Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 33 / Friday, February 16, 2024 / Notices 12351 

The primary function of the CMS– 

855A Medicare enrollment application 

is to gather information from a certified 

provider or certified supplier (hereafter 

occasionally and collectively referenced 

as ‘‘provider(s)’’) that tells us who it is, 

whether it meets certain qualifications 

to be a health care provider, where it 

practices or renders services, the 

identity of its owners, and other 

information necessary to establish 

correct claims payments. Form Number: 

CMS–855A (OMB control number: 

0938–0685); Frequency: On occasion; 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits, not-for-profit institutions; 

Number of Respondents: 45,473; Total 

Annual Responses: 217,493; Total 

Annual Hours: 41,120. (For policy 

questions regarding this collection 

contact Frank Whelan at 410–786– 

1302.) 

William N. Parham, III, 

Director, Division of Information Collections 

and Regulatory Impacts, Office of Strategic 

Operations and Regulatory Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03294 Filed 2–15–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4120–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for Office of Management 

and Budget Review; Healthy Marriage 

and Responsible Fatherhood 

Performance Measures and Additional 

Data Collection (Office of Management 

and Budget #0970–0566) 

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 Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), Office of 

Family Assistance (OFA), is requesting 

an extension with changes to its 

approved collection and reporting of 

performance measures about program 

operations, services, and clients served 

through the Healthy Marriage (HM) and 

Responsible Fatherhood (RF) grant 

programs. In an effort to gain a great 

understanding of how HMRF programs 

influence program participants and staff 

at an individual level, ACF proposes to 

add one open field to the quarterly 

narrative reports to capture information 

about the experiences of HMRF 

participants and/or staff. ACF is 

requesting to extend approval, with the 

implementation of this change, for 3 

years. 

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of 

publication. OMB must make a decision 

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. 

Identify all requests by the title of the 

information collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: ACF proposes to continue 

collecting a set of Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB)-approved 

performance measures from all HMRF 

award recipients. 

The HMRF performance measures 

collect standardized information in the 

following areas: 

• Applicant characteristics; 

• Program operations; 

• Service delivery; and 

• Participant outcomes: 

Æ Entrance survey, with five versions: 

(1) HM Program Entrance Survey for 

Adult-Focused Programs; (2) HM 

Program Entrance Survey for YouthFocused Programs; (3) RF Program 

Entrance Survey for Community-Based 

Fathers; (4) RF Program Entrance Survey 

for Community-Based Mothers; and (5) 

RF Program Entrance Survey for 

Reentering Fathers. 

Æ Exit survey, with five versions: (1) 

HM Program Exit Survey for AdultFocused Programs; (2) HM Program Exit 

Survey for Youth-Focused Programs; (3) 

RF Program Exit Survey for CommunityBased Fathers; (4) RF Program Exit 

Survey for Community-Based Mothers; 

and (5) RF Program Exit Survey for 

Reentering Fathers. 

The measures were developed in 2014 

after extensive review of the research 

literature and recipients’ past measures. 

They were revised in 2020 based on a 

targeted analysis of existing measures, 

feedback from key audiences, and 

discussions with ACF staff and the 2015 

cohort of recipients. OMB approved 

these revised measures in 2021 and has 

approved a handful of non-substantive 

changes since then. 

ACF also proposes to continue the 

OMB-approved quarterly reporting on 

the following measures, with minor 

changes as described: 

• Semi-annual Performance Progress 

Report (PPR), with two versions: (1) 

Performance Progress Report for HM 

Programs, and (2) Performance Progress 

Report for RF Programs; and 

• Quarterly Performance Report 

(QPR), with two versions: (1) Quarterly 

Performance Progress Report for HM 

Programs, and (2) Quarterly 

Performance Progress Report for RF 

Programs. ACF proposes to add a new 

text box to the QPRs to gather 

qualitative narratives of the experiences 

of HMRF participants and/or staff. This 

information will help build ACF’s 

understanding of how HMRF programs 

influence program participants and staff 

at an individual level. 

ACF provides recipients with a webbased performance measures data 

collection system called nFORM 2.0 

(Information, Family Outcomes, 

Reporting, and Management) to improve 

the efficiency of data collection and 

reporting and the quality of data. This 

system allows for streamlined and 

standardized submission of recipient 

performance data through regular 

progress reports and supports recipientled and federal research projects. 

ACF also proposes to continue the 

OMB-approved requirement for 

recipients to document their continuous 

quality improvement (CQI) planning 

and implementation using a CQI plan 

template that is completed outside of 

the nFORM system. 

Respondents: Respondents include 

HM and RF award recipient staff and 

program applicants and participants 

(participants are called ‘‘clients’’). 

Annual Burden Estimates: The 

estimated number of respondents for 

each instrument has been adjusted to 

reflect experiences in the field to date. 

There is no change to the average 

estimated time per response of any 

instrument. 


