[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 107 (Friday, June 5, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27038-27039]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-13147]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Community-Based Abstinence Education Performance Progress 
Report.
    OMB No.: 0970-0272.
    Description: The discretionary funding Community-Based Abstinence 
Education Program (CBAE) is authorized by Title XI, Section 1110, of 
the Social Security Act (using the definitions contained in Title V, 
Section 510(b)(2) of the Social Security Act).

Program-Specific Performance Measure

    The CBAE program developed a program-specific performance measure 
in response to the PART review (a process by which the Office of 
Management and Budget analyzes and rates a Federal program's procedures 
and strategies for evaluating its effectiveness), for which the program 
received a rating of Adequate. In an effort to gather program-specific 
data on rates of abstinence pre- and post-program participation, ACF 
and the Office of Management and Budget determined that a program-
specific performance measure should be developed to assess key outcomes 
among program participants. The CBAE office convened a panel of 
abstinence education experts to gather input on the measure, and, based 
on the input provided, the CBAE office developed the measure. CBAE 
grantees will be required to ask twelve questions of the youth served 
in a pre- and post-survey, as well as a representative sample of the 
youth served in a follow-up survey.
    The questions were carefully constructed by experienced evaluators 
to measure initiation and discontinuation of sexual intercourse as well 
as two key predictors of initiation: Sexual values and behavioral 
intentions.
    The program office will collect and compile data to establish 
baselines and ambitious targets for the program-specific performance 
measure. The data will be aggregated and results will be shared with 
the public as they become available.
    Respondents: Youth Participants.

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                                             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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Community-Based Abstinence Education              1,000,000                 3             0.17          510,000
 Performance Program--Specific Performance
 Measure...................................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 510,000
    In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(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 2, 2009.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-13147 Filed 6-4-09; 8:45 am]
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