95-25224. Waiver of Two-Year Home-Country Physical Presence Requirement, Foreign Medical Graduates, Exchange Visitor Program  

  • [Federal Register Volume 60, Number 197 (Thursday, October 12, 1995)]
    [Rules and Regulations]
    [Pages 53122-53126]
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    [FR Doc No: 95-25224]
    
    
    
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    UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY
    
    22 CFR Part 514
    
    [Rulemaking No. 115]
    
    
    Waiver of Two-Year Home-Country Physical Presence Requirement, 
    Foreign Medical Graduates, Exchange Visitor Program
    
    AGENCY: United States Information Agency.
    
    ACTION: Final rule.
    
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    SUMMARY: Section 220 of the Immigration and Nationality Technical 
    Corrections Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103-416) amended Section 212(e) of the 
    Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(e)) and added a new 
    subsection (k) to section 214 of that Act (8 U.S.C. 1184) regarding 
    waiver of the two-year foreign residence requirement as it applies to 
    foreign medical graduates. An Interim Final Rule with request for 
    comments was published in the Federal Register on April 3, 1995 (60 FR 
    16785). This final rulemaking amends the Exchange Visitor Program 
    regulations to reflect those legislative changes.
    
    DATES: This final rule is effective October 12, 1995.
    
    ADDRESSES: United States Information Agency, Office of the General 
    Counsel, Rulemaking 115, 301 Fourth Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, 
    DC 20547-0001.
    
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
    William G. Ohlhausen, Assistant General Counsel, United States 
    Information Agency, 301 Fourth Street, SW., Washington, DC 20547; 
    telephone (202) 619-6972.
    
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 220 of the Immigration and 
    Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103-416), 
    adopted in the closing days of the 103rd Congress, amended provisions 
    of the Immigration and Nationality Act which deal with the two-year 
    foreign residence requirement affecting foreign medical graduates (also 
    known as ``FMG's'' or ``international medical graduates'') who were 
    admitted to the United States on the J visa, or who acquired such 
    status after admission to the United States, and who are required to 
    return to the country of their nationality or last residence upon the 
    completion of their participation in an exchange visitor program.
        The Immigration and Naturalization Service may grant a waiver of 
    the two-year home country physical presence requirement upon the 
    favorable recommendation of the Director of the United States 
    Information Agency. Prior to the recent amendment to sections 212 and 
    214 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, there were three bases upon 
    which an alien who is a graduate of a medical school pursuing a program 
    in graduate medical education or training could seek a waiver of the 
    two-year foreign residence requirement. The first basis was the so-
    called ``interested Government Agency'' or ``IGA'' waiver. Under that 
    basis, the Director of the United States Information Agency could 
    recommend a waiver to INS pursuant to the request of an ``interested 
    United States Government agency.'' (Immigration and Nationality Act, as 
    amended, section 212(e) (8 U.S.C. 1182(e); 22 CFR 514.44(a) (2) and 
    (c).)
        The other bases upon which a J visa foreign medical graduate could 
    seek a waiver of the two-year foreign residence requirement were to 
    apply to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for a waiver on the 
    grounds that the departure of the alien physician from the United 
    States would ``impose exceptional hardship upon the alien's spouse or 
    child (if such spouse or child is a citizen of the United States or 
    lawfully resident alien), or that the alien cannot return to the 
    country of his nationality or last residence because he would be 
    subject to persecution on account of race, religion, or political 
    opinion.'' (Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, section 212(e) 
    (8 U.S.C. 1182(e).) Additionally, all three bases for seeking a waiver 
    required a finding by the Attorney General that the waiver was in the 
    public interest.
        The enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Technical 
    Corrections Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103-416) has now provided an 
    additional basis upon which a foreign medical graduate may seek a 
    waiver of the two-year home residence requirement. Section 220(a) of 
    that Act added a provision that authorizes a State Department of Public 
    Health or its equivalent to request the Director of USIA to recommend 
    that INS grant the waiver. However, in addition, the new law requires 
    that the government of the country to which the foreign medical 
    graduate is otherwise contractually obligated to return must furnish 
    the Director of the United States Information Agency with a statement 
    in writing that it has no objection to such 
    
