[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 107 (Friday, June 3, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32213-32214]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13768]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

    Title: State Court Improvement Program.
    OMB No. 0970-0307.

Description

    From the funds appropriated for the Promoting Safe and Stable 
Families Program (PSSF), $10 million is reserved annually for each of 
three grants to facilitate the State Court Improvement Program (CIP) to 
facilitate court improvement in the handling of child abuse and neglect 
cases.
    The Court Improvement Program (CIP) is composed of three grants, 
the basic, data, and training grants, governed by two separate Program 
Instructions (PIs). The training and data grants are governed by the 
``new grant'' PI and the basic grant is governed by the ``basic grant'' 
PI. Current PIs require separate applications and program assessment 
reports for each grant. Every State applies for at least two of the 
grants annually and most States apply for all three. As many of the 
application requirements are the same for all three grants, this 
results in duplicative work and high degrees of repetition for State 
courts applying for more than one CIP grant.
    The purpose of this Program Instruction is to streamline and 
simplify the application and reporting processes by consolidating the 
PIs into one single PI and requiring one single, consolidated 
application package and program assessment report per State court 
annually. These revisions will satisfy statutory programmatic 
requirements and reduce both the number of required responses and 
associated total burden hours for State courts. This new PI also 
describes programmatic and fiscal provisions and reporting requirements 
for the grants, specifies the application submittal and approval 
procedures for the grants for fiscal years 2012 through 2015, and 
identifies technical resources for use by State courts during the 
course of the grants. The agency uses the information received to 
ensure compliance with the statute and provide training and technical 
assistance to the grantees.
    Respondents: State Courts.

                                             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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Application.....................................              52               1              92           4,784
Annual Reports..................................              52               1              86           4,472
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 9,256.
    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.

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    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.

Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-13768 Filed 6-2-11; 8:45 am]
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