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document procedures as well as 

challenges faced and lessons learned to 

inform the field of practice as well as 

policy makers, program administrators, 

and funders at various levels. 

The proposed information collection 

activities consist of semi-structured 

interviews and surveys conducted at 28 

child welfare agency sites. Focus groups 

conducted at 8 of the 28 sites will gather 

information on needs, challenges, and 

strategies to support children with 

prenatal substance exposures and their 

families within the child welfare 

system. 

Respondents: State and child welfare 

agency directors, child welfare staff and 

supervisors; agency partners and service 

providers; and family members and 

caregivers of children who may have 

been prenatally exposed to substances. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per tresponse 

Total burden 

hours 

Interview Protocol for Local Agency Staff—Frontline Only ............................. 28 1 1 28 

Interview Protocol for Local Agency Staff—Ongoing Only .............................. 28 1 1 28 

Interview Protocol for Local Agency Staff—Frontline and Ongoing ................ 15 1 1.25 19 

Interview Protocol for Local Agency Medical Staff .......................................... 14 1 1 14 

Interview Protocol for Local Agency Director .................................................. 14 1 1 14 

Focus Group of Caregivers ............................................................................. 32 1 1.5 48 

Survey Instrument for Local Agency Staff—Form A General ......................... 140 1 .5 70 

Survey Instrument for Local Agency—Form B General .................................. 90 1 .5 45 

Survey Instrument for Local Agency Form B Differential Response .............. 50 1 .5 25 

Survey Instrument for Service Providers ......................................................... 12 1 .5 6 

Interview Protocol for Data Staff ...................................................................... 6 1 1.5 9 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours ..................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 305 

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, 330 C Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20201, Attn: ACF 

Reports Clearance Officer. Email 

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. 

Mary Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22716 Filed 10–19–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Title: Head Start Child and Family 

Experiences Survey (FACES). 

OMB No.: 0970–0151. 

Description: The Office of Planning, 

Research and Evaluation (OPRE), 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF), U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS), is 

proposing to collect data for a new 

round of the Head Start Family and 

Child Experiences Survey (FACES). 

Featuring a ‘‘Modified Core Plus’’ Study 

design, FACES 2019 will provide data 

on a set of key indicators in Head Start 

Regions I–XI. While data collection for 

FACES 2019 will occur in Regions I–XI, 

there is a slightly different sample 

design and recruitment strategy for 

Regions I–X and Region XI (whose 

grants are awarded to tribal 

governments or consortiums of tribes). 

In fall 2019 and spring 2020, FACES 

will assess the school readiness skills of 

2,400 Head Start children in Regions I– 

X and 800 children in Region XI, survey 

their parents, and ask their Head Start 

teachers to rate children’s social and 

emotional skills. This sample will be 

drawn from 60 programs in Regions I– 

X and 22 programs in Region XI. In 

spring 2020 classroom observations of 

sampled programs will occur. In 

Regions I–X, the number of programs 

will increase from the 60 that are used 

to collect data on children’s school 

readiness outcomes to 180 for the 

purpose of conducting observations in 

720 Head Start classrooms. In Region XI, 

the program sample will remain at 22, 

and approximately 80 Head Start 

classroom observations will take place. 

Program director, center director, and 

teacher surveys will also be conducted 

in spring 2020 in Regions I–XI. In spring 

2022, program level data collection will 

be repeated in Regions I–X only. If any 

plus studies are conducted, they will be 

conducted within the Core sample. 

This notice is specific to the data 

collection activities needed to recruit 

Head Start programs and centers into 

FACES 2019. A future notice will 

provide information about data 

collection for the study. A nationally 

representative sample of Head Start 

programs and centers from Regions I–X 

and a representative sample of Head 

Start programs and centers from Region 

XI will be selected to participate in 

FACES 2019. From Regions I–X, the 

programs participating in the Core 

child-level data collection will be 

contacted and recruited for the study in 

spring 2019. In fall 2019, the remaining 


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programs participating in classroomlevel data collection will be contacted. 

All programs will be contacted a second 

time in fall 2021 to confirm their 

continued participation in the Core 

spring 2022 data collection. The 

programs from Region XI would be 

recruited a year earlier (i.e., spring 2018) 

given the increased amount of time to 

recruit programs in tribal communities 

and to obtain tribal council and/or tribal 

leadership approval. 

The method of data collection for 

recruitment of all programs will include 

telephone conversations with program 

directors and on-site coordinators who 

serve as liaisons between the FACES 

study team and the Head Start centers. 

In Region XI, an additional recruitment 

telephone call with tribal leadership/ 

tribal council will be required. All of 

these calls will inform program staff 

about the purpose of the study and will 

gather lists of centers in each program 

in order to compile the center sampling 

frame. The purpose of this data 

collection is to support the 2007 

reauthorization of the Head Start 

program (Pub. L.110–134), which calls 

for periodic assessments of Head Start’s 

quality and effectiveness. 

Respondents: Head Start Program 

Directors and Staff, as well as tribal 

leadership. 

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 

Telephone script and recruitment information collection for 

program directors, Regions I–X ....................................... 230 77 3 1 231 

Telephone script and recruitment information collection for 

program directors, Region XI ........................................... 30 10 2 1 20 

Telephone script and recruitment information collection for 

on-site coordinators, Regions I–X .................................... 230 77 3 .75 173 

Telephone script and recruitment information collection for 

on-site coordinators, Regions XI ...................................... 30 10 2 .75 15 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 439. 

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, 330 C Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE 

Reports Clearance Officer. Email 

address: OPREinfocollection@

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. 

Mary Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22713 Filed 10–19–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Comment Request 

Title: Pre-testing of Evaluation Data 

Collection Activities. 

OMB No.: 0970–0355. 

Description: The Office of Planning, 

Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), in the 

Administration for Children and 

Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department 

of Health and Human Services (HHS) 

intends to request approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) to renew a generic clearance to 

pre-test data collection instruments with 

more than nine participants to identify 

and resolve any question or procedural 

problems in survey administration. 

OPRE studies ACF programs, and the 

populations they serve, through rigorous 

research and evaluation projects. These 

include evaluations of existing 

programs, evaluations of innovative 

approaches to helping low-income 

children and families, research 

syntheses and descriptive and 

exploratory studies. To improve the 

development of its research and 

evaluation surveys, OPRE uses the pretesting of evaluation surveys generic 

clearance to employ a variety of 

techniques including cognitive and 

usability laboratory and field 

techniques, behavior coding, 

exploratory interviews, respondent 

debriefing questionnaires, split sample 

experiments, focus groups, and pilot 

studies/pre-tests. These activities allow 

OPRE to identify if and when a survey 

may be simplified for respondents, 

respondent burden may be reduced, and 

other possible improvements. 

Following standard OMB 

requirements, OPRE will submit a 

change request for each individual data 

collection activity under this generic 

clearance. Each request will include the 

individual instrument(s), a justification 

specific to the individual information 

collection, and any supplementary 

documents. OMB should review within 

10 days of receiving each change 

request. 

The information collected in this 

effort will not be the primary subject of 

any published ACF reports; however, 

information may be made public 

through methodological appendices or 

footnotes, reports on instrument 

development, instrument user guides, 

descriptions of respondent behavior, 

and other publications or presentations 

describing findings of methodological 

interest. When necessary, results will be 

labeled as exploratory in nature. The 

results of this pre-testing research may 

be prepared for presentation at 


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