Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Carryout and Reallotment Report
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
04/28/2022
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
04/30/2022
206
204
1,442
1,428
0
0
The federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) statute requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to collect data annually from all LIHEAP grant recipients regarding the status of obligated and unobligated funding (42 U.S.C. § 8626). HHS shall not make payment to a State for a fiscal year unless the State has complied with this reporting requirement with respect to the prior fiscal year. The amount held available from a prior fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the funds awarded for that fiscal year (42 U.S.C. § 826(b)(2)(B)). Funds exceeding 10 percent shall be realloted in the following fiscal year among all LIHEAP grant recipients (42 U.S.C. § 8626(b)(1)(C)).
The federal HHS block grant regulations further require that the Carryover and Reallotment Report (Carryover Report) must contain the following information: (1) The amount of funds that the grant recipient requests to hold available for obligation in the following fiscal year, not to exceed 10 percent of the funds payable to the grant recipient; (2) A statement of the reasons that this amount to remain available will not be used in the fiscal year for which it was allotted; (3) A description of the types of assistance to be provided with the amount held available; and (4) The amount of funds, if any, to be subject to reallotment. See 45 C.F.R. § 96.81.
OMB most recently approved the Carryover Report in April 2019 for three years. On August 20, 2020, OMB approved a non-substantive change to this form to allow for line item reporting of funds appropriated through the CARES Act (P. L. 116-136) and through any other supplemental acts passed by Congress. The HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF) now seeks to renew this form for three years with two additional changes: (1) the replacement of Oil Overcharge funds with funds appropriated through the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Appropriations Act (Infrastructure Act) [Public Law (P. L.) 117-58]; and (2) the replacement of CARES Act funds with funds appropriated through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) (P. L. 117-2).
This request is for an extension with minor changes to the most recently approved report and instructions. The changes associated with this extension calls for grant recipients to report unobligated LIHEAP Infrastructure Act funds separately from those appropriated by the regular given-year appropriations acts. ACF needs this change to determine how much Infrastructure Act funds to reallot or return to the Treasury.
Additionally, burden estimates have changed slightly to reflect the current number of grantees.
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.
Form 1 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Carryout and Reallotment Report
ADMIN_LIHEAP_CORptOMBSS_FY2022_fnl 4.26.22.docx
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Carryout and Reallotment Report