5554 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 21 / Monday, February 2, 2015 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: Interstate Referral Guide (IRG) 

OMB No.: 0970–0209 

Description: The Intergovernmental 

Reference Guide (IRG) is a centralized 

and automated repository of state and 

tribal profiles, which contains highlevel descriptions of each state and 

tribe’s child support enforcement (CSE) 

program. These profiles provide state 

and tribal CSE agencies, and foreign 

countries with an effective and efficient 

method for updating and accessing 

information needed to process 

intergovernmental child support cases. 

The IRG information collection 

activities are authorized by: (1) 42 

U.S.C. 652(a)(7), which requires OCSE 

to provide technical assistance to state 

child support enforcement agencies to 

help them establish effective systems for 

collecting child and spousal support; (2) 

42 U.S.C. 666(f), which requires states to 

enact the Uniform Interstate Family 

Support Act; and (3) 45 CFR 303.7, 

which requires state child support 

agencies to provide services in 

intergovernmental cases. 

Respondents: All States and 

Territories and tribal CSE agencies. 

Annual Burden Estimates 

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Intergovernmental Reference Guide: State Profile Guidance—(States and 

Territories) .................................................................................................... 54 18 0.3 291.60 

Intergovernmental Reference Guide: Tribal Profile Guidance ........................ 62 18 0.3 334.80 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 624.40. 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01855 Filed 1–30–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

[CFDA Number: 93.567] 

Announcing the Award of Nine SingleSource Grants Under the Voluntary 

Agencies Matching Grant Program 

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, 

Administration for Children and 

Families, HHS. 

ACTION: Announcing the Award of Nine 

Single-Source Grants under the 

Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant 

Program. 

SUMMARY: The Voluntary Agencies 

Matching Grant Program was created by 

Congress in 1979. The program is 

intended to work in consort with the 

Refugee and Cuban & Haitian Entrant 

Reception and Placement (R&P) 

programs. Thus, competition under the 

Voluntary Agency Matching Grant 

Program has historically been limited to 

those voluntary agencies providing R&P 

services through cooperative agreements 

with the Department of State or the 

Department of Homeland Security. 

Congress confirmed this approach to the 

program in the 1986 Refugee Assistance 

Extension Act. The Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF) has 

determined that using the solicited 

single-source application process is in 

the best interest of the government as it 

will achieve the same result and is more 

cost effective than the published 

Funding Opportunity Announcement 

process. 

DATES: October 1, 2014 through 

September 30, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Giossi, Program Manager, 

Division of Refugee Services, Office of 

Refugee Resettlement, 370 L’Enfant 

Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447. 

Telephone: 202–401–5720. Email: 

Thomas.Giossi@acf.hhs.gov . 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant 

Program, under the Office of Refugee 

Resettlement (ORR), is an alternative to 

public cash assistance designed to 

enable refugees, asylees, and other ORR 

eligible populations, to become selfsufficient through employment within 

120 to 180 days from date of arrival into 

the United States (U.S.) and/or the date 

of eligibility for ORR services; however, 

clients must be enrolled within 31 days 

of becoming eligible to ensure that 

adequate services are provided and selfsufficiency is achieved and maintained 

within the period of eligibility. Services 

provided include, but are not limited to, 

case management, employment services, 

housing and utilities, food, 

transportation, cash allowance, health 

and medical, English language training, 

social adjustment, and other support 

services. In all cases, self-sufficiency 

must be achieved without accessing 

public cash assistance and all program 

services cease at 180 days from program 

eligibility. 

The Voluntary Agencies Matching 

Grant Program was designed to work 

directly with Reception and Placement 

(R&P) programs. Congress confirmed 

this approach to the program in the 

1986 Refugee Assistance Extension Act. 

Therefore, funding under this program 

is open only to those nine voluntary 

agencies that already provide R&P 

services through a cooperative 

agreement with the U.S. Department of 

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State (DOS) or the U.S. Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS). 

Participating voluntary agencies agree 

to match the ORR grant with cash and 

in-kind contributions of goods and 

services from the community. Currently, 

ORR awards $2 for every $1 raised by 

the agency up to a maximum of $2,200 

in federal funds per client. 

Single-source awards are made to the 

following organizations: 

Grantee name Location 

Total 

federal 

annual 

award 

Church World Service/Immigration & Refugee Program ........................................................ New York, NY .................................... $5,885,000 

Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S.A New York, NY .................................... 4,241,600 

Ethiopian Community Development Council/Refugee Resettlement Program ...................... Arlington, VA ...................................... 2,059,200 

HIAS, Inc. (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)/Refugee and Immigrant Services ..................... New York, NY .................................... 1,566,400 

International Rescue Committee/Resettlement ...................................................................... New York, NY .................................... 9,143,200 

Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service .............................................................................. Baltimore, MD .................................... 7,530,600 

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ...................................................................... Washington, DC ................................. 18,977,200 

US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants ........................................................................ Arlington, VA ...................................... 11,501,600 

World Relief Corporation of National Association of Evangelicals/Refugee & Immigration 

Programs.

