Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 110 / Thursday, June 6, 1996 / Notices 28883

the OMB Desk Officer designated at the

following address: OMB Human

Resources and Housing Branch,

Attention: Allison Eydt, New Executive

Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: May 29, 1996.

Kathleen B. Larson,

Director, Management Planning and Analysis

Staff, Office of Financial and Human

Resources, Health Care Financing

Administration.

[FR Doc. 96–14208 Filed 6–5–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4120–03–P

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:

National Health Service Corps

(NHSC) Professional Training and

Information Questionnaire (PTIQ)—The

mission of the National Health Service

Corps (NHSC) is to provide health

professionals to those communities and

populations located in federally

designated health professional shortage

areas (HPSAs) of greatest need. Through

the NHSC Scholarship Program, health

professions students receive scholarship

support in return for a commitment to

serve in a HPSA for a specified period

of time. The NHSC will utilize the

Professional Training and Information

Questionnaire (PTIQ) to collect

information from NHSC scholarship

recipients on individual interests,

family concerns, and assignment

preferences which will be used in

matching scholars to HPSAs with the

greatest need for providers.

BURDEN ESTIMATES ARE AS FOLLOWS

Type of respondent Number of

respondents

Responses

per respondent

Hours per responseTotal burden

hours

Physicians ................................................................................................................. 200 1 0.50 100

Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse Midwives .............. 100 1 0.50 50

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 150

hours.

Written comments and

recommendations concerning the

proposed information collection should

be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Virginia Huth, Human Resources and

Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office

Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC

20503.

Dated: May 31, 1996.

J. Henry Montes,

Associate Administrator for Policy

Coordination.

[FR Doc. 96–14136 Filed 6–5–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–15–U

Public Health Service

National Toxicology Program; Fiscal

Year 1995 Annual Plan

The National Toxicology Program

(NTP) announces the availability of the

NTP Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 1995,

solicits comments on it, and urges all

interested persons to propose chemicals

for possible toxicological evaluation.

The seventeenth edition consists of

two parts, First, the NTP Annual Plan

for Fiscal Year 1995 describes FY 1995

NTP plans in research, applied studies,

methods development and validation

efforts, as well as resources and FY 1994

program accomplishments. Second, the

Review of Current DHHS, DOE, and

EPA Research related to Toxicology lists

chemicals being studied by the various

DHHS agencies, the Department of

Energy, and the Environmental

Protection Agency, and describes

toxicology research and toxicology

methods currently being developed by

these agencies.

Background

The National Toxicology Program

(NTP) was established within the Public

Health Service of the Department of

Health and Human Services (DHHS) in

November 1978. The continuing broad

goals of the NTP are to coordinate and

strengthen DHHS basic and applied

toxicology research and methods

development and validation, and to

provide toxicological information for

use by health research and regulatory

agencies and others in protecting the

public health. Overall objectives are to:

• Broaden the spectrum of

toxicological information obtained on

selected chemicals;

• Develop and validate more sensitive

and more specific test methods;

• Develop improved stategies for

generating scientific data that strengthen

the scientific foundation for risk

assessments; and

• Communicate Program plans and

results to government agencies, the

medical and scientific communities,

and the public.

The NTP coordinates selected

toxicology activities of the National

Institute of Environmental Health

Sciences, National Institutes of Health;

the National Center for Toxicological

Research, Food and Drug

Administration; and the National

Institute for Occupational Safety and

Health, Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention. The Director of the NTP is

also the Director of the National

Institute of Environmental Health

Sciences.

Primary program oversight is

provided by the NTP Executive

Committee, which links DHHS health

research institutes and centers with

Federal health regulatory agencies to

ensure that the basic and applied

toxicology research and development

activities are responsive to regulatory

and public health needs. Agencies

represented on the Executive Committee

are:

• Agency for Toxic Substances and

Disease Registry

• Consumer Product Safety

Commission

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Food and Drug Administration

• National Cancer Institute

• National Institute for Occupational

Safety and Health