[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 182 (Wednesday, September 20, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54992-54993]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-7763]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ 
Demonstration and Evaluation: Rhode Island 15-Month Survey Amendment.
    OMB No.: 0970-0276.
    Description: The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ 
Demonstration and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to learn what works in 
this area to date and is explicitly designed to build on past research 
by rigorously testing a wide variety of approaches to promote 
employment and improve family functioning and child well-being. The HtE 
project is designed to help Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 
(TANF) recipients, former TANF recipients, or low-income parents who 
are hard-to-employ. The project is sponsored by the Office of Planning, 
Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and 
Families (ACF), the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and 
Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
(HHS), and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
    The evaluation involves an experimental, random assignment design 
in four sites, testing a diverse set of strategies to promote 
employment for low-income parents who face serious obstacles to 
employment. The four include: (1) Intensive care management to 
facilitate the use of evidence-based treatment for major depression 
among parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island; (2) job readiness 
training, worksite placements, job coaching, job development and other 
training opportunities for recent parolees in New York City; (3) pre-
employment services and transitional employment for long-term TANF 
participants in Philadelphia; and (4) home- and center-based care, 
enhanced with self-sufficiency services, for low-income families who 
have young children or are expecting in Kansas and Missouri.
    Materials for follow-up surveys for each of these sites were 
previously submitted to OMB and were approved. The purpose of this 
submission is to add physiological measures to the follow-up effort to 
the Rhode Island study.
    Respondents: The respondents to this component of the Rhode Island 
follow-

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up survey will be low-income parents and their children from the Rhode 
Island site currently participating in the HtE Project. As described in 
the prior OMB submission, these parents are Medicaid recipients between 
the ages of 18 and 45 receiving Medicaid through the managed care 
provider United Behavioral Health (UBH) in Rhode Island who meet study 
criteria with regard to their risk for depression. Children are the 
biological, adopted, and stepchildren of these parents, between 1 and 
18 years of age.
    The annual burden estimates are detailed below, and the substantive 
content of each component will be detailed in the supporting statement 
attached to the forthcoming 30-day notice.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                           Number of
             Instrument                  Number of       responses per   Average burden  hours    Total burden
                                        respondents       respondent          per response            hours
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RI 15-month, parent physiological                 400                 8  5 minutes or .08 hrs.            266.66
 component.
RI 15-month, young child                          160                 8  5 minutes or .08 hrs.            106.66
 physiological component.
RI 15-month, youth physiological                  242                 8  5 minutes or .08 hrs.            161.33
 component.
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 534.65.
    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 
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, 
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail 
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.

    Dated: September 13, 2006.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-7763 Filed 9-19-06; 8:45 am]
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