Notice2025-07836
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Plan for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance-Title IV-E
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Published
May 6, 2025
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is requesting a 3-year extension and revisions to the Plan for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance--Title IV-E, (OMB#: 0970-0433, expiration July 31, 2025). This plan also incorporates the plan requirements for the optional guardianship assistance, Title IV-E prevention services and the Title IV-E kinship navigator programs.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 6, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19206-19207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07836]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #: 0970-0433]
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Plan for Foster Care
and Adoption Assistance--Title IV-E
AGENCY: Children's Bureau, 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) is
requesting a 3-year extension and revisions to the Plan for Foster Care
and Adoption Assistance--Title IV-E, (OMB#: 0970-0433, expiration July
31, 2025). This plan also incorporates the plan requirements for the
optional guardianship assistance, Title IV-E prevention services and
the Title IV-E kinship navigator programs.
DATES: Comments due July 7, 2025. In compliance with the requirements
of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting public
comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described
above.
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ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of
information and submit comments by emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f69f98909995999a9a9395829f9998b6979590d89e9e85d8919980"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="157c7b737a767a79797076617c7a7b557476733b7d7d663b727a63">[email protected]</span></a>.
Identify all requests by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: A title IV-E plan is required by section 471, part IV-
E of the Social Security Act (the Act) for each public child welfare
agency requesting federal funding under the Act for foster care and
adoption assistance, as well as for the optional guardianship
assistance, kinship navigator and prevention services programs. Section
479B of the Act provides for an Indian tribe, tribal organization or
tribal consortium (tribe) to operate a title IV-E program in the same
manner as a state with minimal exceptions. The tribe must have an
approved title IV-E Plan.
The title IV-E plan provides assurances the programs will be
administered in conformity with the specific requirements stipulated in
title IV-E. The plan must include all applicable state or tribal
statutory, regulatory, or policy references and citations for each
requirement as well as supporting documentation. A title IV-E agency
may use the pre-print format prepared by the Children's Bureau or a
different format, on the condition that the format used includes all
the title IV-E plan requirements of the law.
Section A of the title IV-E plan pre-print addresses requirements
for the Foster Care, Adoption Assistance and optional Guardianship
Assistance and Kinship Navigator programs. For these programs, the plan
submission remains in effect until amendments are required due either
to changes in federal requirements or agency operations.
Section B of the title IV-E plan pre-print addresses requirements
for the Prevention Services program. This program requires a plan
submission every five years, and amendments as needed.
Both sections of the title IV-E preprint include minor revisions to
reflect recent changes in statutory, regulatory and policy requirements
or options and to remove outdated information. All revisions in policy
and requirements have been communicated to title IV-E agencies through
prior policy issuances.
Revisions in Section A include:
<bullet> Updates to provisions relating to children missing from
foster care, enacted through Public Law 117-348, the Trafficking
Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022; and
<bullet> Updates to requirements and flexibilities for relative and
kin foster care homes, including allowing separate licensing standards
for relative and kin foster homes
Revisions in Section B include:
<bullet> A streamlined approach for title IV-E agencies to request
renewal of a previously approved 5-year plan; and
<bullet> Revisions reflecting additional flexibilities in program
requirements for tribes participating in the program through an
agreement with another title IV-E agency.
Respondents: State, territorial and tribal title IV-E agencies.
Annual Burden Estimates
Respondents complete and submit a IV-E plan or plan amendment as
needed for the foster care, adoption assistance and guardianship
assistance programs; and a IV-E plan attachment as needed for the
kinship navigator program. Respondents must complete and submit the
plan for the prevention program every five years, and amendments as
needed. Burden estimates below reflect an estimated total burden for a
3-year period divided by three to provide an annual estimate. ACF
estimates that over the 3-year period 54 respondents will submit a new
or amended title IV-E plan for the foster care, adoption assistance,
and guardianship assistance programs; 48 respondents will submit new or
amended prevention plans; and 15 respondents will submit new or amended
title IV-E kinship navigator plan attachments.
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Total number Average burden
Instrument Total number of responses hours per Total burden Annual burden
of respondents per respondent response hours hours
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Title IV-E Plan................. 54 1 16 864 288
Title IV-E prevention services 48 1 5 240 80
plan...........................
Attachment to Title IV-E plan 15 1 1 15 5
for Kinship Navigator Program..
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 373.
Comments: 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.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 5106(b)(5); 42 U.S.C. 5113(b)(4); 42 U.S.C.
629h.
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-07836 Filed 5-5-25; 8:45 am]
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