Notice2025-23909
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Quarterly Reports
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Published
December 29, 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 of the form Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Quarterly Reports (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #: 0970-0589, expiration October 31, 2025). Changes are proposed, which would reduce redundancy and administrative burden for respondents.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 245 (Monday, December 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60697-60698]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23909]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #: 0970-0589]
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Low Income Home Energy
Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Quarterly Reports
AGENCY: The 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) is
requesting a 3-year extension of the form Low Income Home Energy
Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Quarterly Reports (Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) #: 0970-0589, expiration October 31, 2025). Changes are
proposed, which would reduce redundancy and administrative burden for
respondents.
DATES: Comments due February 27, 2026.
ADDRESSES: 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. You can obtain
copies of the proposed collection of information and submit comments by
emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#51383f373e323e3d3d343225383e3f113032377f3939227f363e27"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="234a4d454c404c4f4f4640574a4c4d634240450d4b4b500d444c55">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the title
of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The LIHEAP Quarterly Report assists the Office of
Community Services in receiving data and information about LIHEAP
during the federal fiscal year (FFY). This almost real time data
ensures ACF can continue to:
1. Track key information, such as the number of households served,
in ``real time'' versus in the new fiscal year.
2. Effectively address challenges in a timely manner, including
supporting emerging training and technical assistance needs, addressing
challenges with obligating funds, and addressing outreach and intake
issues, such as reaching newly eligible households.
3. Ensure accountability and transparency by using the information
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to regularly update public dashboards and keep key decision makers
informed of grantee progress. All grant recipients, including states,
tribes, and territories, will submit brief quarterly reports with
critical information on the status of LIHEAP. The Quarterly Report
forms will include questions on:
<bullet> Total households assisted,
<bullet> Performance management including the number of occurrences
in which LIHEAP funding prevented the loss of or restored home energy
services, and
<bullet> The estimated percentage of LIHEAP funds that have been
obligated by funding component.
Grant recipients will also have an opportunity to highlight
additional training/technical assistance needs/suggestions, which the
Office of Community Services uses to inform support such as training
and resources.
ACF also proposes several small changes to the LIHEAP Quarterly
Report beginning with the Quarter 4 report due October 31, 2025 and
beyond. Those changes only affect Section III of the Quarter 3 (due
July 31, 2026 and beyond) and Quarter 4 reports (due October 31, 2025
and beyond). The changes to Section III involve inclusion of the
primary data elements from the separate LIHEAP Carryover and
Reallotment Report (OMB #: 0970-0106), which ACF wishes to discontinue
use of in favor of only obtaining such data through the LIHEAP
Quarterly Report. Section III would more clearly distinguish
``carryover'' fund estimated (Quarter 3) and final amounts (Quarter 4)
from ``reallotment'' fund estimated and final amounts. The Quarter 3
and 4 Section III also includes a ``remarks'' field for grant
recipients to complete only if they are indicating a request to
carryover funds to obligate in the next FFY. The federal LIHEAP statute
requires all grant recipients requesting carryover to explain why they
wish to carryover and how they intend to use such carryover funds in
the next year (42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2)(A)).
Respondents: States and tribes.
Annual Burden Estimates
The estimated time per response for this report was increased from
12 to 16 hours to account for the proposed changes. These changes are
expected to reduce effort overall, however, by eliminating the
Carryover and Reallotment Report, as discussed above.
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Annual number Average burden
Instrument Total number of of responses hours per Annual burden
respondents per respondent response hours
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LIHEAP Quarterly Report..................... 207 4 16 13,248
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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. 8626 and 8629) and federal regulations (45
CFR 96.92).
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-23909 Filed 12-23-25; 8:45 am]
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