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    waiver, and the foreign medical graduate must demonstrate that he or 
    she has a bona fide offer of full-time employment and must agree that 
    he or she will begin employment within 90 days of receiving a waiver, 
    and must agree to continue to work, for a total of not less than three 
    years, at a health care facility in an area designated by the Secretary 
    of Health and Human Services as having a shortage of health care 
    professionals. (Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, section 
    214(k)(1) (8 U.S.C. 1184(k)(1).)
        Upon the favorable recommendation of the Director of USIA, the 
    Attorney General may grant the waiver. The Attorney General may also 
    change the foreign medical graduate's nonimmigrant status from J-1 to 
    H-1B if the alien meets the requirements under section 248 of the 
    Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1258). If the foreign medical 
    graduate obtains a waiver under Public Law 103-416 and thereafter fails 
    to fulfill the terms of his or her employment contract with the health 
    care facility named in the waiver application, then he or she again 
    becomes subject to the two-year foreign residence requirement and is 
    ineligible to apply for an immigrant visa, permanent residence, or any 
    other change of nonimmigrant status until the two-year foreign 
    residence requirement has been met. (Immigration and Nationality Act, 
    section 214(k)(2) (A) and (B)). Each State is allotted no more than 
    twenty such waivers each fiscal year. The federal fiscal year commences 
    on October 1 and ends the following September 30. The term ``State'' 
    includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin 
    Islands of the United States.
        The role of the United States Information Agency under the recent 
    amendments to sections 212(e) and 214 of the Immigration and 
    Nationality Act is limited. Under the amendment to section 212(e), the 
    Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service will now 
    look to the Director of USIA for a recommendation on foreign medical 
    graduate waiver cases brought ``pursuant to the request of a State 
    Department of Public Health, or its equivalent.'' Section 212(e) was 
    also amended by adding language that makes it clear that waivers 
    requested by a State Department of Public Health, or its equivalent, 
    shall be subject to the requirements of the new section 214(k).
        Under new section 214(k)(1)(A), the Attorney General will not grant 
    the waiver unless the country to which the foreign medical graduate is 
    otherwise contractually obligated to return furnishes the Director of 
    USIA with a statement in writing that it has no objection to such 
    waiver.
        Reading amended section 212(e) and new section 214(k) together, the 
    Agency views its role in implementing the statute as including the 
    following: (1) It is to be the recipient of State Department of Public 
    Health applications for waivers for foreign medical graduates who will 
    practice medicine in a geographic area or areas which are designated by 
    the Secretary of Health and Human Services as having a shortage of 
    health care professionals; (2) it is to be the recipient of ``no 
    objection'' letters from the country to which the applicant is 
    contractually obligated to return; and, (3) it is to review the 
    applications and, where required, no objection letters, determine 
    whether they meet the requirements of the two statutory sections, 
    review the program, policy, and foreign relations aspects of the case, 
    and make a recommendation to the Commissioner of the Immigration and 
    Naturalization Service as to whether the waiver should be granted. The 
    Agency has no statutory role or responsibility with respect to ensuring 
    that the foreign medical graduate has the proper medical credentials or 
    with respect to the foreign medical graduate's eligibility for change 
    of nonimmigrant status or work authorization.
        Current regulations regarding requests for waiver made by an 
    interested United States Government agency require the requesting 
    agency to determine that the granting of the waiver would be in the 
    public interest. 22 CFR 514.44(c). This Agency then reviews the 
    program, policy, and foreign relations aspects of the case and forwards 
    its recommendation to the Commissioner. 22 CFR 514.44(c). The Agency 
    intends to follow the same practices with respect to requests for 
    waivers made under the recently amended section 212(e) and the new 
    section 214(k) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
        The Agency received thirteen letters of comment on the Interim 
    Final Rule. (See Appendix A for list of commenters.) The overwhelming 
    majority of those letters dealt with two issues: (1) Whether the 
    statute required a no objection letter in all cases; and, (2) how is 
    the applicant to determine whether the geographic area in which the 
    foreign medical graduate is to be employed has a ``shortage of health 
    care professionals.'' All of the comment letters were fully considered.
        With respect to the no objection letters, the Agency notes that the 
    new section 214(k)(1)(A) refers to ``an alien who is otherwise 
    contractually obligated to return to a foreign country.'' (emphasis 
    added.) The phrase ``otherwise contractually obligated'' is not defined 
    in the statute and there is no legislative history preceding the 
    enactment of the statute which would indicate the specific intent of 
    Congress in using that terminology. Having reviewed the comment 
    letters, the Agency now deems the language ``otherwise contractually 
    obligated * * *'' to refer only to those cases where the foreign 
    medical graduate's medical education or training is funded by the 
    government of the graduate's home country. It is the Agency's 
    experience that where a foreign government funds the graduate medical 
    education or training abroad of one of its nationals, it also 
    contractually obligates the foreign medical graduate to return to the 
    home country at the conclusion of the graduate medical education or 
    training.
        Thus, the Final Rule requires the applicant to furnish the Agency 
    with a no objection letter from the home country only in those 
    instances where the foreign medical graduate's medical education or 
    training is funded by his or her home country's government. Whether or 
    not there is foreign government funding can be determined by examining 
    the face of the foreign medical graduate's Form IAP-66. Where there has 
    been no funding from the government of the home country, there is no 
    requirement that a no objection letter be furnished to the Agency.
        The new statutory provision (Sec. 220 of Public Law 103-416) gives 
    this Agency no role in designating a geographic area or areas as having 
    a shortage of health care professionals. Such designations are made by 
    the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Secretary of Health and 
    Human Services has advised that applicants for waivers under section 
    220 of Public Law 103-416 should look to the Department's listings of 
    Designated Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas (``HPSAs'') 
    and Medically Underserved Areas/Medically Underserved Populations 
    (``MUAs/MUPs'') in order to determine whether the geographic area or 
    areas in which the foreign medical graduate will be employed has a 
    ``shortage of health care professionals'' within the meaning of the 
    statute. (See Notice dated September 19, 1995 at 60 FR 48515.) The HPSA 
    listing was last published in the Federal Register on January 21, 1994 
    (59 FR 3412). A copy of the current MUA/MUP may be obtained from the 
    Division of Shortage Designation, Bureau of Primary Health Care, 
    Department of Health and Human Services, 4350 East-West Highway, Room 
    9-1D-1, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; Phone (301) 594-0816.
    
