DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

 
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35). To request 
a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project: The Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) Program: 
Forms (OMB No. 0915-0034 Extension)

    The HEAL program provides federally insured loans to assure the 
availability of funds for loans to eligible students to pay for their 
education costs. In order to administer and monitor the HEAL program, 
the following forms are utilized: The Application for Contract of 
Federal Loan Insurance form (used by lenders to make application to the 
HEAL insurance program and formerly entitled Lenders Application for 
Contract of Federal Loan Insurance form); the Borrower's Deferment 
Request form (used by borrowers to request deferments on HEAL loans and 
used by lenders to determine borrower's eligibility for deferment); the 
Borrower Loan Status update electronic submission (submitted monthly by 
lenders to the Secretary on the status of each loan); and the Loan 
Purchase/Consolidation electronic submission (submitted by lenders to 
the Secretary to report sales, and purchases of HEAL loans).
    The estimates of burden for the forms are as follows:

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                                   Number of     Responses per       Total          Hours per      Total burden
      Collection activity         respondents     respondent       responses        response           hours
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Application for Contract of                 17               1              17  8 min...........               3
 Federal Loan Insurance.
Borrower's Deferment Request:
    Borrowers.................             436               1             436  10 min..........              73
    Employers.................             261           1.669             436  5 min...........              36
Borrower Loan Status Update...               8              18             144  10 min..........              24
Loan Purchase/Consolidation...              17             248           4,216  4 min...........             281
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    Total.....................             739  ..............           5,249  ................             417
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: 
John Kraemer, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management 
and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503.

    Dated: June 29, 2006.
Cheryl R. Dammons,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
 [FR Doc. E6-10591 Filed 7-6-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4165-15-P

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