Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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:

HRSA Competing Training Grant Application, Instructions and Related

Regulations (OMB No. 0915-0060)--Extension and Revision

The Health Resources and Services Administration uses the

information in the application to determine the eligibility of

applicants for awards, to calculate the amount of each award, and to

judge the relative merit of applications. This is a request for renewed

clearance with several changes in the form. The form will be

distributed electronically via the Internet, the budget will be

negotiated for all years of the project period based on this

application, and program-specific instructions will include greater

standardization of content for the project summary and the detailed

description of the project. Applications for selected programs must

include data specified in statute. The statutory requirements are

included in this clearance request.

Regulations which authorize the application form and other

reporting, disclosure and recordkeeping requirements for various

programs are also cleared in this package. No changes were made to the

regulations.

The estimated annual burden for the application and associated

regulations is as follows:

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Responses Hours Total

Requirement Number of per per burden

respondents respondent response hours

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Basic application.................................................. 1,787 1 61.25 109,454

Statutory reporting requirements................................... 1,131 1 150 169,650

Regulatory requirements (see detailed table below):

Reporting...................................................... 45 1.7 1 75

Disclosure..................................................... 168 1.1 3.4 622

Recordkeeping.................................................. 86 1.2 1.7 168

Total........................................................ 1,787 279,969

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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, D.C.

20503.

Dated: November 27, 1996.

J. Henry Montes,

Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination.

[FR Doc. 96-31118 Filed 12-5-96; 8:45 am]

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