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Based on a review of the information
collection since our last request for
OMB approval, we have made no
adjustments to our burden estimate.
Dated: July 12, 2019.
Lowell J. Schiller,
Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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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: The National
Health Service Corps Loan Repayment
Program, OMB No. 0915–0127—
Revision
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirement of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity
for public comment on proposed data
collection projects, 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 September 16,
2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail them to
HRSA Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 14N136B, 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
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
The National Health Service Corps Loan
Repayment Program, OMB No. 0915–
0127—Revision.
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SUMMARY:
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Abstract: The National Health Service
Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program
(LRP) was established to assure an
adequate supply of trained primary care
health professionals to provide services
in the neediest Health Professional
Shortage Areas (HPSAs) of the United
States. The NHSC Substance Use
Disorder (SUD) Workforce LRP and the
NHSC Rural Community LRP were
established to recruit and retain a health
professional workforce with specific
training and credentials to provide
evidence-based SUD treatment in
HPSAs. Under these programs, HHS
agrees to repay the qualifying
educational loans of selected primary
care health professionals. In return, the
health professionals agree to serve for a
specified period of time in a NHSCapproved site located in a federallydesignated HPSA approved by the
Secretary for LRP participants. The
forms utilized by each LRP include the
following: (1) The NHSC LRP
Application, the Authorization for
Disclosure of Loan Information form, (2)
the Privacy Act Release Authorization
form, and, if applicable, (3) the
Verification of Disadvantaged
Background form, and (4) the Private
Practice Option form. The first three of
the aforementioned NHSC LRP forms
collect information that is needed for
selecting participants and repaying
qualifying educational loans. The last
referenced form, the Private Practice
Option Form, is needed to collect
information for all participants who
have applied for that service option.
NHSC-approved sites are health care
facilities that provide comprehensive
outpatient, ambulatory, primary health
care services to populations residing in
HPSAs. Related in-patient services may
be provided by NHSC-approved Critical
Access Hospitals and Indian Health
Service hospitals. In order to become an
NHSC-approved site, new sites must
submit a Site Application for review
and approval. Existing NHSC-approved
sites are required to complete a Site
Recertification Application every 3
years in order to maintain their NHSCapproved status. Both the NHSC Site
Application and Site Recertification
Application request information on the
clinical service site, sponsoring agency,
recruitment contact, staffing levels,
service users, charges for services,
employment policies, and fiscal
management capabilities. Assistance in
completing these applications may be
obtained through the appropriate State
Primary Care Office and the NHSC. The
information collected on the
applications is used for determining the
eligibility of sites for the assignment of
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NHSC health professionals and to verify
the need for NHSC clinicians. NHSC
service site approval is valid for 3 years.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The need and purpose of
this information collection is to assess
an LRP applicant’s eligibility and
qualifications for the LRP, and to obtain
information for NHSC site applicants.
The NHSC LRP application asks for
personal, professional, and financial/
loan information.
The proposed revisions in this ICR
include asking applicants to provide
their educational information on the
completion of advanced training such as
the Primary Care Training and
Enhancement (PCTE) Champion
fellowship. To identify the PCTE
Champions, the NHSC will require
applicants to respond to the following
additional questions and submit their
National Practitioner Identifier (NPI):
(1) Have you completed a fellowship?
(2) Applicants who selected ‘‘yes’’ to
the question above are required to
submit the NPI number.
NHSC policy requires behavioral
health providers to practice in a
community-based setting that provides
access to comprehensive behavioral
health services. Accordingly, for those
sites seeking to be assigned behavioral
health NHSC participants, additional
site information will be collected from
an NHSC Comprehensive Behavioral
Health Services Checklist. NHSC sites
that do not directly offer all required
behavioral health services must
demonstrate a formal affiliation with a
comprehensive, community-based
primary behavioral health setting or
facility to provide these services.
Likely Respondents: Likely
respondents include: (1) Licensed
primary care medical, dental, and
mental and behavioral health providers
who are employed or seeking
employment, and are interested in
serving underserved populations; (2)
health care facilities interested in
participating in the NHSC and becoming
an NHSC-approved service site; and (3)
NHSC sites providing behavioral health
care services directly, or through a
formal affiliation with a comprehensive
community-based primary behavioral
health setting or facility providing
comprehensive behavioral health
services.
