[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6906-6907]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02402]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Multistate Financial Institution Data Match with Federally
Assisted State Transmitted Levy (FIDM/FAST-Levy).
OMB No.: 0970-0196.
Description: To satisfy any current support obligation and
arrearage of an obligor who owes past-due support, state child support
enforcement agencies are required to attach and seize assets of the
obligor held in financial institutions. To locate an obligor's account,
state child support enforcement agencies are required to enter into
data matching agreements with financial institutions doing business in
their state. The results of the data matches are used to secure
information leading to the enforcement of the support obligation. The
federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) assists states
fulfilling the data matching requirements with multistate financial
institutions by facilitating matching through the centralized Federal
Parent Locator Service.
To further assist states in meeting this statutory obligation, the
OCSE developed the Federally Assisted State Transmitted (FAST) Levy
application, an application within the Federal Parent Locator Service,
providing a secure and automated method of collecting and disseminating
electronic levy notices between state child support enforcement
agencies and multistate financial institutions to help the child
support agencies more efficiently secure financial assets.
The FIDM/FAST-Levy information collection activities are authorized
by: 42 U.S.C. 652(l) which authorizes OCSE, through the Federal Parent
Locator Service, to aid state child support agencies and financial
institutions doing business in two or more States in reaching
agreements regarding the receipt from financial institutions, and the
transfer to the state child support agencies, of information pertaining
to the location of accounts held by obligors who owe past-due support;
42 U.S.C. 666 (a)(2) and (c)(1)(G)(ii) which require state child
support agencies in cases in which there is an arrearage to establish
procedures to secure assets to satisfy any current support obligation
and the arrearage by attaching and seizing assets of the obligor held
in financial
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institutions; (2) 42 U.S.C. 666(a)(17), which requires state child
support agencies to establish procedures under which the state child
support agencies shall enter into agreements with financial
institutions doing business in the State to develop and operate, in
coordination with financial institutions, and the Federal Parent
Locator Service (in the case of financial institutions doing business
in two or more States), a data match system, using automated data
exchanges to the maximum extent feasible, in which a financial
institution is required to quarterly provide information pertaining to
a noncustodial parent owing past-due support who maintains an account
at the institution; and (ii) in response to a notice of lien or levy,
encumber or surrender, assets held; (3) 42 U.S.C. 652(a)(7), which
requires OCSE to provide technical assistance to state child support
enforcement agencies to help them establish effective systems for
collecting child and spousal support; and (4) 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 Agencies
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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Financial Data Match Result File................ 259 4 .33 341.88
Election Form................................... 122 1 0.5 61
FAST-Levy Response Withhold Record 5 1 317.5 1,587.5
Specifications: Multistate Financial
Institutions...................................
FAST-Levy Request Withhold Record 7 1 317.5 2,222.5
Specifications: State Child Support Enforcement
Agencies.......................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 4,212.88.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(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
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 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,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-02402 Filed 2-4-14; 8:45 am]
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