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public submit reports, keep records, or
provide information to a third party.
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires Federal
agencies to provide a 60-day notice in
the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information,
including each proposed extension of an
existing collection of information,
before submitting the collection to OMB
for approval. To comply with this
requirement, ACL is publishing a notice
of the proposed collection of
information set forth in this document.
With respect to the following
collection of information, ACL invites
comments on our burden estimates or
any other aspect of this collection of
information, including:
(1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
proper performance of ACL’s functions,
including whether the information will
have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of ACL’s estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used
to determine burden estimates;
(3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques
when appropriate, and other forms of
information technology.
The State Councils on Developmental
Disabilities (Councils) are authorized in
Subtitle B, of the Developmental
Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights
Act of 2000 (DD Act), as amended, [42
U.S.C. 15001 et seq.] (The DD Act). They
are required to submit a five-year State
plan. Section 124(a) [42 U.S.C.
15024(a)], states any State desiring to
receive assistance under this subtitle
shall submit to the Secretary, and obtain
approval of, a 5-year strategic State plan
under this section. The requirement for
a State plan is also further emphasized
in the regulations in 45 CFR part
1326.30: (a) In order to receive Federal
financial assistance under this subpart,
each State Developmental Disabilities
Council must prepare and submit to the
Secretary, and have in effect, a State
Plan which meets the requirements of
sections 122 and 124 of the Act (42
U.S.C. 6022 and 6024) and these
regulations.
Additionally, data is collected in the
State Plan and submitted to
Administration on Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities (AIDD) for
compliance with the GPRA
Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA).
In the State Plans, the Councils provide
to AIDD future year targets for outcome
performance measures. These targets are
reported to Congress under GPRAMA.
As required by the statute, the
Council is responsible for the
development and submission of the
State plan, and is then responsible for
implementation of the activities
described in the plan. Further, the
Council updates the Plan annually
during the five years. The State plan
provides information on individuals
with developmental disabilities in the
State, and a description of the services
available to them and their families. The
plan further sets forth the goals and
specific objectives to be achieved by the
State in pursuing systems change and
capacity building in order to more
effectively meet the service needs of this
population. It describes State priorities,
strategies, and actions, and the
allocation of funds to meet these goals
and objectives.
The State Plan is used in three ways.
First, it is used by the individual
Council as a planning document to
guide it’s planning and execution
processes. Secondly, it provides a
mechanism in the State whereby
individual citizens, as well as the State
government, are made aware of the goals
and objectives of the Council and have
an opportunity to provide comments on
them during its development. Finally,
the State plan provides to the
Department a stewardship tool; the staff
of the Department provides some
technical assistance to Councils and
monitor compliance with Subtitle B of
the DD Act, as an adjunct to on-site
monitoring. The stewardship role of the
State plan is useful both for providing
technical assistance during the planning
process, during the execution process,
and also during program site visits.
The proposed data collection tools
may be found on the ACL website for
review at https://www.acl.gov/aboutacl/public-input.
Estimated Program Burden
ACL estimates the burden associated
with this collection of information as
follows.
Number of states
Number of
responses
per state
Average
burden
hours
per state
Total hours
56 .................................................................................................................................................
1
367
20,522
Dated: October 30, 2019.
Mary Lazare,
Principal Deputy Administrator.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
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Administration for Community Living
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; The National Adult
Maltreatment Reporting System; OMB
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Administration for Community
Living, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Administration for
Community Living (ACL) is announcing
an opportunity for the public to
comment on the proposed collection of
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information listed above. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the
PRA), Federal agencies are required to
publish a notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
extension of an existing collection of
information, and to allow 60 days for
public comment in response to the
notice. This notice solicits comments on
the Proposed Extension without Change
and solicits comments on the
information collection requirements
related to the National Maltreatment
Reporting System (NAMRS).
Comments on the collection of
information must be submitted
DATES:
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electronically by 11:59 p.m. (EST) or
postmarked by January 13, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit electronic
comments on the collection of
information to Stephanie Whittier
Eliason, Administration for Community
Living, Washington, DC 20201, at
Stephanie.WhittierEliason@acl.hhs.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stephanie Whittier Eliason,
Administration for Community Living,
Washington, DC 20201, at 202.795.7467
and Stephanie.WhittierEliason@
acl.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal
agencies must obtain approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor.
‘‘Collection of information’’ includes
agency requests or requirements that
members of the public submit reports,
keep records, or provide information to
a third party the PRA requires Federal
agencies to provide a 60-day notice in
the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information,
including each proposed extension of an
existing collection of information,
before submitting the collection to OMB
for approval. To comply with this
requirement, ACL is publishing a notice
of the proposed collection of
information set forth in this document.
With respect to the following
collection of information, ACL invites
comments on our burden estimates or
any other aspect of this collection of
information, including:
(1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
proper performance of ACL’s functions,
including whether the information will
have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of ACL’s estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used
to determine burden estimates;
(3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques
when appropriate, and other forms of
information technology.
This data collection effort is in
response to the Elder Justice Act of
2009, which amended title XX of the
Social Security Act [42.U.S.C. 13976 et
seq.]. These provisions require that the
Secretary of HHS ‘‘collects and
disseminates data annually relating to
the abuse, exploitation, and neglect of
elders in coordination with the
Department of Justice’’ [Sec.
2041(a)(1)(B)], and ‘‘conducts research
related to the provision of adult
protective services’’ [Sec. 2041(a)(1)(D)].
