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Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL 

Enhanced Services for the Hard-toEmploy Demonstration and Evaluation: 

Rhode Island 36-Month Data Collection. 

OMB No. New Collection. 

Description: The Enhanced Services 

for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration 

and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to 

learn what services improve the 

employment prospects of low-income 

persons who face serious obstacles to 

steady work. The project is sponsored 

by the Office of Planning, Research and 

Evaluation (OPRE) within the 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF) and the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Planning and 

Evaluation (ASPE), both within the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), and the U.S. 

Department of Labor (DOL). 

The HtE project is a multi-year, multisite evaluation that employs and 

experimental longitudinal research 

design to test four strategies aimed at 

promoting employment among hard-toemploy populations. The four include: 

(1) Intensive care management and job 

services program for Rhode Island 

Medicaid recipients with serious 

depression; (2) job readiness training, 

worksite placements, job coaching, job 

development and other training 

opportunities for recent parolees in New 

York City; (3) pre-employment services 

and transitional employment for longterm participants receiving Temporary 

Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); 

and (4) two-generational Early Head 

Start (EHS) services providing enhanced 

self-sufficiency services for parents, 

parent skills training, and high-quality 

child care for children in low-income 

families in Kansas and Missouri. 

The purpose of this document is to 

request public comment on the 

proposed 36-month participant survey 

in Rhode Island for participating parents 

and their children. 

The follow-up survey and direct child 

assessments at the 36-month follow-up 

in Rhode Island will be used for the 

following purposes: Detecting the longterm effects of a telephonic care 

management intervention on parents’

depression and general health, as well 

as their employment, income, and 

earnings; detecting effects of a 

telephonic care management 

intervention for parents’ depression on 

parents’ parenting and on children’s 

health, behavior, and development over 

time, and determining the extent to 

which long-term intervention effects on 

children’s development can be 

attributed to changes in their parents’

depressive symptomatology that result 

from the intervention. 

Respondents: The respondents to 

these follow-up surveys will be lowincome parents from the Rhode Island 

site currently participating in the HtE 

Project, and some of their children. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

RI 36–month, parent survey ............................................................................ 400 1 .75 300.00 

RI 36–month, youth survey ............................................................................. 298 1 .75 223.50 

RI 36–month, direct child assessment ............................................................ 164 1 .75 123.00 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 646.50. 

In compliance with the requirements 

of Section 3506(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) 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: June 13, 2007. 

Brendan Kelly, 

OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–2997 Filed 6–18–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Proposed Projects: 

Title: DHHS/ACF/ASPE/DOL 

Enhanced Services for the Hard-toEmploy Demonstration and Evaluation: 

Philadelphia 36-Month Data Collection. 

OMB No. New Collection. 

Description: The Enhanced Services 

for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration 

and Evaluation Project (HtE) seeks to 

learn what services improve the 

employment prospects of low-income 

persons who face serious obstacles to 

steady work. The project is sponsored 

by the Office of Planning, Research and 

Evaluation (OPRE) within the 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF) and the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Planning and 

Evaluation (ASPE), both within the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), and the U.S. 

Department of Labor (DOL). The HtE 

project is a multi-year, multi-site 

evaluation that employs an 

experimental longitudinal research 

design to test four strategies aimed at 

promoting employment among hard-toemploy populations. The four include: 

(1) Intensive care management and job 

services program for Rhode Island 

Medicaid recipients with serious 

depression; (2) job readiness training, 

worksite placements, job coaching, job 

development and other training 

opportunities for recent parolees in New 

York City; (3) pre-employment services 

and transitional employment for longterm participants receiving Temporary 

Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); 

and (4) two-generational Early Head 

Start (EHS) services providing enhanced 


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self-sufficiency services for parents, 

parent skills training, and high-quality 

child care for children in low-income 

families in Kansas and Missouri. 

The purpose of the current document 

is to request public comment on the 36- 

month participant survey in 

Philadelphia. The research team plans 

to collect participant-reported surveys 

assessing participants’ employment, 

education and economic outcomes, 

participation in employment and 

training services, receipt of benefits and 

services such as food stamps and mental 

health services, housing and household 

information, health and health care 

coverage, child care, and child 

outcomes. 

The follow-up survey at the 36-month 

follow-up in Philadelphia will be used 

for the following purposes: To study the 

extent to which pre-employment 

services and transitional employment 

affect employment, earnings, income, 

and welfare dependence of low-income 

TANF recipients; to examine the 

impacts of these services on 

participants’ health, receipt of benefits 

such as food stamps, Medicaid, and 

child-care subsidies, and participation 

in services such as substance abuse 

treatment and mental health services; 

and to collect data on a wider range of 

outcomes measures than is available 

through welfare, Medicaid, Food 

Stamps, Social Security, and 

Unemployment Insurance records. 

The 36-month data collection effort 

draws heavily from the 15-month survey 

conducted in this site. Materials for the 

15-month data collection effort were 

previously submitted to OMB and were 

approved (OMB Control No. 0970–

0276). 

Respondents: TANF recipients 

without a high school diploma and/or 

recipients who have received TANF for 

at least 12 months. 

The fielded sample of the 36-month 

data collection effort will be all 1,944 

participants in the two program groups 

and the control group of the HtE project 

in Philadelphia. The burden estimates 

below assume an 80 percent response 

rate of the fielded sample. 

The annual burden estimates are 

detailed below, and the substantive 

content of each component will be 

detailed in the supporting statement 

attached to the forthcoming 30-day 

notice. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Philadelphia 36-month participant survey ........................................................ 1,555 1 0.75 1,166 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,166. 

In compliance with the requirements 

of Section 3506(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: June 13, 2007. 

Brendan Kelly, 

OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–2998 Filed 6–18–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Title: Request for State Data Needed to 

Determine the Amount of a Tribal 

Family Assistance Grant. 

OMB No.: 0970–0173. 

Description: 42 U.S.C. 612 (Section 

412 of the Social Security Act) gives 

federally recognized Indian Tribes the 

opportunity to apply to operate a Tribal 

Temporary Assistance for Needy 

Families (TANF) program. The Act 

specifies that the Secretary shall use 

State-submitted data to determine the 

amount of the grant to the Tribe. This 

form (letter) is used to request those 

data from the States. ACF is proposing 

to extend this information collection 

without change. 

Respondents: States that have Indian 

Tribes applying to operate a TANIF 

program. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Request for State Data Needed to Determine the Amount of a Tribal Family 

Assistance Grant .......................................................................................... 15 1 42 630 


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