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        Section 220 of Pub. L. 103-416 also contains the term ``health care 
    facility,'' but does not define that term. At least two commenters 
    suggested that the Agency explain what it means by that term. For 
    purposes of this regulation, the Agency deems the Department of Health 
    and Human Services' definition of ``medical facility'' to be synonymous 
    with ``health care facility.'' See 42 CFR 5.2.
        Two commenters recommended that the Agency require that the foreign 
    medical graduate provide health care to Medicaid and Medicare 
    beneficiaries. Section 220 of Public Law 103-416 contains no such 
    requirement. The Agency does not believe that it has the authority to 
    impose such a requirement.
        One commenter expressed concern that the Interim Final Rule did not 
    address state physician licensure as a component of this waiver program 
    and suggested that the Agency adopt credentialing standards and 
    procedures as a guide to the states in their screening and selecting of 
    applicants. The Agency believes that licensure is a matter of state 
    regulation and that the Agency has no authority under section 220 of 
    Public Law 103-416 to impose licensure requirements.
    
    The No Objection Letter--Procedures and Format
    
        Current regulations set forth the procedure for obtaining ``no 
    objection'' letters from the home country and the manner in which such 
    letters are to be sent to the Agency. 22 CFR 514.44(d). With one 
    exception, this final rulemaking provides for the same procedures to be 
    followed with respect to applications for waivers under Public Law 103-
    416. In order to avoid confusion with other applications for waivers 
    based on no objection from the home country (hitherto unavailable to 
    foreign medical graduates), when required, the no objection letter 
    submitted under Public Law 103-416 should note clearly that the request 
    for the no objection letter was made pursuant to Public Law 103-416. 
    The Agency does not require that a no objection letter be of or on a 
    particular form. The following or similar language will suffice: 
    ``Pursuant to Public Law 103-416, the Government of 
    ____________________ has no objection if (name and address of foreign 
    medical graduate) does not return to ____________________ to satisfy 
    the two-year foreign residency requirement of Section 212(e) of the 
    Immigration and Nationality Act.''
    
