Notice2023-10929
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Nurse Faculty Loan Program-Program Specific Data Form, Annual Performance Report Financial Data Form and NFLP Due Diligence Form; OMB No. 0915-0314-Revision
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Published
May 23, 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 99 (Tuesday, May 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33148-33150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10929]
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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 Faculty Loan
Program--Program Specific Data Form, Annual Performance Report
Financial Data Form and NFLP Due Diligence Form; OMB No. 0915-0314-
Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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 June 22,
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 a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Samantha Miller, the HRSA
Information
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Collection Clearance Officer, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c4b4a5b4a1b6b3abb6af84acb6b7a5eaa3abb2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="88f8e9f8edfaffe7fae3c8e0fafbe9a6efe7fe">[email protected]</span></a> or call (301) 443-
1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Nurse Faculty Loan Program--
Program Specific Data Form, Annual Performance Report Financial Data
Form and NFLP Due Diligence Form OMB No. 0915-0314-Revision
Abstract: This clearance request is for approval of the Nurse
Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)--Program Specific Data Form, NFLP--Annual
Performance Report (APR) Financial Data Form, and the NFLP Due
Diligence Form. The Program Specific Data Form and the NFLP--APR
Financial Data Form are currently approved under OMB Approval No. 0915-
0314, with the expiration date of August 31, 2023. The NFLP Due
Diligence Form is a new form. HRSA seeks to use the NFLP Due Diligence
Form for recipients to formally notify HRSA of any write-off amounts
due to uncollectible debt and loan cancellation due to death and
permanent/total disability. For program efficiency, HRSA is adding the
new NFLP Due Diligence Form to the current NFLP ICR under OMB No. 0915-
0314.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on March 8, 2023,
vol. 88, No. 45; pp. 14378-79. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Section 846A of the
Public Health Service Act provides the Secretary of HHS with the
authority to enter into agreements with accredited schools of nursing
for the establishment and operation of student loan funds to increase
the number of qualified nurse faculty. Under the agreements, HRSA makes
awards to accredited schools of nursing and the schools provide loans
to students enrolled in advanced education nursing degree programs who
are committed to becoming nurse faculty. Following graduation from the
NFLP grant recipient school, NFLP borrowers may receive up to 85
percent of loan cancellation over a 4-year period in exchange for
service as full-time faculty at a school of nursing. The NFLP grant
recipient school collects any portion of the loan that is not cancelled
and any loans that go into repayment and deposits these monies into the
NFLP loan fund to make additional NFLP loans.
The NFLP--Program Specific Data Form is a required electronic
attachment within the NFLP application materials. The data provided in
the form is essential for the formula-based criteria used to determine
the award amount to the applicant schools. The form collects
application related data from applicants such as the amount requested,
number of students to be funded, tuition information, and projected
unused loan fund balance. This data collection assists HRSA in
streamlining the application submission process, enabling an efficient
award determination process, and facilitating reporting on the use of
funds and analysis of program outcomes. There have been no changes to
this form.
The NFLP--APR Financial Data Form is an online form that exists in
the HRSA Electronic Handbooks Performance Report module. The NFLP--APR
Financial Data Form collects outcome and financial data to capture the
NFLP loan fund account activity related to financial receivables,
disbursements, and borrower account data related to employment status,
loan cancellation, loan repayment and collections. NFLP grant recipient
schools will provide HHS with current and cumulative information on (1)
NFLP loan funds received, (2) number and amount of NFLP loans made, (3)
number and amount of loans cancelled, (4) number and amount of loans in
repayment, (5) loan default rate percent, (6) number of NFLP graduates
employed as nurse faculty, and (7) other related loan fund costs and
activities. NFLP grant recipient schools must keep records of all NFLP
loan fund transactions. The NFLP--APR Financial Data Form is used to
monitor grantee performance by collecting information related to the
NFLP loan fund operations and financial activities for a specified
reporting period (July 1 through June 30 of the academic year). NFLP
grant recipient schools are required to complete and submit the NFLP--
APR Financial Data Form annually. The data provided in the form is
essential for HRSA to effectively monitor the school's use of NFLP
funds in accordance with the statute and program guidelines. There have
been no changes to this form.
The NFLP Due Diligence Form will be a required form to be completed
and submitted electronically by NFLP grant recipient schools. This form
indicates that due diligence has been exercised in the cancellation of
any remaining loan funds for NFLP borrowers due to permanent/total
disability, death, and uncollectible/bad debt write-offs. The data
collected on the due diligence form will include the student borrower's
unique ID number, reason for cancellation, the amount of principal
loaned, the total amount of principal loan funds and corresponding
interest canceled, and the outstanding amount of principal/interest
being canceled or written-off. The NFLP Due Diligence Form is essential
for monitoring performance measure outcomes and to verify and validate
accuracy of information submitted on the NFLP Annual Performance
Reports.
Likely Respondents: NFLP grant recipient schools and applicants to
the NFLP program.
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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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Nurse Faculty Loan Program-- 90 1 90 8 720
Program Specific Data Form.....
Nurse Faculty Loan Program-- 207 1 207 6 1242
Annual Performance Report
Financial Data Form............
Nurse Faculty Loan Program--Due-- 20 1 20 1 20
Diligence Form.................
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Total Burden................ 317 3 317 15 1982
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2023-10929 Filed 5-22-23; 8:45 am]
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