Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:

Comment Request

In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on

proposed data collection projects, the Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) will publish periodic summaries of proposed

projects being developed for submission to 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

instruments, call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1129.

Comments are invited on: (a) whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of

the agency, including whether the information shall have practical

utility; (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 Projects

Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources and Emergency Act of 1990

Women's Initiatives (WIN)--New

The Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and

Child Health Bureau proposes to collect information about HIV-related

services provided to women of child-bearing age and their children.

Information will be collected annually from eight sites funded by HRSA

under cooperative agreements and their 320 local service providers that

are funded under Sections 2618(a) and 2671 of the Public Health Service

Act. The eight funded sites will collect the information by telephone

from their providers, and forward the data collection forms to a HRSA

contractor. There are no plans to collect or transmit the data

electronically.

The purpose is to document current care system characteristics and

facilitate planning for services to women with HIV and their children.

The information will be used within and outside HRSA to inform the

administration and Congress about HIV counseling and testing services

for pregnant women, services and referral resources for pregnant women

with HIV, antiretroviral therapies, and outreach related to perinatal

HIV transmission reduction. Annual burden estimates are as follows:

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Burden

Number of Responses hours Total

Type of respondent respondents per per burden

respondent response hours

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Providers................... 320 1 .33 106

Funded Sites................ 8 40 1.0 320

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Total................. 328 .......... ........ 426

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Faculty Loan Repayment Program (FLRP) Application (0915-0150)--

Extension and Revision

Under the HRSA FLRP program, disadvantaged graduates from certain

health professions schools may enter into a contract under which HRSA

with the Department of Health and Human Services will make payments on

eligible graduate educational loans in exchange for a minimum of two

years of service as a full-time faculty member of a health professions

school. Applicants must complete an application and provide information

on all eligible education loans. Once HRSA has selected the

participants, HRSA will request verification from their lenders of loan

balances and terms of their outstanding educational loans.

Estimated annual response burden is as follows:

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Total

Number of Responses Hours annual

Type of respondent respondents per per hour

respondent response burden

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Applicants.................. 75 1 1 75

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Lenders..................... 112 1 .5 56

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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: April 24, 1996.

J. Henry Montes,

Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination.

[FR Doc. 96-10617 Filed 4-29-96; 8:45 am]

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