[Federal Register: October 31, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 212)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: State High Performance Bonus System (HPBS) Transmission File
Layouts for HPBS Work Measures.
OMB No.: 0970-0230.
Description: This revises the notice that appeared in the Federal
Register on October 6, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 194). It clarifies the
fact that there is no longer a High Performance Bonus associated with
this information collection. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (Pub. L.
109-171) eliminated the funding for the High Performance Bonus (HPB),
but we are still requesting that States continue to submit data
necessary to calculate the work measures previously reported under the
HPB.
Specifically, the TANF program was reauthorized under the Deficit
Reduction Act of 2005. The statute eliminated the funding for the HPB
under section 403(a)(4). Nevertheless the Department is required under
section 413(d) to annually rank State performance in moving TANF
recipients into private sector employment. We are, therefore,
requesting that States continue to transmit monthly files of adult TANF
recipients necessary to calculate the work measures performance data.
To the extent States do not provide the requested information, we will
extract the matching information from the TANF Data Report. This may
result in calculation of the work performance measures based on sample
data, which would provide us less precise information on States'
performance.
The Transmission File Layouts form provides the format that States
will continue to use for the quarterly electronic transmission of
monthly data on TANF adult recipients. States that have separate TANF-
MOE files on these programs are also requested to transmit similar
files. We are not requesting any changes to the Transmission File
Layouts form.
Respondents: Respondents may include any of the 50 States, the
District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
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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State High Performance Bonus System (HPBS) 54 2 16 1,728
Transmission File Layouts..................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours..... ............... ............... ............... 1,728
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In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) 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: ACE 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: October 27, 2008.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-26004 Filed 10-30-08; 8:45 am]
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