Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request, 19089-19090 [2014-07606]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
• Administration for Children and Families

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 66 (Monday, April 7, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19089-19090]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07606]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Rescue & Restore Regional Program Project Data.
    OMB No.: 0970--NEW.
    Description: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), 
as amended, authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(Secretary) to expand benefits and services to victims of severe forms 
of trafficking in persons in the United States, without regard to the 
immigration status of such victims. Such benefits and services may 
include services to assist potential victims of trafficking in 
achieving certification (Section 107(b)(1)(B) of the TVPA, 22 U.S.C. 
7105(b)(1)(B)). It also authorizes the President, acting through the 
Secretary and the heads of other Federal departments, to establish and 
carry out programs to increase public awareness, particularly among 
potential victims of trafficking, of the dangers of trafficking and the 
protections that are available for victims of trafficking (Section 
106(b) of the TVPA, 22 U.S.C. 7104(b)).
    The Secretary delegated authority to carry out these 
responsibilities to the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families 
who further delegated the authority to the Director of the Office of 
Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
    The intent of the Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking 
campaign, launched in 2004, is to increase the identification of 
trafficking victims in the United States and to help those victims 
receive the benefits and services they need to restore their lives. The 
purpose of the Rescue & Restore Victims of Trafficking Regional Program 
(Rescue & Restore Program) is to increase the identification and 
protection of foreign victims of human trafficking in the United States 
and to promote local capacity to prevent human trafficking and protect 
human trafficking victims. The Rescue & Restore Program also seeks to 
remove barriers to prevention and protection specific to foreign human 
trafficking victims who live in the United States.
    The Rescue & Restore Program has the following objectives:
    (1) Identification and Referral of Foreign Victims of Human 
Trafficking: To identify foreign victims of trafficking and refer them 
to service delivery systems.
    (2) Training and Technical Assistance: To build local capacity by 
providing training and technical assistance on human trafficking to 
local organizations not involved in a local coalition.
    (3) Coalition Building: To lead or actively participate in a 
community-led effort to bring together and leverage local resources to 
address human trafficking in a region, such as a Rescue & Restore 
Coalition or law enforcement task force (``coalition'').
    (4) Public Awareness: To promote the public's awareness of human 
trafficking by educating the public about the dangers of human 
trafficking, possible indicators of sex and labor trafficking, and the 
protections available to victims.
    To measure each grant project's performance progress and the 
success of the program, and to assist grantees to assess and improve 
their projects over the course of the project period, ACF proposes to 
require grantees to input numbers for each numeric indicator into a 
spreadsheet during the 36-month project period.
    ACF proposes to collect data for the following indicators:

Identification and Referral of Foreign Victims of Human Trafficking

     The number of outreach events conducted by the grantee;
     The number of people reached at outreach events;
     The number of potential male and female, adult and minor 
foreign human trafficking victims identified through Rescue & Restore 
project efforts;
     The number of potential male and female, adult and minor 
foreign human trafficking victims referred by the grantee to service 
providers; and
     The number of male and female, adult and minor foreign 
human trafficking victims who receive Certification, Eligibility, and/
or Interim Assistance Letters as a result of the grantee's efforts.

Training and Technical Assistance

     The number of persons in social service agencies, law 
enforcement agencies, and other relevant professional, community-based, 
and faith-based organizations who were trained by the grantee;
     The number of persons whose knowledge of human trafficking 
measurably increased as a result of grantee training as evidenced by 
the use of established practices in assessing learning; and
     The number of social service, law enforcement, health, 
legal, education, or other professionals provided technical assistance 
on identifying human trafficking victims and referring them for 
services or to law enforcement.

Coalition Building

     The number and percentage of coalition meetings led or 
attended by the grantee; and
     The number of coalition meetings in which the applicant 
proposed or promoted new or more efficient ways to combat human 
trafficking, improve coalition effectiveness, or assist trafficking 
victims in the targeted geographic location.

Public Awareness

     The number of people, distinguished by professional, 
occupational, community, or demographic sector, reached during 
strategic public awareness activities conducted by the grantee; and
     The number of people who reported knowledge of human 
trafficking information that was distributed as a result of the 
applicant's public awareness efforts.
    In addition, ACF proposes to collect information on the victims and 
potential victims of trafficking (victims) identified as a result of 
each project's activities. ACF will not collect information about U.S. 
citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents. ORR will aggregate this 
information to include in reports to Congress, which are available to 
the public, to help inform strategies and policies to prevent 
trafficking in persons and to protect victims. This information will 
also help ORR assess the project's performance in identifying victims 
and referring them for services.
    ORR proposes to collect the following information, if available, 
for each victim

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reached by a grant recipient or any partner organizations:
     Type of Trafficking (Labor, Sex, Labor and Sex, Unknown);
     Client Identifier (e.g., Initials, Date of Birth, and 
Country of Origin);
     Client information (Sex, Adult/Minor);
     Description of trafficking situation;
     Date that organization made contact with the victim began 
establishing trust and/or screened the person for victim status;
     Date that grantee positively identified person as a victim 
of a severe form of trafficking in persons;
     Documentation from the Department of Homeland Security 
(DHS) about the time of temporary status the victim is pursuing (e.g., 
Continued Presence, T Visa, U Visa, SIJS);
     Name of service agency assisting the victim;
     Date of HHS Certification or Eligibility; and
     Date the agency or victim terminated contact, with space 
for explanation.
    Respondents: Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking Regional 
Program grantees.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                            Number of     Average
                                                               Number of    responses      burden       Total
                         Instrument                           respondents      per       hours per      burden
                                                                            respondent    response      hours
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Excel spreadsheet...........................................           20            4            4           16
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 320.
    In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and 
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the 
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed 
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded 
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of 
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., 
Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. Email 
address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified 
by the title of the information collection.
    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.

Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-07606 Filed 4-4-14; 8:45 am]
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