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 (OMB), 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, e-mail

paperwork@hrsa.gov

or 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: Faculty Loan Repayment Program (OMB No. 0915-0150)—Extension

Under the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Faculty Loan Repayment Program, degree-trained health professionals from disadvantaged backgrounds may enter into a contract under which the Department of Health and Human Services will make payments on eligible educational loans in exchange for a minimum of two years of service as a full-time or part-time faculty member of an accredited health professions college or university. Applicants must complete an application and provide all other required documentation, including information on all eligible educational loans.

The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

Instrument

Number of

respondents

Responses per

respondent

Total

responses

Hours per

response

Total burden hours

Online application

181

1

181

1

181

Institution Employment Form

*181

*1

181

1

181

Loan Information and Verification Form

181

3

543

1

543

Checklist Form

181

1

181

.50

90.50

BCRSIS Online Banking Form

181

1

181

.50

90.50

Total

362

6

543

4

1,068

*Respondent for this form is the academic institution for the applicant.

Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov

or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all correspondence to the “attention of the desk officer for HRSA.”

Dated: June 2, 2009.

Alexandra Huttinger,

Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. E9-13519 Filed 6-8-09; 8:45 am]

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