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 44, 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 and draft

instruments, call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1891.

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.

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Proposed Project: The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and

Native Hawaiian Health (NHH) Scholarship Programs Data Collection

Worksheets (in Use Without Approval)

The NHSC and NHH Scholarship Programs were established to assure an

adequate supply of trained primary care health professionals to the

neediest communities in the Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs)

of the United States. Under these programs, allopathic physicians,

osteopathic physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives,

physician assistants, and, if needed by the NHSC or NHH program,

students of other health professions are offered the opportunity to

enter into a contractual agreement with the Secretary under which the

Public Health Service agrees to pay the total school tuition, required

fees, other reasonable costs (ORC) and a stipend for living expenses.

In exchange, the scholarship recipient agrees to provide full-time

clinical services at a site in a federally designated HPSA.

In order to accurately determine the amount of scholarship support

that students will need during their academic training, the Bureau of

Primary Health Care must contact each scholar's school for an estimate

of tuition, fees, and ORC. The Data Collection Worksheet collects these

itemized costs for both resident and nonresident students.

Six hundred schools are expected to submit one report per year. It

is expected to take 30 minutes to complete each form, for a total of

300 hours of burden.

Send comments to Lyman Van Nostrand, HRSA Reports Clearance

Officer, Room 14-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this

notice.

Dated: April 22, 1998.

Jane Harrison,

Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 98-11346 Filed 4-28-98; 8:45 am]

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