[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 13 (Wednesday, January 21, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 2943]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00809]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Performance Measures for Community-Centered Healthy
Marriage, Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood and Community-Centered
Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry grant programs.
OMB No.: 0970-0365--Reinstatement with changes of a previously
approved collection.
Description: The Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Administration
for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), intends to request approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to renew OMB Form 0970-0365 for the
collection of performance measures from grantees for the Community-
Centered Healthy Marriage, Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood and
Community-Centered Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry
discretionary grant programs. The performance measure data obtained
from the grantees will be used by OFA to report on the overall
performance of these grant programs.
Data will be collected from all 60 Community-Centered Healthy
Marriage, 54 Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood and 5 Community-
Centered Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry grantees in the OFA
programs. Grantees will report on program and participant outcomes in
such areas as participants' improvement in knowledge skills, attitudes,
and behaviors related to healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood.
Grantees will be asked to input data for selected outcomes for
activities funded under the grants. Grantees will extract data from
program records and will report the data twice yearly through an on-
line data collection tool. Training and assistance will be provided to
grantees to support this data collection process.
Respondents: Office of Family Assistance Funded Community-Centered
Healthy Marriage, Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood and Community-
Centered Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry Grantees.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total annual
respondents respondent response burden hours
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Performance measure reporting form (for private 110 2 0.8 176
sector affected public)........................
Performance measure reporting form (for State, 9 2 0.8 14
local, and tribal government affected public)..
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours......... .............. .............. .............. 190
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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 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. 2015-00809 Filed 1-20-15; 8:45 am]
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