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for Disease Control and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Annual Report on Households 

Assisted by the Low Income Home 

Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) 

(Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) #0970–0060) 

AGENCY: Office of Community Services 

(OCS), Administration for Children and 

Families, HHS. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: OCS, Division of Energy 

Assistance, is requesting a substantial 

change of the Household Report (OMB 

#0970–0060, expiration May 31, 2025). 

Grant recipients complete the 

Household Report on an annual basis, 

completing either the Long Form or the 

Short Form version of the report. 

Submission of the completed report is 

one requirement for Low Income Home 

Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) 

grant recipients applying for federal 

LIHEAP block grant funds. OCS 

proposes substantive changes, including 

the addition of reporting requirements 

for assisted applicants and household 

member demographic characteristics on 

the Household Report Long Form and 

Short Form, and the removal of 

reporting requirements collecting counts 

of applicant households by assistance 

type and poverty interval on the 

Household Report Long Form. 

DATES: Comments are due within 60 

days of publication. 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: Copies of the proposed 

collection of information can be 

obtained and comments may be 

forwarded by emailing infocollection@

acf.hhs.gov. Identify all requests by the 

title of the information collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: States, the District of 

Columbia, and the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico are required to complete the 

Household Report-Long Form on an 

annual basis. The Long Form collects 

the following information: 

• Assisted households, by type of 

LIHEAP assistance and funding source; 

• Assisted households receiving bill 

payment assistance, by funding source; 

• Assisted households receiving any 

type of LIHEAP assistance, by funding 

source; 

• Assisted households by poverty 

interval, by type of LIHEAP assistance 

and funding source; 

• Assisted households, by type of 

LIHEAP assistance and funding source, 

having at least one vulnerable member 

who is at least 60 years or older, 

disabled, or 5 years old or younger; 

• Assisted households receiving any 

type of LIHEAP assistance or funding 

source, having at least one member 60 

years or older, disabled, or 5 years old 

or younger. 

Tribal grant recipients and other U.S. 

territory grant recipients are required to 

complete the Household Report-Short 

Form on an annual basis. The Short 

Form collects data only on the number 

of households, by funding source, 

receiving heating, cooling, energy crisis, 

and/or weatherization benefits. 

The information reported in the 

Household Report Long Form and Short 

Form is being collected for the 

Department’s annual LIHEAP Report to 

Congress. The data also provides 

information about the need for LIHEAP 

funds. Finally, the data are used in the 

calculation of LIHEAP performance 

measures under the Government 

Performance and Results Act of 1993. 

The data elements will allow the 

accuracy of measuring LIHEAP targeting 

performance and LIHEAP cost 

efficiency. 

ACF is proposing changes to the 

Household Report Long Form and Short 

Form beginning with FY 2023 reporting. 

These changes include additional 

reporting requirements for assisted 

household and household member 

demographic characteristics, and the 

removal of reporting requirements 

collecting counts of applicant 

households by assistance type and 

poverty interval on the Household 

Report Long Form. The additional 

reporting requirements include the 

following: 

1. Number of Households by Owner/ 

Renter Status (own, rent with utilities 

billed separately, rent with utilities in 

rental fee, other). [This is optional for 

FY 2023 reporting and required 

beginning with FY 2024 reporting]. 

2. Number of Assisted Applicants by 

Ethnicity. Grant recipients will report 

on assisted applicants by ethnicity 

according to standard census categories. 

[This is required beginning with FY 

2023 reporting]. 

3. Number of Assisted Applicants by 

Race. Grant recipients will report on 

assisted applicants by race according to 

standard census categories. [This is 

required beginning with FY 2023 

reporting]. 

4. Number of Assisted Applicants by 

Gender. Grant recipients will report on 

assisted applicants by gender. [This is 

required beginning with FY 2023 

reporting]. 

5. Number of Assisted Household 

Members by Ethnicity. Grant recipients 

will report on assisted household 

members by ethnicity according to 

standard census categories. [This is 

optional for FY 2023 reporting and 

required beginning with FY 2024 

reporting]. 

6. Number of Assisted Household 

Members by Race. Grant recipients will 

report on assisted household members 

by race according to standard census 

categories. [This is optional for FY 2023 

reporting and required beginning with 

FY 2024 reporting]. 

7. Number of Assisted Household 

Members by Gender. Grant recipients 

will report on assisted household 

members by gender. [This is optional for 

FY 2023 reporting and required 

beginning with FY 2024 reporting]. 

