# 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, 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 Regulations (OMB No. 0915-0108)—Revision**
This clearance request is for a revision to the approval of the notification, reporting and recordkeeping requirements in the HEAL program to insure that the lenders, holders and schools participating in the HEAL program follow sound management procedures in the administration of federally-insured student loans. While the regulatory requirements are approved under this OMB number, much of the burden associated with the regulations is cleared under the OMB numbers for the HEAL forms and electronic submissions used to report required information (listed below). The table listed at the end of this notice contains the estimate of burden for the remaining regulations.
Annual Response Burden for the following regulations is cleared by OMB when the reporting forms are cleared:
**OMB Approval No. 0915-0034, Lender's Contract Application and Borrower Deferment Forms, and Borrower Loan Status and Loan Transfers/Purchases and Consolidation Tape Specification and Submission**
Reporting
42 CFR 60.31(a), Lender annual application
42 CFR 60.38(a), Loan Reassignment
Notification
42 CFR 60.12(c)(1), Borrower deferment
**OMB Approval No. 0915-0036, Lender's Application for Insurance Claim**
Reporting
42 CFR 60.35(a)(1), Lender due-diligence activities
42 CFR 60.35(a)(2), Lender skip-tracing activities
42 CFR 60.40(a), Lender documentation to litigate a default
42 CFR 60.40(c)(i), (ii), and (iii), Lender default claim
42 CFR 60.40(c)(2), Lender death claim
42 CFR 60.40(c)(3), Lender disability claim
42 CFR 60.40(c)(4), Lender report of student bankruptcy
**OMB Approval No. 0915-0043, Promissory Note, Repayment Schedule, Call Report**
Notification
42 CFR 60.11(e), Establishment of repayment terms-borrower
42 CFR 60.11(f)(5), Borrower notice of supplemental repayment agreement
42 CFR 60.33(e), Executed note to borrower
42 CFR 60.34(b)(1), Establishment of repayment terms-lender
42 CFR 60.42(b), Lender Quarterly Report on HEAL Loans Outstanding (Call Report)
**OMB Approval No. 0915-0204, Physicians Certification of Permanent and Total Disability**
Reporting
42 CFR 60.39(b)(2), Holder request to Secretary to determine borrower disability
**OMB Approval No. 0915-0227, Federal Health Education Assistance Loan Refinancing Application/Promissory Note**
Reporting
42 CFR 60.7, Application for loan
42 CFR 60.18 Consolidation of a HEAL loan
The estimate of burden for the regulatory requirements of this clearance are as follows:
| Number of | Number of transactions per respond | Total transactions | Time per | Total burden hours |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | | | |
| 28 Lenders | 3 | 86 | .55 | 47 |
| 190 Schools | .4 | 78 | .17 | 13 |
| Total Reporting | | | | 60 |
| | | | | |
| 28 Lenders | 6,855 | 191,961 | .16 | 30,687 |
| 190 Schools | 2.15 | 409 | .47 | 194 |
| 7,930 Borrowers | 1 | 7,930 | .17 | 1,322 |
| Total Notification | | | | 32,203 |
| | | | | |
| 28 Lenders | 3,184 | 89,165 | .22 | 19,974 |
| 190 Schools | 476 | 90,453 | .25 | 22,681 |
| Total Recordkeeping | | | | 42,655 |
*Total Annual Burden:* 74,918 hrs.
Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to: John Morrall, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: December 15, 2003.
Tina M. Cheatham,
Acting Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.