Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 34 / Friday, February 18, 2022 / Notices 9363 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

[OMB No. 0970–0527] 

Submission for OMB Review; Regional 

Partnership Grants National Cross-Site 

Evaluation and Evaluation Technical 

Assistance 

AGENCY: Children’s Bureau, 

Administration for Children and 

Families, HHS. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Children’s Bureau (CB), 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS), is 

requesting an extension with minor 

changes to the approved information 

collection: Regional Partnership Grants 

National Cross-Site Evaluation and 

Evaluation Technical Assistance (OMB 

#0970–0527). The proposed information 

collection will be used in a national 

cross-site evaluation of the fifth and 

sixth cohorts of CB’s Regional 

Partnership Grants (RPG). The cross-site 

evaluation will use surveys, interviews, 

progress reports, and data on participant 

enrollment, services, and outcomes. 

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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: The Child and Family 

Services Improvement Act of 2006 (Pub. 

L. 109–288) amended section 437 of the 

Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 629g(f)) 

and authorized CB to fund discretionary 

grants to improve safety, well-being, and 

permanency outcomes for children at 

risk of or in out-of-home placement 

because of their caregiver’s substance 

misuse. In response, HHS launched a 

competitive grants program called 

‘‘Targeted Grants to Increase the WellBeing of, and to Improve the 

Permanency Outcomes for, Children 

Affected by Methamphetamine and 

Other Substance Abuse,’’ which is also 

known as the RPG program. 

Reauthorized in 2011 and again most 

recently by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 

2018 (Pub. L. 115–123) in 2018, these 

grants are designed to support 

partnerships between child welfare 

agencies, substance use disorder 

treatment organizations, and other 

social services systems, and thereby 

improve the well-being, permanency, 

and safety outcomes of children and 

families. Under four prior rounds of 

RPG, CB has issued 91 grants to 

organizations such as child welfare or 

substance use treatment providers or 

family court systems to develop 

interagency collaborations and 

integration of programs, activities, and 

services designed to increase well-being, 

improve permanency, and enhance the 

safety of children who are in an out-ofhome placement or at risk of being 

placed in out-of-home care as a result of 

a parent’s or caretaker’s substance 

misuse. In 2018 CB awarded 10 grants 

in a fifth cohort (RPG5) and 9 additional 

grants in a sixth cohort (RPG6) in 2019. 

The current information collection 

request (ICR) is for data collection 

activities associated with the 18 

grantees in the fifth and sixth cohorts. 

The first three cohorts were included in 

previous ICRs (OMB Control Numbers 

0970–0353 and 0970–0444), and the 

fourth cohort was covered in the 

previous 3-year clearance under this ICR 

(OMB #0970–0527). 

The RPG cross-site evaluation will 

extend our understanding of the types of 

programs and services grantees 

provided to participants, how grantees 

leveraged their partnerships to 

coordinate services for children and 

families, how grantees plan to sustain 

their programs after their grants end, 

and the outcomes for children and 

families enrolled in RPG programs. 

First, the cross-site evaluation will 

assess the coordination of partners’ 

service systems (e.g., shared participant 

data, joint staff training) to better 

understand how partners’ collaborative 

efforts affected the services offered to 

families (partnerships analysis). The 

cross-site evaluation will also focus on 

the partnership between the child 

welfare and substance use treatment 

agencies to add to the research base 

about how these agencies can 

collaborate to address the needs of 

children and families affected by 

substance misuse. Second, the 

evaluation will describe the 

characteristics of participants served by 

RPG programs, the types of services 

provided to families, the dosage of each 

type of service received by families, and 

the level of participant engagement with 

the services provided (enrollment and 

services analysis). Third, the evaluation 

will describe supports within the 

partnership that can help improve and 

sustain RPG services, such as 

continuous use of data for service 

improvement, identification of a lead 

organization, and policies, resources, 

and funding sources that will be needed 

after grant funding ends. Finally, the 

evaluation will assess the outcomes of 

children and adults served through the 

RPG program, such as child behavioral 

problems, adult depressive symptoms, 

or adult substance use and treatment 

(outcomes and impacts analysis). 

The evaluation is being undertaken by 

CB and its contractor Mathematica and 

its subcontractor, WRMA Inc. The 

evaluator is required to advise CB on the 

instruments grantees use to collect data 

from program participants for required 

local evaluations. Grantees will secure 

approval from their local institutional 

review boards for collecting these data. 

This ICR requests a renewal of 

clearance for the OMB package #0970– 

0527, which was originally approved in 

May 2019, for obtaining participant data 

from grantees that they collect for their 

local evaluations and for directly 

collecting additional data from grantees 

and their partners and providers for the 

cross-site evaluation. This ICR requests 

an extension to allow more time for the 

information collection and includes a 

revision to add the sustainability survey 

as a new data collection instrument. 

