80 FR 53159 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 170 (September 2, 2015)
Administration for Children and Families
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 170 (September 2, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-21728 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 2, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 53159-53160] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-21728] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request Title: National Youth in Transition Database and Youth Outcome Survey. OMB No.: 0970-0340. Description: The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (42 U.S.C. 1305 et seq.) as amended by Public Law 106-169 requires State child welfare agencies to collect and report to the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) data on the characteristics of youth receiving independent living services and information regarding their outcomes. The regulation implementing the National Youth in Transition Database, listed in 45 CFR 1356.80, contains standard data collection and reporting requirements for States to meet the law's requirements. ACF will use the information collected under the regulation to track independent living services, assess the collective outcomes of youth, and potentially to evaluate State performance with regard to those outcomes consistent with the law's mandate. Respondents: State agencies that administer the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program. [[Page 53160]] Annual Burden Estimates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Average burden Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden respondents respondent response hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Youth Outcome Survey............................ 20,667 1 0.50 10,334 Data File....................................... 52 2 1,849 192,296 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 202,630. Additional Information Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained 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. All requests should be identified by the title of the information collection. Email address: [email protected]. 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: 202-395-7285, Email: [email protected]. Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families. Robert Sargis, Reports Clearance Officer. [FR Doc. 2015-21728 Filed 9-1-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4184-01-P
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completed interviews) will be shifted to as part of routine data review. NCHS interviewers and newly added primary
increase sample in the 10 least populous receives raw data files monthly from the sampling units compared to continuing
states, enabling state-level estimates of Census Bureau for processing and primary sampling units. In addition,
key variables to be produced for all 50 quality review. Each year, results from national estimates on the key set of
states and DC by pooling 3 years of data. the January sample are compared to the indicators that are released in a
This flexibility embedded in the new previous year to determine whether the quarterly report as part of the Early
sampling plan reflects. Additional results consistent. In addition to Release program will be monitored by
funding to improve state-level estimates comparing the unweighted and NHIS analysts.
will increase the sample by almost weighted frequencies, the input and In accordance with the 1995 initiative
10,000 completed interviews in midsize output specifications are reviewed, and to increase the integration of surveys
states bringing the total expected sample the flowcharts are compared to the skip within the DHHS, respondents to the
size in 2016 to 45,000 households. instructions and universes for each NHIS serve as the sampling frame for
Whereas the sampling frame for the question. If a difference is found, steps the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
NHIS has traditionally used field listing
are taken to determine whether the conducted by the Agency for Healthcare
by the Census Bureau, in order to
change is legitimate or whether there is Research and Quality. The NHIS has
contain costs, the new frame will use a
a factor other than the programming of long been used by government,
commercially available address list that
the questionnaire such as the location or academic, and private researchers to
covers residential addresses within all
context of the question in the evaluate both general health and
50 states and the District of Columbia.
questionnaire. If a difference persists, specific issues, such as smoking,
Some field listing will be undertaken to
the paradata are reviewed to determine diabetes, health care coverage, and
improve coverage in rural areas, in high
density areas, and of university housing whether there are changes in the mean access to health care. It is a leading
units. This represents a substantial or median time spent on that question, source of data for the Congressionally-
reduction in the number of listings whether interviewers had a high rate of mandated ‘‘Health US’’ and related
performed annually. backing up to return to that question, publications, as well as the single most
It is anticipated that this new and whether other questions in that important source of statistics to track
sampling plan will not affect estimates battery were similarly affected. progress toward the National Health
generated using NHIS data. To monitor Persistent differences will be examined Promotion and Disease Prevention
the new design’s performance, NHIS to determine whether there is any other Objectives, ‘‘Healthy People 2020.’’
analysts will perform monthly checks in interviewer effect such as results There is no cost to the respondents
line with the ones currently performed comparing newly hired and experienced other than their time.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
Number of Total
Number of burden per
Type of respondent Form name responses per burden
respondents response
respondent (in hours)
(in hours)
Adult Family Member ............... Screener Questionnaire .................................... 10,000 1 5/60 833
Adult Family Member ............... Family Core ...................................................... 45,000 1 23/60 17,250
Sample Adult ............................ Adult Core ......................................................... 36,000 1 15/60 9,000
Adult Family Member ............... Child Core ......................................................... 14,000 1 10/60 2,333
Adult Family Member ............... Supplements ..................................................... 45,000 1 20/60 15,000
Adult Family Member ............... Followback and other Special Projects ............ 15,000 1 20/60 5,000
Adult Family Member ............... Reinterview Survey ........................................... 5,000 1 5/60 417
Total .................................. ........................................................................... ...................... ........................ ...................... 49,833
Leroy A. Richardson, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND independent living services and
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, HUMAN SERVICES information regarding their outcomes.
