Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-15
Expires	2026-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0915-0298
Previous ICR	202404-0915-004

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This is a request by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to revise the collection of information from public and private agencies or organizations engaged in demonstrations, research, training, or other projects that receive funding from the Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) and Community Integrated Service Systems (CISS) federal discretionary grant programs, and other categorical discretionary grant programs.

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Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-03
Expires	2027-09-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0920-1441
Previous ICR	202410-0920-024

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NIOSH is requesting a non-substantive change request for 0920-1441 by using the “Request for genIC Approval” Form when requesting to debit hours from the umbrella genIC package to reduce redundancy and unnecessary complexity that an additional Supporting Statement A would have on individual packages submitted. The Request for genIC Approval Form for 0920-1441 was initially submitted with the package as a form of Supporting Statement A but later removed to reduce extra work and redundancy. This change request includes very minor edits.

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Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-03
Expires	2026-04-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0920-1395
Previous ICR	202206-0920-004

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The goal of this study is to collect data on the burden of work-related injuries and psychosocial stress among applied behavior analysis workers in the United States by administering a web-based, direct contact, one-time survey to applied behavior analysis workers. Data will be analyzed using chi-square tests, analysis of variance, and generalized linear models, as appropriate. The results of the survey will be used to identify objectives and priorities for intervention research to improve the safety of the workplace, reduce injury, and improve the well-being of applied behavior analysis workers. This change request makes minor changes.

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Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-11
Expires	2026-10-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0920-1416
Previous ICR	202308-0920-005

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The proposed data collection will provide an initial step toward achieving a prioritized activity goals identified by the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) for workers in the Oil and Gas sector, specifically addressing goals related to hearing loss. NORA is a partnership program designed to stimulate innovative research and improve workplace practices. Unveiled in 1996, NORA has become a research framework for NIOSH and the nation. Diverse parties (industry, academia, government, insurance, etc.) collaborate to identify the most critical issues in workplace safety and health.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-03
Expires	2027-11-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0920-1449
Previous ICR	202410-0920-008

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) seeks approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct a study on surgical smoke (SS) and related respiratory health effects in U.S. clinical veterinary settings. The overarching goal of this project is to characterize occupational exposure to surgical smoke and related respiratory health effects in U.S. clinical veterinary settings. This study will describe surgical smoke-related respiratory health effects in VM/AC personnel and barriers/aids to implementing surgical smoke evacuation systems among VM/AC personnel.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-09
Expires	2027-11-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0920-1430
Previous ICR	202408-0920-017

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CDC requests approval for an outbreak investigation which aims to evaluate the associations between Burkholderia multivorans infections among hospitalized patients and potential exposures to nonsterile ice and water from ice machines to help inform measures to prevent ongoing transmission. CDC will share findings and recommendations with public health and healthcare partners to prevent further spread of B. multivorans infections; findings may also be shared with other relevant stakeholders and/or published in scientific journals to disseminate investigation outcomes. This Non-Substantive Change Request is submitted to update Sex questions used in the Burkholderia multivorans Outbreak Investigation Case Report Form to be in accordance with EO 14168. There is no change to the burdenhours requested.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-18
Expires	2028-01-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0920-1317
Previous ICR	202501-0920-003

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The goal of this information collection is to 1) capture the daily, aggregate impact of COVID-19 on healthcare facilities, and 2) monitor medical capacity to respond at local, state, and national levels. This information will be used to inform the overall real-time COVID-19 response efforts and possible resource allocation, and enable state and local health departments to gain immediate access to the COVID-19 data for healthcare facilities within their jurisdiction. This Change Request is submitted for 0920-01317 to adhere to EO 14168 and to correct entry errors from a previous submission.

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Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-04
Expires	2027-07-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0280
Previous ICR	202405-0970-010

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The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) grant program within the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (OFVPS) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) provides formula grant funding to States, Tribes and State Domestic Violence Coalitions. States, Tribes, and State Domestic Violence Coalitions are required to submit applications for the formula grant funding (42 U.S.C. 10402(a)(2), (b)(2)) and implementing regulations (45 CFR Part 1370). In accordance with the FVPSA statute, OFVPS is required to collect and report data on the provision of family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence services, including assistance and programs supported by Federal funds (42 USC 10404 (b)(3)(B)) and establish reporting requirements (42 U.S.C. 10404 (a)(3)). ACF collects this information through the FVPSA Performance Progress Reports (PPRs). This change request is to remove references to gender identity.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-04
Expires	2026-08-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0614
Previous ICR	202407-0970-011

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Section 511 Title V of the Social Security Act created the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program and authorized the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to Indian tribes (or a consortium of Indian tribes), tribal organizations, or urban Indian organizations. The most recent reauthorization of the MIECHV program set aside 6 percent of the total MIECHV program appropriation for grants to tribal entities and indicates that the Tribal MIECHV grants, to the greatest extent practicable, be consistent with the requirements of the MIECHV grants to states and territories and include conducting a needs assessment and establishing benchmarks. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-09
Expires	2025-05-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0167
Previous ICR	202202-0970-010

