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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 235 (Friday, December 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 97010-97011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28555]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; 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 January 6, 2025. 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 [email protected].

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

Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-28555 Filed 12-5-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-73-P
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