[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 91 (Monday, May 12, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26971-26972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-10788]


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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: State child support enforcement agencies are required 
to attach and seize an obligor's assets in financial institutions to 
satisfy any current support obligation and arrearage when the obligor 
owes past-due support. 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. 
State child support enforcement agencies use the results of data 
matches to secure information leading to the enforcement of the support 
obligation. The federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) 
assists states to fulfill the data matching requirements with 
multistate financial institutions by facilitating matching through the 
Federal Parent Locator Service's Multistate Financial Institution Data 
Match (MSFIDM) program.
    To further assist states to meet this statutory requirement, the 
OCSE enhanced the Federal Parent Locator Service by developing the 
Federally Assisted State Transmitted (FAST) Levy application that 
provides a secure and automated method of collecting and disseminating 
electronic levy notices between state child support enforcement 
agencies and multistate financial institutions. This increases states' 
efficiency to 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

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arrearage by attaching and seizing assets of the obligor held in 
financial 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................             112               4             .33          147.84
Election Form...................................              30               1             0.5              15
FAST Levy Response Withhold Record                             7               1           317.5         2,222.5
 Specifications: State Child Support Enforcement
 Agencies.......................................
FAST Levy Response Withhold Record                             5               1           317.5         1,587.5
 Specifications: Multistate Financial
 Institutions...................................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,972.84.
    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained by writing to The Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., 
Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer.
    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, 725 17th Street 
NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attn: Desk Officer for ACF.

Bob Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-10788 Filed 5-9-14; 8:45 am]
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