Notice2025-23546
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Proposed Information Collection Activity; Office of Community Services Community Economic Development Performance Progress Report
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Published
December 22, 2025
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Office of Community Services (OCS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is requesting a 3-year extension of the Community Economic Development (CED) Performance Progress Report (PPR) (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #: 0970-0386), expiration date February 28, 2026, with revisions to support a quarterly reporting schedule. This request updates burden estimates to account for new quarterly reporting requirements. While the core CED PPR form remains unchanged and will still be submitted semi-annually, new awardees must now report quarterly. In alternate quarters (Q1 and Q3), they will complete a shorter version of the form with narrative updates only.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 243 (Monday, December 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59838-59839]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23546]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #: 0970-0386]
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Proposed
Information Collection Activity; Office of Community Services Community
Economic Development Performance Progress Report
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 Office of Community Services (OCS), Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services is requesting a 3-year extension of the Community Economic
Development (CED) Performance Progress Report (PPR) (Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) #: 0970-0386), expiration date February 28,
2026, with revisions to support a quarterly reporting schedule. This
request updates burden estimates to account for new quarterly reporting
requirements. While the core CED PPR form remains unchanged and will
still be submitted semi-annually, new awardees must now report
quarterly. In alternate quarters (Q1 and Q3), they will complete a
shorter version of the form with narrative updates only.
DATES: Comments due January 21, 2026.
ADDRESSES: The public may view and comment on this information
collection request at: <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202512-0970-006">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202512-0970-006</a>. You can obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information and submit comments by emailing
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9bf2f5fdf4f8f4f7f7fef8eff2f4f5dbfaf8fdb5f3f3e8b5fcf4ed"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1871767e777b7774747d7b6c71777658797b7e3670706b367f776e">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the title of the
information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: OCS is seeking to extend the CED PPR (OMB #: 0970-
0386), with revisions, for three years. This extension will permit OCS
to continue collecting the performance progress information about
projects funded through the CED program from current and future grant
recipients.
The CED PPR collects information regarding the implementation and
outcomes of CED projects to support program monitoring, the provision
of training and technical assistance, and the fulfillment of
congressional reporting requirements. The report tracks quantitative
information, including measures of job creation and project
expenditures, along with narrative descriptions of project activities,
challenges, and changes.
The CED PPR will continue to be administered to all active grant
recipients of the CED program. Grant recipients will complete this
report based on activities completed through the second and fourth
quarters of each project year.
This request revises the burden estimates to reflect new reporting
requirements for quarterly reporting. The burden estimates reflect
quarterly reporting for new awardees as well as a shorter response time
for quarterly reporters in alternate quarters when they will only be
required to complete a subset of items on the form. This request makes
no changes to the current approved CED PPR form that all grant
recipients will be required to complete semi-annually. The current
approved CED PPR is cumulative and covers activities completed through
the second and fourth quarters of each project year. For the first and
third quarters of each project year, quarterly reporters will complete
a subset of items to provide narrative updates on project progress.
Currently, grant recipients submit the CED PPR semi-annually.
Through this request, OCS proposes to change the reporting requirements
to collect information on CED project progress on a quarterly basis.
This will allow OCS to monitor grant recipient progress more frequently
and to support the timely provision of training and technical
assistance. The reporting schedule for CED projects will be identified
in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) under which projects are
funded. In the past, CED NOFOs identified a semi-annual reporting
schedule. Quarterly reporting requirements were included in the federal
fiscal year (FFY) 2025 NOFO for the first time.
To reduce the burden for quarterly reporters, OCS will only require
grant recipients to complete a subset of items from the CED PPR in the
first and third quarters of each project year. The burden estimates for
the subset of items are included in the annual burden estimates for the
CED PPR Short Form. The CED PPR Short Form does not include the
quantitative measures and focuses on narrative descriptions of project
activities, challenges, and changes.
Respondents: The CED PPR will be completed by all CED grant
recipients active during the 3-year extension. The CED PPR Short Form
will be completed by grant recipients receiving awards through an
application to a NOFO requiring quarterly reporting.
Annual Burden Estimates
OCS anticipates including quarterly reporting requirements in NOFOs
published in FFY 2025 and later. Because CED projects are funded for 3-
to 4-year project periods, OCS anticipates that only half of active
grant recipients will be required to complete the short-form during the
extension period. These assumptions are reflected in the burden
estimates below.
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Annual number Average burden
Instrument Total number of responses hours per Annual burden
of respondents per respondent response hours
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CED PPR......................................... 79 2 1.5 237
CED PPR Short Form.............................. 48 2 0.5 48
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours......... .............. .............. 285
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Authority: Section 680(a)(2), Community Services Block Grant Act,
42 U.S.C. 9921.
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-23546 Filed 12-19-25; 8:45 am]
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