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 for opportunity for public

comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of

Title 35, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), 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, 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 Project: The Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) Program:

Forms--0915-0043--Extension, No Change

This clearance request is for extension of approval for 3 HEAL

forms: the Repayment Schedule is used by lenders to inform the borrower

of the cost of a HEAL loan, the number and amount of payments, and the

Truth-in-Lending requirements; the Promissory Note is used by the

lender to provide the borrower with the legally binding terms of the

loan; and the Lender's Report (also known as the Call Report) is used

by the lender to provide the Department with information on the status

of all loans outstanding. The forms are needed to provide borrowers

with information on their responsibilities and to determine which

lenders may have

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excessive delinquencies and defaulted loans. The estimate of burden for

the forms are as follows:

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Responses Burden per Total

Form and No. Number of per Number of response burden

respondents respondent responses (hrs.) hours

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Disclosure:

Repayment Schedule HRSA 501-1,2........... 11 1,090 12,000 .5 6,000

Promissory Note, HRSA 500-1,2, & 3........ 11 1,384 15,227 .5 7,614

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Disclosure Subtotal..................... 11 2,474 27,227 .5 13,614

Reporting:

Call Report HRSA 512...................... 32 4 128 .75 96

Reporting Subtotal...................... 32 4 128 .75 96

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Total................................. 32 855 27,355 .5 13,710

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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: May 14, 1997.

J. Henry Montes,

Director, Office of Policy and Information Coordination.

[FR Doc. 97-13610 Filed 5-22-97; 8:45 am]

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