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participants. The electronic version will
be designed to be user-friendly, will
take less time to complete, and will
provide HRSA with data throughout the
campaign rather than once a year.
Another benefit of an electronic
scorecard is that it will eliminate the
possibility of human error as
information will no longer be manually
entered into a database.
A 60-day notice was published in the
Federal Register on July 2, 2019, Vol.
84, 127; pp. 31602–31603.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: There is a substantial
imbalance in the U.S. between the
number of people whose lives depend
on organ transplants (currently more
than 113,000) and the annual number of
organ donors (approximately 14,000
living and deceased). This imbalance
results in about 7,300 waiting list deaths
annually. In response to the need for

increased donation, HRSA conducts
public outreach initiatives to encourage
the American public to sign up on state
donor registries as future organ donors.
The Scorecard motivates and
facilitates healthcare organizations’
participation in the campaign, provides
the basis for rewarding participants for
their accomplishments, and enables
HRSA to measure and evaluate
campaign process and outcomes. The
scorecard also enables HRSA to make
data-based decisions and improvements
for subsequent campaigns.
Likely Respondents: The likely
respondents include the following:
Hospital development and public
relations staff of organ procurement and
other donation organizations; hospital
staff such as nurses or public relations/
communications professionals; staff at
physician’s offices, health clinics, and
emergency medical services; and

volunteers that work with healthcare
organizations on organ donation
initiatives.
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
Number of
respondents

Form name

Number of
responses per
respondent

Total
responses

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total
burden
hours

Activity Scorecard (online) ...................................................

1,400

1

1,400

.25

350

Total ..............................................................................

1,400

........................

1,400

........................

350

HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request; Information
Collection Request Title: Nurse Corps
Loan Repayment Program; Information
Collection Request Title: Nurse Corps
Loan Repayment Program, OMB No.
0915–0140—Revision
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.

AGENCY:

ACTION:

Notice.

In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, HRSA announces plans to
submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to
OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate,
below, or any other aspect of the ICR.

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Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than December 9,
2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
[email protected] or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, email [email protected]
or call Lisa Wright-Solomon, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer
at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title
for reference.
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)
by decreasing the financial barriers
associated with pursuing a nursing
education. RNs in this instance include
advanced practice RNs (e.g., nurse
practitioners, certified registered nurse
anesthetists, certified nurse-midwives,
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and clinical nurse specialists) dedicated
to working at eligible health care
facilities with a critical shortage of
nurses (i.e., a Critical Shortage Facility)
or working as nurse faculty in eligible,
accredited schools of nursing. The
Nurse Corps LRP provides loan
repayment assistance to these nurses to
repay a portion of their qualifying
educational loans in exchange for fulltime service at a public or private
nonprofit Critical Shortage Facility
(CSF) or in an eligible, accredited school
of nursing.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: This information collection
is used by the Nurse Corps program to
make award decisions about Nurse
Corps LRP applicants and to monitor a
participant’s compliance with the
program’s service requirements.
Individuals must submit an application
in order 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.
This revised information collection
request includes a new form and
updates to existing forms for the Nurse
Corps LRP in order to expand the
service options for awarded
participants, promote the use of
telehealth for delivering care throughout
the nation especially in rural areas, and

to reduce the application burden on
respondents.
New Form #1—Applicants will be
asked to submit a Disadvantaged
Background Form. This new form asks
the applicant’s site Point of Contact to
certify whether the applicant is from a
disadvantaged background. The form
provides eligibility criteria for the
determination.
Updated Form #1—The Participant
Semi-Annual Employment Verification
Form will be updated to include
additional information about the
participant’s service including
information about telehealth services
and whether they work at multiple CSF
sites. Telehealth helps expand the reach
of providers especially in rural areas
where medical service sites are more
remote. The information collected will
assist Program with determining the
impact and utilization of telehealth
services in various health care settings
which will be used to inform our
telehealth policies. Enabling multiple
CSF site service will also allow greater
flexibility for providers who rotate or
split time between multiple sites which
benefits both the participants and the
underserved communities—especially
in our Federally Qualified Health
Centers which support many of our
Nurse Corps Nurse Practitioners.
Updated Form #2—The Nurse Corps
LRP application will include questions
for applicants to provide information
Number of
respondents

Form name

Number of
responses per
respondent

regarding telehealth services, multiple
CSF sites, and verification of base salary
to determine the debt to salary ratio
used to rank applicants for award
consideration. The application will also
be updated to identify applicants
eligible for Nurse Corps LRP psychiatric
nurse practitioner funding.
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 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 Applications are as follows;
Total
responses

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total
burden
hours

Nurse Corps LRP Application * ............................................
Authorization to Release Information Form ** .....................
Employment Verification Form ** .........................................
Disadvantaged Background Form .......................................
Confirmation of Interest Form ..............................................

7,100
7,100
7,100
450
500

1
1
1
1
1

7,100
7,100
7,100
450
500

2.00
.10
.10
.20
.20

14,200
710
710
90
100

Total for Applicants .......................................................

22,250

........................

22,250

........................

15,810

* 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 are reflected in the burden hours.
** The same respondents are completing these instruments.

The estimates of reporting for
Participants are as follows:
Number of
respondents

Form name

Number of
responses per
respondent

Total
responses

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
hours

Participant Semi-Annual In Service Verification Form ........
Nurse Corps CSF ................................................................
Verification Form ..................................................................
Nurse Corps Nurse Faculty Employment Verification Form

500

2

1,000

.50

500

500
450

1
1

500
450

.10
.20

50
90

Total for Participants .....................................................

1,450

........................

1,950

........................

640

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Number of
respondents

Form name

Total for Applicants and Participants ....................

23,700

Number of
responses per
respondent
........................

Total
responses
24,200

Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
........................

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Total burden
hours
16,450 *

* The total burden hour estimate is a combination of burden hours for both applicants and participants. This revision adds an additional form
(the Disadvantaged Background Form).

HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
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