47050 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 162 / Wednesday, August 22, 2007 / Notices 

State the corrective action sought and 

the reasons for the correction with 

supporting justification. (These 

procedures are in accordance with 

Department regulation 45 CFR 5b.7.) 

RECORDS SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

The data collected and maintained in 

this system are retrieved from Medicare 

enrollment records, Medicare 

beneficiaries or proxies, and medical 

providers (such as physicians, medical 

facilities, home health care providers) 

for a sample of enrollees. 

SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS

OF THE ACT: 

None. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Proposed Projects: 

Title: National Survey of Child and 

Adolescent Well-Being—Second Cohort 

(NSCAW II). 

OMB No.: 0970–0202. 

Description: The Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS) 

intends to collect data on a new sample 

of children and families for the National 

Survey of Child and Adolescent WellBeing (NSCAW). The NSCAW was 

authorized under Section 427 of the 

Personal Responsibility and Work 

Opportunities Reconciliation Act of 

1996. The original survey began in 

November 1999 with a national sample 

of 5,501 children, ages 0–14, who had 

been the subject of investigation by 

Child Protective Services during the 

baseline data collection period, which 

extended from November 1999 through 

April 2000. Direct assessments and 

interviews were conducted with the 

children themselves, their primary 

caregivers, their caseworkers, and, for 

school-aged children, their teachers; 

agency directors also were interviewed 

at baseline. Follow-up data collections 

were conducted 12 months, 18 months, 

and 36 months post-baseline, and a fifth 

data collection is currently under way. 

The NSCAW is the only source of 

nationally representative, firsthand 

information about the functioning and 

well-being, service needs, and service 

utilization of children and families who 

come to the attention of the child 

welfare system. Information is collected 

about children’s cognitive, social, 

emotional, behavioral, and adaptive 

functioning, as well as family and 

community factors that are likely to 

influence their functioning. Family 

service needs and service utilization 

also are addressed in the data collection. 

The current data collection plan calls 

for selecting a new cohort of 5,700 

children and families and repeating the 

data collection procedures used in the 

original study. Selection of a new cohort 

will allow the comparison of 

characteristics of children who are 

entering the child welfare system today 

with those who entered prior to the 

implementation of the Adoption and 

Safe Families Act and prior to the 

advent of the Child and Family Services 

Review process. The data collection will 

follow the same format as that used in 

previous rounds of data collection, and 

will employ, with only modest 

revisions, the same instruments that 

have been used in previous rounds. 

Currently, HHS intends to collect 

baseline data and one follow-up 18 

months later, with future follow-up 

rounds contingent on funding 

availability. Data from NSCAW are 

made available to the research 

community through licensing 

arrangements from the National Data 

Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at 

Cornell University. 

Respondents: 5,700 Children and 

their associated permanent or foster 

caregivers, caseworkers, and teachers; in 

addition, an administrator will be 

interviewed in each location from 

which children are sampled. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Child Interview ............................................................................................... 5,700 1 1 .2 6,840 

Permanent Caregiver Interview ..................................................................... 3,800 1 2 .0 7,600 

Foster Caregiver Interview ............................................................................ 1,990 1 1 .5 2,985 

Caseworker Interview .................................................................................... 5,700 1 1 .0 5,700 

Teacher Questionnaire .................................................................................. 3,000 1 .75 2,250 

Agency Questionnaire ................................................................................... 97 1 1 .0 97 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 25,472. 

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: August 15, 2007. 

Brendan C. Kelly, 

Reports Clearance Officer. 

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