    The Application Package
    
        The application for waiver of the two-year home country residence 
    requirement under the provisions of Public Law 103-416 is to originate 
    in the designated State Department of Public Health. USIA is not 
    planning to develop any new forms for such application. However the 
    application is to include the following: (1) A letter from the 
    designated official in the State Department of Public Health which 
    identifies the foreign medical graduate and states, if so determined, 
    that it is in the public interest that a waiver of the two-year home 
    residence requirement be granted. (Note: See Appendix B hereto for a 
    list of State Departments of Public Health which, as of the date of 
    this Final Rule, have advised the Agency that they intend to 
    participate in this waiver program); (2) an employment contract between 
    the alien and the health care facility, which includes the name and 
    address of the foreign medical graduate and of the employer and the 
    specific geographic area or areas in which the foreign medical graduate 
    will practice medicine. The employment contract shall include a 
    statement by the foreign medical graduate agreeing to the contractual 
    requirements set forth in section 214(k)(1) (B) and (C) of the 
    Immigration and Nationality Act. The term of the employment contract 
    shall be at least three years; (3) evidence that the area or areas of 
    employment stipulated in the employment contract are in a geographic 
    area or areas designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
    as having a shortage of health care professionals; (4) copies of all 
    forms IAP-66 issued to the foreign medical graduate seeking the waiver; 
    (5) a completed data sheet, copies of which will be made available by 
    the Agency to each State Department of Public Health; and (6) because 
    of the numerical limitations on the approval of waivers under Public 
    Law 103-416 each application from a State Department of Public Health 
    shall be numbered sequentially. Should USIA not grant a favorable 
    recommendation on a given application, the State Department of Public 
    Health will be so notified and will be advised that the number may be 
    used on another application.
        If a State Department of Public Health files in excess of twenty 
    applications during one fiscal year, the Agency will give priority to 
    the first twenty sequentially numbered applications.
    
    Application Period Under Public Law 103-416
    
        Section 220(c) of Public Law 103-416 states that ``The amendments 
    made by this section shall apply to aliens admitted to the United 
    States under section 101(a)(15)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality 
    Act, or acquiring such status after admission to the United States, 
    before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act and before June 
    1, 1996.'' The Agency believes that the date of June 1, 1996 applies to 
    the status of the foreign medical graduate on that date and not to the 
    new waiver program itself. In other words, if the foreign medical 
    graduate was admitted to the United States on a J visa or acquired a J 
    visa prior to June 1, 1996 in order to pursue graduate medical 
    education or training, he or she would be eligible to apply for a 
    waiver under the provisions of Public Law 103-416 at any time in the 
    future.
    
    Regulatory Analysis and Notices
    
        In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 605(b), the Agency certifies that this 
    rule does not have a significant adverse economic impact on a 
    substantial number of small entities. This rule is not considered to be 
    a major rule within the meaning of section 1(b) of Executive Order 
    12291, nor does this rule have Federalism implications warranting the 
    preparation of a Federalism Assessment in accordance with Executive 
    Order 12612.
        The information collection requirements contained in this rule have 
    been presented to the Office of Management and Budget for clearance 
    pursuant to the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.
    
        Dated: October 4, 1995.
    Les Jin,
    General Counsel.
    
    List of Subjects in 22 CFR Part 514
    
        Cultural exchange programs, Reporting and recordkeeping 
    requirements.
    
        The interim rule published at 60 FR 16785, April 3, 1995, amending 
    22 CFR part 514, Sec. 514.44, is adopted as final with the following 
    changes.
        1. The authority citation for part 514 continues to read as 
    follows:
    
    PART 154--[AMENDED]
    
        Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(J), 1182, 1184, 1258; 22 U.S.C. 
    1431-1442, 2451-2460; Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1977, 3 CFR, 1977 
    Comp. p. 200; E.O. 12048 of 3/27/78, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp. p. 168.
    
