[Federal Register: February 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 30)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects:
Title: Grant Application Data Summary (GADS) Form.
OMB No.: 0970-0328.
Description: The purpose of this request is to obtain emergency OMB
clearance of the Grant Application Data Summary (GADS) form so
information collected from all FY09 ANA grant applicants (in March
2009) is accurate.
The GADS collects information from applicants seeking grants from
the Administration for Native Americans (ANA). ANA awards annual grants
in nine competitive areas. Previously, ANA collected information using
the GADS form for 4 competitive areas, not 9. The GADS form, which is
part of the ANA discretionary grant application package, has been
revised to comply with required changes made to the ANA FY09 Program
Announcements (PAs). The PAs were changed to comply with a new policy
established by ACF requiring that subcategories within a PA be broken
down into a stand-alone PA. On 12/5/08, ANA published nine PAs to
support this new requirement for separate PAs, it was necessary for ANA
to change the GADS form to reflect the new PAs. Below are the changes
to the GADS form: (please select relevant topic under one heading)
(1) Special Initiative: Family Preservation: Improving the Well-Being
of Children Planning
Curriculum Development; Community Assessment; Develop a Family
Preservation Strategic Plan
Please choose all relevant topics from the selection below:
Relationship and Marriage Education for Adults; Relationship and
Marriage Education for Youth; Marriage Enrichment activities and
services; Pre-marital education and marriage skills; Relationships
Skills; Responsible Fatherhood or Parenting; Family preservation
activities offered in a culturally appropriate and traditional manner;
Absentee parent services, education and activities; Reduce child/infant
abuse and neglect and family domestic violence; Needs of grandparents
raising grandchildren; Foster Parent Training Family strengthening
services to individuals with substance abuse issues; Public Advertising
Campaigns; Research
(2) Special Initiative: Family Preservation: Improving the Well-Being
of Children Implementation
Relationship & Marriage Education for Adults; Relationship & Marriage
Education for Youth; Marriage Enrichment activities & services; Pre-
marital education & marriage skills; Relationships Skills; Responsible
Fatherhood; Parenting; Family preservation activities in a culturally
appropriate & traditional manner; Absentee parent services, education &
activities; Family Domestic Violence;
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Grandparents raising grandchildren; Foster Parent Training; Family
strengthening services to individuals with substance abuse issues;
Public Advertising Campaigns; Research
(3) Native Language Preservation & Maintenance Assessment
Data Collection; Formal Language Assessment; Informal Language
Assessment
(4) Native Language Preservation & Maintenance Planning
Plan & design Master/Apprentice programs; Plan & design comprehensive
Native language immersion programs for a language nest or survival
school; Plan, design & test curriculum for students, parents & language
instructors; Plan & design teaching materials; Record, transcribe &
archive oral testimony; Plan & design language resource materials using
recorded oral testimony; Plan & design multi-media language learning
tools; Plan & design teacher certification programs; Train teachers,
interpreters or translators of Native languages
(5) Native Language Preservation & Maintenance Implementation
Produce/disseminate culturally relevant printed stories for children
using the Native language of the community; Facilitate/encourage
intergenerational teaching of Native American language skills;
Disseminate culturally relevant materials to teach & enhance the use of
Native American languages; Implement an immersion, mentor or distance
learning model; Produce, distribute or participate in various media
forms to broadcast Native languages; Implement an educational site-
based immersion project
(6) Native Language Preservation & Maintenance ImmersionLanguage Nest;
Language Survival School
Respondents: Federally Recognized Indian Tribes, Tribal
Governments, Native American Non-profits, Tribal Colleges and
Universities
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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Grant Application Data Summary (GADS)....... 500 1 0.50 250
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 250.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(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: February 11, 2009.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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