Proposed Information Collection Activity; Office of Refugee Resettlement Cash and Medical Assistance Program Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations-(ORR-2) (OMB #0970-0407), 28359-28360 [2021-11157]
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of Science,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Office of Refugee
Resettlement Cash and Medical
Assistance Program Quarterly Report
on Expenditures and Obligations—
(ORR–2) (OMB #0970–0407)
Office of Refugee Resettlement
(ORR), Administration for Children and
Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
The Office of Refugee
Resettlement (ORR) is requesting a
three-year extension of the ORR Cash
and Medical Assistance (CMA) Program
Quarterly Report on Expenditures and
Obligations (ORR–2) (OMB #0970–0407,
expiration 8/31/2021). There are no
changes requested to the form.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of
publication. In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
SUMMARY:
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average hours
per response
(in hours)
8,750
8,750
225
1
1
1
55/60
5/60
90/60
8,021
729
338
........................
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9,455
Number of
respondents
Types of respondents
Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting
public comment on the specific aspects
of the information collection described
above.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed
collection of information can be
obtained and comments may be
forwarded by emailing infocollection@
acf.hhs.gov. Alternatively, copies can
also be obtained by writing to the
Administration for Children and
Families, Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation (OPRE), 330 C Street
SW, Washington, DC 20201, Attn: ACF
Reports Clearance Officer. All requests,
emailed or written, should be identified
by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The Office of Refugee
Resettlement (ORR) reimburses, to the
extent of available appropriations,
certain non-federal costs for the
provision of cash and medical
assistance to refugees, along with
allowable expenses for the
administration the refugee resettlement
program at the State level. States and
Replacement Designees currently
submit the ORR–2 Quarterly Report on
Expenditures and Obligations, which
provides aggregate expenditure and
obligation data. The ORR–2 collects
expenditures and obligations data
separately for each of the four CMA
program components: Refugee cash
assistance, refugee medical assistance,
Total burden
hours
cash and medical assistance
administration, and services for
unaccompanied minors. This
breakdown of financial status data
allows ORR to track program
expenditures in greater detail to
anticipate any funding issues and to
meet the requirements of ORR
regulations at CFR 400.211 to collect
these data for use in estimating future
costs of the refugee resettlement
program. ORR must implement the
methodology at CFR 400.211 each year
after receipt of its annual appropriation
to ensure that appropriated funds will
be adequate for reimbursement to states
of the costs for assistance provided to
entering refugees. The estimating
methodology prescribed in the
regulations requires the use of actual
past costs by program component. If the
methodology indicates that
appropriated funds are inadequate, ORR
must take steps to reduce federal
expenses, such as by limiting the
number of months of eligibility for
Refugee Cash Assistance and Refugee
Medical Assistance. The ORR–2 is a
single-page financial report that allows
ORR to collect the necessary data to
ensure that funds are adequate for the
projected need and thereby meet the
requirements of both the Refugee Act
and ORR regulations.
Respondents: State governments and
Replacement Designees.
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Instrument
Total number
of respondents
Annual
number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden hours
per response
Annual
burden hours
ORR Financial Status Report Cash and Medical Assistance Program, Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations .............................................
66
4
1.5
396
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 396.
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
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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
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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: 8 U.S.C. 1522 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act)
(Title IV, Sec. 412 of the Act) for each state
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agency requesting federal funding for refugee
resettlement under 8 U.S.C. 524 (Title IV,
Sec. 414 of the Act).
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Evaluation of the Child
Welfare Capacity Building
Collaborative (New Collection)
Children’s Bureau,
Administration for Children and
Families; HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
The Children’s Bureau,
Administration for Children and
Families (ACF), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), is
proposing to collect data for an
evaluation of the services provided to
child welfare jurisdictions and Court
Improvement Programs (CIP) by the
Child Welfare Capacity Building
Collaborative. This study uses
instruments that build on previously
approved OMB instruments, including
satisfaction surveys, assessment tools,
interview protocols, and service-specific
feedback forms (OMB #0970–0484,
expiration 11/30/22; OMB #0970–0494,
expiration 2/28/23).
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of
publication. OMB is required to make a
decision concerning the collection of
information between 30 and 60 days
after publication of this document in the
Federal Register. Therefore, a comment
is best assured of having its full effect
if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
SUMMARY:
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The Capacity Building
Collaborative includes three centers
(Center for States, Center for Tribes,
Center for Courts) funded by the
Children’s Bureau to provide national
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informed training and technical
assistance services to state, tribal, and
U.S. territorial public child welfare
agencies and CIP. The Centers offer
services including Web-based content
and resources, product development
and dissemination, self-directed and
group-based training, virtual learning
and peer networking events, and
tailored consultation, coaching, and
facilitation (‘‘tailored services’’).
Centers’ services will be evaluated by
Center-specific evaluations and a crossCenter evaluation. The cross-Center
evaluation will examine collaboration
across and within Centers; how well
Centers have established themselves
nationally, and how the child welfare
field perceives their expertise,
credibility, and value; what services are
delivered by the Centers, and how well
they are defined; service recipient
satisfaction with service quality; child
welfare jurisdiction and federal staff’s
experiences of assessment and work
planning services offered by Centers;
effectiveness of Center services; how
Centers apply a common ‘‘change
management approach’’ in their work;
what affects child welfare jurisdiction
engagement with and use of Center
services; and the costs of Center
services. The Center for States’
evaluation consists of data collection
around two research questions and five
sub-studies. The research questions
focus on understanding usefulness,
relevance, and satisfaction from a
stakeholder perspective, as well as
outcomes of all services, with a focus on
tailored services. The sub-studies assess
organizational capacities, child welfare
policy and practice, and outcomes for
children and families. The Center for
Tribes’ evaluation will examine the
extent to which the Center provides
effective, culturally responsive services
that meet the needs of tribal child
welfare programs; the satisfaction of
service recipients with service quality;
and service outcomes for tribal child
welfare programs and stakeholders. The
Center for Courts’ evaluation will assess
satisfaction with and effectiveness of
service delivery; progress toward
meeting Center goals and the needs of
CIP to promote continuous quality
improvement (CQI); and increased
knowledge, collaboration, and capacity
to improve court performance and child
and family outcomes.
