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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 36 / Thursday, February 25, 2021 / Notices
the states. Information on practices gathered in this survey will complement, but will not duplicate, these policy profiles.
Finally, the National Adult Protective Services Association NAPSA
conducted a survey of State APS
programs in 2012, and the National Association of State Units on Aging and Disability NASUAD fielded a survey to its members, which are not APS
programs, in January 2018 intended to update findings from the NAPSA 2012
survey. Since the survey replicates the original NAPSA survey, the questions in it are not focused on APS practice and are not directed at the same respondents as the proposed survey. As noted, a few topics in the original survey overlap with the proposed instrument, but the wording and focus of the few questions on similar topics are different. From this analysis, we conclude the proposed APS
Practice Survey will yield vital information on APS practice not available from other sources.

Proposed Collection Efforts The APS Practice Survey will collect stateand territory-specific practices for all aspects of APS casework practice, including staffing, intake, investigation, service planning and delivery, and quality assurance. Across these areas, the survey will collect information on practices such as community partnerships and use of assessment tools.
The APS Practice Survey will be administered online using SurveyMonkey or a similar commercial survey-programming tool. The online survey will include data validation routines to minimize errors or unintentional omissions and will include appropriate skip patterns to reduce burden. Respondents will be state and territory APS agencies, including APS agencies in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. No personally identifiable information will be collected.
Number of respondents
Instrument
A pilot version of The APS Practice Survey was tested in nine 9 diverse states between July and September 2017. Following their pretest of the survey instrument, pilot respondents participated in focus groups in which they provided recommendations on data collection procedures, views on the availability of data being requested, and estimates of the burden to each state and territory for completion of the survey. It is assumed that nearly every state and territory will participate and that time to develop a response will be similar to the experience of states during the pilot test.
ACL has calculated the following burden estimates based on the results of the survey pilot test.
Comments in Response to the 60-Day Federal Register Notice A notice published in the Federal Register on December 1, 2020 in 85 FR
77218.
Estimated Program Burden: ACL
estimates the annual burden associated with this collection of information as follows:
Number of responses per respondent
Average burden hours per response
Total burden hours
APS Practice Survey

56

1

3.50

196

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours

196

Dated: February 19, 2021.
Alison Barkoff, Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Public Comment Request;
Independent Living Services ILS
Program Performance Report PPR
09850043
Administration for Community Living, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Administration for Community Living ACL is announcing that the proposed collection of information listed above has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for review and clearance as required under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
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30-Day notice collects comments on the information collection requirements related to the Independent Living Services ILS Program Performance Report PPR 09850043.
DATES: Submit written comments on the collection of information by 11:59 p.m.
EST or postmarked by March 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments on the collection of information by:
a Email to: OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for ACL;
b fax to 202.395.5806, Attn: OMB
Desk Officer for ACL; or c by mail to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, New Executive Office Bldg., 725
17th St. NW, Rm. 10235, Washington, DC 20503, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for ACL.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Peter Nye at OILPPRAComments@
acl.hhs.gov. Administration for Community Living, Washington, DC
20201, Attention: Peter Nye Phone:
202 7957606.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, ACL
has submitted the following proposed
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collection of information to OMB for review and clearance.
The Independent Living Services ILS program provides financial assistance, through formula grants, to states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands for expanding, and improving the provision of, independent living IL
services. The Designated State Entity DSE is the agency that, on behalf of the state, receives, accounts for, and disburses funds received under Part B of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended the Act. Funds are also made available for the provision of training and technical assistance to Statewide Independent Living Councils SILCs.
The Act permits an annual program performance report PPR.
This request is for the ILS PPR, which is submitted annually by the SILC and DSE in every state, territory, and commonwealth. ACL uses the ILS PPR
to assess grantee compliance with title VII of the Act, with 45 CFR part 1329
of the Code of Federal Regulations, and with applicable provisions of the HHS
Regulations at 45 CFR part 75. The ILS

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