[Federal Register: August 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 165)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

 
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

    Proposed Projects:
    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 123 Healthy Marriage and 99 
Responsible Fatherhood grantees in the OFA program. Grantees will 
report on program outputs and outcomes in such areas as participants-- 
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 an on-line data collection 
tool. 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.........             222                2             0.60           266.40
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 266.40
    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 
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, 
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail 
address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 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 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.

    Dated: August 19, 2008.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-19587 Filed 8-22-08; 8:45 am]

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