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the Department of Health and Human
Services to update the poverty
guidelines at least annually, adjusting
them on the basis of the Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI–U).
The poverty guidelines are used as an
eligibility criterion by the Community
Services Block Grant program and a
number of other Federal programs. The
poverty guidelines issued here are a
simplified version of the poverty
thresholds that the Census Bureau uses
to prepare its estimates of the number of
individuals and families in poverty.
As required by law, this update is
accomplished by increasing the latest
published Census Bureau poverty
thresholds by the relevant percentage
change in the Consumer Price Index for
All Urban Consumers (CPI–U). The
guidelines in this 2015 notice reflect the
1.6 percent price increase between
calendar years 2013 and 2014. After this
inflation adjustment, the guidelines are
rounded and adjusted to standardize the
differences between family sizes. The
same calculation procedure was used
this year as in previous years. (Note that
these 2015 guidelines are roughly equal
to the poverty thresholds for calendar
year 2014 which the Census Bureau
expects to publish in final form in
September 2015.)
The poverty guidelines continue to be
derived from the Census Bureau’s
current official poverty thresholds; they
are not derived from the Census
Bureau’s new Supplemental Poverty
Measure (SPM).
The following guideline figures
represent annual income.

2015 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE
48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Persons in family/household
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2
3
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5
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8

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Poverty
guideline
$11,770
15,930
20,090
24,250
28,410
32,570
36,730
40,890

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For families/households with more than 8
persons, add $4,160 for each additional
person.

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ALASKA
Persons in family/household
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Poverty
guideline
$14,720
19,920
25,120

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ALASKA—Continued
Persons in family/household
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6
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8

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Poverty
guideline
30,320
35,520
40,720
45,920
51,120

For families/households with more than 8
persons, add $5,200 for each additional
person.

2015 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
HAWAII
Persons in family/household
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2
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4
5
6
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8

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Poverty
guideline
$13,550
18,330
23,110
27,890
32,670
37,450
42,230
47,010

For families/households with more than 8
persons, add $4,780 for each additional
person.

Separate poverty guideline figures for
Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of
Economic Opportunity administrative
practice beginning in the 1966–1970
period. (Note that the Census Bureau
poverty thresholds—the version of the
poverty measure used for statistical
purposes—have never had separate
figures for Alaska and Hawaii.) The
poverty guidelines are not defined for
Puerto Rico or other outlying
jurisdictions. In cases in which a
Federal program using the poverty
guidelines serves any of those
jurisdictions, the Federal office that
administers the program is generally
responsible for deciding whether to use
the contiguous-states-and-DC guidelines
for those jurisdictions or to follow some
other procedure.
Due to confusing legislative language
dating back to 1972, the poverty
guidelines sometimes have been
mistakenly referred to as the ‘‘OMB’’
(Office of Management and Budget)
poverty guidelines or poverty line. In
fact, OMB has never issued the
guidelines; the guidelines are issued
each year by the Department of Health
and Human Services. The poverty
guidelines may be formally referenced
as ‘‘the poverty guidelines updated
periodically in the Federal Register by
the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services under the authority of
42 U.S.C. 9902(2).’’
Some federal programs use a
percentage multiple of the guidelines

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(for example, 125 percent or 185 percent
of the guidelines), as noted in relevant
authorizing legislation or program
regulations. Non-Federal organizations
that use the poverty guidelines under
their own authority in non-Federallyfunded activities also may choose to use
a percentage multiple of the guidelines.
The poverty guidelines do not make a
distinction between farm and non-farm
families, or between aged and non-aged
units. (Only the Census Bureau poverty
thresholds have separate figures for aged
and non-aged one-person and twoperson units.)
Note that this notice does not provide
definitions of such terms as ‘‘income’’ or
‘‘family,’’ because there is considerable
variation in defining these terms among
the different programs that use the
guidelines. These variations are
traceable to the different laws and
regulations that govern the various
programs. This means that questions
such as ‘‘Is income counted before or
after taxes?’’, ‘‘Should a particular type
of income be counted?’’, and ‘‘Should a
particular person be counted as a
member of the family/household?’’ are
actually questions about how a specific
program applies the poverty guidelines.
All such questions about how a specific
program applies the guidelines should
be directed to the entity that administers
or funds the program, since that entity
has the responsibility for defining such
terms as ‘‘income’’ or ‘‘family,’’ to the
extent that these terms are not already
defined for the program in legislation or
regulations.
Dated: January 16, 2015.
Sylvia M. Burwell,
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
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Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction

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Act of 1995. To request more
information on the below proposed
project or to obtain a copy of the
information collection plan and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to Leroy A. Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. Comments are invited 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) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; (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; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.

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Proposed Project
Assessing Community-Based
Organizations’ Partnerships with
Schools for the Prevention of HIV/
STDs—New—Division of Adolescent
and School Health (DASH), National
Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis,
STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
HIV infections remain high among
young men who have sex with men
(YMSM). The estimated number of new
HIV infections increased between 2008
and 2010 both overall and among MSM
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behaviors associated with HIV, other
sexually transmitted disease (STD), and
pregnancy often emerge in adolescence.
For example, 2011 Youth Risk Behavior
Surveillance System (YRBSS) data
revealed 47.4% of U.S. high school
students reported having had sex, and
among those who had sex in the
previous three months, 39.8% reported
having not used a condom during last
sexual intercourse. In addition, 2001–
2009 YRBSS data revealed high school
students identifying as gay, lesbian, and
bisexual and those reporting sexual
contact with both males and females
were more likely to engage in sexual
risk-taking behaviors than heterosexual
students.
Given the disproportionate risk for
HIV among YMSM ages 13–24, it is
important to find ways to reach the
younger youth (i.e., ages 13–19) in this
range to decrease sexual risk behaviors
and increase health-promoting
behaviors such as routine HIV testing.
Schools provide one opportunity for
this. Because schools enroll more than
22 million teens (ages 14–19) and often
have existing health and social services
infrastructure, schools and their staff
members are well-positioned to connect
youth to a wide range of needed
services, including housing assistance,
support groups, and sexual health
services such as HIV testing. As a result,
CDC’s DASH has focused a number of
HIV and STD prevention efforts on
strategies that can be implemented in or
centered on schools.
However, conducting HIV and STD
prevention work (particularly work that
is designed to specifically meet the
needs of YMSM), can be challenging.
School is not always a welcoming
environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ)
youth. Harassment, bullying, and verbal
and physical assault are often reported,
and such unsupportive environments
and victimization among LGBT youth
are associated with a variety of negative
outcomes, including truancy, substance
use, poor mental health, HIV and STD
risk, and even suicide. Schools build
partnerships with community-based
organizations to increase access to
needed services of LGBTQ youth.
The CDC requests a 3-year OMB
approval to conduct a new information
collection entitled, ‘‘Assessing
Community-Based Organizations’
Partnerships with Schools for the
Prevention of HIV/STDs.’’ The
information collection will allow CDC
to conduct assessment of selected staff
from community-based organizations
(CBOs) and health and/or wellness
centers (HWCs), including school-based
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or to which YMSM from participating
schools are referred. This is part of the
HIV and STD prevention efforts that are
taking place in conjunction with local
education agencies (LEAs) funded by
the CDC, Division of Adolescent and
School Health (DASH) under strategy 4
(School-Centered HIV/STD Prevention
for Young Men Who Have Sex with
Men) of PS13–1308: Promoting
Adolescent Health through SchoolBased HIV/STD Prevention and SchoolBased Surveillance. This information
collection will provide data and reports
for the three funded LEAs, and will
allow each LEA to identify areas of the
partnerships with CBOs and HWCs that
are working well and other areas that
will need additional improvement. In
addition, the findings will allow the
CDC to determine the potential impact
of currently recommended strategies
and make changes to those
recommendations if necessary.
This information collection system
involves administration of a web-based
questionnaire to no more than 60 total
staff members who work for up to 60
CBOs and HWCs that are participating
in the HIV/STD prevention project with
the three LEAs (Broward County Public
Schools in Broward County, Florida;
Los Angeles Unified School District in
Los Angeles, California; and San
Francisco Unified School District in San
Francisco, California) funded by CDC
cooperative agreement PS13–1308.
These LEAs represent all funded LEAs
under Strategy 4 of PS13–1308. The
questionnaire will include questions on
the following topics: services offered by
the organization and the organization’s
relationships with the school district
and participating schools in the LEA.
The Web-based instrument will be
administered in the 2015 and again in
2016 and 2018. These data collection
points coincide with the initiation of
project activities, the mid-way point,
and endpoint of the PS13–1308
cooperative agreement. Although some
respondents may participate in the data
collection in multiple years, this is not
a longitudinal design and individual
staff member responses will not be
tracked across the years. No personally
identifiable information will be
collected and data will only be reported
in the aggregate to protect the CBOs and
HWCs being represented.
All respondents will receive informed
consent forms prior to participation in
the information collection. The consent
form explains the study and also
explains that participants may choose
not to complete the Web-based
questionnaire with no penalty and no
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the LEA. Participation is completely
voluntary.
For the Web-based questionnaire, the
estimated burden per response is about
60 minutes (1 hour). This estimate of
burden is an average and takes into
account that the length of the

