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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS—Continued 

Type of respondents Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Initial Budget ................................... 6 1 4 

Initial Evaluation Plan ..................... 6 1 4 

Annual Work Plan Progress Report 19 1 1 

Annual Budget Progress Report .... 19 1 1 

Annual Evaluation Report ............... 19 1 2 

FOA 1305 Program Awardees Enhanced Level ............ Initial Work Plan ............................. 11 1 12 

Initial Budget ................................... 11 1 9 

Initial Evaluation Plan ..................... 11 1 6 

Annual Work Plan Progress Report 32 1 2 

Annual Budget Progress Report .... 32 1 1.5 

Annual Evaluation Report ............... 32 1 3 

Leroy A. Richardson, 

Chief, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the 

Associate Director for Science, Office of the 

Director, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Title: Proposed Healthy Marriage and 

Responsible Fatherhood performance 

measures and additional data collection 

(part of the Fatherhood and Marriage 

Local Evaluation and Cross-site (FaMLE 

Cross-site) Project). 

OMB No.: New Collection. 

Background 

For decades various organizations and 

agencies have been developing and 

operating programs to strengthen 

families through healthy marriage and 

relationship education and responsible 

fatherhood programming. The 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), Office of Family 

Assistance (OFA), has had 

administrative responsibility for federal 

funding of such programs since 2006 

through the Healthy Marriage (HM) and 

Responsible Fatherhood (RF) Grant 

Programs. The authorizing legislation 

for the programs may be found in 

Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security 

Act [1]. Responsible Fatherhood 

grantees provide a comprehensive set of 

services designed to promote 

responsible fatherhood including 

activities related to promoting economic 

stability, fostering responsible 

parenting, and promoting healthy 

marriage. Grantees receiving funding for 

Healthy Marriage offer a broad array of 

services designed to promote healthy 

marriage. 

The federal government currently 

collects a set of performance measures 

from HM and RF grantees. The purpose 

of this previously approved information 

collection is to allow OFA and ACF to 

carry out their responsibilities for 

program accountability. Descriptions of 

the information collection may be found 

at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/

PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr=201206- 

0970-005; all measures may be found at 

http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/

PRAICList?ref_nbr=201206-0970-005. 

The Fatherhood and Marriage Local 

Evaluation (FaMLE) Cross-Site Project 

The Offices of Family Assistance 

(OFA) and Planning, Research and 

Evaluation (OPRE) in the 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS) are 

proposing new data collection activities 

to replace existing performance 

measures as part of the Fatherhood and 

Marriage Local Evaluation and Crosssite (FaMLE Cross-site) Project. The 

purpose of the FaMLE Cross-site Project 

is to support high quality data 

collection, strengthen local evaluations, 

and conduct cross-site analysis for the 

Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy 

Marriage grantees. 

The FaMLE Cross-site project will 

answer three main research questions: 

(1) What strategies did grantees use to 

design well-conceived programs? (2) 

What strategies did grantees use to 

successfully implement well-conceived 

programs? (3) What were the reported 

outcomes for participants in the 

programs? In order to answer these 

questions, we are considering a new set 

of data collection activities. 

Current Request 

ACF is engaged in a learning agenda 

to increase our understanding of 

Healthy Marriage and Responsible 

Fatherhood programs. This means that 

we incorporate multiple opportunities 

and options for learning throughout a 

program’s implementation that provide 

a range of insights and perspectives. 

These opportunities help programming 

constantly develop and advance. For 

example, data provide the opportunity 

to feed information back to decisionmakers and leaders—both those on the 

ground and those in management—to 

inform program design, operation, and 

oversight. 

ACF is requesting comment on the 

following: 

Performance measures. ACF is 

proposing a new set of performance 

measures to be collected by all grantees, 

beginning with the next round of HMRF 

grants. These measures will collect 

standardized information in the 

following areas: 

• Applicant characteristics; 

• Program operations (including 

program characteristics and service 

delivery); and 

• Participant outcomes (will be 

measured both at initiation of program 

services (pre-test) and completion (posttest)). 

