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Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Local Evaluation Final Report (New Collection)

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is requesting approva...

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Department of Health and Human Services

Administration for Children and Families

AGENCY:

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

ACTION:

Request for public comments.

SUMMARY:

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is requesting approval of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) Final Report Templates. HMRF grant programs are required to submit a final report describing their local evaluation analyses and findings. This request includes guidance for grant recipients in the form of templates. Information will inform technical assistance to support grantees in developing and submitting the final reports to ACF to fulfill a grant requirement.

DATES:

Comments due January 6, 2025. OMB must decide about 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.

ADDRESSES:

Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function. You can also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by emailing OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov. ( printed page 97011) Identify all requests by the title of the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Description: Since 2005, Congress has authorized dedicated funding for discretionary awards from ACF's Office of Family Assistance to support HMRF programs. Per the 2020 HMRF Notice of Funding Opportunities issued by ACF, HMRF grant recipients that are carrying out local evaluations are required to submit a final evaluation report to ACF at the end of their grant. The final reports must document the research questions, measures, study design, planned and actual implementation of the program, analytic methods for their evaluation, and evaluation findings.

OPRE is conducting the HMRF Local Evaluation Technical Assistance (LETA) projects, jointly referred to as the HMRF-LETA projects, to support federally funded programs in evaluating their healthy relationship and family stability services to adult couples, adult individuals, fathers, and youth. As part of the HMRF-LETA project, grant recipients receive technical assistance to support planning and executing a local evaluation and analyzing and reporting local evaluation findings.

The purpose of the current information collection request is to provide standardized report templates and table shells to grant recipients to document their evaluation's analysis and findings. A structured final report template will facilitate grant recipients' efficient and consistent reporting of evaluation findings in their final reports. The completed draft reports will be reviewed by the HMRF-LETA teams to determine whether the analysis and reports meet standards set by ACF, and to develop recommendations for grant recipients to improve the analysis and reports before final submission to ACF. Grant recipients will finalize and submit their final reports to ACF, as required. This request includes the time to develop and submit the reports.

Respondents: The respondents are HMRF grant recipients conducting a local evaluation. There are currently 79 grant recipients conducting local evaluations: 50 evaluations using descriptive designs (“descriptive evaluations”) and 29 evaluations using impact designs (“impact evaluations”).

Annual Burden Estimates
Instrument	Number of respondents (total over request period)	Number of responses per respondent (total over request period)	Avg. burden per response (in hours)	Total/annual burden (in hours)
Descriptive Evaluation Final Report Template	50	1	40	2,000
Impact Evaluation Final Report Template	29	1	30	870
Impact Evaluation Final Report Table Shells	29	1	10	290

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,160.

Authority:42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2).

Mary C. Jones,

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.

[FR Doc. 2024-28555 Filed 12-5-24; 8:45 am]

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89 FR 97010

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“Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Local Evaluation Final Report (New Collection),” thefederalregister.org (December 6, 2024), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2024-28555/submission-for-office-of-management-and-budget-review-healthy-marriage-and-responsible-fatherhood-local-evaluation-final.