    
    Sec. 514.44  [Revised]
    
        2. Section 514.44(e) is revised to read as follows:
    
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        (e) Requests for waiver from a State Department of Public Health, 
    or its equivalent, on the basis of Public Law 103-416. (1) Pursuant to 
    Public Law 103-416, in the case of an alien who is a graduate of a 
    medical school pursuing a program in graduate medical education or 
    training, a request for a waiver of the two-year home-country physical 
    presence requirement may be made by a State Department of Public 
    Health, or its equivalent. Such waiver shall be subject to the 
    requirements of section 214(k) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
    (8 U.S.C. 1184(k)) and this Sec. 514.44.
        (2) With respect to such waiver under Public Law 103-416, if such 
    alien is contractually obligated to return to his or her home country 
    upon completion of the graduate medical education or training, the 
    Director of the United States Information Agency is to be furnished 
    with a statement in writing that the country to which such alien is 
    required to return has no objection to such waiver. The no objection 
    statement shall be furnished to the Director in the manner and form set 
    forth in paragraph (d) of this section and, additionally, shall bear a 
    notation that it is being furnished pursuant to Public Law 103-416.
        (3) The State Department of Public Health, or equivalent agency, 
    shall include in the waiver application the following:
        (i) A completed ``Data Sheet.'' Copies of blank data sheets may be 
    obtained from the Agency's Exchange Visitor Program office.
        (ii) A letter from the Director of the designated State Department 
    of Public Health, or its equivalent, which identifies the foreign 
    medical graduate by name, country of nationality or last residence, and 
    date of birth, and states that it is in the public interest that a 
    waiver of the two-year home residence requirement be granted;
        (iii) An employment contract between the foreign medical graduate 
    and the health care facility named in the waiver application, to 
    include the name and address of the health care facility, and the 
    specific geographical area or areas in which the foreign medical 
    graduate will practice medicine. The employment contract shall include 
    a statement by the foreign medical graduate that he or she agrees to 
    meet the requirements set forth in section 214(k) of the Immigration 
    and Nationality Act. The term of the employment contract shall be at 
    least three years and the geographical areas of employment shall only 
    be in areas, within the respective state, designated by the Secretary 
    of Health and Human Services as having a shortage of health care 
    professionals;
        (iv) Evidence establishing that the geographic area or areas in the 
    state in which the foreign medical graduate will practice medicine are 
    areas which have been designated by the Secretary of Health and Human 
    Services as having a shortage of health care professionals. For 
    purposes of this paragraph, the geographic area or areas must be 
    designated by the Department of Health and Human Services as a Health 
    Professional Shortage Area (``HPSA'') or as a Medically Underserved 
    Area/Medically Underserved Population (``MUA/MUP'').
        (v) Copies of all forms IAP-66 issued to the foreign medical 
    graduate seeking the waiver;
        (vi) A copy of the foreign medical graduate's curriculum vitae;
        (vii) If the foreign medical graduate is otherwise contractually 
    required to return to his or her home country at the conclusion of the 
    graduate medical education or training, a copy of the statement of no 
    objection from the foreign medical graduate's country of nationality or 
    last residence; and,
        (viii) Because of the numerical limitations on the approval of 
    waivers under Public Law 103-416, i.e., no more than twenty waivers for 
    each State each fiscal year, each application from a State Department 
    of Public Health, or its equivalent, shall be numbered sequentially, 
    beginning on October 1 of each year.
        (4) The Agency's Waiver Review Branch shall review the program, 
    policy, and foreign relations aspects of the case and forward its 
    recommendation to the Commissioner. Except as set forth in 
    Sec. 514.44(g)(4)(i), the recommendation of the Waiver Review Branch 
    shall constitute the recommendation of the Agency.
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    Appendix A to the Preamble
    
        Comments were received from the following individuals and 
    organizations:
    
