[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5258-5259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2320]


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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 Welfare Demonstration Projects Information Collection.
    OMB No.: New.
    Description: Per section 1130 of the Social Security Act as amended 
by Public Law 112-34, the Administration for Children and Families 
(ACF), Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), 
Children's Bureau (CB) is planning to announce an opportunity for title 
IV-E agencies to submit proposals for new child welfare waiver 
demonstration projects. CB is able to approve up to ten child welfare

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waiver demonstration projects in each of Fiscal Years 2012, 2013 and 
2014. These demonstration waiver projects involve the waiver of certain 
requirements of title IV-E and IV-B. These projects do not provide 
additional funding to carry out new services; rather they allow more 
flexible uses of Federal funds in order to test new approaches to 
service delivery or financing structures in an effort to improve 
outcomes for children and families involved in the child welfare 
system. We encourage title IV-E agencies wishing to apply for approval 
of a waiver demonstration project to submit a letter of intent followed 
by a full proposal at a later date. For title IV-E agencies that choose 
to submit a letter of intent, the letter of intent should indicate the 
title IV-E agency's intent to submit a proposal, and briefly describe 
the demonstration project, including the nature of the intervention the 
agency wishes to implement, the target population the agency wishes to 
serve, the reasons for selecting the proposed project and the 
evaluation design that the agency is considering. The full proposal 
must describe the project in extensive detail including the goals 
identified in statute that the project is intended to accomplish, the 
geographic areas in which the proposed project will be conducted, the 
service interventions to be implemented, the impact intervention is 
expected to have on outcomes related to safety, permanency, well-being, 
how service provision will change for children and families under the 
waiver demonstration, a statement of program requirements for waivers 
needed to conduct the project, an estimate of the projected costs or 
savings of the proposed project, a description of the proposed 
evaluation design and an accounting of any other sources of funding 
that have been used to provide the services that the agency now 
proposes to address under a waiver demonstration.
    Respondents: States.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                            Number of     Average
                                                               Number of    responses      burden       Total
                         Instrument                           respondents      per       hours per      burden
                                                                            respondent    response      hours
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Letter of intent............................................           10            1            5           50
Full proposal...............................................           10            1           40          400
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 450.
    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 
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., 
Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. Email 
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 information to be 
collected; and (e) 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. 2012-2320 Filed 2-1-12; 8:45 am]
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