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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Comment Request for
Review of ACF Disaster Case
Management Implementation Guide;
Office of Human Services Emergency
Preparedness and Response
Administration for Children
and Families, Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104–13, May 22, 1995), this notice
announces that the Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), Office of
Human Services Emergency
Preparedness and Response (OHSEPR)
intends to submit to notice in the
Federal Register for comments on the
ACF Disaster Case Management
Implementation Guide, dated December
10, 2008.
Disaster case management is the
process of organizing and providing a
timely, coordinated approach to assess
disaster-related needs as well as existing
healthcare, mental health and human
services needs that may adversely
impact an individual’s recovery if not
addressed. Disaster case management
facilitates the delivery of appropriate
resources and services, works with a
client to implement a recovery plan and
advocates for the client’s needs to assist
him/her in returning to a pre-disaster
status while respecting human dignity.
If necessary, disaster case management
helps transition the client with preexisting needs to existing case
management providers after disasterrelated needs are addressed. This is
facilitated through the provision of a
single point of contact for disaster
assistance applicants who need a wide
variety of services that may be provided
by many different organizations.
The purpose of disaster case
management is to rapidly return
individuals and families who have
survived a disaster to a state of selfsufficiency. This is accomplished by
ensuring that each individual has access
to a case manager who will capture
information about the individual’s
situation and then serve as his/her
advocate and help him/her organize and
access disaster-related resources, human
services, healthcare and mental
healthcare that will help him/her
achieve pre-disaster levels of
functioning and equilibrium. The
service is particularly critical in
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situations where large-scale mortality,
injuries, or personal property damage
have occurred. Disaster case
management is based on the principles
of self-determination, self-sufficiency,
federalism, flexibility and speed, and
support to States.
Comments are particularly invited on:
the program guidelines of the ACF
Disaster Case Management Pilot
Program; and recommendations on
program improvements based on valid
evidence and methodology.
For a copy of the ACF Disaster Case
Management Implementation guide,
please contact Kaee Ross at 202–401–
9331, or visit https://www.acf.hhs.gov/
ohsepr/dcm/dcm.guide.html.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before October 8, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments
to—CAPT Roberta P. Lavin, Director,
Office of Human Services Emergency
Preparedness and Response,
Administration for Children and
Families, 370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW.,
6th Floor West, Washington, DC 20447
or via email to
Roberta.Lavin@acf.hhs.gov.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Contacts:
CAPT Roberta P. Lavin, Director, Office
of Human Services Emergency
Preparedness and Response (OHSEPR),
at roberta.lavin@acf.hhs.gov or 202–
401–9306; Sylvia R. Menifee, Deputy
Director (Operations), OHSEPR, at
sylvia.menifee@acf.hhs.gov or 202–401–
1448; Kaee Ross, Project Officer,
OHSEPR, at kaee.ross@acf.hhs.gov or
202–401–9331.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), within the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) is
responsible for Federal programs that
promote the economic and social wellbeing of families, children, individuals,
and communities. ACF programs aim to
achieve the following:
• Families and individuals
empowered to increase their own
economic independence and
productivity;
• Strong, healthy, supportive
communities that have a positive impact
on the quality of life and the
development of children;
• Partnerships with individuals,
front-line service providers,
communities, American Indian tribes,
Native communities, States, and
Congress that enable solutions which
transcend traditional agency
boundaries;
• Services planned, reformed, and
integrated to improve needed access;
and
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• A strong commitment to working
with people with developmental
disabilities, refugees, and migrants to
address their needs, strengths, and
abilities.
Dated: September 16, 2009.
