[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 138 (Thursday, July 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38721-38722]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-15568]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Early Head Start-Child Care 
Partnerships Sustainability Study (OMB #0970-0471)

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration 
for Children and Families, HHS.

ACTION: Request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks approval to collect 
information for the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships 
Sustainability Study.

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a 
decision about 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.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Description: This information collection is to provide nationally 
descriptive, longitudinal data on partnerships between Early Head Start 
programs and child care providers to inform program planning, technical 
assistance, and research. The proposed data collection is a follow-up 
study of the 2015 (National Descriptive Study (NDS) of Early Head 
Start-Child Care Partnerships (OMB 0970-0471) that obtained information 
about the EHS programs, community-based child care centers, and family 
child care providers participating in the federal grants supporting the 
implementation of Early Head Start-child care partnerships (EHS-CCPs). 
The current information collection request will follow up with EHS 
programs and child care providers who participated in the NDS to 
understand whether and how partnerships have been sustained or have 
dissolved, and which features of partnerships support or impede 
sustainability. Data collection activities will include surveys of 
directors of 2015 EHS-CCP grantees and of child care provider 
directors/managers who were selected for participation in the NDS, as 
well as semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of providers 
whose partnerships have dissolved and have been sustained since 2016.
    Respondents: Early Head Start program directors and child care 
providers.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                     Number of
                                     Number of     responses per
                                    respondents     respondent    Average burden   Total burden    Annual burden
           Instrument               (total over     (total over    per response     (in hours)      (in hours)
                                      request         request       (in hours)
                                      period)         period)
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EHS Program Director Survey.....             335               1             .58             194              65
Provider Survey (Sustained                   470               1             .50             235              78
 Partnership Provider Survey and
 Dissolved Partnership Provider
 Survey)........................
Dissolved Partnership Provider                48               1             .83              40              13
 Semi-structured Interview
 Protocol.......................
Sustained Partnership Provider                24               1             .83              20               6
 Semi-structured Interview
 Protocol.......................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 162.
    Authority: Sec 645A and 649 of the Improving Head Start for School 
Readiness Act of 2007 and the

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Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019.

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-15568 Filed 7-21-21; 8:45 am]
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