[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32297-32298]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-12850]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
[Document Identifier: HHS-OS-0990-0331-60D]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Public Comment Request
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of
Health and Human Services, announces plans to submit an Information
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB). The ICR is for revision of the approved information
collection assigned OMB control number 0990-0331, which expires on
August 31, 2015. Prior to submitting that ICR to OMB, OS seeks comments
from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other
aspect of the ICR.
DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before August 4,
2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: OS Report Clearance Officer, Sherrette
Funn, [email protected] or (202) 690-6162.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the document identifier HHS-OS-0990-0331-
60D for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Evaluation of the Responsible
Fatherhood, Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated
and Reentering Fathers and Their Partners.
Abstract: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation (ASPE) is conducting an evaluation of a demonstration
program called Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage and Family
Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers and Their
Partners (MFS-IP). This demonstration program, funded in 2006 by the
Office of Family Assistance within the Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), supports marriage strengthening and responsible
fatherhood activities among incarcerated and recently released fathers,
their partners, and children. The MFS-IP evaluation assesses the
effects of these activities by comparing relationship quality and
stability, positive family interactions, family financial well-being,
recidivism, and community connectedness between intervention and
control groups.
Data collection for the entire evaluation is expected to last 7
years, from the time the first participant was enrolled in late 2008
until the last follow-back interview is administered in early 2015. The
burden table estimate below, previously approved under OMB No. 0990-
0331, includes sufficient burden hours to cover completion of the 9-
month, 18-month, and 34 month surveys and for the follow-back
interviews. The focus of this proposed amendment is approval for the
qualitative follow-back interviews for a small group of respondents (up
to 50 couples) from the cohort of 34 month interview respondents.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Primary data for the
evaluation comes from in-person surveys with incarcerated and released
fathers and their partners at baseline, 9, 18, and 34 month interviews
and follow-back interviews on a purposeful subsample of 34 month
interviewees. The qualitative information from the follow-back
interviews will enable us to better understand how reentry success and
family well-being are interrelated for the survey population, inform
future research and evaluation with this population (particularly
development and selection of appropriate quantitative measures of
family relationship quality), and better identify meaningful leverage
points for reentry intervention. This additional information will
assist Federal, state, and community policymakers and stakeholders in
understanding what policy and programmatic supports could help to
strengthen families and improve reentry outcomes in this population.
Likely Respondents: Up to 50 couples from the MFS-IP impact study
sample, which includes 1,991 fathers incarcerated at the time of the
baseline survey and 1,481 of their female partners.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information, to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information, and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information.
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Annual Burden Estimates
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Annualized Number of Average burden Total Total
Forms number of responses per (in hours) per annualized Hourly wage annualized
respondents respondent response burden rate hourly cost
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MFS-IP Follow-up Survey--Male (9 & 18 month)............ 321 1 1.5 481.5 $5.85 $2816.78
MFS-IP Follow-up Survey--Female (9 & 18 month).......... 488.3 1 1.5 732.5 17.17 12577.03
MFS-IP Follow-up Survey--Male (34 month and follow-back) 462.7 1 1.5 694 5.85 4059.90
MFS-IP Follow-up Survey--Female (34 month and follow- 462.7 1 1.5 694 17.17 11915.98
back)..................................................
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Totals.............................................. .............. .............. .............. 2602 .............. 31369.69
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OS specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and utility
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of
the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden, (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected, and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Darius Taylor,
Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-12850 Filed 6-3-14; 8:45 am]
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