# Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Comment Request > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A96-4475 ## Record - **Collection:** Federal Register - **Document type:** Notice - **Published:** February 28, 1996 - **Citation:** 61 FR 7522 ## Text 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 [[Page 7523]] 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 1. National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Professional Training and Information Questions (PTIQs)--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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Responses Total Type of respondent Number of per Hours per burden respondents respondent response hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Physicians.................................................. 200 1 0.50 100 Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse Midwives............................................. 50 1 0.50 25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Total Annual Burden: 125 hours. 2. Annual Administrative Report for Titles I and II of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990-- Extension and Revision--The Uniform Reporting System provides for reports by grantees under Titles I and II of the Ryan White CARE Act of aggregate information about disbursal of funds, number of clients served and services provided, demographic information about clients served, and costs of provided services. Title I grantees include local governments that meet legislative criteria for disproportionate impact of AIDS. Title II grantees include the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and a small number of territories. Grantees obtain the information for the AAR from individual service providers. Automated reporting alternatives are available to grantees and to providers at the grantee's option. This information is used to determine whether the purposes of the Act and the grants made pursuant to it are being fulfilled. The information is also used locally for planning and priority setting. Respondents include state and local governments, individuals, non-profit institutions, businesses and other for-profit organizations, and small businesses and entities. HRSA proposes to make some changes in the data elements, to improve their value and/or reduce the burden of data collection and reporting. To allow adequate lead time, the changes would be effective for data collection by service providers beginning in January, 1998. In addition to minor technical changes, the proposed changes include: In all reports, deleting elements concerning total expenditures and expenditures by accounting categories, because of the difficulty these elements posed for respondents; In all reports, adding several age breakouts for adult clients (currently a single figure is reported for all adults), to increase the local and national usefulness of the data; Eliminating the Modified AAR, which was used by fewer than 2% of providers, so that lead or fiscal agents for fee-for-service arrangements would instead submit a Standard AAR covering all of their subcontractors; In the Standard AAR, deleting elements concerning staffing levels and whether staff were added with CARE funds (useful in initial reports, these elements would be deleted now to reduce reporting burden); In the Standard AAR, adding elements for the number of clients receiving office-based health services, case management services, and home health care services (currently only the number of service encounters in these areas is reported), because of the importance of knowing how many people are receiving these services; Also in the Standard AAR, refining the list of ``Other Health and Social Support Services'' to add several services that have been cited frequently as important omissions (e.g., alternative therapy, medications, referrals and translation) and to delete or consolidate some existing categories (e.g., foster care/adoption and the two current categories for hospice care); and In the AIDS Drug Assistance Program AAR, adding some recently emerging drugs to the list of those to be reported on and deleting other drugs no longer widely used. HRSA invites comment on another possible change, which has been suggested by numerous respondents: deleting the elements in the Standard AAR that deal with clients' primary HIV exposure categories. The annual burden estimates are as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Type of respondent No. of responses per Hours/response Total burden respondents respondent hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Grantees.................................. 52 1 63 3,276 Local Grantees.................................. 49 1 25 1,225 Providers....................................... 2,500 1 23 57,500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated total annual burden: 62,001 hours. 