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Dated: March 16, 2005. Services, Grants to Native American Respondents: State agencies
John P. Burke, III, Tribes and Alaskan Native Villages, administering the Family Violence
CMS Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Grants to State Domestic Violence Prevention and Services program;
Clearance Officer, Office of Strategic Coalitions. Native American Tribes and Tribal
Operations and Regulatory Affairs, Organizations administering the Family
Title: Grants for Battered Women’s
Regulations Development Group.
Shelters. Violence Prevention and Services
[FR Doc. 05–5563 Filed 3–18–05; 8:45 am]
OMB No.: 0970–0274. program; and state domestic violence
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coalitions administering the Family
Description: This information
Violence Prevention and Services
collection is authorized under Title III
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND of the Child Abuse Amendments of program.
HUMAN SERVICES 1984, Public Law 98–457, as amended.
In response to the program
Administration for Children and announcements, the respondents submit
Families information about their service
programs and their eligibility.
Proposed Information Collection
Information that is collected is used to
Activity; Comment Request
award grants under the Family Violence
Proposed Projects: Grants to States for Prevention and Services/Grants for
Family Violence Prevention and Battered Women’s Shelters Program.

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Number of Average bur-
Number of Total burden
Instrument responses per den hours per
respondents hours
respondent response

State FV Agencies ........................................................................................... 53 1 6 318

Tribes and Alaskan Villages ............................................................................ 180 1 6 1,080
Domestic Violence Coalitions .......................................................................... 53 1 6 318

Estimated Total Annual Burden Consideration will be given to and reported in 1996. NIS–4, mandated
Hours: 1,716. comments and suggestions submitted by the Keeping Children and Families
In compliance with the requirements within 60 days of this publication. Save Act of 2003 (Pub. L.) 108–36, will
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Dated: March 14, 2005. gather data in 2005 and 2006, and be
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Robert Sargis, reported in 2008.
Administration for Children and Reports Clearance Officer. NIS is unique in that it goes beyond
Families in soliciting public comment [FR Doc. 05–5475 Filed 3–18–05; 8:45 am]
the abused and neglected children who
on the specific aspects of the come to the attention of the Child
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information collection described above. Protective Services (CPS) system. In
Copies of the proposed collection of contrast to the National Child Abuse
informationcan be obtained and DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND and Neglect Data Systems (NCANDS),
comments may be forwarded by writing HUMAN SERVICES which rely solely on reported cases, the
to the Administration for Children and NIS design assumes that reported
Families, Office of Administration, Administration for Children and children represent only a portion of the
Office of Information Services, 370 Families children who actually are maltreated.
L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, NIS estimates the scope of the
DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Proposed Information Collection maltreated child population by
Officer. E-mail address: Activity; Comment Request combining information about reported
grjohnson@acf.hhs.gov. All requests Proposed Projects: cases with data on maltreated children
should be identified by the title of the Title: Data Collection for the Fourth identified by professionals (called
information collection. National Incidence Study of Child ‘‘sentinels’’) who encounter them during
The Department specifically requests Abuse and Neglect. the normal course of their work in a
comments on: (a) Whether the proposed OMB No.: New collection. wide range of agencies in representative
collection of information is necessary Description: The Department of communities. Sentinels are asked to
for the proper performance of the Health and Human Services (HHS) remain on the lookout for children
functions of the agency, including intends to collect data for the next whom they believe are maltreated
whether the information shall have National Incidence Study of Child during the study reference period and to
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Abuse and Neglect (NIS). This will be provide information about these
agency’s estimate of the burden of the the fourth cycle of this periodic study. children.
proposed collection of information; (c) NIS–1, mandated under Public Law Children identified by sentinels and
the quality, utility, and clarity of the (Pub. L.) 93–247 (1974), was conducted those whose alleged maltreatment is
information to be collected; and (d) in 1979 and 1980, and reported in 1981. investigated by CPS during the same
ways to minimize the burden of the NIS–2, mandated under (Pub. L.) 100– period are evaluated against
collection of information on 294 and the Child Abuse, Domestic standardized definitions, and only
respondents, including through the use Violence, Adoption, and Family children who meet the study standards
of automated collection techniques or Services Act of 1992 (Pub. L.) 102–295, are used to develop the study estimates.
other forms of information technology. was conducted between 1993 and 1995, The study estimates are couched in

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