Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Home-Based Child Care Toolkit for Nurturing School-Age Children Study (New Collection), 787-788 [2024-00006]
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the basic clause requires contractors to
submit a written proposed plan to
provide and maintain work
environments and procedures that will
safeguard the public and Government
personnel, property, materials, supplies,
and equipment exposed to contractor
operations and activities; avoid
interruptions of Government operations
and delays in project completion dates;
and control costs in the performance of
this contract. The plan must include an
analysis of the significant hazards to
life, limb, and property inherent in
contract work performance and a plan
for controlling these hazards. The
contracting officer and technical
representatives analyze the Accident
Prevention Plan to determine if the
proposed plan will satisfy the safety
requirements identified in the contract,
to include certain provisions of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act (per
FAR 36.513(c)) and applicable standards
issued by the Secretary of Labor at 29
CFR part 1926 and 29 CFR part 1910.
• FAR 52.236–15, Schedules for
Construction Contracts. This clause
requires contractors to prepare and
submit to the contracting officer for
approval three copies of a practicable
schedule showing the order in which
the contractor proposes to perform the
work, and the dates on which the
contractor contemplates starting and
completing the several salient features
of the work (including acquiring
materials, plant, and equipment). The
contracting officer uses this information
to monitor progress under a Federal
construction contract when other
management approaches for ensuring
adequate progress are not used.
• FAR 52.236–19, Organization and
Direction of the Work. This clause
requires contractors, under costreimbursement construction contracts,
to submit to the contracting officer a
chart showing the general executive and
administrative organization, the
personnel to be employed in connection
with the work under the contract, and
their respective duties. The contractor
must keep the data furnished current by
supplementing it as additional
information becomes available. The
contracting officer uses this information
to ensure the work is performed by
qualified personnel at a reasonable cost
to the Government.
C. Annual Burden
Respondents: 3,771.
Total Annual Responses: 13,267.
Total Burden Hours: 21,338.
Obtaining Copies: Requesters may
obtain a copy of the information
collection documents from the GSA
Regulatory Secretariat Division by
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calling 202–501–4755 or emailing
GSARegSec@gsa.gov. Please cite OMB
Control No. 9000–0064, Certain Federal
Acquisition Regulation Part 36
Construction Contract Requirements.
Janet Fry,
Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division,
Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy,
Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of
Governmentwide Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for Office of Management
and Budget Review; Home-Based
Child Care Toolkit for Nurturing
School-Age Children Study (New
Collection)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, United States
Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation
(OPRE) at the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) is proposing
to collect information to examine a
toolkit of new measures designed to
assess and strengthen the quality of
child care, the Home-Based Child Care
Toolkit for Nurturing School-Age
Children (HBCC–NSAC Toolkit). This
study aims to build evidence about the
English version of the HBCC–NSAC
Toolkit for use by/with providers caring
for children in a residential setting (i.e.,
home-based child care [HBCC]).
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of
publication. Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) must make a decision
about 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.
SUMMARY:
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
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search function. You can also obtain
copies of the proposed collection of
information by emailing
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
Identify all requests by the title of the
information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The HBCC–NSAC
Toolkit is designed for home-based
providers who regularly care for at least
1 school-age child who is not their own.
The purpose of the HBCC–NSAC
Toolkit is to help home-based providers
identify their caregiving strengths and
areas for growth. The HBCC–NSAC
Toolkit consists of a self-administered
provider questionnaire (composed of
multiple newly developed measures)
and a family communication
questionnaire (composed of 1
communication tool). For validation
purposes, the study will include the
provider questionnaire from the HBCC–
NSAC Toolkit with additional items
from existing measures and a separate
family survey with child and family
background information items and items
from an existing measure. A subset of
providers will be observed with an
existing observation measure. Study
participants will include home-based
providers who can complete the
provider questionnaire in English. They
must currently care for at least 1 schoolage child (age 5 and in kindergarten, or
ages 6 through 12) in a home for at least
10 hours per week and for at least 8
weeks in the past year. These providers
may also care for younger children (ages
birth through 5 and not yet in
kindergarten). Families (a parent or
guardian of school-age children
receiving care in the HBCC setting) who
can complete the family survey in
English will also be included in the
study. The study will be based on a
purposive sample of home-based
providers in at least 10 geographic
locations to maximize variation in the
sample. OPRE proposes to collect
survey and observational data from
home-based providers who are licensed
or regulated by states to provide child
care and early education (CCEE) and
providers who are unlicensed or legally
exempt from state regulations for CCEE.
