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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Intergovernmental
Reference Guide (IRG) (Office of Management and Budget No.:
0970-0209)
AGENCY:

Office of Child Support Services, Administration

for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION:

Request for public comments.

SUMMARY:

The Administration for Children and Families

(ACF), Office of Child Support Services (OCSS), is
requesting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve the Intergovernmental Reference Guide (IRG), for an
additional three years.

The IRG contains State and Tribal

child support information that helps child support agencies
(CSAs) administer their respective programs.
are proposed, as described below.

Minor updates

The current OMB approval

(OMB #: 0970-0209) expires on February 28, 2025.
DATES:

Comments due [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF

PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].

In compliance with

the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
the ACF is soliciting public comment on the specific
aspects of the information collection described above.
ADDRESSES:

You can obtain copies of the proposed

collection of information and submit comments by emailing

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov.

Identify all requests by the

title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description:

The IRG is a centralized and automated

repository of State and Tribal profiles that contains highlevel descriptions of each CSA program.

These profiles

provide State, Tribal, and foreign country CSAs with an
effective and efficient method for updating and accessing
information needed to process intergovernmental child
support cases.
Revisions are proposed as a result of feedback from
respondents suggesting changes, recommendations from the
program team, or from the program team workgroup of
interested partners.

The workgroup is engaged to evaluate

the efficacy of the instruments.

Specifically, the

following changes are proposed:
•

Minor edits to change Office of Child Support
Enforcement (OCSE) to Office of Child Support Services
(OCSS).

•

Edits to the State profile based on recommendations
that were received but not implemented in 2022 when
the current version of the profile went through the
OMB approval process.

OCSS has an overview of those

recommendations and OCSS responses available upon
request.
•

Edits to clarify the State profile questions to make

it easier for respondents to understand and complete
them.

Some of these edits were based on the comments

referenced in the prior bullet and others based on
other feedback from program staff and workgroup
members.
•

Addition of questions in the State profile instrument
that are designed to help States establish health care
coverage and manage the financial aspects of child
support services.

The new questions pertain to

policies and procedures associated with new hire
reporting, income withholdings, lump sum payments,
medical support, and State electronic funds transfers.
The addition of these questions slightly increased the
estimated time per response from .3 hours to .5 hours.
Respondents:

State and Tribal CSAs

Annual Burden Estimates

Information Collection
Instrument
IRG: State Profile
Guide (states and
territories)
IRG: Tribal Profile
Guide

Total Number
of Annual
Respondents

Number of
Annual
Responses
per
Respondent

Average
Annual
Burden
Hour per
Response

Annual
Burden
Hours

18

0.5

62

0.3

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours:

Comments: The Department specifically requests comments 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) the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (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.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions
submitted within 60 days of this publication.
Authority:

42 U.S.C. 652(a)(7); 42 U.S.C. 666(f); 45 CFR

301.1; 45 CFR 303.7, and 45 CFR 309.120.
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-15277 Filed: 7/10/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 7/11/2024]