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Section 658K of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act (42 U.S.C. 9858, as amended by Public Law 113-186) requires that states and territories submit monthly case-level data on the children and families receiving direct services under the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). The implementing regulations for the statutorily required reporting are at 45 CFR 98.70 and 98.71. Case-level reports, submitted quarterly or monthly (at grantee option), include monthly sample or full population case-level data. The data elements to be included in these reports are represented in the ACF-801. The Office of Child Care (OCC), Administration for Children and Families (ACF) uses disaggregate data to determine program and participant characteristics as well as costs and levels of child care services provided. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-04
Expires	2027-12-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0492
Previous ICR	202410-0970-006

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The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Act (42 U.S.C. § 9901, et seq.) was established under the Community Opportunities, Accountability, and Training and Educational Services Act of 1998, Public Law 105-285. The Office of Community Services (OCS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) administers CSBG at the federal level. CSBG provides funds to states and other entities to support services and activities that alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty in communities. Section 678E of the CSBG Act requires states, including the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and U.S. territories, to annually prepare and submit a report on the measured performance of the state and the eligible entities in the state. Prior to the participation of the state in the performance measurement system, the state shall include in the report any information collected by the state relating to such performance. Each state shall also include in the report an accounting of the expenditure of funds received by the state through the CSBG program, including an accounting of funds spent on administrative costs by the state and the eligible entities, and funds spent by the eligible entities on the direct delivery of local services, and shall include information on the number of and characteristics of clients served under the subtitle in the state, based on data collected from the eligible entities. The state shall also include in the report a summary describing the training and technical assistance offered by the state. Section 3(b) of the Government Performance and Results (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA) requires OCS, as an office under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to collect performance information for the CSBG. In alignment with the Executive Orders, Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions, and Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government the Office of Community Services is requesting a change request to remove language related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and update gender collected data to denote sex as a biological variable in current approved information collection requests to comply with the directives.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-01
Expires	2026-04-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0640
Previous ICR	202412-0970-001

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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks approval of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) Final Report Templates. HMRF grant recipients carrying out local evaluations of their programs are required to submit a final evaluation report to ACF at the end of their grant. This request includes templates for grant recipients to use to document their evaluation’s analysis and findings. In addition, the information collected in the final report templates will inform technical assistance provided to grant recipients as they develop the final reports to ACF to fulfill the grant requirement. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-04
Expires	2026-09-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0618
Previous ICR	202307-0970-009

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The Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) seeks Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a new 3-year overarching generic clearance to submit individual information collection (GenIC) requests for evaluations of programs serving youth transitioning out of foster care as part of the Chafee SOTA Project. Potential data collection efforts will request similar information using similar methods, which could include conducting interviews, focus groups, and surveys with program directors (e.g., from programs serving youth with foster care experience and from their partner agencies) and current, past, or potential participants in programs serving youth with foster care experience (e.g., including potential participants who are included in comparison groups), as well as extracting administrative or other program data. The purpose of these efforts is to inform ACF programming by building evidence about what works to improve outcomes for the target population, and to identify innovative learning methods that address common evaluation challenges. The John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood (Chafee program) funds state and tribal programs that help youth with foster care experience to successfully transition to adulthood. When the Chafee program was created following the passage of the Foster Care Independence Act (FCIA) of 1999 (Public Law 106-169), the legislation required that a small percentage of funding be set aside for rigorous evaluations of independent living programs that are “innovative or of potential national significance.” In keeping with this directive, OPRE is conducting the Chafee SOTA project, which aims to utilize innovative methods for testing promising practices in programs serving youth transitioning out of foster care, and to improve the feasibility and rigor of evaluations that test the effectiveness of program services or components. The Chafee SOTA project builds on prior OPRE evaluations, which observed that for many programs, traditional, large-scale impact evaluations were not feasible due to issues such as program size, lack of appropriate comparison groups, or implementation challenges. The Chafee SOTA project will conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of program services and components in improving outcomes for youth and young adults transitioning out of foster care. To address the common evaluation challenges previously identified, these evaluations will utilize innovative methods tailored to each program, including rapid cycle learning techniques that require an iterative approach. An important aspect of research with this population and a guiding principle of the Chafee SOTA project is that evaluations need to be designed in consultation and partnership with young adults with lived experience. The iterative and rapid nature of the methods to be utilized, as well as the necessity of ongoing, authentic engagement of experts with lived experience, poses a challenge to complying with the timeline for seeking full approval of each individual information collection activity subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Since OPRE knows the types of methods that will be used and types of information that will be requested but does not yet know what will be needed to tailor the information to each site, OPRE is seeking approval for an overarching generic clearance to conduct this work. For each GenIC, instruments will be tailored to the specific intervention and the specific site; once a set of instruments for a particular site is developed, and prior to use in the field, OPRE will submit a supporting statement Part A and B and the specific instruments to be used to OMB for approval.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-04
Expires	2027-03-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0566
Previous ICR	202402-0970-008

