[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 21, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46634-46635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-4064]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; 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

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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 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 this 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             .75           1,116
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,116.

Additional Information

    Copies of the proposed collection of information 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. E-mail 
address: [email protected]. All requests should be identified 
by the title of the information collection.

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 
collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of 
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Fax: 202-395-6974, 
Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families.

    Dated: August 15, 2007.
Brendan Kelly,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-4064 Filed 8-20-07; 8:45 am]
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