[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 103 (Wednesday, May 29, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32258-32259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-12664]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

    Proposed Projects
    Title: Federally Assisted State Transmitted Levy (FAST Levy).
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: State IV-D child support enforcement agencies are 
required to secure assets in cases where there is a support arrearage 
to satisfy any current support obligation and the arrearage by 
attaching and seizing assets of the obligor held in financial 
institutions. To assist states in fulfilling this statutory requirement 
the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) is proposing a 
new information collection using the Federally Assisted State 
Transmitted Levy (FAST Levy), a new

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application within the Federal Parent Locator Service's Portal. FAST 
Levy is a centralized, secure and automated method of collecting and 
disseminating electronic levy notices between child support enforcement 
agencies and multistate financial institutions to secure the assets in 
an obligor's account.
    The anticipated impact of employing FAST Levy is the significant 
reduction in existing delays to execute a levy notice, thereby 
diminishing opportunity for an obligor to close accounts; increase 
collections of past-due payments to state agencies and families; cut 
the states' and multistate financial institutions administrative and 
implementation costs of manually executing levy notices; and strengthen 
document security.
    The proposed information collection using the FAST Levy application 
is authorized by: (1) 42 U.S.C. 652(a)(7), which requires OCSE to 
provide technical assistance to state child support agencies to help 
them establish effective systems for collecting child and spousal 
support; (2) 42 U.S.C. 666 (a)(2) and (c)(1)(G)(ii), which requires 
state child support agencies to secure assets of an obligor to satisfy 
past due support orders; and (3) 45 CFR 303.7(a)(5), which requires 
state child support agencies to transmit requests for information and 
provide requested information electronically to the greatest extent 
possible.
    Respondents: Multistate Financial Institutions and State Child 
Support Enforcement Agencies

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                   Instrument                        Number of     responses per     hours per     Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       response          hours
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Multistate financial institutions...............               5               1           317.5         1,587.5
State Child Support Enforcement Agencies........               7               1           317.5         2,222.5
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,810.
    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. 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,
Report Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-12664 Filed 5-28-13; 8:45 am]
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