[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 193 (Friday, October 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 80904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22959]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Healthy Marriage and 
Responsible Fatherhood Local Evaluation Final Report (New Collection)

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.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the 
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services is requesting approval of the Healthy 
Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) Final Report Templates. HMRF 
grant programs are required to submit a final report describing their 
local evaluation analyses and findings. This request includes guidance 
for grant recipients in the form of templates. Information will inform 
technical assistance to support grantees in developing and submitting 
the final reports to ACF to fulfill a grant requirement.

DATES: Comments due December 3, 2024. In compliance with the 
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting 
public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection 
described above.

ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of 
information and submit comments by emailing 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#81ced1d3c4e8efe7eee2eeedede4e2f5e8eeefc1e0e2e7afe9e9f2afe6eef7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="80cfd0d2c5e9eee6efe3efecece5e3f4e9efeec0e1e3e6aee8e8f3aee7eff6">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the title of 
the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Description: Since 2005, Congress has 
authorized dedicated funding for discretionary awards from ACF's Office 
of Family Assistance to support HMRF programs. Per the 2020 HMRF Notice 
of Funding Opportunities issued by ACF, HMRF grant recipients that are 
carrying out local evaluations are required to submit a final 
evaluation report to ACF at the end of their grant. The final reports 
must document the research questions, measures, study design, planned 
and actual implementation of the program, analytic methods for their 
evaluation, and evaluation findings.
    OPRE is conducting the HMRF Local Evaluation Technical Assistance 
(LETA) projects, jointly referred to as the HMRF-LETA projects, to 
support federally funded programs in evaluating their healthy 
relationship and family stability services to adult couples, adult 
individuals, fathers, and youth. As part of the HMRF-LETA project, 
grant recipients receive technical assistance to support planning and 
executing a local evaluation and analyzing and reporting local 
evaluation findings.
    The purpose of the current information collection request is to 
provide standardized report templates and table shells to grant 
recipients to document their evaluation's analysis and findings. A 
structured final report template will facilitate grant recipients' 
efficient and consistent reporting of evaluation findings in their 
final reports. The completed draft reports will be reviewed by the 
HMRF-LETA teams to determine whether the analysis and reports meet 
standards set by ACF, and to develop recommendations for grant 
recipients to improve the analysis and reports before final submission 
to ACF. Grant recipients will finalize and submit their final reports 
to ACF, as required. This request includes the time to develop and 
submit the reports.
    Respondents: The respondents are HMRF grant recipients conducting a 
local evaluation. There are currently 79 grant recipients conducting 
local evaluations: 50 evaluations using descriptive designs 
(``descriptive evaluations'') and 29 evaluations using impact designs 
(``impact evaluations'').

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of
                                                     Number of     responses per
                                                    respondents     respondent      Avg. burden    Total/annual
                   Instrument                       (total over     (total over    per response     burden (in
                                                      request         request       (in hours)        hours)
                                                      period)         period)
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Descriptive Evaluation Final Report Template....              50               1              40           2,000
Impact Evaluation Final Report Template.........              29               1              30             870
Impact Evaluation Final Report Table Shells.....              29               1              10             290
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,160.
    Comments: 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.
    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2).

Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-22959 Filed 10-3-24; 8:45 am]
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