[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 4, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 17906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-8236]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Information collection from applicants who will respond to 
Request for Applications for funding of seven OCS competitive grants.
    OMB No.: 0970-0062.
    Description: The Office of Community Services (OCS) is requesting 
approval to continue the use of its program announcements to collect 
information which will enable the agency to determine which projects to 
fund and the amount of the grant awards. The programs covered include: 
Community Food and Nutrition; Community Economic Development 
Discretionary Grants Program; Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program 
Residential Energy Assistance Challenge Option Program (REACH); LIHEAP 
Clearinghouse T&TA Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals; CSBG 
Training and Technical Assistance and Capacity Building; and Family 
Violence Prevention and Services Program.
    Information collected from the requirements contained in these 
program announcements will be the sole source of information available 
to OCS in reviewing applications leading to awards of discretionary 
grants to eligible applicants.
    The application forms that will be used contain information for 
competitive review in accordance with the program announcements' 
guidelines. The data provided is necessary to compute the amount of the 
grant in relation to proposed project activities by the ACF Grant 
Officers.
    OMB recommended that ACF submit one information collection package 
covering all OCS discretionary program announcements, since the same 
application form is used in each announcement. This information 
collection was last approved in 1998; it is due to expire October 31, 
2001. Since the last approval, we have added the Residential Energy 
Assistance Challenge Option Program (REACH) as an additional Low Income 
Home Energy Assistance Program.
    Respondents: State and local governments, Indian tribes, not-for-
profit organizations.

                                             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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Comm. Economic Development, An..................             250               1              28           7,000
Comm. Food and Nutrition, An....................             250               1              10           2,500
LIHEAP Clearing-house RFP (T&TA)................               5               1              10              50
LIHEAP REACH, Ann...............................              45               1              10             450
JOLI, Ann.......................................             170               1              30           5,100
T&TA (CSBG), Ann................................              70               1              10             700
Family Violence.................................             150               1              30           4,500
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours.........  ..............  ..............  ..............          20,300
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    In compliance with the requirements of section 3506 (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 
Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., Washington, D.C. 
20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. 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.

    Dated: March 29, 2001.
Bob Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-8236 Filed 4-3-01; 8:45 am]
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