[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 139 (Tuesday, July 21, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 43093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17793]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    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. 
Legislation enacted in 2014 through Public Law 113-183, the 
``Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act'' added a 
requirement that title IV-E grantees annually report on the methodology 
used to calculate adoption savings due to the application of differing 
title IV-E Adoption Assistance eligibility criteria for children 
designated as an ``applicable child'' along with an accounting of the 
amount of and the expenditure of any such savings.
    To accommodate this change in the law, we have added additional 
data entry lines in part 4 of Form CB-496, ``Annual Adoption Savings 
Calculation and Accounting Report'' which will be submitted annually by 
grantees.
    In addition, the same law adds additional requirements that title 
IV-E grantees develop and implement policies and procedures to 
identify, document, and determine appropriate services for any child or 
youth in the placement, care or supervision of the title IV-E agency 
who is at-risk of becoming a sex trafficking victim or who is 
determined as a sex trafficking victim.
    To accommodate this change in the law we have added additional 
reporting lines and prior quarter reporting odes for expenditure 
reporting and child counts and in parts 1 and 2 of Form CB-496.
    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.
    Additional Information:
    Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained 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. All requests should be identified by the 
title of the information collection. Email address: 
[email protected].
    OMB Comment:
    OMB is required to make a decision concerning the collection of 
information between 30 and 60 days after publication of this document 
in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best assured of having 
its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication. 
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of 
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Email: 
[email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration 
for Children and Families.

Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-17793 Filed 7-20-15; 8:45 am]
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