82 FR 17434 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program OMB No. 0915-0140-Revision
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 68 (April 11, 2017)
Health Resources and Services Administration
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 68 (April 11, 2017)
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| FR Document | 2017-07273 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 68 (Tuesday, April 11, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 17434-17435] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-07273] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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; Information Collection Request Title: NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program OMB No. 0915-0140-- Revision AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services. 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 will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and approval period. DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than May 11, 2017. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the ICR Title, to the desk officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-5806. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, email the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or call (301) 443- 1984. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting information, please include the information request collection title for reference, in compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Information Collection Request Title: NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program OMB No. 0915-0140--Revision. Abstract: The NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program (NURSE Corps LRP) assists in the recruitment and retention of professional Registered Nurses (RNs), including advanced practice RNs (e.g., nurse practitioners, certified registered nurse anesthetists, certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse specialists), dedicated to working at eligible health care facilities with a critical shortage of nurses (e.g., a Critical Shortage Facility) or working as nurse faculty in eligible, accredited schools of nursing, by decreasing the financial barriers associated with pursuing a nursing profession. The NURSE Corps LRP provides loan repayment assistance to these nurses to repay a portion of their qualifying educational loans in exchange for full-time service at a public or private nonprofit Critical Shortage Facility or in an eligible, accredited school of nursing. Need and Proposed Use of the Information: The information is used to consider an applicant for a NURSE Corps LRP contract award and to monitor a participant's compliance with the service requirements. Individuals must submit an application to participate in the program. The application asks for personal, professional, educational, and financial information required to determine the applicant's eligibility to participate in the NURSE Corps LRP. The semi-annual employment verification form asks for personal and employment information to determine if a participant is in compliance with the service requirements. The Authorization to Release Employment Information form has been revised as a self-certification within the NURSE Corps LRP application process, with applicants clicking a box. This contributes to a decrease in the overall burden by 550 hours. Likely Respondents: Professional RNs or advanced practice RNs who are interested in participating in the NURSE Corps LRP, and official representatives at their service sites. 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: The estimates of reporting burden for applicants are as follows: [[Page 17435]] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Number of Number of Total burden per Total burden Form name respondents responses per responses response (in hours respondent hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NURSE Corps LRP Application *.... 5,500 1 5,500 2.0 11,000 Authorization to Release 5,500 1 5,500 .10 550 Employment Information Form..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total........................ 5,500 .............. 11,000 ............. 11,550 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * The burden hours associated with this instrument account for both new and continuation applications. Additional (uploaded) supporting documentation is included as part of this instrument and reflected in the burden hours. The estimates of reporting burden for participants are as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Average burden Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Participant Semi-Annual 2,300 2 4,600 .5 2,300 Employment Verification Form... Total....................... 2,300 .............. 4,600 .............. 2,300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total for Applicants and 7,800 .............. 15,600 .............. 13,850 Participants........... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason E. Bennett, Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat. [FR Doc. 2017-07273 Filed 4-10-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4165-15-P
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maintaining information, and disclosing the collection of information; and to revisions are proposed, the burden does
and providing information; to train transmit or otherwise disclose the not change.
personnel and to be able to respond to information. The total annual burden Total Estimated Annualized Burden
a collection of information; to search hours estimated for this ICR are Hours:
data sources; to complete and review summarized in the table below. As no
Average
Number of
Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name responses per
respondents responses response hours
respondent (in hours)
Rural Health Network Development Planning Program
Performance Improvement Measurement System .......... 21 1 21 1 21
Total .............................................................................. 21 ........................ 21 ........................ 21
HRSA specifically requests comments ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, the service requirements. Individuals
on (1) the necessity and utility of the including the ICR Title, to the desk must submit an application to
proposed information collection for the officer for HRSA, either by email to participate in the program. The
proper performance of the agency’s OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov or by application asks for personal,
functions, (2) the accuracy of the fax to 202–395–5806. professional, educational, and financial
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To information required to determine the
the quality, utility, and clarity of the request a copy of the clearance requests applicant’s eligibility to participate in
information to be collected, and (4) the submitted to OMB for review, email the the NURSE Corps LRP. The semi-annual
use of automated collection techniques HRSA Information Collection Clearance employment verification form asks for
or other forms of information Officer at paperwork@hrsa.gov or call personal and employment information
technology to minimize the information (301) 443–1984. to determine if a participant is in
collection burden. compliance with the service
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
requirements. The Authorization to
Jason E. Bennett, submitting comments or requesting
Release Employment Information form
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat. information, please include the
has been revised as a self-certification
[FR Doc. 2017–07220 Filed 4–10–17; 8:45 am] information request collection title for
within the NURSE Corps LRP
BILLING CODE 4165–15–P reference, in compliance with Section
application process, with applicants
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
clicking a box. This contributes to a
Reduction Act of 1995.
decrease in the overall burden by 550
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Information Collection Request Title:
hours.
HUMAN SERVICES NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program
OMB No. 0915–0140—Revision. Likely Respondents: Professional RNs
Health Resources and Services Abstract: The NURSE Corps Loan or advanced practice RNs who are
Administration Repayment Program (NURSE Corps interested in participating in the NURSE
LRP) assists in the recruitment and Corps LRP, and official representatives
Agency Information Collection retention of professional Registered at their service sites.
