15374 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 51 / Thursday, March 15, 2012 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: Office of Refugee Resettlement 

Cash and Medical Assistance Program 

Quarterly Report on Expenditures and 

Obligations. 

OMB No.: 0970—NEW. 

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 and other eligible 

persons, along with allowable expenses 

for the administration of the refugee 

resettlement program at the State level. 

States, Wilson/Fish projects (alternative 

projects for the administration of the 

refugee resettlement program), and State 

Replacement Designees currently 

submit the SF–269 Financial Status 

Report in accordance with 45 CFR part 

92 and 45 CFR part 74. This proposed 

new data collection would replace the 

current requirement for the SF–269 

Financial Status Report with a Quarterly 

Report on Expenditures and Obligations 

that would collect similar financial 

status data (i.e., amounts of 

expenditures and obligations) broken 

down by the four program components: 

refugee cash assistance, refugee medical 

assistance, health screening, and 

services for unaccompanied refugee 

minors as well as by program 

administration. This breakdown of 

financial status data on expenditures 

and obligations would allow ORR to 

track program expenditures in greater 

detail to anticipate any funding issues 

and to meet the requirements of ORR 

regulations at 45 CFR 400.211 to collect 

these data for use in estimating annual 

costs of the refugee resettlement 

program. ORR must implement the 

methodology at 45 CFR 400.211 each 

year after receipt of its annual 

appropriation to ensure that the 

appropriated funds will be adequate for 

assistance to entering refugees. The 

estimating methodology prescribed in 

the ORR regulations requires the use of 

actual past costs by program 

component. In the event that 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. This proposed 

single-page report on expenditures and 

obligations will allow 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, 

Wilson/Fish Alternative Projects, State 

Replacement Designees 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden hours per 

response 

Total burden 

hours 

Office of Refugee Resettlement Cash and Medical Assistance Program 

Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations ..................................... 59 4 0.50 118 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 118. 

Additional Information: 

Copies of the proposed collection may 

be obtained 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. All requests should be 

identified by the title of the information 

collection. Email address: 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

OMB Comment: 

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. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

directly to the following: Office of 

Management and Budget, Paperwork 

Reduction Project, Fax: 202–395–7285, 

Email: 

OIRA_SUBMISSION@OMB.EOP.GOV. 

Attn: Desk Officer for the 

Administration for Children and 

Families. 

Robert Sargis, 

Reports Clearance Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 4184–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: Refugee Data Submission 

System for Formula Funds Allocations. 

OMB No.: 0970–0043. 

Description: The information 

collection of Refugee Data Submission 

System for Formula Funds Allocations 

replaces the ORR–11 Refugee State of 

Origin Report and is designed to satisfy 

the statutory requirements of the 

Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). 

Section 412(a)(3) of the Act requires the 

Director of the Office of Refugee 

Resettlement (ORR) to make a periodic 

assessment, based on refugee population 

and other relevant factors, of the relative 

needs of refugees for assistance and 

services and the resources available to 

meet those needs. This includes 

compiling and maintaining data on the 

secondary migration of refugees within 

the United States after arrival. Further, 

INA 412(c)(1)(B) states that formula 

funds shall be allocated based on the 

total number of refugees, taking into 

account secondary migration. 

In order to meet the statutory 

requirements, ORR requires each state to 

submit disaggregated individual records 

containing certain data elements for 

eligible refugee populations. This 

revised collection differs from the ORR– 

11 Refugee State-of-Origin Report 

process, whereby states submitted the 

ORR–11 form containing aggregate data 

on the number of refugees and entrants 

served whose ‘‘area numbers’’ (the first 

three digits of the social security 

number) fell into each of several 

designated numerical ranges. ORR used 

the information on the ORR–11 to 

measure secondary migration for the 

purposes of formula funds allocation to 

states. The revision is proposed due to 

the realization that: 

(1) The Social Security 

Administration states that the first three 

digits of social security numbers (area 


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