Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 218 / Thursday, November 9, 2000 / Notices 67373

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of

respondents

Number of

responses per

respondent

Average burden hours per

response

Total burden

hours

Grant application .............................................................................................. 500 1 20 10,000

Estimated total annual burden hours .............................................................. 10,000

Additional Information: Copies of the

proposed collection may be obtained by

writing to The Administration for

Children and Families, Office of

Information Services, 370 L’Enfant

Promenade, SW., Washington, DC

20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance

Officer.

OMB Comment: OMB is required to

make a decision concerning 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. Written

comments and recommendations for the

proposed information collection should

be sent directly to the following:

Office of Management and Budget,

Paperwork Reduction Project, 725 17th

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attn:

Desk Officer for ACF.

Dated: October 26, 2000.

Bob Sargis,

Reports Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–27969 Filed 11–8–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 41841–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

Title: Uniform Project Description for

a Discretionary Grant Application.

OMB No.: 0970–0139.

Description

Respondents: Applicants for ACF

Discretionary Grant Programs.

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of

respondents

Number of

responses per

respondent

Average burden hours per

response

Total burden

hours

UPD ................................................................................................................. 2,838 1 8 22,838

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours ............................................................ 22,838

Additional Information: Copies of the

proposed collection may be obtained by

writing to The Administration for

Children and Families, Office of

Information Services, 370 L’Enfant

Promenade, SW., Washington, DC

20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance

Officer.

OMB Comment: OMB is required to

make a decision concerning 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. Written

comments and recommendations for the

proposed information collection should

be sent directly to the following:

Office of Management and Budget,

Paperwork Reduction Project, 725 17th

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attn:

Desk Officer for ACF.

Dated: October 26, 2000.

Bob Sargis,

Reports Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–28052 Filed 11–8–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4184–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

Title: Head Start Family and Child

Experiences Survey (FACES)

OMB No.: Revision of a currently

approved collection (OMB No. 0970–

0151)

Description: The Administration on

Children, Youth and Families (ACYF),

Administration for Children and

Families (ACF) of the Department of

Health and Human Services (DHHS) is

requesting comments on plans to extend

the Head Start Family and Child

Experiences Survey (FACES). This

study is being conducted under contract

with Westat, Inc. (with Ellsworth

Associates and the CDM Group as their

subcontractors) (#105–96–1912) to

collect information on Head Start

performance measures. This revision is

intended to extend the current design to

a national probability sample of 43

additional Head Start programs in order

to ascertain what progress has been

made since 1997 in meeting Head Start

program performance goals.

FACES currently involves seven

phases of data collection. The first

phase was a Spring 1997 Field test in

which approximately 2400 parents and

children were studied in a nationally

stratified random sample of 40 Head

Start programs. The second and third

phases occurred in Fall 1997 (Wave 1)

and Spring 1998 (Wave 2) when data

were collected on a sample of 3200

children and families in the same 40

programs. Spring 1998 data collection

included assessments of both Head Start

children completing kindergarten

(kindergarten field test) as well as

interviews with their parents and

ratings by their kindergarten teachers. In

the fourth and fifth phases, follow-up

continued for a second program year,

plus a kindergarten follow-up. The sixth

and seventh waves of data collection

involve data collection in spring of the

first-grade year for both cohorts of

children, those completing kindergarten

in spring 1999, and those completing

kindergarten in spring 2000. The current

plan is to extend data collection to a

new cohort of 2825 children and