[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 117 (Tuesday, June 19, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33762-33763]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2998]


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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: Philadelphia 36-Month Data Collection.
    OMB No. New Collection.
    Description: The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ 
Demonstration and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to learn what services 
improve the employment prospects of low-income persons who face serious 
obstacles to steady work. The project is sponsored by the Office of 
Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for 
Children and Families (ACF) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), both within the U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS), and the U.S. Department of Labor 
(DOL). The HtE project is a multi-year, multi-site evaluation that 
employs an experimental longitudinal research design to test four 
strategies aimed at promoting employment among hard-to-employ 
populations. The four include: (1) Intensive care management and job 
services program for Rhode Island Medicaid recipients with serious 
depression; (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 participants receiving Temporary Assistance 
for Needy Families (TANF); and (4) two-generational Early Head Start 
(EHS) services providing enhanced

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self-sufficiency services for parents, parent skills training, and 
high-quality child care for children in low-income families in Kansas 
and Missouri.
    The purpose of the current document is to request public comment on 
the 36-month participant survey in Philadelphia. The research team 
plans to collect participant-reported surveys assessing participants' 
employment, education and economic outcomes, participation in 
employment and training services, receipt of benefits and services such 
as food stamps and mental health services, housing and household 
information, health and health care coverage, child care, and child 
outcomes.
    The follow-up survey at the 36-month follow-up in Philadelphia will 
be used for the following purposes: To study the extent to which pre-
employment services and transitional employment affect employment, 
earnings, income, and welfare dependence of low-income TANF recipients; 
to examine the impacts of these services on participants' health, 
receipt of benefits such as food stamps, Medicaid, and child-care 
subsidies, and participation in services such as substance abuse 
treatment and mental health services; and to collect data on a wider 
range of outcomes measures than is available through welfare, Medicaid, 
Food Stamps, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance records.
    The 36-month data collection effort draws heavily from the 15-month 
survey conducted in this site. Materials for the 15-month data 
collection effort were previously submitted to OMB and were approved 
(OMB Control No. 0970-0276).
    Respondents: TANF recipients without a high school diploma and/or 
recipients who have received TANF for at least 12 months.
    The fielded sample of the 36-month data collection effort will be 
all 1,944 participants in the two program groups and the control group 
of the HtE project in Philadelphia. The burden estimates below assume 
an 80 percent response rate of the fielded sample.
    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        Average
                   Instrument                        Number of     responses per   burden hours    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response        hours
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Philadelphia 36-month participant survey........           1,555               1            0.75           1,166
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,166.
    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: June 13, 2007.
Brendan Kelly,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-2998 Filed 6-18-07; 8:45 am]
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