Study participants may or may not
participate in the child care subsidy
program. The data collection activities
are designed to provide critical
information that is needed to analyze
the reliability and validity of the HBCC–
NSAC Toolkit’s provider questionnaire.
The resulting data will help ACF
understand if the HBCC–NSAC Toolkit’s
provider questionnaire can be used to
support home-based providers in
identifying and reflecting on their
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caregiving strengths and areas for
growth.
Respondents: Home-based providers;
families of the children cared for by the
providers.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
respondents
(total over
request period)
Instrument
1. Community organization onboarding call ................................................
2. Provider telephone script and recruitment information collection ...........
3. Provider telephone script and recruitment information collection including observations .......................................................................................
4. Observation scheduling call ....................................................................
5. HBCC–NSAC Toolkit provider questionnaire ..........................................
6. HBCC–NSAC Toolkit family questionnaire .............................................
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 337.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9858.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024–00006 Filed 1–4–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment
Request; Voluntary Partner Surveys To
Implement Executive Order 14058 in
the Health Resources and Services
Administration, OMB No. 0915–0212—
Revision
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
HRSA submitted an Information
Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. Comments
submitted during the first public review
of this ICR will be provided to OMB.
OMB will accept further comments from
the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on
HRSA’s ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has
closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be
received no later than February 5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
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Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total/
annual
burden
(in hours)
30
204
1
1
1
0.33
30
67
150
60
150
166
1
1
1
1
.42
.17
.83
0.25
63
10
125
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notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under Review—Open for
Public Comments,’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the clearance requests
submitted to OMB for review, email
Joella Roland, the HRSA Information
Collection Clearance Officer, at
paperwork@hrsa.gov or call (301) 443–
3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title:
Voluntary Partner Surveys to Implement
Executive Order 14058 in the Health
Resources and Services Administration,
OMB No. 0915–0212—Revision.
Abstract: The purpose of information
collections under this generic umbrella
ICR package is to conduct a limited
number of partner surveys. If this
generic ICR is approved, information on
each individual partner survey
conducted under this generic ICR will
not be published separately in the
Federal Register. Approval of this
specific umbrella ICR would allow
HRSA to continue to conduct voluntary
customer surveys of its partners to
assess strengths and weaknesses in
program services and processes. A
previous version of this ICR was done
in response to Executive Order 12862,
which called on the Federal
Government to gather feedback from
customers, set customer service
standards, and measure performance
against those standards. In December
2021, the White House issued Executive
Order 14058, calling on the Federal
Government to improve its service
delivery to its customers and put people
at the center of Federal Government
activity. In accordance with this
directive, HRSA is requesting approval
of this generic umbrella ICR from OMB
to conduct the partner surveys with a
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Number of
responses per
respondent
(total over
request period)
slight increase in the allotted burden
hours so that HRSA can assess its
performance from a larger swath of its
partner population to help ensure that
HRSA’s customer service delivery
continues to improve, in accordance
with the directive in Executive Order
14058.
HRSA customer service feedback will
continue to be gathered in the form of
focus groups, in-class evaluation forms,
mail surveys, and telephone surveys.