Specifically, this ICR requests clearance 

for the following data collection 

activities: (1) Site visits with grantees, 

(2) a web-based survey about grantee 

partnerships, (3) a web-based survey 

about sustainability planning, (4) 

semiannual progress reports, (5) 

enrollment and services data provided 

by grantees, and (6) outcomes and 

impacts data provided by grantees. 

Respondents: Respondents include 

grantee staff or contractors (such as local 

evaluators) and partner staff. Specific 

types of respondents and the expected 

number per data collection effort are 

noted in the burden table below. 

Annual Burden Estimates 


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ESTIMATED TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

Data collection activity 

Total 

number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

(each year) 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

(in hours) 

Total 

annual 

burden hours 

Site Visit and Key Informant Data Collection: 

Program director individual interview ....................................................... 8 0.33 2 5 

Program manager/supervisor individual interviews .................................. 8 0.33 1 3 

Frontline staff interviews ........................................................................... 16 0.33 1 5 

Partner representative interviews ............................................................. 24 0.33 1 8 

Partner survey .......................................................................................... 40 0.33 0.42 6 

Sustainability survey ................................................................................. 126 0.42 0.33 18 

Enrollment, client and service data: 

Semi-annual progress reports .................................................................. 18 2 16.5 594 

Case enrollment data ............................................................................... 54 33 0.25 446 

Case closure ............................................................................................. 54 33 0.0167 30 

Case closure—prenatal ............................................................................ 18 10 0.0167 3 

Service log entries .................................................................................... 108 1,560 0.033 5,560 

Outcome and impact data: 

Administrative Data: 

Obtain access to administrative data ................................................ 18 1 41 738 

Report administrative data ................................................................ 18 2 144 5,184 

Standardized instruments: 

Enter data into local database .......................................................... 18 100 .625 1,125 

Review records and submit ............................................................... 18 2 25 900 

Data entry for comparison study sites (16 grantees) ...................................... 16 100 .625 1,000 

Estimated Total Burden Hours ................................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ 15,625 

Authority: The Child and Family 

Services Improvement Act of 2006 (Pub. 

L. 109–288) created the competitive 

RPG program. The September 30, 2011, 

passage of the Child and Family 

Services Improvement and Innovation 

Act (Pub. L. 112–34) extended funding 

for the RPG program from federal fiscal 

year (FFY) 2012 to FFY 2016. In 2018, 

the president signed the Bipartisan 

Budget Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115–123) 

into law reauthorizing the RPG program 

through FFY 2021 and added a focus on 

opioid abuse. 

Mary B. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03520 Filed 2–17–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; Office of 

Community Services Data Collection 

for the Low Income Household Water 

Assistance Program Reports (0970– 

0578) 

AGENCY: Office of Community Services; 

Administration for Children and 

Families; HHS. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Community 

Services (OCS), Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), is requesting an 

extension of approval for an information 

request to collect data from Low Income 

Household Water Assistance Program 

(LIHWAP) grant recipients. This 

information collection was originally 

approved for 6 months as an emergency 

approval. OCS is proposing revisions to 

the information collection based on 

feedback received to date. 

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of 

publication. 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. 

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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: The LIHWAP Quarterly 

Performance and Management Report 

and the LIHWAP Annual Report 

provide ACF and Congress information 

necessary for oversight of recipients’ 

performance in administering the 

LIHWAP program. The LIHWAP 

Quarterly Performance and Management 

Report solicits information on total 

households assisted, type of assistance 

provided, LIHWAP implementation 

information, performance management, 

and ongoing training/technical 

assistance needs. The LIHWAP Annual 

Report is modeled after the Low Income 

Home Energy Assistance Annual Report 

and has been streamlined to reduce 

recipient burden. The LIHWAP Annual 

Report collects data in three distinct 

modules: (1) Use of Funds, (2) 

Household Report, (3) Performance 

Measures. 

This information collection package 

also includes a burden estimate related 

to the information collected from 

households. While grant recipients will 

collect necessary information from 

households using a variety of intake 

systems and local forms, OCS is 

providing technical assistance in this 

area and has included a sample 

application template in supplementary 

materials. This is a sample template; 

there will be no mandated household 

application format, and OCS will not 

receive or analyze copies of individual 

household application materials. OCS is 

proposing changes based on feedback 

received, including comments in 

response to a request for comments in 

the Federal Register (86 FR 59166). The 

currently approved versions of the 

LIHWAP Quarterly and Annual Reports 

and the sample application can be 

found here https://www.reginfo.gov/ 


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