Notice2024-28555
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Local Evaluation Final Report (New Collection)
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Published
December 6, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is requesting approval of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) Final Report Templates. HMRF grant programs are required to submit a final report describing their local evaluation analyses and findings. This request includes guidance for grant recipients in the form of templates. Information will inform technical assistance to support grantees in developing and submitting the final reports to ACF to fulfill a grant requirement.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 235 (Friday, December 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 97010-97011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28555]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Healthy
Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Local Evaluation Final Report (New
Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services is requesting approval of the Healthy
Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) Final Report Templates. HMRF
grant programs are required to submit a final report describing their
local evaluation analyses and findings. This request includes guidance
for grant recipients in the form of templates. Information will inform
technical assistance to support grantees in developing and submitting
the final reports to ACF to fulfill a grant requirement.
DATES: Comments due January 6, 2025. OMB must decide about the
collection of information between 30 and 60 days after publication of
this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best
assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. You can
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by
emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e1aeb1b3a4888f878e828e8d8d848295888e8fa1808287cf898992cf868e97"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0b445b594e62656d64686467676e687f6264654b6a686d25636378256c647d">[email protected]</span></a>.
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Identify all requests by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: Since 2005, Congress has authorized dedicated funding
for discretionary awards from ACF's Office of Family Assistance to
support HMRF programs. Per the 2020 HMRF Notice of Funding
Opportunities issued by ACF, HMRF grant recipients that are carrying
out local evaluations are required to submit a final evaluation report
to ACF at the end of their grant. The final reports must document the
research questions, measures, study design, planned and actual
implementation of the program, analytic methods for their evaluation,
and evaluation findings.
OPRE is conducting the HMRF Local Evaluation Technical Assistance
(LETA) projects, jointly referred to as the HMRF-LETA projects, to
support federally funded programs in evaluating their healthy
relationship and family stability services to adult couples, adult
individuals, fathers, and youth. As part of the HMRF-LETA project,
grant recipients receive technical assistance to support planning and
executing a local evaluation and analyzing and reporting local
evaluation findings.
The purpose of the current information collection request is to
provide standardized report templates and table shells to grant
recipients to document their evaluation's analysis and findings. A
structured final report template will facilitate grant recipients'
efficient and consistent reporting of evaluation findings in their
final reports. The completed draft reports will be reviewed by the
HMRF-LETA teams to determine whether the analysis and reports meet
standards set by ACF, and to develop recommendations for grant
recipients to improve the analysis and reports before final submission
to ACF. Grant recipients will finalize and submit their final reports
to ACF, as required. This request includes the time to develop and
submit the reports.
Respondents: The respondents are HMRF grant recipients conducting a
local evaluation. There are currently 79 grant recipients conducting
local evaluations: 50 evaluations using descriptive designs
(``descriptive evaluations'') and 29 evaluations using impact designs
(``impact evaluations'').
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per Avg. burden Total/annual
Instrument respondents respondent (total per response burden (in
(total over over request (in hours) hours)
request period) period)
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Descriptive Evaluation Final Report 50 1 40 2,000
Template.................................
Impact Evaluation Final Report Template... 29 1 30 870
Impact Evaluation Final Report Table 29 1 10 290
Shells...................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,160.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2).
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-28555 Filed 12-5-24; 8:45 am]
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