Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 66 / Thursday, April 5, 2012 / Notices 20645 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: 

Comment Request 

In compliance with the requirement 

for opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects 

(section 3506(c)(2)(A) of Title 44, United 

States Code, as amended by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13), the Health 

Resources and Services Administration 

(HRSA) publishes periodic summaries 

of proposed projects being developed 

for submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

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 the HRSA Reports Clearance 

Officer at (301) 443–1984. 

Comments are invited on: (a) The 

proposed collection of information for 

the proper performance of the functions 

of the Agency; (b) the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Proposed Project: Nursing Scholarship 

Program (OMB No. 0915–0301)— 

[Revision] 

The Nursing Scholarship Program 

(NSP) is a competitive Federal program, 

which awards scholarships to 

individuals for attendance at accredited 

schools of nursing. The Bureau of 

Clinician Recruitment and Service 

(BCRS) in HRSA administers the 

program. The scholarship consists of 

payment of tuition, fees, other 

reasonable educational costs, and a 

monthly support stipend. In return, the 

students agree to provide a minimum of 

2 years of full-time clinical service (or 

an equivalent part-time commitment, as 

approved by the NSP) at a health care 

facility with a critical shortage of nurses 

as defined by the program. 

NSP recipients must be willing to 

(and are required to) fulfill their NSP 

service commitment at a health care 

facility with a critical shortage of nurses 

in the United States, which includes, in 

addition to the several States, only: the 

District of Columbia, Guam, the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 

Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. 

Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the 

Federated States of Micronesia, the 

Republic of the Marshall Islands, and 

the Republic of Palau. Students who are 

uncertain of their commitment to 

provide nursing care in a health care 

facility with a critical shortage of nurses 

in the United States or these territories 

are advised not to participate in this 

program. 

The NSP needs to collect data to 

determine an applicant’s eligibility for 

the program, to monitor a participant’s 

continued enrollment in a school of 

nursing, to monitor the participant’s 

compliance with the NSP service 

obligation, and to obtain data on its 

program to ensure compliance with 

statutory mandates and prepare annual 

reports to Congress. The following 

information will be collected: (1) From 

the applicants and/or the schools— 

general applicant and nursing school 

data such as full name, location, tuition/ 

fees, and enrollment status; (2) from the 

schools, on an annual basis—data 

concerning tuition/fees and student 

enrollment status; and (3) from the 

participants and their health care 

facilities with a critical shortage of 

nurses, on a biannual basis—data 

concerning the participant’s 

employment status, work schedule and 

leave usage. BCRS enters the cost 

information into its information data 

system, along with the projected amount 

for the monthly stipend, to determine 

the amount of each scholarship award. 

The annual estimate of burden is as 

follows: 

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Application ............................................................................ 4,000 1 4,000 2 8,000 

In-School Monitoring ............................................................ 500 1 500 2 1,000 

In-Service Monitoring ........................................................... 600 2 1,200 1 1,200 

Total .............................................................................. 5,100 ........................ 5,700 ........................ 10,200 

Email comments to 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA 

Reports Clearance Officer, Room 10–29, 

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, MD 20857. Written comments 

should be received within 60 days of 

this notice. 

Dated: March 30, 2012. 

Reva Harris, 

Acting Director, Division of Policy and 

Information Coordination. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8147 Filed 4–4–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4165–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed 

Meetings 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is 

hereby given of the following meetings. 

The meetings will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Allergy and Infectious Diseases Special 

Emphasis Panel; Center for HIV/AIDS 

Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen 

Discovery (CHAVI–ID) (UM1). 

Date: April 24–27, 2012. 

Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Hilton Rockville Executive Meeting 

Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 

20852. 

Contact Person: Jay Bruce Sundstrom, 

Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Scientific 

Review Program, DEA/NIAID/NIH/DHHS, 


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