David A. Hansell,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Children and
Families.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects:
Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of
Children’s Bureau Child Welfare
Implementation Centers and National
Resource Centers.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Cross-Site
Evaluation of the Child Welfare
Implementation Centers (IC) and
National Resource Centers (NRC) is
sponsored by the Children’s Bureau,
Administration for Children and
Families of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services and
involves the conduct of a five-year,
cross-site evaluation that examines the
effectiveness of the ICs’ and NRCs’
activities and service provision and the
relation of their training and technical
assistance activities to organizational
and systems change in State and Tribal
child welfare systems. Additionally, the
evaluation will examine the degree to
which networking, collaboration,
information sharing, adherence to
common principles, and common
messaging occurs across all members of
the Children’s Bureau Training and
Technical Assistance (T/TA) Network,
which is designed to improve child
welfare systems and to support States
and Tribes in achieving sustainable,
systemic change that results in greater
safety, permanency, and well-being for
children, youth, and families. The
Children’s Bureau desires to assess the
quality and effectiveness of the
technical assistance it supports, and
several of these programs and projects
are required to be evaluated, including
those funded under Section 105 of The
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Act, as amended [42 U.S.C. 5106] and
Parts B and E of Title IV of the Social
Security Act. Beginning in fiscal year
(FY) 2010, the T/TA Network will
comprise a group of 30 T/TA providers
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funded entirely or partially by the
Children’s Bureau through grants,
contracts, and interagency agreements.
The cross-site evaluation uses a
mixed-method, longitudinal approach to
examine the ICs (funded in FY 2009)
and a new cohort of NRCs (funded in FY
2010). Proposed data collection methods
are a longitudinal telephone survey of
State child welfare directors (or their
designees) and Tribal Child Welfare/
Social Service Directors (or their
designees), a web-based survey of State
and Tribal T/TA recipients, and
aggregation of outputs from a web-based
technical assistance tracking system
(OneNet)that will be used by the five ICs
and 11 NRCs. A web-based survey will
be also administered to members of the
T/TA Network. Data collected through
these instruments will be used by the
Children’s Bureau to evaluate the
effectiveness of technical assistance
delivered to State, local, Tribal, and
other publicly administered or publicly
supported child welfare agencies and
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family and juvenile courts and the
overall functioning of the T/TA
Network.
Respondents: Respondents to two of
the survey instruments will be State and
Tribal governments. Respondents to the
third survey instrument will be private
institutions, including universities, notfor-profit organizations, and private
companies. Private institutions,
including universities and not-for-profit
organizations will be respondents to the
forms in the OneNet tracking system.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
respondents
Instrument
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Agency Results Survey .............................................................................
Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Activity Survey .......................
Web-Based Network Survey .....................................................................
OneNet Form: Implementation Project (IP) Description ............................
OneNet Form: IP Technical Assistance (TA) Activity ................................
OneNet Form: Implementation Center (IC) General TA Event .................
OneNet Form: IP Monthly Report ..............................................................
OneNet Form: National Resource Centers (NRC) TA Intake Form ..........
OneNet Form: NRC TA Work Plan ...........................................................
OneNet Form: NRC TA Close-Out ............................................................
OneNet Form: NRC TA Activity .................................................................
OneNet Form: NRC General TA Event .....................................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,231.51.
In compliance with the requirements
of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the
Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment
on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above.
Copies of the proposed collection of
information can be obtained and
comments may be forwarded by writing
to the Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Administration,
Office of Information Services, 370
L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington,
DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance
Officer. E-mail address:
infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests
should be identified by the title of the
information collection.
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
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Number of
responses per
respondent
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600
30
5
5
5
5
11
11
11
11
11
other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to
comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Dated: September 18, 2009.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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National Institutes of Health
Government-Owned Inventions;
Availability for Licensing
AGENCY: National Institutes of Health,
Public Health Service, HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: The inventions listed below
are owned by an agency of the U.S.
Government and are available for
licensing in the U.S. in accordance with
35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious
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development. Foreign patent
applications are filed on selected
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for companies and may also be available
for licensing.
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Average burden
hours per
response
1
1
1
5.40
280.80
4
62.40
45
45
45
528
36
1
0.25
0.25
0.50
0.33
0.33
0.17
0.13
0.20
0.08
0.20
0.25
Total burden
hours
74
150
7.50
13.50
463.32
6.60
53.04
64.35
99
39.60
1,161.60
99
ADDRESSES: Licensing information and
copies of the U.S. patent applications
listed below may be obtained by writing
to the indicated licensing contact at the
Office of Technology Transfer, National
Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive
Boulevard, Suite 325, Rockville,
Maryland 20852–3804; telephone: 301/
496–7057; fax: 301/402–0220. A signed
Confidential Disclosure Agreement will
be required to receive copies of the
patent applications.
