Submission for OMB Review; Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt Demonstration Project Data Collection, 7762-7763 [2020-02628]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
[OMB #0970–0505]
Submission for OMB Review;
Procedural Justice-Informed
Alternatives to Contempt
Demonstration Project Data Collection
Office of Child Support
Enforcement; Administration for
Children and Families; HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
The Office of Child Support
Enforcement (OCSE), Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), is proposing to collect
data as part of the rigorous evaluation of
the Procedural Justice-Informed
Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC)
demonstration.
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SUMMARY:
Comments due within 30 days of
publication. OMB is required to make a
decision concerning the collection of
information between 30 and 60 days
after publication of this document in the
Federal Register. Therefore, a comment
is best assured of having its full effect
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if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
directly to the following: Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork
Reduction Project, Email: OIRA_
SUBMISSION@OMB.EOP.GOV, Attn:
Desk Officer for the Administration for
Children and Families.
Copies of the proposed collection may
be obtained by emailing infocollection@
acf.hhs.gov. Alternatively, copies can
also be obtained by writing to the
Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW,
Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE
Reports Clearance Officer. All requests,
emailed or written, should be identified
by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The Office of Child
Support Enforcement (OCSE) within the
Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) is proposing a data
collection activity as part of the
Procedural Justice-Informed
Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC)
Demonstration. In September 2016,
OCSE issued grants to five state child
support agencies to provide alternative
approaches to the contempt process
with the goal of increasing noncustodial
parents’ compliance with child support
orders by building trust and confidence
in the child support agency and its
processes. OCSE also awarded a grant to
support a rigorous evaluation of PJAC.
The PJAC Demonstration is a five-year
project that allows grantees and OCSE to
learn whether incorporating principles
of procedural justice into child support
business practices increases reliable
child support payments, reduces
arrears, minimizes the need for
continued enforcement actions and
sanctions, and reduces the use of
contempt proceedings.
The PJAC demonstration will yield
information about the efficacy of
applying procedural justice principles
via a set of alternative services to the
current use of a civil contempt process
to address nonpayment of child support.
It will generate knowledge regarding
how the PJAC intervention operates, the
effects the alternative services have, and
whether the benefits of this approach
exceed the costs. The information
gathered will help inform future policy
decisions related to the contempt
process within the field of child support
enforcement.
PJAC demonstration will include
three interconnected evaluation
components:
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1. Implementation Study. The
implementation study will provide a
detailed description of the PJAC
intervention—how it is implemented,
whether it was implemented as
intended, participant characteristics, the
contexts in which it is operated, how
treatment differed from the status quo,
and the implications of PJAC practices.
The study will identify the intervention
features and conditions necessary for
effective replication or improvement of
the intervention. Key elements of the
implementation study include: A
Management Information System (MIS)
for random assignment and data
collection on participant engagement in
PJAC activities; semi-structured
interviews with staff from child support
agencies and selected partner
organizations; separate semi-structured
interviews with study participants and
the custodial parents connected to their
child support case to learn about their
experiences with and perceptions of the
child support program; and a staff
questionnaire to gather quantitative
information on the implementation of
PJAC services and staff experiences.
2. Impact Study. The impact study
will provide rigorous estimates of the
effectiveness of the PJAC intervention
using an experimental research design.
Noncustodial parents whose cases are
being referred to the contempt process
will be randomly assigned to either a
program group that is offered PJAC
services or to a control group that is
offered business-as-usual services.
Random assignment will require child
support program staff to complete a
brief data entry protocol. The impact
study will rely on administrative data
from state and county child support
programs, court records, criminal justice
records, and data from the National
Directory of New Hires. Administrative
records data will be used to estimate
impacts on child support payments,
enforcement actions, contempt
proceedings, and jail stays.
3. Benefit-Cost Study. The benefit-cost
study will estimate the costs and
benefits associated with the
implementation and impact of the PJAC
interventions. The study will examine
the costs and benefits from the
perspective of the government,
noncustodial parents, custodial parents,
and society. Pertinent benefits and costs
will be added together to determine the
net value of the program for each
perspective. Key outcomes to be
assessed include the cost of PJAC
interventions, costs for contempt
actions, child support payments from
noncustodial parents (program and
control), court costs, and jail time,
among others. The benefit-cost study
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will rely on the results of the impact
study, analysis of participation data
from the MIS, and results of a staff time
study to quantify various PJAC-related
costs and benefits.
