Proposed Data Collections Available for Public Comment and Recommendations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

Proposed Data Collections Available for Public Comment and

Recommendations

Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction act of 1995

requires that Federal agencies provide a 60-day notice in the Federal

Register concerning each proposed collection of information. The

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the

National Institutes of Health (NIH) is publishing this notice to

solicit public comment on a proposed data collection for the

Contraception and Infertility Research Loan Repayment Program. To

request copies of the data collection plans and instruments, call Dr.

Louis DePaolo on (301) 496-6515 (not a toll-free number).

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection is

necessary, including whether the information has practical use; (b)

ways to enhance the clarity, quality, and use of the information to be

collected; (c) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden of the

proposed collection; and (d) ways to minimize the collection burden of

the respondents. Written comments are requested within 60 days of the

publication of this notice. Send comments to Dr. Louis DePaolo,

Reproductive Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, NICHD,

NIH, Building 61E, Rm. 8B01, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7510.

Proposed Project

The Center for Population Research of the NICHD, NIH, intends to

make available educational loan repayment under the NICHD Contraception

and Infertility Research Loan Repayment Program (CIR-LRP). The CIR-LRP

is authorized by Section 487B of Part G of Title IV of the Public

Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 288-2) as amended by the NIH

Revitalization Act of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-43). The program intends to

provide for the repayment of the educational loan debt of health

professionals (including graduate students) who agree to commit to a

period of obligated service of not less than two years conducting

research with respect to contraception and/or infertility. The CIR-LRP

will pay up to

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$20,000 of the principal and interest of such individual's educational

loans for each year of commitment not to exceed one-half of the

remaining loan balance. The CIR-LRP is designed to provide an incentive

for health professionals to work in areas of reproductive research

directly related to contraceptive development and/or infertility

diagnosis and treatment by providing assistance in repaying educational

loans for such individuals. The long-range objective of the CIR-LRP is

to stimulate the commitment of researchers to sustaining a career focus

on contraception and/or infertility research.

The information proposed for collection will be used by the NICHD

to determine an applicant's eligibility for participation in the CIR-

LRP. The CIR-LRP application consists of two parts: Part I (Information

About the Applicant) is completed by the applicant; Section A of Part

II (Loan Information and Permission for Disclosure) is also completed

by the applicant; and Section B, Part II (Lender's Verification) is

completed by the Lending Institution. It may also be necessary for a

State or other entity to verify an outstanding service obligation. In

these instances, written verification of the service obligation will be

requested from the State or other entity.

The annual burden estimates are as follows:

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No. Avg.

No. responses burden per

respondents per response

respondent (hrs)

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Applicant.......................... 50 1 5.5

Lender............................. 200 1 0.5

State/Other Entity................. 8 1 0.5

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Dated: September 5, 1995.

Benjamin E. Fulton,

Deputy Executive Officer, National Institute of Child Health and Human

Development.

[FR Doc. 95-23392 Filed 9-20-95; 8:45 am]

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