Furthermore, the Elder Justice
Coordinating Council (EJCC) included
as its third recommendation for
increasing federal involvement in
addressing elder abuse, neglect, and
exploitation: Develop a national adult
protective services (APS) system based
upon standardized data collection and a
core set of service provision standards
and best practices. NAMRS is a
voluntary system that since FFY2016
has been collecting on an annual basis
both summary and de-identified caselevel data on APS investigations
submitted by states. NAMRS consists of
three components:
(1) ACL proposes to collect
descriptive data on state agency and
practices from all states through the
‘‘Agency Component,’’ and
(2) Case-level, non-identifiable data
on persons who receive an investigation
Number of
respondents
Respondent/data collection activity
by APS in response to an allegation of
abuse, neglect, or exploitation through
‘‘Case Component’’
(3) For states that are unable to submit
a case-level file through the ‘‘Case
Component,’’ a ‘‘Key Indicators
Component’’ will be available for them
to submit data on a smaller set of core
items.
ACL provides technical assistance to
states to assist in the preparation of their
data submissions. Respondents are state
APS agencies and APS agencies in the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Virgin
Islands, and American Samoa (states,
hereafter). No personally identifiable
information is collected.
The proposed data collection tools
may be found on the ACL website for
review at https://www.acl.gov/aboutacl/public-input.
Estimated Program Burden
ACL estimates the burden associated
with this collection of information as
follows: 56 states will respond every
year. It will take approximately 7 hours
to respond to the Agency Component,
32 hours to respond to the Key Indicator
Component, and 125 hours to respond
and jointly complete the Case
Component and the development of
NAMRS for a total of approximately
5,436 hours. The estimates are based on
the amount of time States have
previously reported in completing the
data collection instruments; continued
increase in the number of states
reporting on Case Component and Key
Indicator Component data; and
assumption of modest incremental
efficiencies by States in reporting data
to NAMRS every year, including, most
significantly, minimal need to recode to
extract data after the initial year.
Responses
per
respondent
Hours per
response
Annual
burden
hours
Agency Component .........................................................................................
Key Indicators Component ..............................................................................
Case Component .............................................................................................
56
17
36
1
1
1
4
20
100
224
340
3,600
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
4,164
Dated: November 1, 2019.
Mary Lazare,
Principal Deputy Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; The National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System; OMB
#0985-0054
AGENCY: Administration for Community Living, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living (ACL) is announcing an
opportunity for the public to comment on the proposed collection of
information listed above. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish a notice in the
Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information,
including each proposed extension of an existing collection of
information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the
notice. This notice solicits comments on the Proposed Extension without
Change and solicits comments on the information collection requirements
related to the National Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS).
DATES: Comments on the collection of information must be submitted
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electronically by 11:59 p.m. (EST) or postmarked by January 13, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit electronic comments on the collection of information
to Stephanie Whittier Eliason, Administration for Community Living,
Washington, DC 20201, at [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Whittier Eliason,
Administration for Community Living, Washington, DC 20201, at
202.795.7467 and [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal
agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor.
``Collection of information'' includes agency requests or requirements
that members of the public submit reports, keep records, or provide
information to a third party the PRA requires Federal agencies to
provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension
of an existing collection of information, before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, ACL is
publishing a notice of the proposed collection of information set forth
in this document.
With respect to the following collection of information, ACL
invites comments on our burden estimates or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including:
(1) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of ACL's functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of ACL's estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used to determine burden estimates;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use of automated collection
techniques when appropriate, and other forms of information technology.
This data collection effort is in response to the Elder Justice Act
of 2009, which amended title XX of the Social Security Act [42.U.S.C.
13976 et seq.]. These provisions require that the Secretary of HHS
``collects and disseminates data annually relating to the abuse,
exploitation, and neglect of elders in coordination with the Department
of Justice'' [Sec. 2041(a)(1)(B)], and ``conducts research related to
the provision of adult protective services'' [Sec. 2041(a)(1)(D)].
Furthermore, the Elder Justice Coordinating Council (EJCC) included as
its third recommendation for increasing federal involvement in
addressing elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation: Develop a national
adult protective services (APS) system based upon standardized data
collection and a core set of service provision standards and best
practices. NAMRS is a voluntary system that since FFY2016 has been
collecting on an annual basis both summary and de-identified case-level
data on APS investigations submitted by states. NAMRS consists of three
components:
(1) ACL proposes to collect descriptive data on state agency and
practices from all states through the ``Agency Component,'' and
(2) Case-level, non-identifiable data on persons who receive an
investigation by APS in response to an allegation of abuse, neglect, or
exploitation through ``Case Component''
(3) For states that are unable to submit a case-level file through
the ``Case Component,'' a ``Key Indicators Component'' will be
available for them to submit data on a smaller set of core items.
ACL provides technical assistance to states to assist in the
preparation of their data submissions. Respondents are state APS
agencies and APS agencies in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Virgin Islands, and American Samoa
(states, hereafter). No personally identifiable information is
collected.
The proposed data collection tools may be found on the ACL website
for review at https://www.acl.gov/about-acl/public-input.
Estimated Program Burden
ACL estimates the burden associated with this collection of
information as follows: 56 states will respond every year. It will take
approximately 7 hours to respond to the Agency Component, 32 hours to
respond to the Key Indicator Component, and 125 hours to respond and
jointly complete the Case Component and the development of NAMRS for a
total of approximately 5,436 hours. The estimates are based on the
amount of time States have previously reported in completing the data
collection instruments; continued increase in the number of states
reporting on Case Component and Key Indicator Component data; and
assumption of modest incremental efficiencies by States in reporting
data to NAMRS every year, including, most significantly, minimal need
to recode to extract data after the initial year.
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Number of Responses per Hours per Annual burden
Respondent/data collection activity respondents respondent response hours
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Agency Component................................ 56 1 4 224
Key Indicators Component........................ 17 1 20 340
Case Component.................................. 36 1 100 3,600
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 4,164
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Dated: November 1, 2019.
Mary Lazare,
Principal Deputy Administrator.
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