96-32686. Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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, 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, 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:

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Application Process (OMB 
No. 0915-0146); Revision and Extension

    The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Scholarship Program was 
established to help alleviate the geographical and specialty 
maldistribution of physicians and other health practitioners in the 
United States. Under this program, health professions students are 
offered scholarships in return for service in a federally-designated 
Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA).
    In an effort to improve the procedures for selecting NHSC scholars, 
a revised application process was pilot tested in the spring of 1996. 
The revised application process is designed to broaden the scope of the 
information available on applicants in order to improve the Agency's 
ability to identify those applicants with the greatest potential to 
fulfill the objectives of the Scholarship Program. OMB approval is now 
being requested for full-scale implementation of the revised 
application process.

                                       Estimates of Annualized Hour Burden                                      
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                                                                           Responses                    Total   
                         Form name                            Number of       per        Hours per      burden  
                                                             respondents   respondent    response       hours   
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Application................................................         3000            1          1.0          3000
Interview..................................................          900            1          1.67         1500
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 4500 hours. The interview burden 
includes 1 hour for travel time to the interview site.
    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C. 
20503.

    Dated: December 18, 1996.
J. Henry Montes,
Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination.
[FR Doc. 96-32686 Filed 12-23-96; 8:45 am]
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