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OMB Control No: 0970-0505	ICR Reference No: 202005-0970-014
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202002-0970-003
Agency/Subagency: HHS/ACF	Agency Tracking No: OCSE
Title: Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt Demonstration (PJAC)
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 05/29/2020
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 05/27/2020
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	04/30/2023	04/30/2023	04/30/2023
Responses	3,920	0	3,920
Time Burden (Hours)	2,310	0	2,310
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The purpose of the Procedural Justice Informed Alternatives to Contempt Demonstration (PJAC) demonstration project is to assess the feasibility and efficacy of incorporating principles of procedural justice into child support services as a cost-effective alternative to civil contempt proceedings. The PJAC Demonstration will add to the evidence base on innovations in child support practices by evaluating PJAC’s impacts and determining whether the benefits of PJAC services exceed their costs. The PJAC Evaluation includes three key components: an implementation study, an impact study, and a benefit-cost study. The coronavirus pandemic and related economic fallout require modifications to some of the approved data collection approaches and protocols. This nonsubstantive change request is for changes to Instruments 3, 4 and 7. Instrument 3: Staff Interview Topic Guide. Due to travel restrictions, we now plan to complete the remaining interviews by videoconference, as opposed to in-person. The instrument and supporting statements have been updated to reflect this change in mode. Instrument 4: Noncustodial Parent Participant Interview Protocol and Instrument 7: Custodial Parent Interview Protocol. These interviews have already been cleared for in-person or phone modalities; in light of travel restrictions, they will be conducted by phone only. Several questions in the proposed revised interviews would directly touch on aspects of parents’ lives that have likely been affected by the coronavirus. These are employment, relationships with children and the other parent, and changes to how child support agencies and courts handle child support cases. In order to gather sufficient information to understand the effect of the pandemic on these key topics for the evaluation, questions and probes related to coronavirus have been added to the protocols. These questions and probes will allow the research team some insights into (1) how the public health crisis may have affected PJAC treatment and business-as-usual services from the vantage point of parents, thus effecting the treatment contrast for this random assignment study and (2) how the social and economic context of the pandemic may affect employment and family relationships, which may in turn affect child support payments, the evaluation’s main outcome of interest. Estimated average time to complete these interviews will remain the same.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 42 USC 1315 Name of Law: Section 1115 of the Social Security Act

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	84 FR 20891	05/13/2019
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	85 FR 7762	02/11/2020
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	3,920	3,920
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	2,310	2,310
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The key reason for changes in burden is to request additional information collection. The request also updates burden for previously approved information collections to reflect completed data collection and an update to the sample size target.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $656,666

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? Yes Part B of Supporting Statement

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Yes

Agency Contact: Molly Buck 202 205-4724 mary.buck@acf.hhs.gov

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