Proposed Projects

Title: Head Start Facilities Construction, Purchase and Major Renovation45 CFR part 1309.

OMB No.: 09700193.

Description: The Head Start Bureau is proposing to renew, without changes, 45 CFR part 1309. This rule contains the administrative requirements for Head Start and Early Head Start grantees who apply for funding

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: Performance Measures for Healthy Marriage and Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Grant Programs.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: The Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), intends to request approval from the Office of Management

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: Developmental Disabilities Protection & Advocacy Program Statement of Goals and Priorities.

OMB No.: 09800270.

Description: Federal statute and regulation require each State Protection and Advocacy (P&A) System to prepare and submit to public comment a Statement of Goals and Priorities (SGP) for the P&A for

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: Child Care and Development Fund Plan for States/Territories for FFY 20102011 (ACF118).

OMB No.: 09700114.

Description: The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Plan (the Plan) for States and Territories is required from each CCDF Lead agency in accordance with Section 658E of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: TANF Quarterly Financial Report, ACF196.

OMB No.: 09700247.

Description: This information collection is authorized under Section 411(a)(3) of the Social Security Act. This request is for renewal of approval to use the Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) 196 form for periodic financial reporting under

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) herein issues final interpretive rules, general statements of policy and rules of agency organization, procedure or practice relating to the Social and Economic Development Strategies (hereinafter referred to as SEDS), Social and Economic Development Strategies for Alaska (hereinafter referred to as

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative Grantee Implementation Evaluation.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), in partnership with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning, Research and Evaluation (ASPE), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

These proposed regulations would revise Federal requirements for establishing and enforcing intergovernmental support obligations in Child Support Enforcement (IVD) program cases receiving services under title IVD of the Social Security Act (the Act). The proposed changes would: Revise current interstate requirements to apply to case processing in

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: Regional Partnership Grant (RPG) Program Data Collection.

Description: On September 30, 2007, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Children's Bureau, awarded multiyear grants to 53 regional partnership grantees (RPGs) to improve the safety, permanency and wellbeing of children affected by methamphetamine or other

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: Interstate Referral Guide (IRG).

OMB No.: 09700209.

Description: The purpose of the Intergovernmental Referral Guide (IRG) project is to provide States, Foreign Nations and Tribes with an effective and efficient way of viewing and updating their profiles with child support enforcement policies and procedures, and their address

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: Supporting Healthy Marriage Project Baseline Data Collection Extension OMB No.: 09700299.

Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is conducting an evaluation study titled Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM). This is a largescale, multisite, rigorous test of marriage and relationship skills

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Project

Title: Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES).

OMB No.: 09700151.

Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is planning to collect data on a new cohort for the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES). FACESis a

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Project

Title: Building Strong Families (BSF) Demonstration and EvaluationImpact Study Second Followup.

OMB No.: 09700304.

Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), anticipates continuing data collection for the 15month followup surveys of the Building

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: HHS/ACF/OPRE Head Start Classroombased Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social skill promotion (CARES) project: Impact and Implementation Studies.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: The Head Start Classroombased Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social skill promotion (CARES) project will

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: TANF Quarterly Financial Report, ACF196.

OMB No.: 09700247.

Description: The Tribal TANF Quarterly Financial Report provides specific data regarding expenditures and provides a mechanism for Tribes to request grant awards and certify the availability of State matching funds. Failure to collect this data would

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: State Council on Developmental Disabilities Program Performance Report.

OMB No.: 09800172.

Description: A Developmental Disabilities Council Program Performance Report is required by federal statute. Each State Developmental Disabilities Council must submit an annual report for the preceding fiscal year of activities and

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Title: Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations or Tribal Consortia Letter of Intent to Operate a Title IVE Program.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110351) added section 479B to the Social Security Act (the Act), which allows Indian Tribes the option to

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects:

Title: Letter of Intent for Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations or Tribal consortia to operate a title IVE program under the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110351).

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: The Administration for Children and Families is requesting that

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects:

Title: Court Improvement Program.

OMB No.: 09700245.

Description: The Court Improvement Program provides grants to State court systems to conduct assessments of their foster care and adoption laws and judicial processes and to develop and implement a plan for system improvement. ACF proposes to collect information

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) hereby gives notice to the public that certain programs within the Agency will administratively impose a matching requirement on grants awarded under the following program titles and funding opportunity announcements for Fiscal Year 2009:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: Objective Work Plan (OWP), Objective Progress Report (OPR) and Project Abstract.

OMB No.: 09800204.

Description: Content changes are being made to the OPR ONLY. The information in the OPR is being collected on a quarterly basis to monitor the performance of grantees and better gauge grantee progress. The

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Project:

Title: Feasibility Test for Design Phase of National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand.

OMB No.: New Collection.

Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), intends to collect information as part of the Design Phase of the National Study of

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: State High Performance Bonus System (HPBS) Transmission File Layouts for HPBS Work Measures.

OMB No.: 09700230.

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

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

As required by section 423(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 623(c)), the Department is publishing the allotment percentage for each State under the Title IVB Subpart 1, Child Welfare Services State Grants Program. Under section 423(a), the allotment percentages are one of the factors used
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in the computation of the Federal

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration

Proposed Projects

Title: Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Voting Access Annual Report.

OMB No.: 09700327.

Description: This is a revision to include the application for the previously cleared Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Annual Report, Payments to States and Units of Local Government, 42 U.S.C. 15421.

The Help America Vote Act (HAVA)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES : Children and Families Administration