[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 89 (Friday, May 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26572-26573]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-11207]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

[Document Identifier: HHS-OS-0990-0331-60D]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Public Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of 
Health and Human Services, announces plans to submit an Information 
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB). The ICR is for extending the use of the approved 
information collection assigned OMB control number 0990-0331 (which 
expires on August 21, 2015) through December 31, 2015. Prior to 
submitting that ICR to OMB, OS seeks comments from the public regarding 
the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR.

DATES: Comments on the ICR must be received on or before July 7, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 
[email protected] or by calling (202) 690-6162.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information Collection Clearance 
staff, [email protected] or (202) 690-6162.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting 
information, please include the document identifier HHS-OS-0990-0331-
60D for reference.
    Information Collection Request Title: Evaluation of the Responsible 
Fatherhood, Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated 
and Reentering Fathers and Their Partners
    Abstract: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and 
Evaluation (ASPE) is conducting an evaluation of a demonstration 
program called Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage and Family 
Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers and Their 
Partners (MFS-IP). This demonstration program, funded in 2006 by the 
Office of Family Assistance within the Administration for Children and 
Families (ACF), supported healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood 
activities among incarcerated and recently released fathers, their 
partners, and children. The MFS-IP evaluation assesses the effects of 
these activities by comparing relationship quality and stability, 
positive family interactions, family financial well-being, recidivism, 
and community connectedness between intervention and control groups.
    Data collection for the entire evaluation is expected to last 7 
years, from the time the first participant was enrolled in late 2008 
until the last qualitative follow-back interview is administered. The 
burden table below includes completion of a set of follow-back 
qualitative interviews with a small group of respondents (previously 
approved under OMB No. 0990-0331). The current approval expires on 
August 21, 2015, and we are requesting an extension until December 31, 
2015, to enable us to complete all of the interviews that have been 
previously approved by OMB under this information collection.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Primary data for the 
evaluation comes from in-person surveys with incarcerated and released 
fathers and their partners at baseline, 9, 18, and 34 month interviews 
and the qualitative follow-back. This qualitative follow-back is the 
focus of the current amendment request and it will only be conducted 
with a very small subsample of the original couples. As previously 
described and approved under OMB No. 0990-0331, being able to do 
additional qualitative follow-back with these cases will enable us to 
better understand how reentry success and family well-being are 
interrelated for the survey population, inform future research and 
evaluation with this population (particularly development and selection 
of appropriate quantitative measures of family relationship quality), 
and better identify meaningful leverage points for reentry 
intervention. This information will assist federal, state, and 
community policymakers and patrons in understanding what policy and 
programmatic supports could help to strengthen families and improve 
reentry outcomes in this population.
    Likely Respondents: A small sub-sample of couples from the MFS-IP 
impact study sample, which includes 1,991 fathers incarcerated at the 
time of the baseline survey and 1,481 of their female partners.
    Burden Statement: In this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions, to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and

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verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and 
disclosing and providing information, to train personnel and to be able 
to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to 
complete and review the collection of information, and to transmit or 
otherwise disclose the information. The table below shows data 
collection burden, which remains unchanged from the data collection 
burden approved by OMB in our study renewal of August 2012.

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                                                   Annualized       Number of    Average burden       Total
                     Forms                         number of      responses per  (in hours) per     annualized
                                                  respondents      respondent       response       burden hour
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MFS-IP Follow-up Survey--Male (9 & 18 month)..            321                 1             1.5            481.5
MFS-IP Follow-up Survey--Female (9 & 18 month)            488.3               1             1.5            732.5
MFS-IP Follow-up Survey--Male (34 month and               462.7               1             1.5            694
 follow-back).................................
MFS-IP Follow-up Survey--Female (34 month and             462.7               1             1.5            694
 follow-back).................................
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    Totals....................................  ...............  ..............  ..............          2,602
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    OS specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and utility 
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of 
the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden, (3) 
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected, and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology to minimize the information 
collection burden.

Terry S. Clark,
Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-11207 Filed 5-7-15; 8:45 am]
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