48568 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 183 / Wednesday, September 23, 2009 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Comment Request for 

Review of ACF Disaster Case 

Management Implementation Guide; 

Office of Human Services Emergency 

Preparedness and Response 

AGENCY: Administration for Children 

and Families, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13, May 22, 1995), this notice 

announces that the Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), Office of 

Human Services Emergency 

Preparedness and Response (OHSEPR) 

intends to submit to notice in the 

Federal Register for comments on the 

ACF Disaster Case Management 

Implementation Guide, dated December 

10, 2008. 

Disaster case management is the 

process of organizing and providing a 

timely, coordinated approach to assess 

disaster-related needs as well as existing 

healthcare, mental health and human 

services needs that may adversely 

impact an individual’s recovery if not 

addressed. Disaster case management 

facilitates the delivery of appropriate 

resources and services, works with a 

client to implement a recovery plan and 

advocates for the client’s needs to assist 

him/her in returning to a pre-disaster 

status while respecting human dignity. 

If necessary, disaster case management 

helps transition the client with preexisting needs to existing case 

management providers after disasterrelated needs are addressed. This is 

facilitated through the provision of a 

single point of contact for disaster 

assistance applicants who need a wide 

variety of services that may be provided 

by many different organizations. 

The purpose of disaster case 

management is to rapidly return 

individuals and families who have 

survived a disaster to a state of selfsufficiency. This is accomplished by 

ensuring that each individual has access 

to a case manager who will capture 

information about the individual’s 

situation and then serve as his/her 

advocate and help him/her organize and 

access disaster-related resources, human 

services, healthcare and mental 

healthcare that will help him/her 

achieve pre-disaster levels of 

functioning and equilibrium. The 

service is particularly critical in 

situations where large-scale mortality, 

injuries, or personal property damage 

have occurred. Disaster case 

management is based on the principles 

of self-determination, self-sufficiency, 

federalism, flexibility and speed, and 

support to States. 

Comments are particularly invited on: 

the program guidelines of the ACF 

Disaster Case Management Pilot 

Program; and recommendations on 

program improvements based on valid 

evidence and methodology. 

For a copy of the ACF Disaster Case 

Management Implementation guide, 

please contact Kaee Ross at 202–401– 

9331, or visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ 

ohsepr/dcm/dcm.guide.html. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before October 8, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments 

to—CAPT Roberta P. Lavin, Director, 

Office of Human Services Emergency 

Preparedness and Response, 

Administration for Children and 

Families, 370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW., 

6th Floor West, Washington, DC 20447 

or via email to 

Roberta.Lavin@acf.hhs.gov. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Contacts: 

CAPT Roberta P. Lavin, Director, Office 

of Human Services Emergency 

Preparedness and Response (OHSEPR), 

at roberta.lavin@acf.hhs.gov or 202– 

401–9306; Sylvia R. Menifee, Deputy 

Director (Operations), OHSEPR, at 

sylvia.menifee@acf.hhs.gov or 202–401– 

1448; Kaee Ross, Project Officer, 

OHSEPR, at kaee.ross@acf.hhs.gov or 

202–401–9331. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), within the Department 

of Health and Human Services (HHS) is 

responsible for Federal programs that 

promote the economic and social wellbeing of families, children, individuals, 

and communities. ACF programs aim to 

achieve the following: 

• Families and individuals 

empowered to increase their own 

economic independence and 

productivity; 

• Strong, healthy, supportive 

communities that have a positive impact 

on the quality of life and the 

development of children; 

• Partnerships with individuals, 

front-line service providers, 

communities, American Indian tribes, 

Native communities, States, and 

Congress that enable solutions which 

transcend traditional agency 

boundaries; 

• Services planned, reformed, and 

integrated to improve needed access; 

and 

• A strong commitment to working 

with people with developmental 

disabilities, refugees, and migrants to 

address their needs, strengths, and 

abilities. 

Dated: September 16, 2009. 

David A. Hansell, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Children and 

Families. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Proposed Projects: 

Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of 

Children’s Bureau Child Welfare 

Implementation Centers and National 

Resource Centers. 

OMB No.: New Collection. 

