[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR98.16]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 98--CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart B--General Application Procedures
 
Sec. 98.16  Plan provisions.

    A CCDF Plan shall contain the following:
    (a) Specification of the Lead Agency whose duties and 
responsibilities are delineated in Sec. 98.10;
    (b) The assurances and certifications listed under Sec. 98.15;
    (c)(1) A description of how the CCDF program will be administered 
and implemented, if the Lead Agency does not directly administer and 
implement the program;
    (2) Identification of the entity designated to receive private 
donated funds and the purposes for which such funds will be expended, 
pursuant to Sec. 98.53(f);
    (d) A description of the coordination and consultation processes 
involved in the development of the Plan, including a description of 
public-private partnership activities that promote business involvement 
in meeting child care needs pursuant to Sec. 98.14(a) and (b);
    (e) A description of the public hearing process, pursuant to Sec. 
98.14(c);
    (f) Definitions of the following terms for purposes of determining 
eligibility, pursuant to Sec.Sec. 98.20(a) and 98.44:
    (1) Special needs child;
    (2) Physical or mental incapacity (if applicable);
    (3) Attending (a job training or educational program);
    (4) Job training and educational program;
    (5) Residing with;
    (6) Working;
    (7) Protective services (if applicable), including whether children 
in foster care are considered in protective services for purposes of 
child care eligibility; and whether respite care is provided to 
custodial parents of children in protective services.
    (8) Very low income; and
    (9) in loco parentis.
    (g) For child care services pursuant to Sec. 98.50:
    (1) A description of such services and activities;
    (2) Any limits established for the provision of in-home care and the 
reasons for such limits pursuant to Sec. 98.30(e)(1)(iv);
    (3) A list of political subdivisions in which such services and 
activities are offered, if such services and activities are not 
available throughout the entire service area;

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    (4) A description of how the Lead Agency will meet the needs of 
certain families specified at Sec. 98.50(e).
    (5) Any additional eligibility criteria, priority rules and 
definitions established pursuant to Sec. 98.20(b);
    (h) A description of the activities to provide comprehensive 
consumer education, to increase parental choice, and to improve the 
quality and availability of child care, pursuant to Sec. 98.51;
    (i) A description of the sliding fee scale(s) (including any factors 
other than income and family size used in establishing the fee scale(s)) 
that provide(s) for cost sharing by the families that receive child care 
services for which assistance is provided under the CCDF, pursuant to 
Sec. 98.42;
    (j) A description of the health and safety requirements, applicable 
to all providers of child care services for which assistance is provided 
under the CCDF, in effect pursuant to Sec. 98.41;
    (k) A description of the child care certificate payment system(s), 
including the form or forms of the child care certificate, pursuant to 
Sec. 98.30(c);
    (l) Payment rates and a summary of the facts, including a biennial 
local market rate survey, relied upon to determine that the rates 
provided are sufficient to ensure equal access pursuant to Sec. 98.43;
    (m) A detailed description of how the State maintains a record of 
substantiated parental complaints and how it makes information regarding 
those complaints available to the public on request, pursuant to Sec. 
98.32;
    (n) A detailed description of the procedures in effect for affording 
parents unlimited access to their children whenever their children are 
in the care of the provider, pursuant to Sec. 98.31;
    (o) A detailed description of the licensing requirements applicable 
to child care services provided, and a description of how such licensing 
requirements are effectively enforced, pursuant to Sec. 98.40;
    (p) Pursuant to Sec. 98.33(b), the definitions or criteria used to 
implement the exception, provided in section 407(e)(2) of the Social 
Security Act, to individual penalties in the TANF work requirement 
applicable to a single custodial parent caring for a child under age 
six;
    (q)(1) When any Matching funds under Sec. 98.53(b) are claimed, a 
description of the efforts to ensure that pre-Kindergarten programs meet 
the needs of working parents;
    (2) When State pre-Kindergarten expenditures are used to meet more 
than 10% of the amount required at Sec. 98.53(c)(1), or for more than 
10% of the funds available at Sec. 98.53(b), or both, a description of 
how the State will coordinate its pre-Kindergarten and child care 
services to expand the availability of child care; and
    (r) Such other information as specified by the Secretary.