    Department of Health, State of Alabama
    Illinois Department of Public Health
    Indiana State Department of Health
    Mezzullo & McCandlish, Attorneys at Law
    Palmer & Dodge, Attorneys at Law
    Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, State of Maryland
    Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services 
    Administration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and 
    Human Services
    South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
    Oklahoma State Department of Health
    Center for Rural Health, University of Kentucky
    The Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, Inc.
    Center for Rural Health, School of Medicine, University of North 
    Dakota
    Hon. Kent Conrad, United States Senator
    
    Appendix B to the Preamble
    
        State Public Health Departments Participating in the Pub. L. 
    103-416 Waiver Program, as of date of publication of Final Rule:
    
    Alabama
    
    Donald E. Williamson, M.D., State Health Officer, Alabama Department 
    of Public Health, 434 Monroe Street, Montgomery, AL 36130-3017
    
    Arizona
    
    Mr. Phil Lopez, Office Chief, Office of Health Planning, Evaluation 
    and Statistics, Arizona Department of Health Services, 1740 West 
    Adams, Room 312, Phoenix, AZ 85007
    
        Signature must be from: Jack Dillenberg, D.D.S., M.P.H.
    
    Arkansas
    
    Charles McGrew, Director, Section of Health Facility Services and 
    Systems, Arkansas Department of Health, 4815 W. Markham, Slot 39, 
    Little Rock, AR 72205
    
    Delaware
    
    Ms. Jane Rhoe-Jones, Office of Rural Health, Division of Public 
    Health, P.O. Box 637, Dover, DE 19903
    
    Florida
    
    Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D., Department of Health and Rehabilitative 
    Services, State Health Office, 1317 Winewood Boulevard, Tallahassee, 
    FL 32399-0700
    
    Georgia
    
    Ms. Rita Salain, Director, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, 
    2 Peachtree Street, 6th Floor Annex, Atlanta, GA 30303
    
    Hawaii
    
    Mr. William H. Dendle, III, Office of Planning, Policy and Program 
    Development, 1250 Punchbowl Street, Room 340, Honolulu, HI 96813
    
        Signature must be from: Jeanette Takamura, Ph.D., Deputy 
    Director, Hawaii State Health Department of Health.
    
    Illinois
    
    John R. Lumpkin, M.D., Director of Public Health, Illinois 
    Department of Public Health, 535 West Jefferson Street, Springfield, 
    IL 62761
    
        Contact person: Ms. Mary Catherine Ring, Chief, Center for Rural 
    Health (use same mailing address as for the Director listed above).
    
    Indiana
    
    Keith Main, Ed.D., Office of Policy and Research, Indiana State 
    Department of Health, 1330 West Michigan Street, P.O. Box 1964, 
    Indianapolis, IN 46206-1964
    
    Kentucky
    
    Ms. Danise Newton, Manager, Primary Care Branch, Department for 
    Health Services, 275 East Main Street, Frankfort, KY 40621.
    
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    Maine
    
    Kevin W. Concannon, Commissioner, Department of Human Services, #11 
    State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0011
    
        Contact Person: Sophie Glidden, Director, Office of Primary 
    Health Care, Department of Human Services, #11 State House Station, 
    Augusta, ME 04333-0011.
    
    Massachusetts
    
    Ms. Sally Fogarty, Department of Public Health, 150 Tremont Street, 
    Boston, MA 02111
    
        Applications must be signed by: Mr. David H. Mulligan, 
    Commissioner of Public Health (address is the same as Sally 
    Fogarty).
    
    Michigan
    
    Ms. Vernice Davis Anthony, Director, Michigan Department of Public 
    Health, 3423 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., P.O. Box 30195, 
    Lansing, MI 48909
    
    Minnesota
    
    Ms. Chari Konerza, Director, Minnesota Office of Rural Health and 
    Primary Care, P.O. Box 64975, St. Paul, MN 55164
    
    Mississippi
    
    Mr. Harold Armstrong, State Department of Health, P.O. Box 1700, 
    Jackson, MS 39215-1700
    
    Missouri
    
    Coleen Kivlahan, M.D., M.S.P.H., Director, Missouri Department of 
    Health, P.O. Box 570, Jefferson City, MO 65102
    
        Contact: Mr. Alan Welles (at same address) may also sign 
    applications).
    