The proposed additions will provide 

OCS with critical data that is needed to 

evaluate if LIHEAP is equitably serving 

communities across the country. The 

collection of demographic data 

including owner/renter status, race, 

ethnicity, and gender will allow OCS to 

conduct analysis disaggregated by these 

variables to assess whether LIHEAP 

resources are equitably distributed. 

Therefore, this data collection aligns 

with the goals of Executive Order 13985 

(Advancing Racial Equity and Support 

for Underserved Communities Through 

the Federal Government). Additionally, 

collecting demographic data in LIHEAP 

will bring the program into alignment 

with other programs across OCS 

including the Community Services 

Block Grant, which currently collects 

demographic data on beneficiaries, and 

the Low Income Household Water 

Assistance Program (LIHWAP), which 

will collect demographic data on 

beneficiaries in FY 2023. 


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To minimize reporting burden to the 

greatest extent possible, and in 

recognition of the significant overlap in 

LIHEAP and LIHWAP grant recipients, 

OCS is proposing to use the same 

demographic measures included in the 

LIHWAP Annual Report in the LIHEAP 

Household Report. OCS has also 

removed the reporting requirements for 

applicant households by assistance type 

and poverty interval on the Household 

Report Long Form to offset some of the 

additional reporting burden entailed by 

the demographic data collection. 

Respondents: State governments, 

tribal governments, U.S. territories, and 

the District of Columbia. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument 

Total 

number of 

respondents 

Total 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Annual 

burden hours 

Assisted Household Report-Long Form .......................................................... 56 1 67 3,752 

Assisted Household Report-Short Form .......................................................... 151 1 10 1,510 

Household Application ..................................................................................... 6,160,000 1 1 6,160,000 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 6,165,262. 

Please note that the above estimate 

accounts for the burden this data 

collection entails on LIHEAP applicants. 

In previous years, OCS has not included 

an estimate of the burden on 

households. While OCS does not 

mandate that LIHEAP grant recipients 

use a standard household application, 

we know that grant recipients collect 

many of the required Household Report 

data elements through their household 

application. The annual burden for the 

household application indicated above 

accounts for the time it will take 

LIHEAP applicants to provide the data 

required by the current Household 

Report as well as the proposed 

demographic data elements. To 

calculate this burden, we used an 

estimate for the annual number of 

LIHEAP household applicants 

multiplied by an average of an hour to 

provide the data required by the 

Household Report. 

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. 8629 and 45 CFR 

96.92. 

Mary B. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Community Living 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Older Americans 

Act, Title VI Parts A/B and C Grants 

OMB Control Number 0985–0064 

AGENCY: Administration for Community 

Living, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Administration for 

Community Living (ACL) is announcing 

an opportunity for the public to 

comment on the proposed collection of 

information listed above. Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), Federal agencies are required to 

publish a notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information, including each proposed 

extension of an existing collection of 

information, and to allow 60 days for 

public comment in response to the 

notice. This notice solicits comments on 

a proposed extension without change 

information collection request and 

solicits comments on the information 

collection requirements related to the 

Application for Older Americans Act, 

Title VI Parts A/B and C Grants 

performance reporting. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information must be submitted 

electronically by 11:59 p.m. (EST) or 

postmarked by August 30, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit electronic 

comments on the collection of 

information to: Jasmine Aplin. Submit 

written comments on the collection of 

information to the Administration for 

Community Living, Washington, DC 

20201, Attention: Jasmine Aplin. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jasmine Aplin, Administration for 

Community Living, Washington, DC 

20201, Jasmine.Aplin@acl.hhs.gov, (202) 

795–7453. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, Federal 

agencies must obtain approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for each collection of 

information they conduct or sponsor. A 

Collection of information includes 

agency requests or requirements that 

members of the public submit reports, 

keep records, or provide information to 

a third party. The PRA requires Federal 

agencies to provide a 60-day notice in 

the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, 

before submitting the collection to OMB 

for approval. To comply with this 

requirement, ACL is publishing a notice 

of the proposed collection of 

information set forth in this document. 

With respect to the following 

collection of information, ACL invites 

comments on our burden estimates or 

any other aspect of this collection of 

information, including: 

(1) whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of ACL’s functions, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of ACL’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used 

to determine burden estimates; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 


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