[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6907-6908]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02413]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Federal Case Registry (FCR).
    OMB No. 0970-0421.
    Description: Section 454A(e)(1) of the Social Security Act requires 
that states create a State Case Registry (SCR) within their statewide 
automated child support systems, to include information on IV-D cases 
and non-IV-D orders established or modified in the state on or after 
October 1, 1998. Section 454A(e)(5) requires states to regularly update 
their cases in the SCR.
    The Federal Case Registry (FCR) informs states which other state(s) 
has information on cases or participants of interest to them. Section 
454(A)(f)(1) requires states to furnish to the FCR the minimum amount 
of information on child support cases (including updates to those 
cases) recorded in the SCR that is necessary to operate the FCR. The 
information alerts states to other states that have registered the same 
individual and automatically provides states with address, employment, 
and unemployment information to locate these parents and their 
employers to either establish or enforce a child support order.
    The activities associated with the Federal Case Registry 
information collection are authorized by (1) 42 U.S.C Sec.  
654a(e)which requires that state child support agencies establish, 
update, maintain, and monitor an automated State case registry 
containing records pertaining to cases enforced by the child support 
agencies and order information pertaining to all cases, including cases 
not enforced by the child support agencies, using standardized data 
elements and including payment records; and (2) 42 U.S.C. Sec.  
654a(f)(1), which requires states to furnish certain State Case 
Registry information to the Federal Case Registry of Child Support 
Orders, an automated registry established within the Federal Parent 
Locator Service, to assist state child support enforcement agencies and 
for other purposes.
    Respondents: State Child Support Agencies and Courts

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                                             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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State Case Registry: IV-D data (Courts).........           3,144             454           0.025          35,684
State Case Registry: Non-IV-D data (Courts).....           3,144             198           0.025          15,563
States: State Case Registry Submission to                     54          18,980           0.033          33,822
 Federal Case Registry..........................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 85,069.
    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 an 
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,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-02413 Filed 2-4-14; 8:45 am]
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