[Federal Register: December 29, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 249)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

 
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Performance Measures for Healthy Marriage and Promoting 
Responsible Fatherhood Grant Programs.
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: The Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Administration 
for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services (HHS), intends to request approval from the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for the collection of performance measures 
from grantees for the Healthy Marriage and Promoting Responsible 
Fatherhood discretionary grant programs. The performance measure data 
obtained from the grantees will be used by OFA to report on the overall 
performance of this grant program and to inform the Program Assessment 
Rating Tool (PART) process if the program is selected for PART review. 
Data will be collected from all 118 Healthy Marriage and 96 Responsible 
Fatherhood grantees in the OFA program. Grantees will report on program 
outputs and outcomes in such areas as participant's improvement in 
knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors related to healthy marriage 
and responsible fatherhood. Grantees will be asked to input data for 
selected outputs and outcomes for activities funded under the grant. 
Grantees will extract data from program records and will report the 
data twice yearly through the ACF on-line data collection tool (OLDC). 
Training and assistance will be provided to grantees to support this 
data collection process.
    Respondents: Office of Family Assistance Funded Healthy Marriage 
and Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Grantees.

                                             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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Performance measure reporting form..........             214                2             0.80           342.40
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 342.40.
    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant 
Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance 
Officer. All requests should be identified by the title of the 
information collection. E-mail address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
    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, Fax: 202-395-
6974, Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and 
Families.

    Dated: December 22, 2008.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-30833 Filed 12-24-08; 8:45 am]

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