Activities: Submission to OMB for Nurses (RNs), including advanced Burden Statement: Burden in this
Review and Approval; Public Comment practice RNs (e.g., nurse practitioners, context means the time expended by
Request; Information Collection certified registered nurse anesthetists, persons to generate, maintain, retain,
Request Title: NURSE Corps Loan certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse disclose or provide the information
Repayment Program OMB No. 0915– specialists), dedicated to working at requested. This includes the time
0140—Revision eligible health care facilities with a needed to review instructions; to
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services critical shortage of nurses (e.g., a Critical develop, acquire, install, and utilize
Administration (HRSA), Department of Shortage Facility) or working as nurse technology and systems for the purpose
Health and Human Services. faculty in eligible, accredited schools of of collecting, validating, and verifying
nursing, by decreasing the financial information, processing and
ACTION: Notice.
barriers associated with pursuing a maintaining information, and disclosing
SUMMARY: In compliance with the nursing profession. The NURSE Corps and providing information; to train
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, LRP provides loan repayment assistance personnel and to be able to respond to
HRSA has submitted an Information to these nurses to repay a portion of a collection of information; to search
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of their qualifying educational loans in data sources; to complete and review
Management and Budget (OMB) for exchange for full-time service at a the collection of information; and to
review and approval. Comments public or private nonprofit Critical transmit or otherwise disclose the
submitted during the first public review Shortage Facility or in an eligible, information. The total annual burden
of this ICR will be provided to OMB. accredited school of nursing. hours estimated for this ICR are
summarized in the table below.
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OMB will accept further comments from Need and Proposed Use of the
the public during the review and Information: The information is used to Total Estimated Annualized Burden
approval period. consider an applicant for a NURSE Hours:
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be Corps LRP contract award and to The estimates of reporting burden for
received no later than May 11, 2017. monitor a participant’s compliance with applicants are as follows:
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Average
Number of
Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name responses per
respondents responses response hours
respondent (in hours)
NURSE Corps LRP Application * ......................................... 5,500 1 5,500 2.0 11,000
Authorization to Release Employment Information Form .... 5,500 1 5,500 .10 550
Total .............................................................................. 5,500 ........................ 11,000 ........................ 11,550
* The burden hours associated with this instrument account for both new and continuation applications. Additional (uploaded) supporting docu-
mentation is included as part of this instrument and reflected in the burden hours.
The estimates of reporting burden for
participants are as follows:
Average
Number of
Number of Total burden per Total burden
Form name responses per
respondents responses response hours
respondent (in hours)
Participant Semi-Annual Employment Verification Form ..... 2,300 2 4,600 .5 2,300
Total .............................................................................. 2,300 ........................ 4,600 ........................ 2,300
Total for Applicants and Participants .................... 7,800 ........................ 15,600 ........................ 13,850
Jason E. Bennett, obtained an identifier was to begin available on the home page of the
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat. using it in HIPAA transactions by NCVHS Web site: http://
[FR Doc. 2017–07273 Filed 4–10–17; 8:45 am] November 2015. Small health plans www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where further
BILLING CODE 4165–15–P would begin using the identifier by information including an agenda and
November 2016. instructions to access the audio
In February and June of 2014, NCVHS broadcast of the meetings will also be
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND held meetings on the HPID final rule. posted.
HUMAN SERVICES Following both hearings, NCVHS sent Should you require reasonable
letters to the HHS Secretary stating that accommodation, please contact the CDC
National Committee on Vital and Health the industry was confused about the Office of Equal Employment
Statistics: Meeting HPID policy, terminology and the Opportunity on (770) 488–3210 as soon
affected entities, and that reporting the as possible.
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, the Department of HPID in health care transactions Date: April 4, 2017.
Health and Human Services (HHS) provided little benefit or value to the Laina Bush,
announces the following advisory health care system. In October 2014, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and
committee meeting. HHS announced an enforcement Evaluation, Office of the Assistant Secretary
Name: National Committee on Vital discretion period for the HPID rule, for Planning and Evaluation.
and Health Statistics (NCVHS), halting its implementation. [FR Doc. 2017–07194 Filed 4–10–17; 8:45 am]
Standards Subcommittee Meeting. The purpose of this NCVHS Standards BILLING CODE 4151–05–P
Date and Times: Wednesday, May 3, Subcommittee meeting is to seek further
2017: 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. (EDT). input from the health care industry for
Place: U.S. Department of Health and disposition and next steps of the HPID. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
Human Services, Hubert H. Humphrey The times and topics are subject to HUMAN SERVICES
Building, 200 Independence Avenue, change. Please refer to the posted
SW., Room 800, Washington, DC 20201, agenda for any updates. National Institutes of Health
(202) 690–7100. Contact Persons for More Information:
Substantive program information may National Institute of Allergy and
Status: Open. There will be an open
be obtained from Rebecca Hines, MHS, Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed
comment period during the final 15
Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Meeting
minutes of the Subcommittee meeting.
Purpose: Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Pursuant to section 10(d) of the
Health Insurance Portability and Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
Accountability Act (HIPAA) legislation Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is
from 1996, as amended, directed the 20782, telephone (301) 458–4715. hereby given of the following meeting.
Secretary of HHS to publish regulations Information pertaining to meeting The meeting will be closed to the
implementing a unique health plan content may be obtained from Lorraine public in accordance with the
identifier (HPID) for health plans Doo, MSW, MPH, or Geanelle G. provisions set forth in sections
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(covered entities under the law). In Herring, MSW, Centers for Medicare & 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C.,
September 2012, HHS published a final Medicaid Services, Office of Information as amended. The contract proposals and
rule requiring health plans to obtain a Technology, Division of National the discussions could disclose
health plan identifier by November Standards, 7500 Security Boulevard, confidential trade secrets or commercial
2014. The regulation also permitted Baltimore, Maryland 21244, telephone property such as patentable material,
other entities to obtain an identifier on (410) 786–4160. Summaries of meetings and personal information concerning
a voluntary basis. Any entity that and a roster of Committee members are individuals associated with the contract
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