95-23392. Proposed Data Collections Available for Public Comment and Recommendations

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 183 (Thursday, September 21, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49000-49001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-23392]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health


Proposed Data Collections Available for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction act of 1995 
requires that Federal agencies provide a 60-day notice in the Federal 
Register concerning each proposed collection of information. The 
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the 
National Institutes of Health (NIH) is publishing this notice to 
solicit public comment on a proposed data collection for the 
Contraception and Infertility Research Loan Repayment Program. To 
request copies of the data collection plans and instruments, call Dr. 
Louis DePaolo on [phone] (not a toll-free number).
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection is 
necessary, including whether the information has practical use; (b) 
ways to enhance the clarity, quality, and use of the information to be 
collected; (c) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden of the 
proposed collection; and (d) ways to minimize the collection burden of 
the respondents. Written comments are requested within 60 days of the 
publication of this notice. Send comments to Dr. Louis DePaolo, 
Reproductive Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, NICHD, 
NIH, Building 61E, Rm. 8B01, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7510.

Proposed Project

    The Center for Population Research of the NICHD, NIH, intends to 
make available educational loan repayment under the NICHD Contraception 
and Infertility Research Loan Repayment Program (CIR-LRP). The CIR-LRP 
is authorized by Section 487B of Part G of Title IV of the Public 
Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 288-2) as amended by the NIH 
Revitalization Act of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-43). The program intends to 
provide for the repayment of the educational loan debt of health 
professionals (including graduate students) who agree to commit to a 
period of obligated service of not less than two years conducting 
research with respect to contraception and/or infertility. The CIR-LRP 
will pay up to 

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$20,000 of the principal and interest of such individual's educational 
loans for each year of commitment not to exceed one-half of the 
remaining loan balance. The CIR-LRP is designed to provide an incentive 
for health professionals to work in areas of reproductive research 
directly related to contraceptive development and/or infertility 
diagnosis and treatment by providing assistance in repaying educational 
loans for such individuals. The long-range objective of the CIR-LRP is 
to stimulate the commitment of researchers to sustaining a career focus 
on contraception and/or infertility research.
    The information proposed for collection will be used by the NICHD 
to determine an applicant's eligibility for participation in the CIR-
LRP. The CIR-LRP application consists of two parts: Part I (Information 
About the Applicant) is completed by the applicant; Section A of Part 
II (Loan Information and Permission for Disclosure) is also completed 
by the applicant; and Section B, Part II (Lender's Verification) is 
completed by the Lending Institution. It may also be necessary for a 
State or other entity to verify an outstanding service obligation. In 
these instances, written verification of the service obligation will be 
requested from the State or other entity.
    The annual burden estimates are as follows:

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                                                      No.        Avg.   
                                         No.       responses  burden per
                                     respondents      per      response 
                                                  respondent     (hrs)  
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Applicant..........................          50           1         5.5 
Lender.............................         200           1         0.5 
State/Other Entity.................           8           1         0.5 
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    Dated: September 5, 1995.
Benjamin E. Fulton,
Deputy Executive Officer, National Institute of Child Health and Human 
Development.
[FR Doc. 95-23392 Filed 9-20-95; 8:45 am]
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