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the The regulation implementing the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the Administration for Children and National Youth in Transition Database,
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Families listed in 45 CFR 1356.80, contains
Prevention. standard data collection and reporting
[FR Doc. 2015–21708 Filed 9–1–15; 8:45 am] Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request requirements for States to meet the law’s
BILLING CODE 4163–18–P requirements. ACF will use the
Title: National Youth in Transition information collected under the
Database and Youth Outcome Survey. regulation to track independent living
OMB No.: 0970–0340. services, assess the collective outcomes
Description: The Foster Care
of youth, and potentially to evaluate
Independence Act of 1999 (42 U.S.C.
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State performance with regard to those
1305 et seq.) as amended by Public Law
106–169 requires State child welfare outcomes consistent with the law’s
agencies to collect and report to the mandate.
Administration on Children and Respondents: State agencies that
Families (ACF) data on the administer the John H. Chafee Foster
characteristics of youth receiving Care Independence Program.
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ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of Average
Number of Total burden
Instrument responses per burden hours
respondents hours
respondent per response
Youth Outcome Survey ................................................................................... 20,667 1 0.50 10,334
Data File .......................................................................................................... 52 2 1,849 192,296
Estimated Total Annual Burden DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND designated numerical ranges. ORR used
Hours: 202,630. HUMAN SERVICES the information on the ORR–11 to
measure secondary migration for the
Additional Information Administration for Children and purposes of formula funds allocation to
Families states. The revision is proposed due to
Copies of the proposed collection may
be obtained by writing to the the realization that:
Submission for OMB Review;
Administration for Children and (1) The Social Security
Comment Request
Families, Office of Planning, Research Administration states that the first three
and Evaluation, 370 L’Enfant Title: Refugee Data Submission digits of social security numbers (area
Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447, System for Formula Funds Allocations number) should not be used for any
OMB No.: 0970–0043. other purpose than as an individual
Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. All Description: The information identifier for book-keeping purposes.
requests should be identified by the title collection of Refugee Data Submission
of the information collection. Email (2) It is possible for individuals to
System for Formula Funds Allocations apply for social security numbers from
address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. replaces the ORR–11 Refugee State of any social security office, not just offices
OMB Comment Origin Report and is designed to satisfy in the state in which they were born or
the statutory requirements of the first resided. This is particularly likely
OMB is required to make a decision Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). in metropolitan statistical areas where
concerning the collection of information Section 412(a)(3)of the Act requires the individuals may live in one of several
between 30 and 60 days after Director of the Office of Refugee states (e.g., the Washington
publication of this document in the Resettlement (ORR) to make a periodic Metropolitan Area). In these cases, the
Federal Register. Therefore, a comment assessment, based on refugee population area number of the social security
is best assured of having its full effect and other relevant factors, of the relative number may be unreliable as a measure
if OMB receives it within 30 days of needs of refugees for assistance and of refugees’ state of initial resettlement.
publication. Written comments and services and the resources available to
(3) In recent years, the Social Security
meet those needs. This includes
recommendations for the proposed Administration has begun to issue social
compiling and maintaining data on the
information collection should be sent security numbers whose area number is
secondary migration of refugees within
directly to the following: Office of the United States after arrival. Further, not connected to any specific state.
Management and Budget, Paperwork INA 412(c)(1)(B)states that formula The submission of individual records
Reduction Project, Fax: 202–395–7285, funds shall be allocated based on the via the Refugee Data Submission System
Email: OIRA_SUBMISSION@ total number of refugees, taking into for Formula Funds Allocations Web site
OMB.EOP.GOV. Attn: Desk Officer for account secondary migration. is a more reliable and secure process for
the Administration for Children and In order to meet the statutory collecting data for the purposes of
Families. requirements, ORR requires each state to tracking secondary migration and
submit disaggregated individual records allocating formula funds. Data
Robert Sargis, submitted by the States via the secure
containing certain data elements for
Reports Clearance Officer. eligible refugee populations. This Web site are compiled and analyzed by
[FR Doc. 2015–21728 Filed 9–1–15; 8:45 am] revised collection differs from the ORR– the ORR statistician for the purpose of
BILLING CODE 4184–01–P 11 Refugee State-of-Origin Report refugee secondary services formula
process, whereby states submitted the funds allocation. The statistician also
ORR–11 form containing aggregate data prepares a summary report, which is
on the number of refugees and entrants included in ORR’s Annual Report to
served whose ‘‘area numbers’’ (the first Congress.
three digits of the social security Respondents: States and the District
number) fell into each of several of Columbia.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of Average
Number of Total burden
Instrument responses per burden hours
respondents hours
respondent per response
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Refugee Data Submission for Formula Funds Allocations ............................. 50 1 20 1,000
Estimated Total Annual Burden Additional Information: Copies of the Children and Families, Office of
Hours: 1,000. proposed collection may be obtained by Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370
writing to the Administration for L’Enfant Promenade SW., Washington,
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