[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 142 (Monday, July 26, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44538-44539]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16886]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Schedule UDC: Itemized Undistributed Collections.
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: Although State child support enforcement agencies 
successfully collect and distribute billions of dollars every fiscal 
year, a certain portion of the collections remain undistributed. In 
some instances collections remain undistributed relatively briefly, 
pending the resolution of an assortment of administrative or legal 
processes; in other instances collections remain undistributed 
indefinitely as a result of circumstances beyond the State's control.
    State agencies have requested the ability to differentiate and 
report to the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) the nature of 
those collections. In addition, in its recent report, the Government 
Accounting Office recommended that OCSE conduct periodic reviews of 
undistributed collection data to ``* * * help improve the accuracy of 
the data.'' (Report GAO-04-377, March 19, 2004, ``Child Support 
Enforcement: Better Data and More Information on Undistributed 
Collections Are Needed''). This supporting schedule, which will be 
submitted quarterly as an attachment to Form OCSE-34A, the ``Quarterly 
Report of Collections,'' is being implemented to meet those 
requirements and will enable each state to differentiate and itemize 
its undistributed collections by category and age and will enable OCSE 
to review and analyze this information and to recommend management 
methodologies to reduce the undistributed collection balance.
    Comments sent to the Office of Child Support Enforcement, both 
directly and in response to the Federal Register notice published 
October 8, 2003 (68 FR 58110, et seq.), provided many useful 
recommendations and suggestions to improve and clarify the wording of 
the instructions that accompany this form.
    Respondents: State IV-D agencies administering the Child Support 
Enforcement Program under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.

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                                             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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Schedule UDC....................................             54               4               4             864
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 864.
    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Administration, 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. E-mail 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 collections should be sent directly to the following: 
Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Attn: 
Desk Officer for ACF; E-mail address: [email protected].

    Dated: July 19, 2004.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance, Officer.
[FR Doc. 04-16886 Filed 7-26-04; 8:45 am]
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