[Federal Register: July 26, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 142)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Schedule UDC: Itemized Undistributed Collections.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: Although State child support enforcement agencies
successfully collect and distribute billions of dollars every fiscal
year, a certain portion of the collections remain undistributed. In
some instances collections remain undistributed relatively briefly,
pending the resolution of an assortment of administrative or legal
processes; in other instances collections remain undistributed
indefinitely as a result of circumstances beyond the State's control.
State agencies have requested the ability to differentiate and
report to the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) the nature of
those collections. In addition, in its recent report, the Government
Accounting Office recommended that OCSE conduct periodic reviews of
undistributed collection data to ``* * * help improve the accuracy of
the data.'' (Report GAO-04-377, March 19, 2004, ``Child Support
Enforcement: Better Data and More Information on Undistributed
Collections Are Needed''). This supporting schedule, which will be
submitted quarterly as an attachment to Form OCSE-34A, the ``Quarterly
Report of Collections,'' is being implemented to meet those
requirements and will enable each state to differentiate and itemize
its undistributed collections by category and age and will enable OCSE
to review and analyze this information and to recommend management
methodologies to reduce the undistributed collection balance.
Comments sent to the Office of Child Support Enforcement, both
directly and in response to the Federal Register notice published
October 8, 2003 (68 FR 58110, et seq.), provided many useful
recommendations and suggestions to improve and clarify the wording of
the instructions that accompany this form.
Respondents: State IV-D agencies administering the Child Support
Enforcement Program under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.
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Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average
Instrument Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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Schedule UDC.................................... 54 4 4 864
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 864.
Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be
obtained 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. All requests should be identified by the title of the
information collection. E-mail address: grjohnson@acf.hhs.gov.
OMB Comment: 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. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collections should be sent directly to the following:
Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Attn:
Desk Officer for ACF; E-mail address:
katherine_t._astrich@omb.eop.gov.
Dated: July 19, 2004.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance, Officer.
[FR Doc. 04-16886 Filed 7-26-04; 8:45 am]
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