repay a portion of their
qualifying educational loans in
exchange for full-time service at a
public or private nonprofit Critical
Shortage Facility (CSF) or in an eligible,
accredited school of nursing.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The need and purpose of
this information collection is to obtain
information regarding NURSE Corps
LRP applicants and participants to be
used to consider an applicant for a
NURSE Corps LRP contract award and
to monitor a participant’s compliance
with the program’s service
requirements. Individuals must submit
an application in order to participate in
the program. The application asks for
personal, professional, educational, and
financial information required to
determine the applicant’s eligibility to
participate in the NURSE Corps LRP.
The Semi-Annual Employment
Verification Form asks for personal and
employment information about the
participant to determine if a participant
is in compliance with the program’s
service requirements. The Authorization
to Release Employment Information
Form is now a self-certification within
the NURSE Corps LRP application
process, with applicants clicking a box.
This revision to the clearance package
will incorporate two new forms for
participants: (1) The CSF Verification
Form, which is used to verify transfers
to critical shortage facilities not already
recorded in the online portal; and (2)
the NURSE Corps Nurse Faculty
Employment Verification Form, which
asks for personal and employment
information to specifically determine if
nurse faculty participants are eligible to
transfer to another approved accredited
school of nursing.
Likely Respondents: Professional RNs
or advanced practice RNs who are
interested in participating in the NURSE
Corps LRP, and official representatives
at their service sites.
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
Number of
respondents
Instrument
Responses/
respondents
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. The
change in the Authorization to Release
Employment Information Form has
reduced the time necessary for
applicants to complete the form from an
estimated six minutes to around one
minute for online applicants. This
decreases the overall time burden by
eliminating a form and not increasing
the ‘‘average’’ time required to complete
the NURSE Corps LRP application. Most
applicants fill this form out online by
checking a box, bypassing the need for
the physical form.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden
Hours:
The estimates of reporting burden for
Applicants are as follows:
Total
responses
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
NURSE Corps LRP Application * .........................................
Authorization to Release Employment Information Form **
5,500
5,500
1
1
5,500
5,500
2.0
.10
11,000
550
Total for Applicants .......................................................
5,500
1
11,000
2.10
11,550
* The burden hours associated with this instrument account for both new and continuation applications. Additional (uploaded) supporting documentation is included as part of this instrument and reflected in the burden hours.
** The same respondents are completing these instruments.
The estimates of reporting for
Participants are as follows:
Number of
respondents
Instrument
Responses/
respondents
Total
responses
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
2,300
2
4,600
.5
2,300
550
1
550
.10
55
250
1
250
.20
50
Total for Participants .....................................................
3,100
4
5,400
.8
2,405
Total for Applicants and Participants ....................
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Participant Semi-Annual Employment Verification Form .....
NURSE Corps CSF .............................................................
Verification Form ..................................................................
NURSE Corps Nurse Faculty Employment Verification
Form .................................................................................
8,600
........................
16,400
........................
*13,955
* The 13,955 figure is a combination of burden hours for applicants and participants. This revision adds two forms (the CSF Verification Form
and NURSE Corps Nurse Faculty Employment Verification Form). Participants, not applicants, only use these forms. The 13,955 total burden
hours represents the net decrease in applicant burden, and the net increase in participant burden.
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HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Amy McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive
Secretariat.
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Office of the Assistant
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Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services.
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AGENCY:
As stipulated by the Federal
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that a meeting of the Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome Advisory Committee
(CFSAC) will take place and will be
open to the public.
DATES: The CFSAC in person meeting
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Georgetown University and Emory
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Respondent’s admission at Emory
School of Medicine (ESOM), and
additional analysis conducted by ORI in
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postdoctoral fellow, Department of
Oncology, GU, and former postdoctoral
fellow, Department of Pediatrics, ESOM,
engaged in research misconduct in
research supported by National Cancer
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GU, and National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(NIDDK), NIH, grant R01 DK059380
while at ESOM.
ORI found that Respondent engaged
in research misconduct at GU by
falsifying Western blot images and
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) data
included in an unfunded grant
application, R01 CA193344–01A1, and
in a manuscript submitted to Cancer
Cell (‘‘The DNA Repair Protein, NTHL1
Functions as an Oncoprotein by
Activating the Canoncial Wnt Pathway.’’
