[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 156 (Thursday, August 13, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48536-48537]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19921]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Youth Education and Relationship Services (YEARS) 
Descriptive Study.
    OMB No.: New Collection,
    Description: Since 2006, Congress has authorized dedicated funding 
(currently at the level of $75 million annually) to support programs 
providing healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE). In order 
to better understand the services that federally-funded HMRE programs 
are providing to youth and the populations the programs are reaching, 
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), within ACF/HHS, 
is proposing data collection activity as part of the Youth Education 
and Relationship Services (YEARS) descriptive study. The data that ACF 
proposes to collect includes information on funding spent serving 
youth, the number of youth being served, youth demographic 
characteristics, characteristics of the organizations or programs 
serving youth, information on program curricula and contents, and 
program implementation information. This data is to be collected 
through a web-based survey that is to be completed by HMRE grantee 
program staff. This information will be critical to inform future 
efforts to improve HMRE programs serving youth.
    Respondents: Healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) 
grantee program staff.

    Note: To fully address the objectives outlined for this project, 
it was determined that additional information collection beyond what 
was proposed in the 60 day Federal Register notice is necessary. 
Therefore, the proposed semi-structured interviews submitted with 
this request (including the site visit screener and semi structured 
interviews with Program directors/Administrators, Facilitators, and 
Partner organizations/providers) require additional burden beyond 
that originally estimated in the 60 day Federal Register notice.


                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                   Total/annual      Number of        Average
                   Instrument                        number of     responses per   burden hours   Annual  burden
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response        hours
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YEARS Web-based staff survey (Program director/               44               1           0.5                22
 Administrator).................................
YEARS Web-based staff survey (Facilitator)......              44               1           0.5                22
Site visit screener (Program director/                        12               1           0.083               1
 Administrator).................................

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Semi-structured interview (Program director/                   6               1           1.5                 9
 Administrator).................................
Semi-structured interview (Facilitator).........               6               1           1.5                 9
Semi-structured interview (Partner organization/               3               1           1.5                 5
 provider)......................................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 68.
    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade 
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. All 
requests should be identified by the title of the information 
collection. Email address: [email protected].
    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, Email: 
[email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration 
for Children and Families.

Robert Sargis,
ACF Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-19921 Filed 8-12-15; 8:45 am]
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