[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 60 (Monday, March 30, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 16683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-07168]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Form CB-496: Title IV-E Programs Quarterly Financial Report.
OMB No.: 0970-0205.
Description: This is a financial report submitted following the end
of each fiscal quarter by each State or Tribe with an approved title
IV-E plan administering any of three title IV-E entitlement grant
programs--Foster Care, Adoption Assistance or Guardianship Assistance.
The purpose of this form is to enable each State or Tribe to meet
its statutory and regulatory requirement to report program expenditures
made in the preceding fiscal quarter and to estimate program
expenditures to be made in the upcoming fiscal quarter. This form also
allows States and Tribes to report the actual and estimated average
monthly number of children assisted in each of the three IV-E
entitlement grant programs in the preceding and upcoming fiscal
quarters, respectively.
The Administration for Children and Families provides Federal
funding at the rate of 50 percent for nearly all allowable and
legitimate administrative costs of these programs and at other funding
rates for other specific categories of costs as detailed in Federal
statute and regulations.
The information collected in this report is used by this agency to
calculate quarterly Federal grant awards and to enable oversight of the
financial management of the programs.
With this request, we are soliciting public comments on revising
the form to incorporate changes to title IV-E programs made in
accordance with the September 2014 enactment of Public Law 113-183, the
``Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act.'' This
includes the new requirement at section 473(a)(8)(B) of the Social
Security Act to report annually on the methodology used to calculate
adoption savings due to the application of differing title IV-E
eligibility criteria for children designated as an ``applicable child''
under section 473(e) along with an accounting of the amount of and the
expenditure of any such savings.
Respondents: States (including Puerto Rico and the District of
Columbia) and Tribes * with approved title IV-E plans. (* An estimated
15 Tribes have or will have approved title IV-E plans within the next
3-year period.)
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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Form CB-496: Title IV-E Programs Quarterly 67 4 21 5,628
Financial Report...........................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 5,628.
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. 2015-07168 Filed 3-27-15; 8:45 am]
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