A Plasmid System for Monitoring
Double-Stranded DNA Breaks in the
Live Cell
Description of Technology: This
technology is useful for studying the
role of chromosomal breaks in cancer
and for drug and assay development
related to treating cancer. The
technology is a two-plasmid system for
inducing and monitoring individual
double-stranded DNA breaks in the
nuclei of live cells. The first plasmid,
lac-I-SceI-tet, which is stably transfected
into cells, has a rare 18 base pair
restriction endonuclease site called
ISceI. This site is flanked by an array of
256 copies of the lac-repressor binding
site and 96 copies of the tetracycline
response element. Plasmids expressing
tet and lac repressor proteins labeled in
a complementary fashion can be
cotransfected to visualize these arrays of
repressor binding sites. The second
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects:
Title: Cross-Site Evaluation of Children's Bureau Child Welfare
Implementation Centers and National Resource Centers.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Cross-Site Evaluation of the Child Welfare
Implementation Centers (IC) and National Resource Centers (NRC) is
sponsored by the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and
Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and
involves the conduct of a five-year, cross-site evaluation that
examines the effectiveness of the ICs' and NRCs' activities and service
provision and the relation of their training and technical assistance
activities to organizational and systems change in State and Tribal
child welfare systems. Additionally, the evaluation will examine the
degree to which networking, collaboration, information sharing,
adherence to common principles, and common messaging occurs across all
members of the Children's Bureau Training and Technical Assistance (T/
TA) Network, which is designed to improve child welfare systems and to
support States and Tribes in achieving sustainable, systemic change
that results in greater safety, permanency, and well-being for
children, youth, and families. The Children's Bureau desires to assess
the quality and effectiveness of the technical assistance it supports,
and several of these programs and projects are required to be
evaluated, including those funded under Section 105 of The Child Abuse
Prevention and Treatment Act, as amended [42 U.S.C. 5106] and Parts B
and E of Title IV of the Social Security Act. Beginning in fiscal year
(FY) 2010, the T/TA Network will comprise a group of 30 T/TA providers
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funded entirely or partially by the Children's Bureau through grants,
contracts, and interagency agreements.
The cross-site evaluation uses a mixed-method, longitudinal
approach to examine the ICs (funded in FY 2009) and a new cohort of
NRCs (funded in FY 2010). Proposed data collection methods are a
longitudinal telephone survey of State child welfare directors (or
their designees) and Tribal Child Welfare/Social Service Directors (or
their designees), a web-based survey of State and Tribal T/TA
recipients, and aggregation of outputs from a web-based technical
assistance tracking system (OneNet)that will be used by the five ICs
and 11 NRCs. A web-based survey will be also administered to members of
the T/TA Network. Data collected through these instruments will be used
by the Children's Bureau to evaluate the effectiveness of technical
assistance delivered to State, local, Tribal, and other publicly
administered or publicly supported child welfare agencies and family
and juvenile courts and the overall functioning of the T/TA Network.
Respondents: Respondents to two of the survey instruments will be
State and Tribal governments. Respondents to the third survey
instrument will be private institutions, including universities, not-
for-profit organizations, and private companies. Private institutions,
including universities and not-for-profit organizations will be
respondents to the forms in the OneNet tracking system.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Agency Results Survey........................... 74 1 1 74
Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) 600 1 0.25 150
Activity Survey................................
Web-Based Network Survey........................ 30 1 0.25 7.50
OneNet Form: Implementation Project (IP) 5 5.40 0.50 13.50
Description....................................
OneNet Form: IP Technical Assistance (TA) 5 280.80 0.33 463.32
Activity.......................................
OneNet Form: Implementation Center (IC) General 5 4 0.33 6.60
TA Event.......................................
OneNet Form: IP Monthly Report.................. 5 62.40 0.17 53.04
OneNet Form: National Resource Centers (NRC) TA 11 45 0.13 64.35
Intake Form....................................
OneNet Form: NRC TA Work Plan................... 11 45 0.20 99
OneNet Form: NRC TA Close-Out................... 11 45 0.08 39.60
OneNet Form: NRC TA Activity.................... 11 528 0.20 1,161.60
OneNet Form: NRC General TA Event............... 11 36 0.25 99
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,231.51.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail
address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified
by the title of the information collection.
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.
Dated: September 18, 2009.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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