[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 151 (Friday, August 7, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 39701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-18923]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    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.

                                             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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Community-Based Abstinence Education Program          1,000,000                1            0.25         250,000
 Specific Performance Measure (pre-test survey)
Community-Based Abstinence Education Program          1,000,000                1            0.25         250,000
 Specific Performance Measure (post-test
 survey).......................................
Community-Based Abstinence Education Program            500,000                1            0.25         125,000
 Specific Performance Measure (follow-up test
 survey).......................................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 625,000.

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 
collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of 
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project. Fax: 202-395-7245. 
Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families.

    Dated: August 4, 2009.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-18923 Filed 8-6-09; 8:45 am]
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