[Federal Register: April 7, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 67)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: 45 CFR 1303--Appeal Procedures for Head Start Grantees and
Current or Prospective Delegate Agencies.
OMB No. 0980-0242.
Description: Section 646 of the Head Start Act requires the
Secretary to prescribe a timeline for conducting administrative
hearings when adverse actions are taken or proposed against Head Start
or Early Head Start grantees or delegate agencies. The Head Start
Bureau is proposing to renew without changes the rule that implements
these requirements and that prescribes when a grantee must submit
information and what that information should include to support a
contention that adverse action should not be taken.
Respondents: Head Start and Early Head Start grantees and delegate
agencies against which the Head Start Bureau has taken or proposes to
take adverse actions.
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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45 CFR 1303--Appeal Procedures for Head Start 20 1 26 520
Grantees and Current or Prospective Delegate
Agencies.......................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 520.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(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 Information Services, 370 L'Infant
Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance
Officer. E-mail: 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: April 3, 2006.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-3347 Filed 4-6-06; 8:45 am]
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