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12352 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 33 / Friday, February 16, 2024 / Notices 

1https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ 

presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-orderadvancing-racial-equity-and-support-forunderserved-communities-through-the-federalgovernment/. 

2Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. 

(2021, December). Methods and Emerging Strategies 

to Engage People with Lived Experience. (Contract 

Number HHSP233201500071I). U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services. https://aspe.hhs.gov/ 

sites/default/files/documents/47f62cae96710d1fa1

3b0f590f2d1b03/lived-experience-brief.pdf. 

3https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ 

presidential-actions/2023/02/16/executive-orderon-further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-forunderserved-communities-through-the-federalgovernment/. 

4https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ 

presidential-actions/2021/01/27/memorandum-onrestoring-trust-in-government-through-scientificintegrity-and-evidence-based-policymaking/. 

5https://www.hhs.gov/about/strategic-plan/2022- 

2026/index.html. 

6https://www.acf.hhs.gov/about/acf-strategicplan-2022. 

7https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/acfevaluation-policy. 

Instrument Respondent 

Number of 

respondents 

(total over request period) 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

(total over request period) 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

Annual burden 

(in hours) 

1: Applicant Characteristics ................. Program applicants ............................. 150,000 1 0.25 37,500 12,500 

Program staff ...................................... 330 455 0.10 15,015 5,005 

2: Program Operations ........................ Program staff ...................................... 110 12 0.32 422 141 

3: Service Delivery Data ...................... Program staff ...................................... 1,650 86 0.50 70,950 23,650 

4: Entrance and Exit Surveys .............. Program clients (entrance) ................. 141,498 1 0.42 59,429 19,810 

Program clients (exit) .......................... 94,734 1 0.42 39,788 13,263 

Program staff (entrance and exit on 

paper).

220 351 0.10 7,722 2,574 

5: Semi-annual Performance Progress 

Report (PPR).

Program staff ...................................... 110 6 3 1,980 660 

6: Quarterly Performance Report 

(QPR).

Program staff ...................................... 110 6 1 660 220 

7: CQI Plan .......................................... Program staff ...................................... 110 3 4 1,320 440 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 78,263. 

Authority: Sec. 403. [42 U.S.C. 603]. 

Mary C. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03282 Filed 2–15–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–73–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for Office of Management 

and Budget Review; Administration for 

Children and Families Generic for 

Engagement Efforts (New Umbrella 

Generic) 

AGENCY: Administration for Children 

and Families, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: The Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) intends to request 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) to establish a new 

umbrella generic clearance to request 

information while engaging individuals 

and groups who could provide valuable 

information to inform ACF programs 

and work, including but not limited to 

those who are served or have been 

served by ACF, those with expertise in 

ACF program areas, and individuals 

invested in the outcomes of ACF 

research and evaluation. These 

engagement activities often need to be 

conducted quickly, to allow for 

sufficient time to inform project 

direction and decision-making. 

Additionally, planning for engagement 

activities is most often on a quick 

timeline and the standard timeline to 

comply with a full request under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) often 

inhibits the ability to collect 

information to inform these activities. 

Therefore, an umbrella generic is 

necessary to allow for quick turnaround 

requests for similar information 

collections related to these activities. 

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of 

publication. 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. 

Identify all requests by the title of the 

information collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: The Executive Order 

(E.O.), Advancing Racial Equity and 

Support for Underserved Communities 

Through the Federal Government (E.O. 

13985) 1 emphasizes consulting with 

communities that have been historically 

underserved by Federal policies and 

programs and those with lived 

experience 2 in ACF programs. The E.O. 

on Further Advancing Racial Equity and 

Support for Underserved Communities 

Through the Federal Government 3

followed in 2023 and built on E.O. 

13985, calling upon agencies to increase 

engagement with underserved 

communities and to ‘‘collaborate with 

OMB, as appropriate, to identify and 

develop tools and methods’’ to meet this 

goal. This generic mechanism is a tool 

that could directly address these E.O.s. 

Particularly many requirements 

outlined in section 3 and section 5 of 

the 2023 E.O. 

Additionally, the Presidential 

Memorandum on Restoring Trust in 

Government through Scientific Integrity 

and Evidence-Based Policy Making,4 the 

HHS Strategic Plan fiscal year (FY) 

2022–2026,5 ACF’s Strategic Plan,6 and 

the ACF Evaluation Policy 7 discuss 

community engagement and inclusion 

in research. Consistent with these 

guidance documents, and to ensure 

meaningful involvement with a variety 

of individuals with diverse experiences 

and perspectives, ACF often conducts 

active engagement activities to inform 

various efforts, including research and 

evaluation. 

Hearing the perspective of those 

affected by, experienced in, interested 

in, or potentially interested in ACF 

programs and similar programs is vital 

to ensure ACF is responsive to the needs 

of those it serves and that resources are, 

and programming is appropriate, useful, 

and relevant for audiences. Information 

collections under this generic would 

gather information from individuals 


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