[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 91 (Thursday, May 11, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30310-30311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10095]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Mother and Infant Home 
Visiting Program Evaluation: Long-Term Follow-Up, Third Grade Data 
Collection (Office of Management and Budget #0970-0402)

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration 
for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), in 
partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration, both 
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing 
to collect data as part of the elementary school phase of the Mother 
and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE). MIHOPE is a 
longitudinal study of the effects of Maternal, Infant, and Early 
Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV)-funded home visiting on child and 
family outcomes. The purpose of the MIHOPE Long-Term Follow-Up, Third 
grade (MIHOPE-3G) data collection, which will focus on children when 
they are in approximately third grade, is to assess the long-term 
effects of MIECHV-funded home visiting on families and children when 
participating children are in elementary school.

DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with 
the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is 
soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information 
collection described above.

ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of 
information and submit comments by emailing 
[email protected]. Identify all requests by the title of 
the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Description: To date, MIHOPE has been collecting data through the 
time children in the study were in approximately kindergarten. The 
currently approved materials under this OMB number include those for 
the kindergarten follow-up. The kindergarten direct data collection 
with study participants is complete, but some administrative data are 
still being collected from states and local education agencies.
    This request is to complete administrative data collection for the 
kindergarten follow-up and to conduct the following data collection 
activities for MIHOPE 3G: (1) child welfare records data collection 
from states and (2) school records data collection from states and 
local education agencies. Future information collection requests and 
related Federal Register notices will describe future data collection 
efforts for this project.
    Data collected during the third-grade follow-up study is being used 
to estimate the effects of MIECHV-funded programs on the following 
seven domains: (1) maternal health, (2) child health, (3) child 
development and school performance, (4) child maltreatment, (5) 
parenting, (6) crime or domestic violence, and (7) family economic 
self-sufficiency.
    Respondents: For MIHOPE-3G, we will seek to obtain child welfare 
data from 11 states and school records data from up to 48 states and 
local education agencies. This data will be collected for 4,105 
families who are currently participating in MIHOPE.

                                                                 Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                                  Number of
                                                               Number of        responses per      Average burden
                        Instrument                            respondents     respondent (total   per response (in   Total burden (in  Annual burden (in
                                                              (total over        over request          hours)             hours)             hours)
                                                            request period)        period)
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                                                       Remaining Burden for Kindergarten Follow-up
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State and local education agency school records: data                      8                  1               15.6                125                 42
 file submission.........................................
State child welfare records: data file submission........                  5                  1                8.4                 42                 14
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                                                                New Request for MIHOPE-3G
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State and local education agency school records: data                     48                  2              33.75              3,240              1,080
 file submission.........................................
State child welfare records: data file submission........                 11            \a\ 2.1              21.43                495                165
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Note: \a\ The 2.1 responses is a weighted average that reflects that the study team expects to collect 2 data extracts from 10 states and 3 data
  extracts from 1 state.

    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,301.
    Comments: The Department specifically requests comments on (a) 
whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the 
proper

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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 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.
    Authority: Social Security Act Title V 511 [42 U.S.C. 711]. As 
amended by Section 6101 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 
(Pub. L. 117-328).

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-10095 Filed 5-10-23; 8:45 am]
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