[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 8, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6565-6566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2882]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Tribal TANF Data Report, TANF Annual Report, and Reasonable 
Cause/Corrective Action Documentation Process- Final.
    OMB No.: 0970-0215.

Description

    42 U.S.C. 612 (Section 412 of the Social Security Act as amended by 
Pub. L. 104-193, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 
Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), mandates that federally recognized 
Indian Tribes with an approved Tribal TANF program collect and submit 
to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services data on 
the recipients served by the Tribes' programs. This information 
includes both aggregated and disaggregated data on case characteristics 
and individual characteristics. In addition, Tribes that are subject to 
a penalty are allowed to provide reasonable cause justifications as to 
why a penalty should not be imposed or may develop and implement 
corrective compliance procedures to eliminate the source of the 
penalty. Finally, there is an annual report, which requires the Tribes 
to describe program characteristics. All of the above requirements are 
currently approved by OMB and the Administration for Children and 
Families is simply proposing to extend them without any changes.

Respondents

    Indian Tribes.

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                                             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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Final Tribal TANF Data Report...................              66               4             451         119,064
Tribal TANF Annual Report.......................              66               1              40           2,640
Tribal TANF Reasonable Cause/Corrective.........              66               1              60           3,960
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours.........  ..............  ..............  ..............         125,664
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    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 (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. 2012-2882 Filed 2-7-12; 8:45 am]
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