GenIC Financial Reports_Notification of Obligation Target Status for CCDF ARPA Stabilization Funds

Request for Approval under the “Generic Clearance for the Collection of Mandatory Grant Financial Reports” (OMB Control Number: 0970-0510) Expiration date 6/30/2024

TITLE OF INFORMATION COLLECTION: Notification of Obligation Target Status for Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act (P.L. 117-2, Sec. 2202) Stabilization Funds

PURPOSE: The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act (P.L. 117-2, Sec. 2202) allocated $24 billion for Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agencies to award subgrants to child care providers in order to stabilize the child care market. The ARP Act requires lead agencies to notify the Secretary of HHS if it is unable to obligate at least 50 percent of the Stabilization funds that are available for subgrants within 9 months of enactment. This one-time information collection is to meet this statutory financial reporting requirement. Lead agencies will send an email to their Office of Child Care (OCC) regional program manager stating in the body of the email the percent of ARP Act stabilization funds available for subgrants that will be obligated by December 11, 2021.

Generic clearance approval is requested to allow the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Child Care (OCC) to collect the necessary information from CCDF lead agencies by the statutory deadline of December 11, 2021.

The proposed information collection fits within the scope of the Generic Clearance for Financial Reports used for ACF Mandatory Grant Programs (0970-0510) as the purpose/use is to:

• Monitor program operations and prepare technical assistance and guidance as needed.

DESCRIPTION OF RESPONDENTS: Respondents will be state and territory officials authorized to report on behalf of the CCDF program which will likely be CCDF program administrators.

Personally Identifiable Information:

1. Is personally identifiable information (PII) collected? [ ] Yes [x] No

2. If Yes, will any information that is collected be included in records that are subject to the Privacy Act of 1974? [ ] Yes [ ] No

3. If Yes, has an up-to-date System of Records Notice (SORN) been published? [ ] Yes [ ] No

BURDEN HOURS

Title of Information Collection	No. of Respondents	Total # of Responses	Hourly Burden per Response	Annual Hourly Burden
Notification of Obligation Target Status for CCDF ARP Act Stabilization Funds	56	1	1	56

FEDERAL COST: The estimated annual cost to the Federal government is $2240.

The job code is 21-1093 and wage data from May 2020 is $20.00 per hour. Therefore to account for fringe benefits and overhead the rate is multiplied by two which is $40.00. The estimate of annualized cost to respondents for hour burden is $40 times 56 or $2240. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes211093.htm

PUBLIC COMMENT: ACF published a notice in the Federal Register announcing the agency’s intention to request an OMB review of this generic information collection activity.

_86_ FR _61768_ Date: _11/8/2021_

This notice provided a 14-day period for public comment. We did not receive substantive comments on the proposed collection of information.

Please make sure that all instruments, instructions, and scripts are submitted with the request.

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