[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 1, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60284-60285]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-23884]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Federally Assisted State Transmitted (FAST) Levy.
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: State IV-D child support enforcement agencies are 
required to have procedures 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) application. 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 have procedures 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 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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FAST-Levy Response Withhold Record                             5               1           317.5         1,587.5
 Specifications: Multistate Financial
 Institutions...................................

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FAST-Levy Request Withhold Record                              7               1           317.5         2,222.5
 Specifications: State Child Support Enforcement
 Agencies.......................................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,810.
    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, Email: [email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for 
Children and Families.

Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-23884 Filed 9-30-13; 8:45 am]
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