[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 9, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 10805]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-4895]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

    Proposed Projects:
    Title: Child Support Enforcement Program Expenditure Report (Form 
OCSE-396A) and the Child Support Enforcement Program Collection Report 
(Form OCSE-34A).
    OMB No.: 0970-0181.
    Description: State and Tribal agencies administering the Child 
Support Enforcement Program under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act 
are required to provide information each fiscal quarter to the Office 
of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) concerning administrative 
expenditures and the receipt and disposition of child support payments 
from non-custodial parents. State title IV-D agencies report quarterly 
expenditures and collections using Forms OCSE-396A and OCSE-34A, 
respectively. Tribal title IV-D agencies report quarterly expenditures 
using Form SF-269, as prescribed in program regulations, and formerly 
reported quarterly collections using only a modified version of Form 
OCSE-34A. The information collected on these reporting forms is used to 
compute quarterly grant awards to States and Tribes, the annual 
incentive payments to States and provides valuable information on 
program finances. This information is also included in a published 
annual statistical and financial report, available to the general 
public.
    Under Public Law 111-5, the ``American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act of 2009'' (ARRA), enacted in February 2009, the availability of 
Federal funding to State administered child support enforcement 
programs was substantially increased with a change in methodology of 
calculating these funds. We propose to formally incorporate this 
necessary revision into the quarterly expenditure report and to update 
the existing quarterly collection report to enable the same version of 
that form to be used by both State and Tribal IV-D agencies. We also 
propose to review other data entry elements and the accompanying 
instructions in both data collection forms to assure that the financial 
information requested from States and Tribes remains relevant and will 
assure that OCSE collects the information needed in the most efficient 
format feasible.
    Respondents: State agencies (including the District of Columbia, 
Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands) administering the Child 
Support Enforcement Program. Tribal agencies with approved plans to 
administer the Child Support Enforcement Program.

                                             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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OCSE-396A.......................................              54               4               8           1,728
OCSE-34A........................................             100               4               8           3,200
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 4,928.
    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: March 3, 2010.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-4895 Filed 3-8-10; 8:45 am]
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