42 U.S.C. 612 (Section 412 of the
Social Security Act as amended by Pub. L. 104-193, the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
(PRWORA)and the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA)) mandates that
Federally recognized Indian Tribes with an approved Tribal TANF
program collect and submit to the Secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Services data on the recipients served by the
Tribes' programs. This information includes both aggregated and
disaggregated data on case characteristics and individual
characteristics. In addition, Tribes that are subject to a penalty
are allowed to provide reasonable cause justifications as to why a
penalty should not be imposed or may develop and implement
corrective compliance procedures to eliminate the source of the
penalty. Finally, there is an annual report, which requires the
Tribes to describe program characteristics. All of the above
requirements are currently approved by OMB and the Administration
for Children and Families is simply proposing to extend them
without any changes.
While there are no program
changes, there has been an adjustment to the annual burden because
there has been an increase in the number of tribes that submit
data. It increased from 70 to 74. This then changes the total
number of annual burden hours from 133,280 to 140,896.
$24,300
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Robert Sargis
2026907275
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.