[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 48 (Monday, March 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14527-14528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-5835]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Performance Measures for Community-Centered Healthy 
Marriage, Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood and Community-Centered 
Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry grant programs.
    OMB No.: 0970-0365.
    Description: The Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Administration 
for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services (HHS), intends to request approval from the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to renew OMB Form 0970-0365 for the 
collection of performance measures from grantees for the Community-
Centered Healthy Marriage, Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood and 
Community-Centered Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry 
discretionary grant programs. The performance measure data obtained 
from the grantees will be used by OFA to report on the overall 
performance of these grant programs.
    Data will be collected from all 61 Community-Centered Healthy 
Marriage, 53 Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood and 4 Community-
Centered Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry grantees in the OFA 
programs. Grantees will report on program and participant outcomes in 
such areas as participants' improvement in knowledge skills, attitudes, 
and behaviors related to healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood. 
Grantees will be asked to input data for selected outcomes for 
activities funded under the grants. Grantees will extract data from 
program records and will report the data twice yearly through an on-
line data collection tool. Training and assistance will be provided to 
grantees to support this data collection process.
    Respondents: Office of Family Assistance Funded Community-Centered 
Healthy Marriage, Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood and Community-
Centered Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry Grantees.

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                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                   Instrument                        Number of     responses per     hours per     Total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent       response      burden hours
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Performance measure reporting form (for private              103               2             0.8             165
 sector affected public)........................
Performance measure reporting form (for State,                15               2             0.8              30
 local, and tribal government affected public)..
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours.........  ..............  ..............  ..............             195
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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 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. 2012-5835 Filed 3-9-12; 8:45 am]
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