[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 198 (Thursday, October 14, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55739-55740]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26805]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Indian Health Service
Request for Public Comment: 30-Day; Proposed Collection: Indian
Health Service Loan Repayment Program
Summary: In compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed
information collection projects, the Indian Health Service (IHS) has
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to
review and approve the information collection listed below. This
proposed information collection project was published in the March 30,
1999, Federal Register (64 FR 15169) and allowed 60 days for public
comment. No public comment was received in response to the notice. The
purpose of this notice is to allow 30 days for public comment to be
submitted to OMB.
Proposed Collection
Title: 09-17-0014, ``Indian Health Service Loan Repayment
Program.'' Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection that expires November 30, 1999. Form
Number: No reporting forms required. Need and Use of Information
Collection: The IHS Loan Repayment Program (LRP) identifies health
professionals with pre-existing financial obligations for educational
expenses that meet program criteria and who are qualified and willing
to serve at IHS health care facilities that are often remote. Under the
program, eligible health professionals sign a contract under which the
IHS agrees to repay part or all of their indebtedness for professional
training education. In exchange, the health professionals agree to
serve for a specified period of time in IHS health care facilities.
Eligible health professionals who wish to apply must submit an
application to participate in the program. The application requests
personal, demographic and educational training information, including
information on the educational loans of the individual for whom
repayment is being requested (i.e., date, amount, account number,
purpose of each loan, interest rate, the current balance, etc.). The
data collected is needed and used to evaluate applicant eligibility, to
rank and prioritize applicants by specialty, to assign applicants to
IHS health care facilities, to determine payment amounts and schedules
for paying the lending institutes, and to provide data and statistics
for program management review and analysis. Affected Public: Individual
and households. Type of Respondents: Individuals. Table 1 below
provides the following types of data collection instruments, estimated
number of respondents, number of responses per respondent, annual
number of responses, average burden hour per response, and total annual
burden hour.
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Table 1.--Estimated Burden Hours
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Estimated
Data collection instrument number of Response per Average burden hours per Total annual
respondents respondent response * burden hrs.
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Section I.......................... 350 1 0.25 (15 min.)............. 87.5
Section II......................... 350 1 0.50 (30 min.)............. 175.0
Section III........................ 350 4 0.25 (15 min).............. 350.0
Contract........................... 350 1 0.33 (20 min).............. 116.0
Affidavit.......................... 350 1 0.17 (min)................. 58.5
Lender's Certificate............... 1,400 .............. 0.25....................... 350.0
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Total.......................... 1,750 .............. ........................... 1,137
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* For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.
There are no capital costs, operating costs and/or maintenance
costs to report.
Request for Comments
Your written comments and/or suggestions are invited on one or more
of the following points: (a) Whether the information collection
activity is necessary to carry out an agency function; (b) whether the
IHS processes the information collected in a useful and timely fashion;
(c) the accuracy of the public burden estimate (the estimated amount of
time needed for individual respondents to provide the requested
information); (d) whether the methodology and assumptions used to
determine the estimate are logical; (e) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information being collected; and (f) ways
to minimize the public burden through the use of automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
Direct Comments to OMB
Send your written comments and suggestions regarding the proposed
information collection contained in this notice, especially regarding
the estimated public burden and associated response time, to: Office of
Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory Affairs, New Executive
Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk
Officer for IHS.
To request more information on the proposed collection or to obtain
a copy of the data collection instrument(s) and/or instruction(s),
contact: Mr. Lance Hodahkwen, Sr., M.P.H., IHS Reports Clearance
Officer, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852-1601,
or call non-toll free (301) and return address to:
[email protected].
Comment Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having their full effect if received on or before
November 15, 1999.
Dated: October 7, 1999.
Michael H. Trujillo,
Assistant Surgeon General, Director.
[FR Doc. 99-26805 Filed 10-13-99; 8:45 am]
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