Baltimore, MD .................................... 4,404,400 

Statutory Authority: Section 412(c)(1)(A) 

of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 

U.S.C. 1522(c)(1)(A); Section 7(a) and (b) of 

the Refugee Assistance Extension Act of 1986 

(Pub. L. 99–605) (8 U.S.C. 1522 note). 

Christopher Beach, 

Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01841 Filed 1–30–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Community Living 

Termination of the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico’s Protection and 

Advocacy for Persons With 

Developmental Disabilities Award 

AGENCY: Administration for Community 

Living, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of Hearing: Termination 

of PADD funding. Action to Terminate 

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s 

Protection and Advocacy for Persons 

with Developmental Disabilities (PADD) 

Award. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to regulations at 45 

CFR part 1386, subpart D, this notice 

announces an administrative hearing 

regarding termination of Federal 

funding (that is, ‘‘the allotment’’) for the 

Protection and Advocacy for Persons 

with Developmental Disabilities (PADD) 

Award to the designated Protection and 

Advocacy agency in the Commonwealth 

of Puerto Rico: Oficina del Procurador 

de las Personas con Impedimentos 

(OPPI) (Ombudsman for Persons with 

Disabilities). This notice includes the 

following information: Who will preside 

at the hearing, the organizations or 

entities that are parties to the hearing 

without making a specific request to 

participate, the due dates for those who 

are not parties as of right to file a 

petition to participate as a party or as an 

amicus curiae, the date and place of the 

hearing, how certain procedural 

provisions in the applicable regulations 

have been modified, and a description 

of the issues to be considered at the 

hearing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carolyn Reines-Graubard, Director, 

Appellate Division, Departmental 

Appeals Board, Cohen Building, Rm. G– 

644, MS 6127, 330 Independence Ave. 

SW., Washington, DC 20201, 202–565– 

0116. 

Background: The Developmental 

Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights 

Act of 2000 (DD Act) (codified at 42 

U.S.C. 15001 et seq.) provides states and 

territories with federal money for the 

purpose of assuring that ‘‘individuals 

with developmental disabilities and 

their families participate in the design 

of and have access to needed 

community services, individualized 

supports, and other forms of assistance 

that promote self-determination, 

independence, productivity, and 

integration and inclusion in all facets of 

community life, through culturally 

competent programs authorized’’ by the 

Act. DD Act § 101(b) (42 U.S.C. 

15001(b)). While a number of programs 

are authorized under the DD Act, the 

relevant program for this proceeding is 

the Protection and Advocacy (P&A) 

system, described in Subtitle C of Title 

I of the DD Act and, relatedly, the State 

Council on Developmental Disabilities 

(SCDD), described in Subtitle B of such 

Title. 

P&A systems are to ‘‘protect the legal 

and human rights of individuals with 

developmental disabilities.’’ DD Act 

§ 101(b)(2) (42 U.S.C. 15001(b)(2)). State 

Councils are to engage in ‘‘advocacy, 

capacity building, and systemic change 

activities that are consistent with the 

purpose and policies of the Act,’’ DD 

Act § 101(b)(1)(A) (42 U.S.C. 

15001(b)(1)(A)), and that ‘‘contribute[] 

to a coordinated, consumer- and familycentered, consumer- and familydirected, comprehensive system that 

includes needed community services, 

individualized supports, and other 

forms of assistance that promote selfdetermination for individuals with 

developmental disabilities and their 

families.’’ DD Act § 101(b)(1)(B) (42 

U.S.C. 15001(b)(1)(B)). As a condition of 

funding the SCDD, the State must 

establish a P&A system to ‘‘to protect 

and advocate the rights of individuals 

with developmental disabilities.’’ DD 

Act § 143(a)(1) (42 U.S.C. 15043(a)(1)). 

Under the DD Act, a P&A system must 

have certain powers. Such powers 

include, but are not limited to, the 

authority to ‘‘pursue legal, 

administrative, and other appropriate 

remedies or approaches to ensure the 

protection of, and advocacy for, the 

rights of such individuals within the 

State who are or who may be eligible for 

treatment, services, or habilitation, or 

who are being considered for a change 

in living arrangements, with particular 

attention to members of ethnic and 

racial minority groups,’’ as well as to 

‘‘investigate incidents of abuse and 

neglect . . . if the incidents are reported 

to the system or if there is probable 

cause to believe that the incidents 

occurred.’’ DD Act § 143(a)(2)(A)(i) and 

(B) (42 U.S.C. 15043(a)(2)(A)(i) and (B)). 

Pertinent regulations implementing 

the DD Act are contained in 45 CFR 

parts 1385 and 1386. Part 1385 includes 

general requirements applicable to most 

programs and projects authorized under 

the DD Act, including both the SCDDs 

and P&A systems. Part 1386 is specific 

to SCDDs and P&A systems. Subpart A 

of Part 1386 contains regulations 

applicable to both programs; Subpart B 

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