[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 92 (Tuesday, May 12, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28017-28018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10134]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 and Annual Performance Report
Financial Data Form OMB No. 0915-0314-Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
has 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 have been 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 11,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 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 Lisa Wright-Solomon, the
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or
call (301) 443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Nurse Faculty Loan Program--
Program Specific Data Form and Annual Performance Report Financial Data
Form OMB No. 0915-0314-Revision.
Abstract: This clearance request is for approval of both the Nurse
Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) Program Specific Data Form and the Annual
Performance Report (APR) Financial Data Form. The APR Financial Data
Form is currently approved under OMB Approval No. 0915-0314 and the
Program Specific Data Form is currently approved under OMB Approval No.
0915-0378, both with the expiration date of July 31, 2020. The APR Form
was previously titled as the Nurse Faculty Loan Program, Annual
Operating Report. For program efficiency, HRSA is combining these
previously separate ICRs under OMB No. 0915-0314 and will be
discontinuing OMB No. 0915-0378.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on February 7,
2020, vol. 85, No. 26; pp. 7315-7316. 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 an agreement with schools of nursing for the
establishment and
[[Page 28018]]
operation of a student loan fund to increase the number of qualified
nurse faculty.
Under the agreement, HRSA makes awards to the school for the NFLP
loan fund, which must be maintained in a distinct account. The school
of nursing makes loans from the NFLP account to students enrolled full-
time or, at the discretion of the Secretary, part-time, in a master's
or doctoral nursing education program that will prepare them to become
qualified nursing faculty. Following graduation from the NFLP lending
school, loan recipients may receive up to 85 percent NFLP loan
cancellation over a four-year period in exchange for service as full-
time faculty at a school of nursing. The NFLP lending school collects
any portion of the loan that is not cancelled and any loans that go
into repayment due to default, 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 will collect
application related data from applicants such as the amount requested,
number of students to be funded, tuition information, and projected
unused loan fund balance. Approval of the NFLP--Program Specific Data
Form will allow HRSA to continue to efficiently capture data to
generate the formula-based awards for the NFLP program. 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.
HRSA is also seeking public comment on the NFLP-APR Financial Data
Form. The NFLP-APR Financial Data Form is an online form that exists in
the HRSA Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) Performance Report module. The
NFLP-APR Financial Data Form will collect 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.
Participating 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.
The school of nursing 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). Participating
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. Approval of the NFLP-APR Financial Data Form
extension will allow HRSA to continue to monitor program performance
and program outcome.
Likely Respondents: Participating NFLP 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
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Average
Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name respondents respondents per responses response (in hours
respondent hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nurse Faculty Loan Program-- 90 1 90 8 720
Program Specific Data Form...
Nurse Faculty Loan Program-- 260 1 260 6 1,560
Annual Performance Report
Financial Data Form..........
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Burden.................. 350 ................ 350 .............. 2,280
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2020-10134 Filed 5-11-20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4165-15-P