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For decades, various organizations and agencies (including community- and faith-based organizations, local governments, and universities) have been developing and operating programs to strengthen families through healthy marriage and relationship education and responsible fatherhood programming. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA), has had administrative responsibility for federal funding of such programs since 2006 through the Healthy Marriage (HM) and Responsible Fatherhood (RF) Grant Programs. The authorizing legislation for the programs may be found in Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act. Grant recipients receiving funding for HM programs offer services designed to promote healthy marriage and relationships. Legislatively authorized activities for adults include public advertising campaigns, marriage and relationship education/skills, pre-marital education, marriage enhancement, divorce reduction, marriage mentoring, and reduction of disincentives to marriage. Legislatively authorized activities for youth include education in high schools, marriage and relationship education/skills, and public advertising campaigns. RF grant recipients must provide legislatively authorized activities in three areas: economic stability, responsible parenting, and healthy marriage. ACF requires HMRF grant recipients to collect and report performance measures about program operations, services, and clients served. ACF provides a performance measures data collection system called nFORM (Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management) to grant recipients to improve the efficiency of data collection and reporting and the quality of data. This system allows for streamlined and standardized submission of grant recipient performance data through regular progress reports, and it also supports grant recipient-led and federal research projects. Grant recipients are required by ACF’s Office of Grants Management (OGM) to submit a Performance Progress Report (PPR) twice during each grant year (in October and April), reporting on the programmatic activities conducted by the grant recipient in the prior six months and activities planned for the next six months. The semi-annual PPR (Instrument 5) and the quarterly performance report templates (QPR, Instrument 6) fulfill these requirements for the HMRF grant recipients. The performance measures data collection and reporting instruments for the 2020 cohort were approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB #0970-0566) in 2021. The instruments have been used as planned. Through September 29, 2023 (the end of grant year 3), grant recipients in the 2020 cohort had enrolled 103,444 clients, administered the OMB-approved survey instruments, and submitted the OMB-approved reports to ACF to meet reporting requirements. In addition, the data have been used to support numerous federal and grant recipient-led evaluations of the HMRF programs. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-09
Expires	2027-10-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0355
Previous ICR	202412-0970-003

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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks renewal of this generic data collection development clearance to allow us to use samples of more than nine participants in applying methods useful for identifying data collection material and procedural problems, and pretesting questions and procedures. This will allow for identification of solutions and measuring the relative effectiveness of alternative solutions and for identification of appropriate questions to meet the intended purposes and uses of data collection efforts. The ACF Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) studies ACF programs, and the populations they serve, through rigorous research and evaluation projects. These include evaluations of existing programs, evaluations of innovative approaches to helping low-income children and families, research syntheses and descriptive and exploratory studies. This umbrella generic was originally written and has been used for pretesting research and evaluation data collection efforts primarily by OPRE. ACF program offices also collect data for a variety of purposes including but not limited to performance reporting and monitoring of funding recipients; understanding of the populations served including who they are, what their needs are, and how we can serve them better; program and service improvement feedback; research and evaluation; etc. For this reason, ACF proposes to broaden the scope of this generic to include pretesting of data elements used on information collections that are not specifically for research and evaluation. This could be used to inform a variety of data collection efforts in ACF to allow for consistent data requests across program offices that are high quality and appropriate for program office needs and for respondents who represent ACF program populations. This generic clearance will continue to allow us to identify if and when an information collection may be simplified for respondents, respondent burden may be reduced, among other possible improvements. The work completed under this generic is intended to be informative in nature; the studies may be iterative, as variation in questions or procedures are proposed, evaluated, and retested. The pretesting of data collection materials is necessary to improve future ACF information collections, resulting in higher quality data with the best possible utility for the government and its stakeholders, when appropriate. The core methodology and target populations will be consistent and burden caps and token of appreciation structure are proposed in this request. Updates to individual GenICs and the umbrella SSA are currently being submitted to make updates in response to recent presidential actions in 2025.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-01
Expires	2026-04-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0545
Previous ICR	202408-0970-004

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Information collection for the Next Generation of Enhanced Employment Strategies (NextGen) Project was originally approved in April 2020 and granted a three-year extension in April 2023. Approval covered 11 data collection instruments including a baseline survey, identifying and contact information, two follow-up participant surveys, service receipt tracking, program and staff surveys, program and employer discussion guides, an in-depth participant interview, and a cost workbook. Currently, the NextGen Project has completed study enrollment and is fielding both the first and second follow-up surveys (Instruments 3 and 4) with NextGen study participants across four programs. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-01
Expires	2026-09-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0616
Previous ICR	202404-0970-005