Proposed cross-Center evaluation
data sources for this effort include (1) a
survey to assess child welfare staff
perceptions of the outcomes of
intensive 1 courses of tailored services
and their satisfaction with those
services, completed by a project team
lead with input from the rest of the
team; (2) a survey to assess child welfare
staff perceptions of the outcomes of
brief courses of tailored services, for use
with tribes and CIP;2 (3,4,5) a leadership
interview protocol, administered to all
state/territory child welfare directors,
and to tribal child welfare directors and
CIP coordinators receiving services from
the Centers; (6) a collaboration and
communication survey administered
twice to Center staff/contractors and
their federal partners to understand
whether factors that support
collaboration are in place and
improving over time; (7) a survey to
assess whether collaborative teams for
specific projects and/or communication
teams exhibit signs of healthy
collaboration; and (8) a survey to assess
child welfare jurisdiction staff
satisfaction with the assessment and
work planning services provided by
Centers.
Center for States’ data sources
include (1) a registration form for
participation in virtual events; (2,3) a
survey to gather feedback from
participants in brief service events of
100+ registrants, and a follow-up survey
to measure outcomes 3 months later; (4)
a short poll for use by participants in
brief service events with fewer than 100
registrants; (5) a peer learning group
survey to gather feedback to inform
program planning; (6) a survey to
measure satisfaction with learning
experiences; (7) a protocol for
interviewing staff in jurisdictions
receiving intensive services; (8) a
protocol for use with state project leads
to capture feedback following meetings
associated with intensive projects, for
use in a fidelity study; (9) a tailored
services brief project survey to inform
outcome reporting and CQI; (10) a
survey of participants in peer-to-peer
events to inform project planning; and
(11) a jurisdiction interview protocol for
a longitudinal ethnographic sub-study
of several intensive projects. Center for
Tribes’ data sources include (1) a form
for tribes requesting Center services; (2)
an inquiry form for Center staff to
collect information on services the tribe
requests; (3) a demographic survey to
provide information about the tribal
child welfare program; (4) a ‘‘needs and
fit exploration tool—phase 1’’ to gather
information to decide if the tribe’s
request meets criteria for services; (5) a
‘‘needs and fit exploration tool—phase
2’’ for use when meeting with tribes
whose service request has been
1 Intensive services typically last 9 or more
months and involve 20 or more hours of service.
2 The Center for States will administer its own,
similar survey for use with state respondents.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Office of Refugee
Resettlement Cash and Medical Assistance Program Quarterly Report on
Expenditures and Obligations--(ORR-2) (OMB #0970-0407)
AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Administration for
Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is requesting a
three-year extension of the ORR Cash and Medical Assistance (CMA)
Program Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations (ORR-2) (OMB
#0970-0407, expiration 8/31/2021). There are no changes requested to
the form.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of publication. In compliance with
the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is
soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information
collection described above.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed collection of information can be
obtained and comments may be forwarded by emailing
[email protected]. Alternatively, copies can also be obtained
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), 330 C Street SW, Washington,
DC 20201, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. All requests, emailed or
written, should be identified by the title of the information
collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Description: The Office of Refugee
Resettlement (ORR) reimburses, to the extent of available
appropriations, certain non-federal costs for the provision of cash and
medical assistance to refugees, along with allowable expenses for the
administration the refugee resettlement program at the State level.
States and Replacement Designees currently submit the ORR-2 Quarterly
Report on Expenditures and Obligations, which provides aggregate
expenditure and obligation data. The ORR-2 collects expenditures and
obligations data separately for each of the four CMA program
components: Refugee cash assistance, refugee medical assistance, cash
and medical assistance administration, and services for unaccompanied
minors. This breakdown of financial status data allows ORR to track
program expenditures in greater detail to anticipate any funding issues
and to meet the requirements of ORR regulations at CFR 400.211 to
collect these data for use in estimating future costs of the refugee
resettlement program. ORR must implement the methodology at CFR 400.211
each year after receipt of its annual appropriation to ensure that
appropriated funds will be adequate for reimbursement to states of the
costs for assistance provided to entering refugees. The estimating
methodology prescribed in the regulations requires the use of actual
past costs by program component. If the methodology indicates that
appropriated funds are inadequate, ORR must take steps to reduce
federal expenses, such as by limiting the number of months of
eligibility for Refugee Cash Assistance and Refugee Medical Assistance.
The ORR-2 is a single-page financial report that allows ORR to collect
the necessary data to ensure that funds are adequate for the projected
need and thereby meet the requirements of both the Refugee Act and ORR
regulations.
Respondents: State governments and Replacement Designees.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Annual number Average burden
Instrument Total number of of responses hours per Annual burden
respondents per respondent response hours
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ORR Financial Status Report Cash and Medical 66 4 1.5 396
Assistance Program, Quarterly Report on
Expenditures and Obligations...............
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 396.
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: 8 U.S.C. 1522 of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(the Act) (Title IV, Sec. 412 of the Act) for each state
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agency requesting federal funding for refugee resettlement under 8
U.S.C. 524 (Title IV, Sec. 414 of the Act).
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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