The estimated annualized burden of
this data collection is 60 hours for
respondents.
There are no costs to respondents
other than their time.

questionnaire for each respondent will
vary slightly due to the skip patterns
that may occur with certain responses,
variations in the reading speed of
respondents, and variations in the time
required to collect the information
needed to complete the questionnaire.

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZE BURDEN TO RESPONDENTS
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)

Total burden
(in hours)

Form name

CBO staff ..........................................
HWC staff ..........................................

CBO Assessment Questionnaire .....
HWC Assessment Questionnaire ....

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30

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1
1

30
30

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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the
Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2015–01009 Filed 1–21–15; 8:45 am]
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HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[60Day–15–0929]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations

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Number of
responses per
respondent

Number of
respondents

Respondents

The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. To request more
information on the below proposed
project or to obtain a copy of the
information collection plan and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 or send
comments to LeRoy Richardson, 1600
Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA
30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. Comments are invited 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;

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(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; (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; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. Written comments should
be received within 60 days of this
notice.
Proposed Project
World Trade Center Health Program
Petition for the Addition of a New WTCRelated Health Condition for Coverage
under the World Trade Center (WTC)
Health Program (OMB No. 0920–0929,
expires 4/30/2015)—Revision—National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Title I of the James Zadroga 9/11
Health and Compensation Act of 2010
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Health Service Act (PHS Act) to add
Title XXXIII establishing the WTC
Health Program within the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The WTC Health Program provides
medical monitoring and treatment
benefits to eligible firefighters and
related personnel, law enforcement
officers, and rescue, recovery, and
cleanup workers who responded to the
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in
New York City, at the Pentagon, and in
Shanksville, Pennsylvania (responders),
and to eligible persons who were
present in the dust or dust cloud on
September 11, 2001 or who worked,
resided, or attended school, childcare,
or adult daycare in the New York City
disaster area (survivors). PHS Act
§ 3312(a)(3) identifies a list of health
conditions for which individuals who
are enrolled in the WTC Health Program
may be monitored or treated. PHS Act
§ 3312(a)(6)(B) specifies that interested
parties may petition the Administrator
of the WTC Health Program to request
that a new health condition be added to
the List of WTC-Related Health
Conditions in 42 CFR 88.1.
To aid the petitioner, the WTC Health
Program provides a petition form to be
completed and then sent to the
Administrator for review. However, the
petitioner is not required to use the
form, and may submit a petition in a
different format, provided it contains all
of the data elements requested on the
form. Data elements include the
interested party’s name, contact
information, signature, and a statement
about the medical basis for the
relationship/association between the
9/11 exposure and the proposed health
condition, which the Administrator of
the WTC Health Program will use to
determine whether to propose a rule to
add the condition, to not to add the
condition, or to seek a recommendation

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