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:

Proposed Project: The Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL)

Program: Application Form--0915-0038--Extension, No Change. The

Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) program provides federally-

insured loans to students in schools of allopathic medicine,

osteopathic medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry,

podiatric medicine, pharmacy, public health, allied health, or

chiropractic, and graduate students in health administration or

clinical psychology. Eligible lenders, such as banks, savings and loan

associations, credit unions, pension funds, State agencies, HEAL

schools, and insurance companies, make HEAL loans which are insured by

the Federal Government against loss due to borrowers' death,

disability, bankruptcy, and default. The basic purpose of the program

is to assure the availability of funds for loans to eligible students

who need to borrow money to pay for their educational costs.

The HEAL program is being phased out and no new loans will be made

after September 30, 1998, unless reauthorization is enacted. We are,

however, requesting a 3-year extension of the OMB approval of the HEAL

Application Form HRSA-700 because lenders will continue to use this

form for consolidation loans through fiscal year (FY) 2000. Students

use the application to apply for HEAL loans (through FY 1998) and

consolidation of loans, schools use the application to determine a

student's eligibility and maximum approval amount of each loan (through

FY 1998 only), and lenders use the application to determine student

eligibility and the amount of the installment or disbursement to be

given to the borrower, and to process consolidation loans.

The estimate of burden for the application form for FY 1998 is as

follows:

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Responses Total Burden per Total

Type of respondent Number of per number of response burden

respondents respondent responses (minutes) hours

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Applicants..................................... 8,230 1 8,230 25 3,429

Schools........................................ 190 41 7,730 32 4,123

Lenders........................................ 11 748 8,230 35 4,801

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Total.................................... 8,431 ........... 24,190 ........... 12,353

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The estimate of burden for the application form for FY 1999 and

2000 (for consolidation loans only) is as follows:

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Responses Total Burden per Total

Type of respondent Number of per number of response burden

respondents respondent responses (minutes) hours

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Applicants..................................... 500 1 500 25 208

Lenders........................................ 11 45 500 35 292

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Total.................................... 511 ........... 1,000 ........... 500

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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, DC

20503.

Dated: November 7, 1997.

Jane M. Harrison,

Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 97-30027 Filed 11-13-97; 8:45 am]

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