3. Health Professions Student Loan (HPSL) Program and Nursing Student Loan (NSL) Program Administrative Requirements (Regulations and Policy) (0915-0047)--Extension, No Change--The regulations for the Health Professions Student Loan (HPSL) Program and Nursing Student Loan (NSL) Program contain a number of reporting and recordkeeping [[Page 7524]] requirements for schools and loan applicants. The requirements are essential for assuring that borrowers are aware of their rights and responsibilities, that schools know the history and status of each loan account, that schools pursue aggressive collection efforts to reduce default rates, and that they maintain adequate records for audit and assessment purposes. Schools are free to use information technology to manage the information required by the regulations. The estimated burden is as follows: Recordkeeping Requirements: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Reg./section requirement Number of Hours per burden recordkeepers year hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HPSL Program: 57.206(b)(2) Documentation of Cost of Attendance.................. 290 1.17 339 57.208(a) Promissory Note......................................... 290 1.25 363 57.210(b)(1)(i) Documentation of Entrance Interview............... 290 1.25 363 57.210(b)(1)(ii) Documentation of Exit Interview.................. 313 .33 103 57.215 (a) & (d) Program Records.................................. 313 10 3,130 57.215(b) Student Records......................................... 313 10 3,130 57.215(c) Repayment Records....................................... 313 18.75 5,869 ----------------------------------------- HPSL subtotal................................................. 313 42.48 13,297 NSL Program: 57.306(b)(2)(ii) Documentation of Cost of Attendance.............. 435 .3 131 57.308(a) Promissory Note......................................... 435 .5 218 57.310(b)(1)(i) Documentation of Entrance Interview............... 435 .5 218 57.310(b)(1)(ii) Documentation of Exit Interview.................. 909 .17 155 57.315 (a)(1) & (a)(4) Program Records............................ 909 5.0 4,545 57.315(a)(2) Student Records...................................... 909 1.0 909 57.315(a)(3) Repayment Records.................................... 909 2.5 2,273 ----------------------------------------- NSL subtotal.................................................. 909 10.56 8,449 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reporting Requirements: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Responses Total Req./Sect. Requirement No. of Per Annual House Per Total Hour Respondents Respondent Responses Response Burden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HPSL Program: 57.205(a)(2) Excess Case................. (4) [Burden included under 0915-0044 and 0915- 0046] 57.206(a)(3) Student Financial Aid Transcrip............................... 5,000 1 5,000 0.25 1,250 57.208(c) Loan Information Disclosure.... 290 72.41 21,000 .083 1,743 57.210(a)(3) Deferment Eligibility....... (4) [Burden included under 0915-0044] 57.210(b)(1)(i) Entrance Interview....... 290 72.41 21,000 .167 3,507 57.210(b)(1)(ii) Exit Interview.......... 313 15.97 5,000 .483 2,415 57.210(b)(1)(iii) Notification of Repayment............................... 313 35.14 11,000 .167 1,837 57.210(b)(1)(iv) Notification During Deferment............................... 313 28.75 9,000 .083 747 57.210(b)(1)(vi) Notification of Delinquent Accounts..................... 313 15.97 5,000 .167 835 57.210(b)(1)(x) Credit Bureau Notification............................ 313 12.78 4,000 .6 2,400 57.210(b)(4)(i) Write-off of Uncollectible Loans..................... 26 1.8 48 .5 24 57.211(a) Disability Cancellation........ 16 1 16 .75 12 57.215(a) Reports........................ (4) [Burden included under 0915-0044] 57.215(a)(2) Admin. Hearings............. 0 0 0 0 0 57.216a(d) Admin. Hearings............... 0 0 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ HPSL Subtotal........................ 5,313 15.26 81,064 .182 14,770 ================================================================== NSL Program: 57.305(a)(2) Excess Cash................. (4) [Burden included under 0915-0044 and 0915- 0046] 57.306(a)(2) Student Financial Aid Transcript.............................. 3,000 1 3,000 .25 750 57.310(b)(1)(i) Entrance Interview....... 435 27.59 12,000 .167 2,004 57.310(b)(1)(ii) Exit Interview.......... 909 4.4 4,000 .483 1,932 57.310(b)(1)(iii) Notification of Repayment............................... 909 7.37 6,700 .167 1,119 57.310(b)(1)(iv) Notification During Deferment............................... 909 .77 700 .083 58 57.310(b)(1)(vi) Notification of Delinquent Accounts..................... 909 5.5 5,000 .167 835 57.310(b)(1)(x) Credit Bureau Notification............................ 909 9.9 9,000 .6 5,400 57.310(b)(4)(i) Write-off of Uncollectible Loans..................... 45 2.13 96 .5 48 57.311(a) Disability Cancellation........ 14 1 14 .75 11 57.312(a)(3) Evidence of Educational Loans................................... (4) [Inactive provision] 57.315(a)(1) Reports..................... (4) [Burden included under 0915-0044] 57.315(a)(1)(ii) Admin. Hearings......... 0 0 0 0 0 57.316a(d) Admin. Hearings............... 0 0 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ NSL Subtotal......................... 3,909 10.36 40,510 .30 12,157 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 7525]] Estimated total annual burden: 48,673 hours. 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: February 28, 1996. J. Henry Montes, Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination. [FR Doc. 96-4475 Filed 2-27-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4160-15-M --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A96-4475. Public record. Not legal advice.