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
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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
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
NHSC LRP Application ........................................................
Authorization for Disclosure of Loan Information Form .......
Privacy Act Release Authorization Form .............................
Verification of Disadvantaged Background Form ................
Private Practice Option Form ..............................................
NHSC Comprehensive Behavioral Health Services Checklist .....................................................................................
NHSC Site Application (including recertification) ................
9,020
7,150
303
660
330
1
1
1
1
1
9,020
7,150
303
660
330
1.00
.10
.10
.50
.10
9,020.0
715.0
30.3
330.0
33.0
4,400
4,070
1
1
4,400
4,070
.13
.50
572.0
2,035.0
Total ..............................................................................
25,933
........................
25,933
........................
12,735.3
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.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Meeting of the Secretary’s Advisory
Committee on Human Research
Protections
Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of the Secretary,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Health.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
Pursuant to Section 10(a) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
U.S.C. Appendix 2, notice is hereby
given that the Secretary’s Advisory
Committee on Human Research
Protections (SACHRP) will hold a
meeting that will be open to the public.
Information about SACHRP and the full
meeting agenda will be posted on the
SACHRP website at: https://
www.dhhs.gov/ohrp/sachrp-committee/
meetings/.
SUMMARY:
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The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, July 30, 2019, from 9 a.m.
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until 4:45 p.m., and Wednesday, July
31, 2019, from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES: National Institutes of
Health, Vaccine Research Center Rooms
1201/1203, 40 Convent Drive, Bethesda,
Maryland 20892.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julia
Gorey, J.D., Executive Director,
SACHRP; U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, 1101 Wootton
Parkway, Suite 200, Rockville,
Maryland 20852; telephone: 240–453–
8141; fax: 240–453–6909; email address:
SACHRP@hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
authority of 42 U.S.C. 217a, Section 222
of the Public Health Service Act, as
amended, SACHRP was established to
provide expert advice and
recommendations to the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, through
the Assistant Secretary for Health, on
issues and topics pertaining to or
associated with the protection of human
research subjects.
The Subpart A Subcommittee (SAS)
was established by SACHRP in October
2006 and is charged with developing
recommendations for consideration by
SACHRP regarding the application of
subpart A of 45 CFR part 46 in the
current research environment.
The Subcommittee on Harmonization
(SOH) was established by SACHRP at its
July 2009 meeting and charged with
identifying and prioritizing areas in
which regulations and/or guidelines for
human subjects research adopted by
various agencies or offices within HHS
would benefit from harmonization,
consistency, clarity, simplification or
coordination.
The SACHRP meeting will open to the
public at 9 a.m., on Tuesday, July 30,
2019, followed by opening remarks from
Dr. Jerry Menikoff, Director of OHRP
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and Dr. Stephen Rosenfeld, SACHRP
Chair. New SACHRP members will be
welcomed and introduced.
The SOH subcommittee will present
its recommendations on End User
Licensing Agreements and Terms of
Service, and Charging Subjects to
Participate in Clinical Trials. This will
be followed by a discussion of site
monitoring under single IRB review,
with a review of possible
recommendations, and finally a
discussion of guidance for institutions
affected by the end of the voluntary
check-the-box option to extend a
federalwide assurance to all research
regardless of funding.
Wednesday will begin with a
discussion of questions newly posed to
SACHRP regarding Deceased Organ
Intervention Research (DDIR), with a
particular focus on recipient informed
consent. There will be a panel
presentations from leading experts in
the field of DDIR, followed by SACHRP
discussion. This will be followed by a
discussion of ethical and regulatory
issues surrounding reconsent of subjects
for human subjects research. The
meeting is scheduled to end at
approximately 3:30 p.m.
Time will be allotted for public
comment on both days. On-site
registration is required for participation
in the live public comment session.
Note that public comment must be
relevant to topics currently being
addressed by the SACHRP. Individuals
submitting written statements as public
comment should email or fax their
comments to SACHRP at SACHRP@
hhs.gov at least five business days prior
to the meeting.
Public attendance at the meeting is
limited to space available. Individuals
who plan to attend and need special
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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: The
National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, OMB No. 0915-
0127--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 requirement of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on proposed data
collection projects, 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 September
16, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to [email protected] or mail them to
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 14N136B, 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 [email protected] 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 information request collection title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: The National Health Service
Corps Loan Repayment Program, OMB No. 0915-0127--Revision.
