80 FR 26266 - Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 88 (May 7, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 88 (Thursday, May 7, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26266-26267]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-10988]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Child Care Quarterly Case Record Report--ACF-801.
    OMB No.: 0970-0167.
    Description: Section 658K of the Child Care and Development Block 
Grant (CCDBG) Act (42 U.S.C. 9858, as amended by Public Law 113-186) 
requires that States and Territories submit monthly case-level data on 
the children and families receiving direct services under the Child 
Care and Development Fund (CCDF). The implementing regulations for the 
statutorily required reporting are at 45 CFR 98.70 and 98.71. Case-
level reports, submitted quarterly or monthly (at grantee option), 
include monthly sample or full population case-level data. The data 
elements to be included in these reports are represented in the ACF-
801. ACF uses disaggregate data to determine program and participant 
characteristics as well as costs and levels of child care services 
provided. This provides ACF with the information necessary to make 
reports to Congress, address national child care needs, offer technical 
assistance to grantees, meet performance measures, and conduct 
research.
    Consistent with the recent reauthorization of the CCDBG statute, 
ACF requests extension of the ACF-801 including a number of changes and 
clarifications to the reporting requirements and instructions as set 
forth below.
     Homeless Status: Section 658K(a)(1)(B)(xi) of the CCDBG 
Act now requires States to report whether children receiving assistance 
under this subchapter are homeless children.
     Child Disability: ACF proposes to add a new data element 
indicating whether or not each child receiving services is a child with 
a disability, in part to track State implementation of priority for 
services requirements at section 658E(c)(3)(B) of the CCDBG Act (which 
includes children with special needs as defined by the State).
     Military Status: ACF proposes to add a new data element to 
the ACF-801 to determine the family's status related to military 
service.
     Family Zip Code and Provider Zip Code: ACF proposes to add 
zip codes to both the family and the provider records to identify the 
communities where CCDF families and providers are located, in part to 
support implementation of sections 658E(a)(2)(M) and 658E(a)(2)(Q) of 
the CCDBG Act that require States to address the supply and access to 
high-quality child care services for certain areas and populations.
     Quality of Child Care Providers: The existing ACF-801 
allows States several ways of reporting information on the quality of 
each child's provider(s)--including: Quality Rating and Improvement 
System (QRIS) participation and rating, accreditation status, State 
pre-K standards, and other State-defined quality measure. To date,

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States have been required to report on at least one of the quality 
elements for a portion of the provider population. ACF is proposing 
that, effective with the October 2017 report, States must report 
quality information for every child care provider. States with a QRIS, 
at a minimum, would be required to report QRIS participation and rating 
for every provider. States without QRIS would be required to report 
quality information for every provider using one or more of the quality 
elements on the form. ACF is proposing to add a new option to indicate 
whether or not the provider is subject to Head Start or Early Head 
Start standards.
     Inspection Date: Section 658E(c)(2)(J) of the reauthorized 
CCDBG Act requires States to monitor both licensed and license-exempt 
CCDF providers. ACF proposes to add a data element effective October 
2017 indicating, for each child care provider delivering services to a 
CCDF child, the date of the most recent inspection for compliance with 
health, safety, and fire standards (including licensing standards for 
licensed providers).
     Personally Identifiable Information: Section 658K(a)(1)(E) 
of the CCDBG Act now prohibits the ACF-801 report from containing 
personally identifiable information. As a result, ACF proposes to 
delete Social Security Numbers (SSNs) from the report. Note that the 
form will still require a unique identifying number, other than the 
SSN, that is assigned by the State for each family.
    Respondents: States, the District of Columbia, and Territories 
including Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and 
the Northern Mariana Islands.

                                             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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ACF-801.....................................              56                4               25            5,600
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 5,600.
    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 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. 2015-10988 Filed 5-6-15; 8:45 am]
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