[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 107 (Friday, June 3, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32213-32214]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13768]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Title: State Court Improvement Program.
OMB No. 0970-0307.
Description
From the funds appropriated for the Promoting Safe and Stable
Families Program (PSSF), $10 million is reserved annually for each of
three grants to facilitate the State Court Improvement Program (CIP) to
facilitate court improvement in the handling of child abuse and neglect
cases.
The Court Improvement Program (CIP) is composed of three grants,
the basic, data, and training grants, governed by two separate Program
Instructions (PIs). The training and data grants are governed by the
``new grant'' PI and the basic grant is governed by the ``basic grant''
PI. Current PIs require separate applications and program assessment
reports for each grant. Every State applies for at least two of the
grants annually and most States apply for all three. As many of the
application requirements are the same for all three grants, this
results in duplicative work and high degrees of repetition for State
courts applying for more than one CIP grant.
The purpose of this Program Instruction is to streamline and
simplify the application and reporting processes by consolidating the
PIs into one single PI and requiring one single, consolidated
application package and program assessment report per State court
annually. These revisions will satisfy statutory programmatic
requirements and reduce both the number of required responses and
associated total burden hours for State courts. This new PI also
describes programmatic and fiscal provisions and reporting requirements
for the grants, specifies the application submittal and approval
procedures for the grants for fiscal years 2012 through 2015, and
identifies technical resources for use by State courts during the
course of the grants. The agency uses the information received to
ensure compliance with the statute and provide training and technical
assistance to the grantees.
Respondents: State Courts.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average
Instrument Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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Application..................................... 52 1 92 4,784
Annual Reports.................................. 52 1 86 4,472
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 9,256.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail
address: [email protected]. All requests should be identified
by the title of the information collection.
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The Department specifically requests comments on: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-13768 Filed 6-2-11; 8:45 am]
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