    Montana
    
    Mr. Robert J. Robinson, Director, Department of Health and 
    Environmental Sciences, Cogswell Building, P.O. Box 200901, Helena, 
    MT 59620-0901
    
    Nebraska
    
    Mark B. Horton, M.D., M.S.P.H., Director, Nebraska Department of 
    Health, 301 Centennial Mall South, P.O. Box 95007, Lincoln, NE 
    68509-5007
    
    Nevada
    
    Donald S. Kwalick, M.D., MPH, State Health Officer, Nevada State 
    Health Division, 505 E. King Street, Room 201, Carson City, NV 89701
    
    New Mexico
    
    J. Alex Valdez, Secretary, State of New Mexico, Department of 
    Health, 1190 St. Francis Drive, P.O. Box 261110, Sante Fe, NM 8750-
    6110
    
    New York
    
    Ms. Karen Schimke, Executive Deputy Commissioner, New York State 
    Department of Health, Empire State Plaza, Corning Tower, Albany, NY 
    12237
    
        Contact person: Edward Salsberg, Director of the Bureau of 
    Health Resources Development.
    
    North Carolina
    
    Mr. James D. Bernstein, Director, North Carolina Office of Rural 
    Health and Resource Development, 311 Ashe Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27606
    
    North Dakota
    
    Jon R. Rice, M.D., State Health Officer, State Department of Health 
    and Consolidated Laboratories, 600 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, 
    ND 58505-0200
    
    Oklahoma
    
    Robert D. Vincent, Ph.D., Deputy Commissioner, Health Promotion and 
    Policy Analysis, 1000 NE 10th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73117-1299
    
    Rhode Island
    
    Patricia Nolan, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Rhode Island Department of 
    Health, Cannon Building, 3 Capitol Hill, Providence, RI 02908-5097
    
    South Carolina
    
    Mr. Mark Jordan, Director, Office of Primary Care, Department of 
    Health and Environmental Control, 2600 Bull Street, Columbia, SC 
    29201
    
    South Dakota
    
    Ms. Barbara A. Smith, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Health, 
    445 East Capitol Avenue, Pierre, SD 57501-3185
    
    Tennessee
    
    Dr. Fredia Wadley, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Health, 9th 
    Floor, Tennessee Tower, 312 8th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37247-
    0101
    
    Texas
    
    Dr. David Smith, Commissioner of Health, Texas Department of Health, 
    1100 West 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756-3199
    
    Vermont
    
    Jan K. Carney, M.D, M.P.H., Commissioner, Vermont Department of 
    Health, 108 Cherry Street, P.O. Box 70, Burlington, VT 05402
    
    Washington
    
    Mr. Verne A. Gibbs, Director, Washington State Department of Health, 
    Community and Rural Health, P.O. Box 47834, Olympia, WA 98504-7834
    
    West Virginia
    
    Ms. Gretchen O. Lewis, Secretary (Signator), Department of Health 
    and Human Resources, Building 3, Room 206, State Capitol Complex, 
    Charleston, WV 25305
    
        Applications to go to following for review: Linda Atkins, 
    Director, Health Professions Recruitment Program, 1411 Virginia 
    Street, East, Charleston, WV 25301.
    
    Wisconsin
    
    John D. Chapin, Interim Administrator, Wisconsin Divison of Health, 
    P.O. Box 309, Madison, WI 53701-0309
    
    [FR Doc. 95-25224 Filed 10-11-95; 8:45 am]
    BILLING CODE 8230-01-M
    
    

Document Information

Effective Date:
10/12/1995
Published:
10/12/1995
Department:
United States Information Agency
Entry Type:
Rule
Action:
Final rule.
Document Number:
95-25224
Dates:
This final rule is effective October 12, 1995.
Pages:
53122-53126 (5 pages)
Docket Numbers:
Rulemaking No. 115
PDF File:
95-25224.pdf
CFR: (2)
22 CFR 514.44(g)(4)(i)
22 CFR 514.44