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submission of medical documentation

mandatory rather than optional.

The estimate of burden for the

Physician’s Certification form is as

follows:

Type of respondent Number of

respondents

Responses per

respondent

Number of

responses

Hours per

response

Total burden

hours

Borrower ................................................................................ 100 1 100 5 min ........... 8

Physician ............................................................................... 100 1 100 30 min ......... 50

Loan Holder ........................................................................... 32 3.1 100 10 min ......... 17

Total ............................................................................... 232 .......................... 300 ..................... 75

Send comments to Patricia Royston,

HRSA Reports Clearance Officer, Room

14–36, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Written

comments should be received within 60

days of this notice.

Dated: November 21, 1997.

Jane Harrison,

Acting Director, Division of Policy Review

and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 97–31225 Filed 11–26–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–15–P

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, 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

Education Loan Repayment Program

Application (OMB No. 0915–0140)

Extension and Revision—This is a

request for extension and revision of

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) approval of the application form

for the Nursing Education Loan

Repayment Program (NELRP). The

NELRP is authorized by 42 U.S.C.

297(n) (section 846 of the Public Health

Service Act).

Under the NELRP, registered nurses

are offered the opportunity to enter into

a contractual agreement with the

Secretary, under which the Public

Health Service agrees to repay the

nurses’ indebtedness for nursing

education. In exchange, the nurses agree

to serve for a specified period of time in

certain types of health facilities

identified in the statute.

Nurse educational loan repayment

contracts will be approved by the

Secretary for eligible nurses who have

incurred previous monetary

indebtedness by accepting a loan for

nursing education costs from a bank,

credit union, savings and loan

association, insurance company,

Government agency or program, school,

or other lender that meets NELRP

criteria.

Approval is requested for the

application form. The application form

requires information from two types of

respondents:

a. Applicants must provide

information on the proposed service site

and on all nursing education loans for

which reimbursement is requested, and

b. Lenders must provide information

on loan status for all loans accepted for

repayment.

Two items are being added to the

application form: race/ethnicity of the

applicant (for statistical purposes only);

and citizenship status. The estimates of

average burden to complete the forms

remains the same. Burden estimates are

as follows:

Form/Regulatory requirement Number of

respondents

Responses

per respondent

Hours per

response

Total burden hours

NELRP Application ........................................................................................................... 2,200 1 1 2,200

Loan Verification Form ..................................................................................................... *50 1 .25 13

Total ........................................................................................................................... 2,250 .................... .................... 2,213

* The remainder of the loans are verified through credit reports.

Written comments and

recommendations concerning the

proposed information collection should

be sent on or before December 29, 1997

to: Laura Oliven, Human Resources and

Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office

Building, Room 10235, Washington,

D.C. 20503.

Dated: November 21, 1997.

Jane Harrison,

Acting Director, Division of Policy Review

and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 97–31208 Filed 11–26–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–15–P

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, in