Although HRSA cannot anticipate all of
the collections that will fall under this
generic umbrella ICR, HRSA anticipates
receiving OMB approval to include the
following collections:
• Surveys of HRSA grantees to
determine satisfaction with grant
processes or technical assistance
provided by a HRSA contractor. Surveys
may also be done to determine partner
satisfaction with HRSA products or
services. Surveys may be conducted by
mail, telephone, or online. These
surveys include the Division of
Practitioner Data Bank Usability Survey
generic fast track ICR, which helps
identify strengths and weaknesses of the
National Practitioner Data Bank
customer service call center agents, and
the HRSA Electronic Handbooks
Customer Service Survey generic fast
track ICR, which gathers public
feedback about HRSA’s electronic
handbooks.
• Evaluation forms completed by
providers who receive training from
HRSA funding recipients, to measure
satisfaction with the training
experience. Evaluation forms may also
be done after a conference or other
training session with HRSA partners.
Evaluation forms may be done hardcopy or online. One evaluation form
generic fast track ICR that is expected to
be included in this generic umbrella ICR
is the National Ryan White Conference
survey forms evaluating the National
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Home-Based
Child Care Toolkit for Nurturing School-Age Children Study (New
Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, United States Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) at the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to collect information to
examine a toolkit of new measures designed to assess and strengthen the
quality of child care, the Home-Based Child Care Toolkit for Nurturing
School-Age Children (HBCC-NSAC Toolkit). This study aims to build
evidence about the English version of the HBCC-NSAC Toolkit for use by/
with providers caring for children in a residential setting (i.e.,
home-based child care [HBCC]).
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) must make a decision about 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 within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. You can
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by
emailing [email protected]. Identify all requests by the
title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The HBCC-NSAC Toolkit is designed for home-based
providers who regularly care for at least 1 school-age child who is not
their own. The purpose of the HBCC-NSAC Toolkit is to help home-based
providers identify their caregiving strengths and areas for growth. The
HBCC-NSAC Toolkit consists of a self-administered provider
questionnaire (composed of multiple newly developed measures) and a
family communication questionnaire (composed of 1 communication tool).
For validation purposes, the study will include the provider
questionnaire from the HBCC-NSAC Toolkit with additional items from
existing measures and a separate family survey with child and family
background information items and items from an existing measure. A
subset of providers will be observed with an existing observation
measure. Study participants will include home-based providers who can
complete the provider questionnaire in English. They must currently
care for at least 1 school-age child (age 5 and in kindergarten, or
ages 6 through 12) in a home for at least 10 hours per week and for at
least 8 weeks in the past year. These providers may also care for
younger children (ages birth through 5 and not yet in kindergarten).
Families (a parent or guardian of school-age children receiving care in
the HBCC setting) who can complete the family survey in English will
also be included in the study. The study will be based on a purposive
sample of home-based providers in at least 10 geographic locations to
maximize variation in the sample. OPRE proposes to collect survey and
observational data from home-based providers who are licensed or
regulated by states to provide child care and early education (CCEE)
and providers who are unlicensed or legally exempt from state
regulations for CCEE. Study participants may or may not participate in
the child care subsidy program. The data collection activities are
designed to provide critical information that is needed to analyze the
reliability and validity of the HBCC-NSAC Toolkit's provider
questionnaire. The resulting data will help ACF understand if the HBCC-
NSAC Toolkit's provider questionnaire can be used to support home-based
providers in identifying and reflecting on their
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caregiving strengths and areas for growth.
Respondents: Home-based providers; families of the children cared
for by the providers.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per Average Total/
Instrument respondents respondent (total burden per annual
(total over over request response burden (in
request period) period) (in hours) hours)
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1. Community organization onboarding call....... 30 1 1 30
2. Provider telephone script and recruitment 204 1 0.33 67
information collection.........................
3. Provider telephone script and recruitment 150 1 .42 63
information collection including observations..
4. Observation scheduling call.................. 60 1 .17 10
5. HBCC-NSAC Toolkit provider questionnaire..... 150 1 .83 125
6. HBCC-NSAC Toolkit family questionnaire....... 166 1 0.25 42
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 337.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 9858.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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