[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 19 (Wednesday, January 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4494-4495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1967]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: 45 CFR 1303--Appeal Procedures for Head Start Grantees and 
Current or Prospective Delegate Agencies.
    OMB No.: 0980-00242.
    Description: Section 646 of the Head Start Act requires the 
Secretary to prescribe a timeline for conducting administrative 
hearings when adverse actions are taken or proposed against Head Start 
or Early Head Start grantees or delegate agencies. The Head Start 
Bureau is proposing to renew this rule, which implements these 
requirements that prescribe when a grantee must submit information and 
what that information should include to support a contention that 
adverse action should not be taken.
    Respondents: Head Start and Early Head Start grantees and delegate 
agencies against which the Head Start Bureau has taken or proposes to 
take adverse actions.

                                             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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Report......................................              10                1               26              260
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours:....  ...............  ...............  ...............             260
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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

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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, SW., Washington, DC 
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: January 21, 2003.
Bob Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-1967 Filed 1-28-03; 8:45 am]
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