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The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is conducting the R3-Impact study which includes an impact and implementation evaluation of the Parent Mentor Program (PMP). OMB initially approved data collection instruments for this project on September 21, 2023. A nonsubstantive change request was approved on March 26, 2024. Since approval, the OMB published revisions to statistical policy directive (SPD) No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (89 FR 22182). Since data collection for R-3 Impact is planned over the next few years and study enrollment has not yet begun, OPRE would like to make updates now to implement the new standards as outlined in this publication. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-01
Expires	2026-07-31
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0497
Previous ICR	202306-0970-003

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The consequences of adolescent sexual activity remain a critical social and economic issue in the United States, shaping the lives of thousands of teens and their families every year. Despite declining births to teen mothers over the past 25 years, the teen birthrate in the United States remains higher than that in other industrialized countries and varies widely across geographic regions and racial/ethnic groups (Martin et al. 2017). Further, adolescents and young adults account for half of all new sexually transmitted infection (STI) cases each year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2022). Sexual activity in youth is also related to engaging in other risky behaviors such as alcohol and substance use. In March 2010, Congress authorized the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). PREP provides grants to states, tribes and tribal communities, and community organizations to support evidence-based programs to reduce teen pregnancy and STIs. The programs are required to provide education on both abstinence and contraceptive use. The programs also offer information on adulthood preparation subjects such as healthy relationships, adolescent development, financial literacy, parent–child communication, education and employment skills, and healthy life skills. Grantees are encouraged to target their programming to high-risk populations—for example, youth in foster care, homeless youth, youth with HIV/AIDS, pregnant youth who are under age 21, mothers who are under age 21, and youth residing in geographic areas with high teen birth rates. The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-352) requires federal agencies to report annually on measures of program performance. It is essential that PREP grantees report the performance data described in this information collection request to enable the Administration for Children and Families to carry out its reporting requirements to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget. This request seeks to (1) to extend the previously approved data collection of the performance measures from PREP grantees with proposed revisions. Specifically, ACF is requesting approval to eliminate the requirement for grantees to aggregate participant survey data to the program level for submission starting with the 2023-2024 data. Updates made to program-level data collection forms (Instruments 3b and 4b) reflect this request. Grantees will continue to use the currently approved data collection forms (Instruments 3a and 4a) for submission of 2022-2023 data. Additionally, we are requesting a study name change from Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Performance Measures and Adulthood Preparation Subjects Study (PREP PMAPS) to Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Performance Measures, as the data collection for the Adulthood Preparation Subjects Study is complete. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-04
Expires	2027-09-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0622
Previous ICR	202407-0970-005

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This is the second of two information collection requests for the Testing Identified Elements for Success in Fatherhood Programs (Fatherhood TIES) study. The first request (approved December 7, 2023) included consent for participants to enter the study, baseline data collection, and data collection about program processes and outcomes during the study period to support the study team’s understanding of implementation and how it could be improved. In this second request, approval is being sought for the remainder of study data collection which seeks to gather additional information about program implementation and outcomes. The following ICR has been updated with non substantive changes in response to the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order (Defending Women EO) and recent Presidential Actions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), such as those covered under the EO Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Key Information

Received	2025-03-28
Concluded	2025-04-04
Expires	2026-09-30
Action	Approved without change
OMB Control #	0970-0617
Previous ICR	202501-0970-004

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This request is to establish a new umbrella generic clearance for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to request information from potential participants at ACF gatherings, such as meetings or conferences. This may include large scale conferences, meetings for grantees or contractors, workshops, trainings, poster sessions, and other in-person and virtual gatherings for individuals with interest in ACF programs (clients, researchers, policymakers, etc.), among others. To ensure ACF has adequate information to plan these activities, the Agency must often collect information from potential participants such as basic contact information, preferences for attendance (mode, special requests, etc.), organizational affiliation, feedback about meeting content, etc. Additionally, some activities require ACF to have additional information to have the means to select the most appropriate participants for attendance according to the type or purpose of a given activity, or to group participants into the most appropriate category or activity during an event. This may include information about poster presentations, speaking panels, training courses, professional perspectives or experiences, etc. In addition, attendees may be asked to submit an application or abstract for prescreening to be selected for attendance. The planning for meetings is most often on a quick timeline and the standard timeline to comply with a full request under the Paperwork Reduction Act would inhibit the ability to collect information to inform these activities. Therefore, an umbrella generic is necessary to allow for quick turnaround requests for similar information collections related to these activities. As part of this generic, ACF requests OMB provide a response on individual generic information collections within 5 business days. If no response is received and the request meets the purposes, uses and scope outlined in this document, ACF may move forward with the proposed information collection.