[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 25 (Monday, February 8, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6521-6522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02351]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: National Center on Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships 
(NCEHS-CCP) Evaluation.
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in 
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded 275 Early 
Head Start expansion and Early Head Start-child care partnership grants 
(EHS-CCP) in 50 states; Washington, DC; Puerto Rico; and the Northern 
Mariana Islands. These grants will allow new or existing Early Head 
Start programs to partner with local child care centers and family 
child care providers to expand high-quality early learning 
opportunities for infants and toddlers from low-income families.
    NCEHS-CCP will support the effective implementation of new EHS-CCP 
grants by disseminating information through training and technical 
assistance (T/TA) and resources and materials. NCEHS-CCP is primarily 
targeted to T/TA providers working directly with the EHS-CCP grantees 
(including Office of Head Start (OHS) and Office of Child Care (OCC) 
National Centers, regional training and technical assistance (T/TA) 
specialists, and implementation planners and fiscal consultants). State 
and federal agencies (including OHS and OCC federal staff, Child Care 
and Development Fund (CCDF) administrators, Head Start state and 
national collaboration office directors), as well as EHS-CCP grantees 
will also find helpful information on partnerships through NCEHS-CCP's 
resources.
    NCEHS-CCP at ZERO TO THREE is proposing to conduct a descriptive 
study of NCEHS-CCP that will provide information that will document the 
activities and progress of NCEHS-CCP toward its goals and objectives. 
Findings from the evaluation will be translated into action steps to 
inform continuous quality improvement of NCEHS-CCP.
    The proposed data collection activities for the descriptive study 
of NCEHS-CCP will include the following components:
     Stakeholder survey. Web-based surveys will be conducted in 
the spring of 2016 and 2018 with key stakeholders (including regional 
T/TA specialists, CCDF administrators, Head Start state and national 
collaboration office directors, and implementation planners and fiscal 
consultants). The stakeholder survey will collect information about the 
types of support they received from

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NCEHS-CCP in the past year, their satisfaction with the support, how 
the T/TA informed their work with EHS-CCP grantees, and how support 
could be improved.
     Stakeholder telephone interviews. Semi-structured 
telephone interviews will be conducted in spring of 2017 and 2019 with 
a purposively selected group of stakeholders that complete the 
stakeholder survey. The interviews will explore in more detail the 
types of T/TA support participants received from NCEHS-CCP, how that 
support has informed their work with EHS-CCP grantees, their 
satisfaction with the support, successes and challenges, and 
suggestions for improvement.
    A 60-Day Federal Register Notice was published for this study on 
October 27, 2015. This 30-Day Federal Register Notice covers the 
following data collection activities: (1) Stakeholder survey, and (4) 
stakeholder telephone interviews.
    Respondents: Respondents include regional T/TA specialists, CCDF 
administrators, Head Start state and national collaboration office 
directors, and implementation planners and fiscal consultants.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                   Annual number     Number of    Average burden
           Instrument                Number of     of responses    responses per     hours per     Total burden
                                    respondents   per respondent    respondent       response          hours
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Stakeholder survey..............             350               1               2             0.5             175
Stakeholder telephone interviews             150               1               1             1.0              75
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 250.
    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, 330 C Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20201. Attention 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,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-02351 Filed 2-5-16; 8:45 am]
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