Abstract: The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment
Program (LRP) was established to assure an adequate supply of trained
primary care health professionals to provide services in the neediest
Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) of the United States. The
NHSC Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Workforce LRP and the NHSC Rural
Community LRP were established to recruit and retain a health
professional workforce with specific training and credentials to
provide evidence-based SUD treatment in HPSAs. Under these programs,
HHS agrees to repay the qualifying educational loans of selected
primary care health professionals. In return, the health professionals
agree to serve for a specified period of time in a NHSC-approved site
located in a federally-designated HPSA approved by the Secretary for
LRP participants. The forms utilized by each LRP include the following:
(1) The NHSC LRP Application, the Authorization for Disclosure of Loan
Information form, (2) the Privacy Act Release Authorization form, and,
if applicable, (3) the Verification of Disadvantaged Background form,
and (4) the Private Practice Option form. The first three of the
aforementioned NHSC LRP forms collect information that is needed for
selecting participants and repaying qualifying educational loans. The
last referenced form, the Private Practice Option Form, is needed to
collect information for all participants who have applied for that
service option.
NHSC-approved sites are health care facilities that provide
comprehensive outpatient, ambulatory, primary health care services to
populations residing in HPSAs. Related in-patient services may be
provided by NHSC-approved Critical Access Hospitals and Indian Health
Service hospitals. In order to become an NHSC-approved site, new sites
must submit a Site Application for review and approval. Existing NHSC-
approved sites are required to complete a Site Recertification
Application every 3 years in order to maintain their NHSC-approved
status. Both the NHSC Site Application and Site Recertification
Application request information on the clinical service site,
sponsoring agency, recruitment contact, staffing levels, service users,
charges for services, employment policies, and fiscal management
capabilities. Assistance in completing these applications may be
obtained through the appropriate State Primary Care Office and the
NHSC. The information collected on the applications is used for
determining the eligibility of sites for the assignment of NHSC health
professionals and to verify the need for NHSC clinicians. NHSC service
site approval is valid for 3 years.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The need and purpose of
this information collection is to assess an LRP applicant's eligibility
and qualifications for the LRP, and to obtain information for NHSC site
applicants. The NHSC LRP application asks for personal, professional,
and financial/loan information.
The proposed revisions in this ICR include asking applicants to
provide their educational information on the completion of advanced
training such as the Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE)
Champion fellowship. To identify the PCTE Champions, the NHSC will
require applicants to respond to the following additional questions and
submit their National Practitioner Identifier (NPI):
(1) Have you completed a fellowship?
(2) Applicants who selected ``yes'' to the question above are
required to submit the NPI number.
NHSC policy requires behavioral health providers to practice in a
community-based setting that provides access to comprehensive
behavioral health services. Accordingly, for those sites seeking to be
assigned behavioral health NHSC participants, additional site
information will be collected from an NHSC Comprehensive Behavioral
Health Services Checklist. NHSC sites that do not directly offer all
required behavioral health services must demonstrate a formal
affiliation with a comprehensive, community-based primary behavioral
health setting or facility to provide these services.
Likely Respondents: Likely respondents include: (1) Licensed
primary care medical, dental, and mental and behavioral health
providers who are employed or seeking employment, and are interested in
serving underserved populations; (2) health care facilities interested
in participating in the NHSC and becoming an NHSC-approved service
site; and (3) NHSC sites providing behavioral health care services
directly, or through a formal affiliation with a comprehensive
community-based primary behavioral health setting or facility providing
comprehensive behavioral health services.
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
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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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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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NHSC LRP Application............ 9,020 1 9,020 1.00 9,020.0
Authorization for Disclosure of 7,150 1 7,150 .10 715.0
Loan Information Form..........
Privacy Act Release 303 1 303 .10 30.3
Authorization Form.............
Verification of Disadvantaged 660 1 660 .50 330.0
Background Form................
Private Practice Option Form.... 330 1 330 .10 33.0
NHSC Comprehensive Behavioral 4,400 1 4,400 .13 572.0
Health Services Checklist......
NHSC Site Application (including 4,070 1 4,070 .50 2,035.0
recertification)...............
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Total....................... 25,933 .............. 25,933 .............. 12,735.3
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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.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2019-15306 Filed 7-17-19; 8:45 am]
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