These draft measures were developed 

per extensive review of the research 

literature and grantees’ past measures. 

The next set of grantees will be 

required to submit data on a set of 

standardized measures covering these 

areas on a regular basis (e.g., quarterly). 

In addition to the performance measures 

mention above, ACF seeks comment on 

draft instruments for these data 

submissions: 

• Quarterly Performance Report 

(QPR), and 

• Semi-annual Performance Progress 

Report (PPR). 

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A new management information 

system is being developed which would 

improve efficiency and the quality of 

data, and make reporting easier. 

Standardized measures and reporting 

in these areas will enable ACF to track 

programming outputs and outcomes 

across programs, and will allow grantees 

to self-monitor progress. 

Additional data collection. As an 

additional component of the learning 

agenda, the FaMLE Cross-Site contractor 

will collect information from a sub-set 

of grantees on how they designed and 

implemented their programs 

(information on outcomes associated 

with programs will also be assessed). 

This sub-set of grantees will be required 

to participate in the additional data 

collection noted below. The following 

protocols have been developed: 

• Staff interview protocol on program 

design (will be collected from about half 

of all grantees); 

• Staff interview protocols on 

program implementation (will be 

collected from about 10 grantees); and 

• Program participant focus group 

protocol (will be conducted with about 

10 grantees). 

ACF also seeks comment on these 

draft protocols. 

Respondents 

The respondents to the data collection 

instruments include Responsible 

Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage 

Program grantees (e.g., grantee staff) and 

program participants. 

Annual Burden Estimates 

The table below is required by law for 

Federal Register notices like this one. 

The federal government’s Office of 

Management and Budget requires 

federal agencies, including ACF, to 

estimate how many hours it will take 

respondents to complete data collection, 

and to publish these estimates in the 

Federal Register. The following table 

provides our estimates. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Total number of 

respondents 

Annual number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Applicant characteristics (applicant burden) ............ 157,500 52,500 1 0.25 13,125 

Applicant characteristics (staff burden) ................... 1080 360 146 0.25 13,140 

Program operations (related to program characteristics) .................................................................... 360 120 1 0.75 90 

Program operations (related to service delivery) .... 432 144 257 0.50 18,504 

Participant outcomes (pre-test) ................................ 110,700 36,900 1 0.42 15,498 

Participant outcomes (post-test) .............................. 84,600 28,200 1 0.42 11,844 

Data entry (for grantees that do not use new management information system, includes applicant 

characteristics and participant outcomes) ............ 144 48 274 0.21 2,762 

Quarterly Performance Form (QPR) ........................ 72 24 1 1 24 

Semi-annual Performance Progress Report (PPR) 360 120 2 3.2 768 

Staff interview protocol on program design ............. 60 20 1 1 20 

Staff interview protocol on program implementation 300 100 1 1 100 

Program participant focus group protocol ............... 200 67 1 1.50 101 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 75,976. 

Note: The annual number of hours shown 

for ‘‘applicant characteristics (staff burden)’’ 

(13,140) is slightly higher than the annual 

number of hours shown for ‘‘applicant 

characteristics (applicant burden)’’ (13,125) 

due to rounding up the average number of 

responses per staff to the nearest whole 

number (146). 

How To Obtain Copies of the Data 

Collection Instruments 

In compliance with the requirements 

of Section 3506(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 Planning, Research 

and Evaluation, 370 L’Enfant 

Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447, 

Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. 

Email address: RFHM.FRN.response@

acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be 

identified by the title of the information 

collection. 

Specific Areas for Comment 

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. 

Reference 

[1] http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/

ssact/title04/0403.htm. 

Karl Koerper, 

OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

[CFDA Number: 93.612] 

Proposed Adoption of Administration 

for Native Americans Program Policies 

and Procedures 

AGENCY: Administration for Native 

Americans, ACF, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Administration for 

Native Americans (ANA) invites public 

comment pursuant to Section 814 of the 

Native American Programs Act of 1974 

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