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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 224 (Wednesday, November 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 91756-91757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27053]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; 
Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program Performance Analysis Study--
Extension (OMB #0970-0536).

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) and 
the Family and Youth Services Bureau in the Administration for Children 
and Families (ACF) request an extension without changes of a currently 
approved information collection activity as part of the Sexual Risk 
Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program Performance Analysis Study (PAS). 
The goal of the study is to collect, analyze, and report on performance 
measures data for the SRAE program (OMB Control No. 0970-0536; 
expiration date January 31, 2025). The purpose of the requested 
extension is to continue the ongoing data collection and submission of 
the performance measures by SRAE grant recipients. Minor updates were 
identified to incorporate into the OMB-approved versions of 
instruments.

DATES: Comments due December 20, 2024. 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 [email protected]. Identify all requests by the 
title of the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Description: The purpose of the SRAE program is to educate youth on 
how to voluntarily refrain from nonmarital sexual activity and prevent 
other youth risk behaviors. Data will continue to be used to determine 
if the SRAE grant recipients are meeting performance benchmarks related 
to their program's mission and priorities.
    The SRAE PAS collects performance measures data from SRAE grant 
recipients, program providers, and participants. The data include 
information on program structure, cost, and support for implementation; 
program attendance, reach, and dosage; the characteristics of youth 
involved in programming; youth sexual and other risky behavior prior to 
program participation; and youth sexual and other risky behavior 
intentions at program exit. The performance measures help the ACF 
program office and grant recipients to monitor and report on progress 
in implementing SRAE programs and inform technical assistance.
    Some of the performance measures data come from youth participants 
through surveys SRAE grant recipients administer at program entry and 
exit. There are separate versions of the entry and exit surveys for 
middle school youth, which exclude some of the more sensitive items 
that are included in the versions for high school and older youth. 
There is also a shorter version of the entry survey for programs 
conducting impact studies, to reduce the burden on participants in 
those programs who are likely responding to other surveys as part of 
their impact study. Although there was a version of the exit survey for 
programs conducting impact studies in the past, it was removed through 
the previous OMB request, and youth in these programs now complete the 
same version of the exit survey as other youth.

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    ACF is currently working on future revisions to this information 
collection, which will be submitted to OMB for review and approval in 
2025. Notices inviting public comment on those revisions will accompany 
that request, but comments received in response to this notice could 
also inform those revisions. Through this request process minor 
discrepancies were noted between the OMB-approved instruments and those 
currently in use. These minor errors were fixed in the versions 
included with the request to OMB.
    Respondents: General Departmental (GDSRAE), State (SSRAE), and 
Competitive (CSRAE) grant recipients, their subrecipients, and program 
participants.

                                             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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                                          (1) Participant Entry Survey
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GDSRAE participants.............................         126,130               1          0.1333          16,813
SSRAE participants..............................         317,633               1          0.1333          42,340
CSRAE participants..............................          20,136               1          0.1333           2,684
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                                           (2) Participant Exit Survey
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GDSRAE participants.............................         100,904               1          0.1667          16,821
SSRAE participants..............................         254,106               1          0.1667          42,360
CSRAE participants..............................          16,109               1          0.1667           2,685
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                           (3) Performance reporting data entry form: grant recipients
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GDSRAE grant recipients.........................             119               2              16           3,808
SSRAE grant recipients..........................              39               2              16           1,248
CSRAE grant recipients..........................              34               2              16           1,088
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                            (4) Performance reporting data entry form: subrecipients
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GDSRAE subrecipients............................             252               2              13           6,552
SSRAE subrecipients.............................             426               2              13          11,076
CSRAE subrecipients.............................              63               2              13           1,638
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 149,113.
    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1310.

Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-27053 Filed 11-19-24; 8:45 am]
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