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:

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 excessive delinquencies and

defaulted loans. The estimates of burden for the forms are as follows:

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Responses Burden per Total

Form and number Number of per Number of response burden

respondents respond. responses (hours) 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............. 9 758 6,818 .5 3,409

Promissory Note, HRSA 500-3............... 11 455 5,000 .5 2,500

Disclosure Subtotal....................... 11 2,165 23,818 .5 11,909

Reporting:

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

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Total Reporting and Disclosure.......... 32 748 23,946 .5 12,005

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Laura Oliven, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: August 8, 1997.

Jane Harrison,

Acting Director, Division of

Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 97-21565 Filed 8-13-97; 8:45 am]

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