[Federal Register: November 6, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 214)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Indian Health Service
Request for Public Comment: 30-Day Proposed Information
Collection: Application for Participation in the IHS Scholarship
Program
AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 350(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 which requires 30 days for public comment on
proposed information collection projects, the Indian Health Service
(IHS) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a
request to review and approve the information collection listed below.
This proposed information collection project was previously published
in the Federal Register (72 FR 45054) on August 10, 2007 and allowed 60
days for public comment. No public comment was received in response to
the notice. The purpose of this notice is to allow 30 days for public
comment to be submitted directly to OMB.
Proposed Collection: Title: 0917-0006, ``Application for
Participation in the IHS Scholarship Program.'' Type of Information
Collection Request: Previously Approved Collection. Form Number(s):
IHS-856, 856-2 through 856-8, IHS-815, IHS-816, IHS-817, IHS-818, D-02,
F-02, F-04, G-02, G-04, H-07, H-08, J-04, J-05, K-03, K-04, and L-03.
Reporting formats are contained in an IHS Scholarship Program
application booklet. Need and Use of Information Collection: This IHS
Scholarship Branch needs this information for program administration
and uses the information to solicit, process, and award IHS Pre-
graduate, Preparatory, and/or Health Professions
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Scholarship grants and monitor the academic performance of awardees, to
place awardees at payback sites. The IHS Scholarship Program plans to
streamline the application to reduce the time needed by applicants to
complete and provide the information. The IHS Scholarship Program plans
to use information technology to make the application electronically
available on the internet have been delayed. Affected Public:
Individuals, non-for-profit institutes and State, local or Tribal
Government. Type of Respondents: Students pursuing health care
professions.
The table below provides: Types of data collection instruments,
Estimated number of respondents, Number of responses per respondent,
Annual number of responses, Average burden hour per response, and Total
annual burden hour(s).
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Number of Responses per Total annual Annual burden
Data collection instrument(s) respondents respondent response Burden hour per response \*\ hours
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Scholarship Application (IHS-856)........ 1500 1 1500 1.00 (60 min).................... 1500
Checklist (856-2)........................ 1500 1 1500 0.13 (8 min)..................... 195
Course Verification (856-3).............. 1500 1 1500 0.70 (42 min).................... 1050
Faculty/Employer Application (856-4)..... 1500 2 3000 0.83 (50 min).................... 2490
Justification (856-5).................... 1500 1 1500 0.75 (45 min).................... 1125
Federal Debt (856-6)..................... 1500 1 1500 0.13 (8 min)..................... 195
Job Experience only (856-7).............. 25 1 25 0.83 (50 min).................... 21
Accept/Decline (856-8)................... 650 1 650 0.13 (8 min)..................... 84
Receipt of Application (815)............. 1500 1 1500 0.03 (2 min)..................... 45
Address Change Notice (816).............. 25 1 25 0.02 (1 min)..................... 25
Scholarship Program Agreement (817)...... 850 1 850 0.05 (3 min)..................... 43
Stipend Checks (D-02).................... 100 1 100 0.13 (8 min)..................... 13
Enrollment (F-02)........................ 1300 1 1300 0.13 (8 min)..................... 169
Academic Problem/Change (F-04)........... 50 1 50 0.13 (8 min)..................... 6
Request Assistance (G-02)................ 217 1 217 0.13 (8 min)..................... 28
Summer School (G-04)..................... 193 1 193 0.10 (6 min)..................... 19
Health Professions Contract (818)........ 850 1 850 0.05 (3 min)..................... 33
Placement (H-07)......................... 250 1 250 0.18 (11 min).................... 45
Graduation (H-08)........................ 250 1 250 0.17 (10 min).................... 43
Site Preference (J-04)................... 150 1 150 0.13 (8 min)..................... 20
Travel Reimb (J-05)...................... 150 1 150 0.10 (6 min)..................... 15
Status Report (K-03)..................... 250 1 250 0.25 (15 min).................... 63
Preferred Assignment (K-04).............. 200 1 200 0.75 (45 min).................... 150
Request of Deferment (L-03).............. 20 1 20 0.13 (8 min)..................... 3
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Total................................ 15,830 ................. ................. ................................. 7,380
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\*\ For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.
There are no Capital Costs, Operating Costs, and/or Maintenance
Costs to report.
Request for Comments: Your written comments and/or suggestions are
invited on one or more of the following points: (a) Whether the
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency
function; (b) whether the agency processes the information collected in
a useful and timely fashion; (c) the accuracy of public burden estimate
(the estimated amount of time needed for individual respondents to
provide the requested information); (d) whether the methodology and
assumptions used to determine the estimates are logical; (e) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information being
collected; and (f) ways to minimize the public burden through the use
of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Direct Comments to OMB: Send your written comments and suggestions
regarding the proposed information collection contained in this notice,
especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated
response time to: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory
Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503, Attention: Desk Officer for IHS.
To request more information on the proposed collection or to obtain
a copy of the data collection instrument(s) and/or instruction(s)
contact: Mrs. Chris Rouleau, IHS Reports Clearance Officer, 12300
Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852-1601; call non-toll
free (301) 443-5938; send via facsimile to (301) 443-2316; or send your
e-mail requests, comments, and return address to:
Christina.Rouleau@ihs.gov.
Comment Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection
are best assured of having full effect if received within 30 day of the
date of this publication.
Dated: October 29, 2007.
Robert G. McSwain,
Acting Director, Indian Health Service.
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