[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 103 (Wednesday, May 29, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32258-32259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-12664]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Federally Assisted State Transmitted Levy (FAST Levy).
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: State IV-D child support enforcement agencies are
required to secure assets in cases where there is a support arrearage
to satisfy any current support obligation and the arrearage by
attaching and seizing assets of the obligor held in financial
institutions. To assist states in fulfilling this statutory requirement
the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) is proposing a
new information collection using the Federally Assisted State
Transmitted Levy (FAST Levy), a new
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application within the Federal Parent Locator Service's Portal. FAST
Levy is a centralized, secure and automated method of collecting and
disseminating electronic levy notices between child support enforcement
agencies and multistate financial institutions to secure the assets in
an obligor's account.
The anticipated impact of employing FAST Levy is the significant
reduction in existing delays to execute a levy notice, thereby
diminishing opportunity for an obligor to close accounts; increase
collections of past-due payments to state agencies and families; cut
the states' and multistate financial institutions administrative and
implementation costs of manually executing levy notices; and strengthen
document security.
The proposed information collection using the FAST Levy application
is authorized by: (1) 42 U.S.C. 652(a)(7), which requires OCSE to
provide technical assistance to state child support agencies to help
them establish effective systems for collecting child and spousal
support; (2) 42 U.S.C. 666 (a)(2) and (c)(1)(G)(ii), which requires
state child support agencies to secure assets of an obligor to satisfy
past due support orders; and (3) 45 CFR 303.7(a)(5), which requires
state child support agencies to transmit requests for information and
provide requested information electronically to the greatest extent
possible.
Respondents: Multistate Financial Institutions and State Child
Support Enforcement Agencies
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Multistate financial institutions............... 5 1 317.5 1,587.5
State Child Support Enforcement Agencies........ 7 1 317.5 2,222.5
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,810.
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. Email address [email protected].
All requests should be identified by the title of the information
collection.
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,
Report Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-12664 Filed 5-28-13; 8:45 am]
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