Submitted to Cancer Cell; hereafter
referred to as the ‘‘Cancer Cell
manuscript’’). Subsequently, after
Respondent was aware of the research
misconduct findings from GU,
Respondent engaged in research
misconduct at ESOM and falsified RT–
PCR data on Excel spreadsheets in the
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in a manuscript submitted to and
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(‘‘Immipramine Blue Sensitively and
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: NURSE
Corps Loan Repayment Program OMB No. 0915-0140--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 requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the
ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than January
26, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N39, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
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 paperwork@hrsa.gov or call Lisa Wright-
Solomon, the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301)
443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: NURSE Corps Loan Repayment
Program OMB No. 0915-0140-Revision.
Abstract: The NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program (NURSE Corps LRP)
assists in the recruitment and retention of professional Registered
Nurses (RNs) by decreasing the financial barriers associated with
pursuing a nursing education. RNs in this instance include advanced
practice RNs (e.g., nurse practitioners, certified registered nurse
anesthetists, certified nurse-midwives, and clinical nurse
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specialists) dedicated to working at eligible health care facilities
with a critical shortage of nurses (i.e., a Critical Shortage Facility)
or working as nurse faculty in eligible, accredited schools of nursing.
The NURSE Corps LRP provides loan repayment assistance to these nurses
to repay a portion of their qualifying educational loans in exchange
for full-time service at a public or private nonprofit Critical
Shortage Facility (CSF) or in an eligible, accredited school of
nursing.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The need and purpose of
this information collection is to obtain information regarding NURSE
Corps LRP applicants and participants to be used to consider an
applicant for a NURSE Corps LRP contract award and to monitor a
participant's compliance with the program's service requirements.
Individuals must submit an application in order to participate in the
program. The application asks for personal, professional, educational,
and financial information required to determine the applicant's
eligibility to participate in the NURSE Corps LRP. The Semi-Annual
Employment Verification Form asks for personal and employment
information about the participant to determine if a participant is in
compliance with the program's service requirements. The Authorization
to Release Employment Information Form is now a self-certification
within the NURSE Corps LRP application process, with applicants
clicking a box.
This revision to the clearance package will incorporate two new
forms for participants: (1) The CSF Verification Form, which is used to
verify transfers to critical shortage facilities not already recorded
in the online portal; and (2) the NURSE Corps Nurse Faculty Employment
Verification Form, which asks for personal and employment information
to specifically determine if nurse faculty participants are eligible to
transfer to another approved accredited school of nursing.
Likely Respondents: Professional RNs or advanced practice RNs who
are interested in participating in the NURSE Corps LRP, and official
representatives at their service sites.
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. The change in the
Authorization to Release Employment Information Form has reduced the
time necessary for applicants to complete the form from an estimated
six minutes to around one minute for online applicants. This decreases
the overall time burden by eliminating a form and not increasing the
``average'' time required to complete the NURSE Corps LRP application.
Most applicants fill this form out online by checking a box, bypassing
the need for the physical form.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours:
The estimates of reporting burden for Applicants are as follows:
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Number of Responses/ Total Hours per Total burden
Instrument respondents respondents responses response hours
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NURSE Corps LRP Application *... 5,500 1 5,500 2.0 11,000
Authorization to Release 5,500 1 5,500 .10 550
Employment Information Form **.
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Total for Applicants........ 5,500 1 11,000 2.10 11,550
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* The burden hours associated with this instrument account for both new and continuation applications.
Additional (uploaded) supporting documentation is included as part of this instrument and reflected in the
burden hours.
** The same respondents are completing these instruments.
The estimates of reporting for Participants are as follows:
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Number of Responses/ Total Hours per Total burden
Instrument respondents respondents responses response hours
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Participant Semi-Annual 2,300 2 4,600 .5 2,300
Employment Verification Form...
NURSE Corps CSF................. 550 1 550 .10 55
Verification Form...............
NURSE Corps Nurse Faculty 250 1 250 .20 50
Employment Verification Form...
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Total for Participants...... 3,100 4 5,400 .8 2,405
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Total for Applicants and 8,600 .............. 16,400 .............. *13,955
Participants...........
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* The 13,955 figure is a combination of burden hours for applicants and participants. This revision adds two
forms (the CSF Verification Form and NURSE Corps Nurse Faculty Employment Verification Form). Participants,
not applicants, only use these forms. The 13,955 total burden hours represents the net decrease in applicant
burden, and the net increase in participant burden.
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HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection burden.
Amy McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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