[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8428-8429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-01649]


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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.

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    Description: Section 466(a)(17) of the Social Security Act (the 
Act) requires states to establish procedures for their child support 
agencies to enter into agreements with financial institutions doing 
business in their state for the purpose of securing information leading 
to the enforcement of child support orders. Under 452(l) and 
466(a)(17)(A)(i) of the Act, the Secretary may aid state agencies 
conducting data matches with financial institutions doing business in 
two or more states by establishing a centralized and standardized 
matching program through the Federal Parent Locator Service.
    To further assist states collect child support, the federal Office 
of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) worked with child support agencies 
and financial institutions to develop the Federally Assisted State 
Transmitted (FAST) Levy system.
    FAST Levy is a central, standardized, electronic process for child 
support agencies and financial institutions to exchange information 
about levying accounts to collect past-due support. OCSE picks up files 
created by child support agencies that contain FAST Levy requests and 
distributes them to financial institutions that use the FAST Levy 
system. Those financial institutions create response files that OCSE 
picks up and distributes to the child support agencies.
    The FIDM/FAST-Levy information collection activities are authorized 
by: 42 U.S.C. 652(1), 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 reach 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 arrearage by attaching and seizing assets of the obligor held 
in financial institutions; 42 U.S.C. 666(a)(17)(A), 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, in response to a notice of lien or levy, 
encumber or surrender, assets held; 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, 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. 
To facilitate this requirement for states, OCSE developed the FAST Levy 
system that supports the electronic exchange of lien and levy 
information between child support agencies and financial institutions.
    Respondents: Multistate Financial Institutions and State Child 
Support Agencies

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                   Instrument                        Number of     responses per     hours per     Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent       response          hours
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Financial Data Match Result File-Portal.........             194               4             0.5              39
Election Form...................................              30               1             0.5              15
FAST-Levy Response Withhold Record                             3               1            1716            5148
 Specifications: Financial Institutions.........
FAST-Levy Request Withhold Record                              4               1            1610            6440
 Specifications: State Child Support Agencies...
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 11,642.
    In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(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 and comments may be forwarded 
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of 
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 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 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. 2017-01649 Filed 1-24-17; 8:45 am]
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