This notice is specific to the following
data collection activities: the
noncustodial parent participant
interviews (these interview topic guides
were approved under a previous
submission and require content
modification which also significantly
lowers the collective public burden
hours); the staff survey; the staff time
study; and the custodial parent
interviews. Data collection activities
that were previously approved by OMB,
following public comment, are the staff
data entry on participant baseline
information, study MIS to track receipt
of services, staff and community partner
interview topic guide, the participant
interview topic guide, and the
participant survey tracking letter. A
participant survey has been eliminated
from the data collection plans so the
OMB-approved participant survey
tracking letter will no longer be used.
Respondents: Respondents include
study participants, child support
program staff at the six PJAC
demonstration sites, custodial parents
associated with study participants, and
the federal Office of Child Support
Enforcement.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Total
number of
respondents
Instrument
Noncustodial parent participant interview ........................................................
Staff survey ......................................................................................................
Staff time study ................................................................................................
Custodial parent interview ...............................................................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 175.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1315.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request Information
Collection Request Title: Ryan White
HIV/AIDS Program: Allocation and
Expenditure Forms, OMB No. 0915–
0318—Revision
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, HRSA announces plans to
submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to
OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate,
below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
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SUMMARY:
Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than April 13, 2020.
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Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 14N136B, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call Lisa Wright-Solomon, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer
at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program:
Allocation and Expenditure Forms,
OMB No. 0915–0318—Revision
Abstract: HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau
administers the Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program (RWHAP) authorized under
Title XXVI of the Public Health Service
Act as amended by the Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009.
RWHAP Allocation and Expenditure
Reports (A&E Reports), in conjunction
with the Consolidated List of
Contractors (CLC), allow HRSA to
monitor and track the use of grant funds
for compliance with program and grants
policies and requirements as outlined in
the 2009 legislation. To avoid
duplication and reduce recipient
reporting burden, HRSA created an
electronic grantee contract management
system (GCMS) that includes data
required for various reports, including
the Allocations Reports, the CLC, and
other HRSA data reports, such as the
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Total
number of
responses per
respondent
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1
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burden hours
per response
1
.5
1.5
1
Total
burden hours
60
10
45
60
RWHAP Services Report. Recipients can
access GCMS year-round to upload or
manually enter data on their service
provider contractors or subrecipients,
the RWHAP core medical and support
services provided, and their funding
amounts. GCMS automatically
repopulates the data required for
Allocations Reports and other reports.
Expenditures Report data are not autopopulated in the GCMS, and are thus
still manually reported in the data
reporting system.
Allocations and Expenditures (A&E)
Reports
Recipients funded under RWHAP
Parts A, B, C, and D are required to
report financial data to HRSA at the
beginning (Allocations Report) and at
the end of their grant budget period
(Expenditures Report). The A&E Reports
request information recipients already
collect, including the use of RWHAP
grant funds for core medical and
support services and for various
program components, such as
administration, planning and
evaluation, and clinical quality
management. The reports are identical
in content; however, in the first report
recipients document the allocation of
their RWHAP grant award at the
beginning of their grant budget period,
and in the second report recipients
document actual expenditures of their
RWHAP grant award (including any
carryover dollars) at the end of their
grant budget period.
HRSA is proposing several
modifications to the A&E Reports.
Recipients would be required to report
program income and pharmaceutical
rebate amounts in the Expenditures
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #0970-0505]
Submission for OMB Review; Procedural Justice-Informed
Alternatives to Contempt Demonstration Project Data Collection
AGENCY: Office of Child Support Enforcement; Administration for
Children and Families; HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), Administration
for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), is proposing to collect data as part of the rigorous
evaluation of the Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt
(PJAC) demonstration.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB is required to
make a decision concerning the collection of information between 30 and
60 days after publication of this document in the Federal Register.
Therefore, a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB
receives it within 30 days of publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office
of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Email:
[email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration
for Children and Families.
Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained by emailing
[email protected]. Alternatively, copies can also be obtained
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation, 330 C Street SW, Washington, DC
20201, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. All requests, emailed or
written, should be identified by the title of the information
collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) within
the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is proposing a data
collection activity as part of the Procedural Justice-Informed
Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) Demonstration. In September 2016, OCSE
issued grants to five state child support agencies to provide
alternative approaches to the contempt process with the goal of
increasing noncustodial parents' compliance with child support orders
by building trust and confidence in the child support agency and its
processes. OCSE also awarded a grant to support a rigorous evaluation
of PJAC. The PJAC Demonstration is a five-year project that allows
grantees and OCSE to learn whether incorporating principles of
procedural justice into child support business practices increases
reliable child support payments, reduces arrears, minimizes the need
for continued enforcement actions and sanctions, and reduces the use of
contempt proceedings.
The PJAC demonstration will yield information about the efficacy of
applying procedural justice principles via a set of alternative
services to the current use of a civil contempt process to address
nonpayment of child support. It will generate knowledge regarding how
the PJAC intervention operates, the effects the alternative services
have, and whether the benefits of this approach exceed the costs. The
information gathered will help inform future policy decisions related
to the contempt process within the field of child support enforcement.
PJAC demonstration will include three interconnected evaluation
components:
1. Implementation Study. The implementation study will provide a
detailed description of the PJAC intervention--how it is implemented,
whether it was implemented as intended, participant characteristics,
the contexts in which it is operated, how treatment differed from the
status quo, and the implications of PJAC practices. The study will
identify the intervention features and conditions necessary for
effective replication or improvement of the intervention. Key elements
of the implementation study include: A Management Information System
(MIS) for random assignment and data collection on participant
engagement in PJAC activities; semi-structured interviews with staff
from child support agencies and selected partner organizations;
separate semi-structured interviews with study participants and the
custodial parents connected to their child support case to learn about
their experiences with and perceptions of the child support program;
and a staff questionnaire to gather quantitative information on the
implementation of PJAC services and staff experiences.
2. Impact Study. The impact study will provide rigorous estimates
of the effectiveness of the PJAC intervention using an experimental
research design. Noncustodial parents whose cases are being referred to
the contempt process will be randomly assigned to either a program
group that is offered PJAC services or to a control group that is
offered business-as-usual services. Random assignment will require
child support program staff to complete a brief data entry protocol.
The impact study will rely on administrative data from state and county
child support programs, court records, criminal justice records, and
data from the National Directory of New Hires. Administrative records
data will be used to estimate impacts on child support payments,
enforcement actions, contempt proceedings, and jail stays.
3. Benefit-Cost Study. The benefit-cost study will estimate the
costs and benefits associated with the implementation and impact of the
PJAC interventions. The study will examine the costs and benefits from
the perspective of the government, noncustodial parents, custodial
parents, and society. Pertinent benefits and costs will be added
together to determine the net value of the program for each
perspective. Key outcomes to be assessed include the cost of PJAC
interventions, costs for contempt actions, child support payments from
noncustodial parents (program and control), court costs, and jail time,
among others. The benefit-cost study
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will rely on the results of the impact study, analysis of participation
data from the MIS, and results of a staff time study to quantify
various PJAC-related costs and benefits.
This notice is specific to the following data collection
activities: the noncustodial parent participant interviews (these
interview topic guides were approved under a previous submission and
require content modification which also significantly lowers the
collective public burden hours); the staff survey; the staff time
study; and the custodial parent interviews. Data collection activities
that were previously approved by OMB, following public comment, are the
staff data entry on participant baseline information, study MIS to
track receipt of services, staff and community partner interview topic
guide, the participant interview topic guide, and the participant
survey tracking letter. A participant survey has been eliminated from
the data collection plans so the OMB-approved participant survey
tracking letter will no longer be used.
Respondents: Respondents include study participants, child support
program staff at the six PJAC demonstration sites, custodial parents
associated with study participants, and the federal Office of Child
Support Enforcement.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Total number Average burden
Instrument Total number of responses hours per Total burden
of respondents per respondent response hours
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Noncustodial parent participant interview....... 60 1 1 60
Staff survey.................................... 20 1 .5 10
Staff time study................................ 30 1 1.5 45
Custodial parent interview...................... 60 1 1 60
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 175.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1315.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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