[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 17, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 76410]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-29935]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

[Docket ID: TREAS-DO-2013-0006]


Request for Information on Strategies To Accelerate the Testing 
and Adoption of Pay for Success (PFS) Financing Models

AGENCY: Office of Domestic Finance, Department of the Treasury.

ACTION: Request for information; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury is reopening the comment period 
on its request for information on Strategies to Accelerate the Testing 
and Adoption of Pay for Success (PFS) Financing Models. The President's 
FY 2014 budget included a request for a $300 million one-time mandatory 
appropriation for a new Incentive Fund to help state and local 
governments implement PFS programs. In order to inform the 
Administration's development of this legislative initiative, the 
request for information (RFI) seeks information on options for 
financing models and the most promising programmatic areas \1\ that 
could be served by the Incentive Fund. Treasury is reopening the 
comment period until December 20, 2013 to provide additional 
opportunity to comment.
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    \1\ THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014--See page 978 of the 
President's FY 2014 Budget Appendix (see http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Appendix).

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DATES: Responses must be received by December 20, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 
or via U.S. mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. We will not 
accept comments by fax or by email. To ensure that we do not receive 
duplicate copies, please submit your comments only one time. In 
addition, please include the Docket ID and the term ``PFS Incentive 
Fund RFI'' at the top of your comments.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to www.regulations.gov to 
submit your comments electronically. Information on using 
Regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency documents, 
submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available on the site 
under a tab titled ``Are you new to the site?''
     U.S. Mail, Commercial Delivery, or Hand Delivery: If you 
mail or deliver your comments, address them to Cara Camacho, Attention: 
Pay for Success Incentive Fund RFI, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Room 1325, Washington, DC 20220.
     Privacy Note: The Department's policy for comments 
received from members of the public (including comments submitted by 
mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery) is to make these 
submissions available for public viewing in their entirety on the 
Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. Therefore, 
commenters should be careful to include in their comments only 
information that they wish to make publicly available on the Internet.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cara Camacho by email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 2, 2013, the Department of the 
Treasury published in the Federal Register the RFI on Strategies to 
Accelerate the Testing and Adoption of Pay for Success (PFS) Financing 
Models (78 FR 60998). The RFI offered states, tribal governments, 
localities, community based and other non-profit organizations, private 
sector donors, researchers, and other interested individuals and 
entities the opportunity to provide information on effective approaches 
for improving outcomes for social services and other program areas by 
employing financing mechanisms that pay for results. This notice 
reopens the comment period for the RFI until December 20, 2013 in order 
to provide an additional opportunity to comment.

Donet Graves,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Small Business, Community Development 
and Housing Policy.
[FR Doc. 2013-29935 Filed 12-16-13; 8:45 am]
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