[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6906-6907]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02402]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Multistate Financial Institution Data Match with Federally 
Assisted State Transmitted Levy (FIDM/FAST-Levy).
    OMB No.: 0970-0196.
    Description: To satisfy any current support obligation and 
arrearage of an obligor who owes past-due support, state child support 
enforcement agencies are required to attach and seize assets of the 
obligor held in financial institutions. To locate an obligor's account, 
state child support enforcement agencies are required to enter into 
data matching agreements with financial institutions doing business in 
their state. The results of the data matches are used to secure 
information leading to the enforcement of the support obligation. The 
federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) assists states 
fulfilling the data matching requirements with multistate financial 
institutions by facilitating matching through the centralized Federal 
Parent Locator Service.
    To further assist states in meeting this statutory obligation, the 
OCSE developed the Federally Assisted State Transmitted (FAST) Levy 
application, an application within the Federal Parent Locator Service, 
providing a secure and automated method of collecting and disseminating 
electronic levy notices between state child support enforcement 
agencies and multistate financial institutions to help the child 
support agencies more efficiently secure financial assets.
    The FIDM/FAST-Levy information collection activities are authorized 
by: 42 U.S.C. 652(l) which authorizes OCSE, through the Federal Parent 
Locator Service, to aid state child support agencies and financial 
institutions doing business in two or more States in reaching 
agreements regarding the receipt from financial institutions, and the 
transfer to the state child support agencies, of information pertaining 
to the location of accounts held by obligors who owe past-due support; 
42 U.S.C. 666 (a)(2) and (c)(1)(G)(ii) which require state child 
support agencies in cases in which there is an arrearage to establish 
procedures to secure assets to satisfy any current support obligation 
and the arrearage by attaching and seizing assets of the obligor held 
in financial

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institutions; (2) 42 U.S.C. 666(a)(17), which requires state child 
support agencies to establish procedures under which the state child 
support agencies shall enter into agreements with financial 
institutions doing business in the State to develop and operate, in 
coordination with financial institutions, and the Federal Parent 
Locator Service (in the case of financial institutions doing business 
in two or more States), a data match system, using automated data 
exchanges to the maximum extent feasible, in which a financial 
institution is required to quarterly provide information pertaining to 
a noncustodial parent owing past-due support who maintains an account 
at the institution; and (ii) in response to a notice of lien or levy, 
encumber or surrender, assets held; (3) 42 U.S.C. 652(a)(7), which 
requires OCSE to provide technical assistance to state child support 
enforcement agencies to help them establish effective systems for 
collecting child and spousal support; and (4) 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
                   Instrument                        Number of     responses per   burden hours    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response        hours
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Financial Data Match Result File................             259               4             .33          341.88
Election Form...................................             122               1             0.5              61
FAST-Levy Response Withhold Record                             5               1           317.5         1,587.5
 Specifications: Multistate Financial
 Institutions...................................
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: 4,212.88.
    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. 2014-02402 Filed 2-4-14; 8:45 am]
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