Description: The Cross-Site 

Evaluation of the Child Welfare 

Implementation Centers (IC) and 

National Resource Centers (NRC) is 

sponsored by the Children’s Bureau, 

Administration for Children and 

Families of the U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services and 

involves the conduct of a five-year, 

cross-site evaluation that examines the 

effectiveness of the ICs’ and NRCs’ 

activities and service provision and the 

relation of their training and technical 

assistance activities to organizational 

and systems change in State and Tribal 

child welfare systems. Additionally, the 

evaluation will examine the degree to 

which networking, collaboration, 

information sharing, adherence to 

common principles, and common 

messaging occurs across all members of 

the Children’s Bureau Training and 

Technical Assistance (T/TA) Network, 

which is designed to improve child 

welfare systems and to support States 

and Tribes in achieving sustainable, 

systemic change that results in greater 

safety, permanency, and well-being for 

children, youth, and families. The 

Children’s Bureau desires to assess the 

quality and effectiveness of the 

technical assistance it supports, and 

several of these programs and projects 

are required to be evaluated, including 

those funded under Section 105 of The 

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment 

Act, as amended [42 U.S.C. 5106] and 

Parts B and E of Title IV of the Social 

Security Act. Beginning in fiscal year 

(FY) 2010, the T/TA Network will 

comprise a group of 30 T/TA providers 

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funded entirely or partially by the 

Children’s Bureau through grants, 

contracts, and interagency agreements. 

The cross-site evaluation uses a 

mixed-method, longitudinal approach to 

examine the ICs (funded in FY 2009) 

and a new cohort of NRCs (funded in FY 

2010). Proposed data collection methods 

are a longitudinal telephone survey of 

State child welfare directors (or their 

designees) and Tribal Child Welfare/ 

Social Service Directors (or their 

designees), a web-based survey of State 

and Tribal T/TA recipients, and 

aggregation of outputs from a web-based 

technical assistance tracking system 

(OneNet)that will be used by the five ICs 

and 11 NRCs. A web-based survey will 

be also administered to members of the 

T/TA Network. Data collected through 

these instruments will be used by the 

Children’s Bureau to evaluate the 

effectiveness of technical assistance 

delivered to State, local, Tribal, and 

other publicly administered or publicly 

supported child welfare agencies and 

family and juvenile courts and the 

overall functioning of the T/TA 

Network. 

Respondents: Respondents to two of 

the survey instruments will be State and 

Tribal governments. Respondents to the 

third survey instrument will be private 

institutions, including universities, notfor-profit organizations, and private 

companies. Private institutions, 

including universities and not-for-profit 

organizations will be respondents to the 

forms in the OneNet tracking system. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden 

hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Agency Results Survey ............................................................................. 74 1 1 74 

Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Activity Survey ....................... 600 1 0 .25 150 

Web-Based Network Survey ..................................................................... 30 1 0 .25 7 .50 

OneNet Form: Implementation Project (IP) Description ............................ 5 5 .40 0 .50 13 .50 

OneNet Form: IP Technical Assistance (TA) Activity ................................ 5 280 .80 0 .33 463 .32 

OneNet Form: Implementation Center (IC) General TA Event ................. 5 4 0 .33 6 .60 

OneNet Form: IP Monthly Report .............................................................. 5 62 .40 0 .17 53 .04 

OneNet Form: National Resource Centers (NRC) TA Intake Form .......... 11 45 0 .13 64 .35 

OneNet Form: NRC TA Work Plan ........................................................... 11 45 0 .20 99 

OneNet Form: NRC TA Close-Out ............................................................ 11 45 0 .08 39 .60 

OneNet Form: NRC TA Activity ................................................................. 11 528 0 .20 1,161 .60 

OneNet Form: NRC General TA Event ..................................................... 11 36 0 .25 99 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 2,231.51. 

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: September 18, 2009. 

Robert Sargis, 

Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–22897 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Government-Owned Inventions; 

Availability for Licensing 

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, 

Public Health Service, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The inventions listed below 

are owned by an agency of the U.S. 

Government and are available for 

licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 

35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious 

commercialization of results of 

federally-funded research and 

development. Foreign patent 

applications are filed on selected 

inventions to extend market coverage 

for companies and may also be available 

for licensing. 

ADDRESSES: Licensing information and 

copies of the U.S. patent applications 

listed below may be obtained by writing 

to the indicated licensing contact at the 

Office of Technology Transfer, National 

Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive 

Boulevard, Suite 325, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852–3804; telephone: 301/ 

496–7057; fax: 301/402–0220. A signed 

Confidential Disclosure Agreement will 

be required to receive copies of the 

patent applications. 

A Plasmid System for Monitoring 

Double-Stranded DNA Breaks in the 

Live Cell 

Description of Technology: This 

technology is useful for studying the 

role of chromosomal breaks in cancer 

and for drug and assay development 

related to treating cancer. The 

technology is a two-plasmid system for 

inducing and monitoring individual 

double-stranded DNA breaks in the 

nuclei of live cells. The first plasmid, 

lac-I-SceI-tet, which is stably transfected 

into cells, has a rare 18 base pair 

restriction endonuclease site called 

ISceI. This site is flanked by an array of 

256 copies of the lac-repressor binding 

site and 96 copies of the tetracycline 

response element. Plasmids expressing 

tet and lac repressor proteins labeled in 

a complementary fashion can be 

cotransfected to visualize these arrays of 

repressor binding sites. The second 

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