Notice2025-07375
Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Performance Data Form
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Published
April 29, 2025
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Community Services (OCS) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requesting an extension without change to the current version of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Performance Measures (OMB #0970-0449) for use through June 30, 2025, and for approval of a revised version to use beginning July 1, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 81 (Tuesday, April 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17825-17826]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07375]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #0970-0449]
Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Low
Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Performance Data Form
AGENCY: Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and
Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of
Community Services (OCS) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) is requesting an extension without change to the current
version of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
Performance Measures (OMB #0970-0449) for use through June 30, 2025,
and for approval of a revised version to use beginning July 1, 2025.
DATES: Comments due May 29, 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 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#f29b9c949d919d9e9e9791869b9d9cb2939194dc9a9a81dc959d84"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bed7d0d8d1ddd1d2d2dbddcad7d1d0fedfddd890d6d6cd90d9d1c8">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all emailed requests by the title
of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: OCS administers LIHEAP at the federal level. The
LIHEAP Performance Data Form (LPDF) is an annual report in response to
Section 2610(b) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981
[42 U.S.C. 8629(b)] (LIHEAP statute), which requires the Secretary of
HHS to submit, no later than June 30 of each federal fiscal year, a
report to Congress on the impact of LIHEAP on recipient and eligible
households for the prior federal fiscal year. The completeness,
accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of responses to data collections
are needed for HHS to do the following:
<bullet> Provide reliable and complete fiscal and household data to
Congress in the Department's LIHEAP Report to Congress for the federal
fiscal year; and
<bullet> Respond to questions from the Congress, Department, OMB,
White House, and other interested parties in a timely manner; and
<bullet> Report LIHEAP performance results as part of the
Administration's annual Congressional Justification.
In response to the 2010 Government Accountability Office (GAO)
report, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program--Greater Fraud
Prevention Controls are Needed (GAO-10-621),
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and in consideration of the recommendations issued by the LIHEAP
Performance Measures Implementation Work Group, OCS required the
collection and reporting of these performance measures by state LIHEAP
grant recipients, including the District of Columbia. The original LDPF
was approved by OMB in November 2014 and has been in use since. The
LPDF provides for the collection of data on state grant recipients'
sources and uses of LIHEAP funds, including average benefit amounts, as
well as data for the following developmental LIHEAP performance
measures:
1. The benefit targeting index for high burden households receiving
LIHEAP fuel assistance;
2. The burden reduction targeting index for high burden households
receiving LIHEAP fuel assistance;
3. The number of households where LIHEAP prevented a potential home
energy crisis; and
4. The number of households where LIHEAP benefits restored home
energy.
All state LIHEAP grant recipients, including the District of
Columbia, are required to complete the LPDF on an annual basis through
ACF's web-based data collection and reporting system, the Online Data
Collection, which is available at the GrantSolutions homepage (<a href="https://home.grantsolutions.gov/home">https://home.grantsolutions.gov/home</a>). The reporting requirements will be
described through the LIHEAP Forms and Funding Applications page
(<a href="https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ocs/form/liheap-forms-and-funding-applications">https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ocs/form/liheap-forms-and-funding-applications</a>) of ACF's website.
This request will (1) continue approval to collect information
using the currently approved version of the LPDF through June 30, 2025;
and (2) incorporate changes to the LPDF designed to collect performance
data on the impacts of supplemental federal LIHEAP funds and to improve
form fields and language. The changes proposed would go into effect in
July 2025 and consist of (1) changing the name of Module 1 of the form
from ``Grantee Survey'' to ``Grant Recipient Survey''; (2) adding an
item for reporting carryover of Residential Energy Assistance Challenge
(REACH) funds to the following FY; (3) adding an item for reporting
non-administrative information technology enhancements; (4) removing
maximum income cutoffs from funding uses; (5) replacement of sources
and uses of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES
Act) [Pub. L. 116-136] funds and American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
(ARPA) [Pub. L. 117-2] funds with the Infrastructure Investment and
Jobs Act (IIJA) [Pub. L. 117-58] funds; and (6) minor wording and
structural changes.
Module 1. Grant Recipient Survey
Module 1 of the LPDF will continue to require the following data
from each state for the federal fiscal year:
<bullet> Grant recipient information.
<bullet> Sources and uses of LIHEAP funds, by funding type.
<bullet> Average LIHEAP household benefits, by funding type.
Modules 2, 2A, and 2B. Required LIHEAP Performance Measures
Modules 2, 2A, and 2B of the LPDF will continue to require the
following data from each state for the federal fiscal year:
<bullet> Grant recipient information;
<bullet> Energy burden targeting;
<bullet> Restoration of home energy service; and
<bullet> Prevention of loss of home energy.
Modules 2, 2A, and 2B require reporting on households that received
benefits from, respectively, non-supplemental funds, CARES Act funds,
and ARPA funds.
Module 3. LIHEAP Performance Measures (Optional Reporting)
Module 3 of the LIHEAP LPDF will continue to voluntarily collect
the following additional information from each interested grant
recipient for the federal fiscal year:
<bullet> Average annual energy usage;
<bullet> Unduplicated number of households using supplemental
heating fuel and air conditioning;
<bullet> Unduplicated number of households that had restoration of
home energy service, and
<bullet> Unduplicated number of households that had prevention of
loss of home energy.
LIHEAP grant recipients will be able to compare their own results
to the results for other states, as well as to regional and national
results, through the Data Warehouse of the LIHEAP Performance
Management website as they manage their programs.
ACF published a Federal Register notice on December 2, 2024
soliciting 60 days of public comment on this request, including the
minor revisions to go into effect in 2025. ACF received no comments on
this notice.
Respondents: State governments, including the District of Columbia;
the largest five electricity and natural gas vendors by state; the
largest ten fuel oil and propane vendors by state; and the states' sub-
recipients.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Average
Total number Annual number burden Annual
LIHEAP performance data form of of responses hours per burden
respondents per respondent response hours
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State Grant Recipients--Module I............................ 51 1 30 1,530
State Grant Recipients--Modules II and III.................. 51 1 158.6 8,088.6
Sub-Grant Recipients (in states with sub-grant recipient 100 1 6.3 630
managed systems)--Modules II and III.......................
Energy Vendors (largest 5 electric, 5 natural gas, 10 fuel 1,530 1 8.5 13,005
oil, and 10 propane vendors per state-average)--Modules II
and III....................................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 23,253.6.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 8629(b).
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-07375 Filed 4-28-25; 8:45 am]
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