Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 26, 2008 / Notices 50333 

Dated: August 18, 2008. 

Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E8–19729 Filed 8–25–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request Proposed 

Projects 

Title: Regional Partnership Grant 

(RPG) Program Data Collection. 

OMB No.: New Collection. 

Description: On September 30, 2007, 

the Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), Children’s Bureau, 

awarded multi-year grants to 53 regional 

partnership grantees (RPG5) to improve 

the safety, permanency and well-being 

of children affected by 

methamphetamine or other substance 

abuse who have been removed or are atrisk of removal from their homes. The 

Child and Family Services Improvement 

Act of 2006, the authorizing legislation 

for the RPG program, required that a set 

of performance indicators be established 

to periodically assess the grantees’

progress on achieving outcomes. The 

legislation mandated that these 

performance indicators be developed 

through a consultative process involving 

ACS, the Substance Abuse and Mental 

Health Services Administration 

(SAMHSA), and representatives of the 

State or Tribal agencies who are 

members of the regional partnerships. 

The final set of RPG performance 

indicators was approved by ACS and 

disseminated to the funded grantees in 

January 2008. It includes a total of 23 

indicators across four outcome domains: 

Child/youth (9 indicators), adult (7 

indicators), family/relationship (5 

indicators), and regional partnership/ 

service capacity (2 indicators). It also 

includes a core set of child and adult 

demographic elements that will provide 

important context needed to properly 

analyze, explain and understand the 

outcomes. No other national data 

collection measures these critical child, 

adult, family, and RPG outcomes 

specifically for these children and 

families. The data also will have 

significant implications for policy and 

program development for child wellbeing programs nationwide. 

To minimize reporting burden, many 

of the data elements are already being 

collected by counties and States in order 

to report Federally mandated data for 

the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis 

and Reporting System (AFCARS), the 

Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) and 

the National Outcome Measures 

(NOMs); in addition, all States 

voluntarily submit data for the Federal 

National Child Abuse and Neglect Data 

System (NCANDS). Therefore, most 

child welfare data elements included in 

the RPG performance measures can be 

found in a State’s automated case 

management system, which is often a 

Federally funded Statewide Automated 

Child Welfare Information System 

(SACWIS). If the State elects to 

implement a SACWIS, the system is 

expected to be a comprehensive 

automated case management tool that 

meets the needs of all staff involved in 

foster care and adoption case 

management. A SACWIS is required to 

support reporting of data to AFCARS 

semi-annually, and annually to 

NCANDS. AFCARS reports information 

on all children in foster care, while 

NCANDS reports information on State 

child maltreatment reports. TEDS 

admission and discharge data are 

collected by State substance abuse 

agencies according to their own 

information systems for monitoring 

substance abuse treatment admissions 

and transmitted monthly or quarterly to 

the SAMHSA contractor. 

As a result of prior Federal 

government reporting requirements, 

States are already collecting several data 

elements needed by the RPGs. The RPGs 

can download information from these 

existing systems to obtain data to 

monitor their program outcomes, 

thereby reducing the amount of primary 

data collection needed. 

Beginning in year two, grantees will 

submit a data file with their required 

indicator data, according to their final 

set of indicators, every six months. 

Respondents: RPG Grantees. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses 

per respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

State, local, or Tribal Government .................................................................. 31 2 175.50 10,881 

Private Sector .................................................................................................. 22 2 175.50 7,722 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 18,603. 

In compliance with the requirements 

of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Administration for Children and 

Families is soliciting public comment 

on the specific aspects of the 

information collection described above. 

Copies of the proposed collection of 

information can be obtained and 

comments may be forwarded by writing 

to the Administration for Children and 

Families, Office of Administration, 

Office of Information Services, 370 

L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, 

DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance 

Officer. E-mail address: 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests 

should be identified by the title of the 

information collection. 

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. 

Dated: August 18, 2008. 

Janean Chambers, 

Reports Clearance, Officer. 

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