[Federal Register: July 5, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 128)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Prposed Projects
Title: Evaluation of the Head Start Oral Health Initiative.
OMB No.: New collection.
Description: The purpose of this evaluation is to examine the
implementation of the Head Start Oral Health Initiative (OHI). The
Office of Head Start has funded 52 programs for OHI to improve the
oral-health services to young children, from birth to five, and
pregnant women. The funded programs will develop, implement, and
disseminate culturally sensitive, innovative, and empirically based
best practices for oral health in Head Start. The evaluation will
examine information on approaches taken by the 52 individual programs
and the implementation of the approaches, including challenges faced,
as well as facilitating factors, and create a uniform method for
collecting administrative information across all sites.
Respondents: Head Start directors, staff, and teachers who are
implementing OHI; community organizations that have partnered with Head
Start programs implementing OHI; and parents or guardians of children
who attend Head Start programs where OHI is being implemented.
Annual Burden Estimates:
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Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Head Start Directors: Telephone 52 1 1.5 78
Interview..........................
Head Start Staff: Program 52 184 1.08 10,333
Recordkeeping System...............
Head Start Directors: Site Visit 16 1 1.5 24
Interview..........................
Head Start Staff: Site Visit 48 1 1.5 72
Interview..........................
Head Start Community Partner: 80 1 1 80
Interview..........................
Head Start Parent: Focus Group...... 160 1 1.5 240
Parents/Guardians: Focus Group...... 192 1 2 384
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 11,211.
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
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington,
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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: June 27, 2006.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-5978 Filed 7-3-06; 8:45 am]
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