[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 68 (Monday, April 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21102-21103]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-8468]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    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 
waiver demonstration projects in each of Fiscal Years 2012, 2013 and 
2014. These waiver demonstration 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: State Governments.

                                             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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Letter of Intent................................              10               1               5              50
Full proposal...................................              10               1              40             400
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 450.

Additional Information

    Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained 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. All requests should be identified 
by the title of the information collection. Email address: 
[email protected].

OMB Comment

    OMB is required to make a decision concerning the collection of 
information between 30 and 60 days after publication of this document 
in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best assured of having 
its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication. 
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of 
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Fax: 202-395-7285, 
Email: [email protected]. Attn: Desk Officer for the 
Administration for Children and Families.

Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-8468 Filed 4-6-12; 8:45 am]
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