Notice2023-05478
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Nurse Corps Scholarship Program-Revision
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Published
March 17, 2023
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day comment period for this notice has closed.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 52 (Friday, March 17, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16454-16455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05478]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Nurse Corps Scholarship
Program--Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than April 17,
2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#483829382d3a3f273a2308203a3b29662f273e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f88899889d8a8f978a93b8908a8b99d69f978e">[email protected]</span></a> or call Samantha Miller,
the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at 301-594-4394.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Nurse Corps Scholarship
Program.
OMB No. 0915-0301--Extension.
Abstract: The Nurse Corps Scholarship Program (Nurse Corps SP),
administered by HRSA, provides scholarships to nursing students in
exchange for a minimum 2-year full-time service commitment (or part-
time equivalent), at an eligible health care facility with a critical
shortage of nurses (i.e., Critical Shortage Facility (CSF)). The
scholarship consists of payment of tuition, fees, other reasonable
educational costs, and a monthly support stipend. Program recipients
are required to fulfill Nurse Corps SP service commitments at CSFs
located in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the
Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on December 5,
2023, vol. 87, No. 232; pp. 74428-29. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The Nurse Corps SP
collects data to determine an applicant's eligibility for the program,
monitor a participant's continued enrollment in a school of nursing,
monitor the participant's compliance with the Nurse Corps SP service
obligation, and prepare annual reports to Congress. The following
information will be collected (1) from the schools, on a quarterly
basis--general applicant and nursing school data such as full name,
location, tuition/fees, and enrollment status; (2) from the schools, on
an annual basis--data concerning tuition/fees and overall student
enrollment status; and (3) from the participants and their employing
CSF on a biannual basis--data concerning the participant's employment
status, work schedule, and leave usage. This notice includes several
changes to the information collection forms that were included in the
60-day notice, and requests comments on the revised information
collection. Specifically, these changes are:
(1) Form Name Change: The ``Initial Employment Verification Form''
changed to ``Employment Verification Form;'' and ``Employer--
Participant Service Verification Form'' changed to ``In-Service
Verification Form.'' These titles more adequately describe the forms.
(2) Additional Forms: This notice includes two additional forms.
(1) The Verification of Acceptance Form, to be completed by the
academic institution to verify that the participant remains in good
academic standing under the policies of the institutions; and (2) the
Authorization to Release Information Form, which permits the disclosure
of information pertaining to the participant's school enrollment,
transcripts and grades, academic standing, enrollment and degree
status, curriculum and examination requirements for graduation, tuition
and fees, leave-of-absence, withdrawal, or dismissal from school. This
information will be used to determine eligibility to continue to
receive scholarship benefits and the amount of those benefits. These
forms were not included in the 60-day notice, but due to programmatic
need to ensure a method to adequately track academic standing of
participants and to identify ongoing eligibility information of
participants, they are now being included in this notice.
(3) Form Removal: The CSF Verification Form was included in the 60-
day notice but is not included in this notice because the data formerly
collected through the CSF has been included in the revised version of
the Employment Verification Form.
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Likely Respondents: Nurse Corps SP scholars in school, graduates,
educational institutions, and CSFs.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Eligible Applications/ 2,600 1 2,600 2.00 5,200
Application Program Guidance...
School Enrollment Verification 500 4 2,000 .33 660
Form...........................
Confirmation of Interest Form... 250 1 250 .20 50
Data Collection Worksheet Form.. 500 1 500 1.00 500
Graduation Close Out Form....... 200 1 200 .17 34
Employment Verification Form.... 500 1 500 .42 210
In-Service Verification Form.... 1,000 2 2,000 .12 240
Verification of Acceptance Form. 500 1 500 .33 165
Authorization to Release 200 1 200 .20 40
Information Form...............
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Total....................... 6,250 .............. 8,750 .............. 7,099
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-05478 Filed 3-16-23; 8:45 am]
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