[Federal Register: November 13, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 218)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Community-Based Abstinence Education Program (CBAE).
OMB No.: 0970-0272.
Description: The discretionary funding Community-Based Abstinence
Education Program (CBAE) is authorized by Title XI, Section 1110, of
the Social Security Act (using the definitions contained in Title V,
Section 510(b)(2) of the Social Security Act).
Performance Progress Report/Program Narrative
The CBAE Performance Progress Report/Program Narrative is a
semiannual report form through which grantees report performance
information used by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
to evaluate each grantee's compliance with Federal law and progress
toward achieving its goals. Performance information includes:
Description of major activities and accomplishments during
the reporting period;
Description of deviations or departures from the original
project;
Description of significant findings and events;
Description of dissemination activities;
Description of other activities; and
Description of activities planned for the next reporting
period, including goals and objectives.
Program-Specific Performance Measure
The CBAE program is developing a program-specific performance
measure in response to the PART review (a process by which the Office
of Management and Budget analyzes and rates a Federal program's
procedures and strategies for evaluating its effectiveness), for which
the program received a rating of Adequate. In an effort to gather
program-specific data on rates of abstinence pre- and post-program
participation, ACF and the Office of Management and Budget determined
that a program-specific performance measure should be developed to
assess key outcomes among program participants. The CBAE office
convened a panel of abstinence education experts to gather input on the
measure, and, based on the input
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provided, the CBAE office is developing the measure. CBAE grantees will
be required to ask ten to fifteen questions of the youth served in a
pre- and post-survey, as well as a representative sample of the youth
served in a post-post-survey.
The questions are being carefully constructed by an experienced
evaluator to measure initiation and discontinuation of sexual
intercourse as well as two key predictors of initiation: Sexual values
and behavioral intentions.
The program office will collect and compile data to establish
baselines and ambitious targets for the program-specific performance
measure. The data will be aggregated and results will be shared with
the public as they become available.
Respondents: Performance Progress Report/Program Narrative--Non-
profit community-based organizations, faith-based organizations,
schools/school districts, universities/colleges, hospitals, public
health agencies, local governments, Tribal councils, small businesses/
for-profit entities, housing authorities, etc. Program-Specific
Performance Measure--Youth Participants
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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Community-Based Abstinence Education 60 2 50 6,000
Performance Progress Report/Program
Narrative..........................
Community-Based Abstinence Education 1,000,000 3 1/6 500,000
Program-Specific Performance
Measure............................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 506,000.
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, 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: November 6, 2007.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-5611 Filed 11-9-07; 8:45 am]
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