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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]

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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, 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
63354 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 229 / Friday, November 28, 1997 / Notices

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: Deferment Request

Form for NHSC and NHH Scholarship

Programs (OMB NO. 0915–0179)

Extension, No Change

We are requesting an extension of the

OMB clearance for the Deferment

Request Form and associated reporting

requirements for the National Health

Service Corps (NHSC) Scholarship

Program and the Native Hawaiian

Health (NHH) Scholarship Program. The

NHSC/NHH Scholarship Programs are

authorized by Section 338A and Section

338K of the Public Health Service (PHS)

Act. The requirements for obligated

service, found in Section 338C of the

PHS Act, include provisions for

deferment of the service obligation

under certain circumstances.

Under these programs, allopathic

physicians, osteopathic physicians,

dentists, nurse practitioners, nurse

midwives, physician assistants, and, if

needed by the NHSC or NHH program,

students of other health professions

(including mental health professionals)

are offered the opportunity to enter into

a contractual agreement with the

Secretary under which the Public

Health Service agrees to pay the total

school tuition, required fees and a

stipend for living expenses. In

exchange, the scholarship recipient

agrees to provide full-time clinical

services at a site in a federally

designated Health Professions Shortage

Areas (HPSA) of the United States. NHH

scholarship recipients must be native

Hawaiians and are assigned to sites in

Hawaii. The minimum service

obligation is 2 years.

Once scholarship recipients have

completed their academic requirements,

the law requires that selected types of

recipients be allowed to defer their

service obligation in order to complete

an approved internship, residency, or

other advanced clinical training.

The Deferment Request Form

provides the information necessary for

considering the period and type of

training for which deferment of the

service obligation will be approved for

physicians and dentists.

In addition, these programs have two

other reporting requirements for which

no forms have been developed,

including:

(1) Individuals who are in a deferment

status are required to submit requests in

writing for modifications to the

deferment (e.g., extension of deferment

or change of residency programs); and

(2) Dentists, who can either begin their

service obligation immediately after

graduation or can be deferred for up to

three years, are required to notify the

program in writing of their intent to

request deferment.

The estimated burden on respondents

is as follows:

Type of report Number of

respondents

Responses

per respondent

Hours per

response

Total burden hours

Deferment Form ............................................................................................................... 600 1 .5 300

Requests for Change of Deferment and Letters of Intent ............................................... 100 1 1 100

Total ................................................................................................................... 700 .................... .................... 400

Written comments and

recommendations concerning the

proposed information collection should

be sent within 30 days of this notice 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. 97–31209 Filed 11–26–97; 8:45 am]

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Health Resources and Services

Administration

Final Program Requirements and

Review Criteria for a Cooperative

Agreement for a Center for Health

Workforce Distribution Studies: A

Federal-State Partnership Cooperative

Agreement Program for Fiscal Year

1997

The Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) announces that

applications will be accepted for a fiscal

year (FY) 1997 Cooperative Agreement

for a Center for Health Workforce

Distribution Studies: A Federal-State

Partnership Cooperative Agreement

Program. The cooperative agreement

will be funded under the authority of

section 792 (42 USC 295k) of the Public

Health Service Act, which authorizes

research on health professions

personnel.

Research and studies for this

cooperative agreement program will

focus on the workforce distributional

aspects of the legislation at the state

(one or a few states) level for allied

health personnel, dentists, nurses,

physicians, and public health personnel

as specified below.

Purpose

The purpose of this cooperative

agreement for a Center for Health

Workforce Distribution Studies is to

support research and analysis at the

State level for one State or a few States

only, including issues regarding the

impact of federal initiatives aimed at

improving the training of health

professionals and meeting national

workforce goals pertaining to:

(1) Allied health data and

distributional issues consistent with the

(1995) recommendations of the National

Commission on Allied Health and in

close coordination with the activities of

the Allied Health Data Collaborative

Project;

(2) Distribution of dentists, with

emphasis on trends relating to

educational background (for example,

those with postdoctoral training in

advanced general dentistry and/or

public health dentistry) and practice in

settings principally serving residents of

medically-underserved communities;