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collection of information, before 

submitting the collection to OMB for 

approval. To comply with this 

requirement, CMS is publishing this 

notice. 

Information Collections 

1. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Reinstatement with change of a 

previously approved information 

collection; Title of Information 

Collection: Comprehensive Outpatient 

Rehabilitation Facility (CORF) 

Certification and Survey Forms; Use: 

This information collection is for the 

reinstatement of the CMS–359 and 

CMS–360 forms. The purpose of these 

forms is described below. The form 

CMS–359 is an application for health 

care providers that seek to participate in 

the Medicare program as a 

Comprehensive Outpatient 

Rehabilitation Facility (CORF). The 

form initiates the process for facilities to 

become certified as a CORF and it 

provides the CMS Location and State 

Survey Agency (SA) staff identifying 

information regarding the applicant that 

is stored in the Automated Survey 

Processing Environment (ASPEN) 

system. 

The form CMS–360 is a survey tool 

used by the SAs to record information 

in order to determine a provider’s 

compliance with the CORF Conditions 

of Participation (COPs) and to report 

this information to the Federal 

Government. The form includes basic 

information on the COP requirements, 

check boxes to indicate the level of 

compliance, and a section for recording 

notes. CMS has the responsibility and 

authority for certification decisions 

which are based on provider 

compliance with the COPs and this form 

supports this process. Form Number: 

CMS–359/360 (OMB control number: 

0938–0267); Frequency: Occasionally; 

Affected Public: Private Sector (Business 

or other for-profits); Number of 

Respondents: 179; Number of 

Responses: 31; Total Annual Hours: 

241. (For questions regarding this 

collection contact Caroline Gallaher 

(410)786–8705.) 

William N. Parham, III, 

Director, Division of Information Collections 

and Regulatory Impacts, Office of Strategic 

Operations and Regulatory Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30853 Filed 12–26–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Prevention Services Data 

Collection (Office of Management and 

Budget #0970–0529) 

AGENCY: Children’s Bureau, 

Administration for Children and 

Families, U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: The Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), Children’s 

Bureau is requesting a 3-year extension 

of the Prevention Services Data 

Collection (Office of Management and 

Budget #0970–0529, expiration May 31, 

2025). There are no changes requested 

to the data collection. 

DATES: Comments due February 25, 

2025. 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: You can obtain copies of the 

proposed collection of information and 

submit comments by emailing 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. Identify all 

requests by the title of the information 

collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: Section 471(e)(4)(E) of 

the Social Security Act (the Act) (42 

U.S.C. 671), as amended by Public Law 

115–123, requires State and Tribal child 

welfare agencies to collect and report to 

ACF information on children receiving 

prevention and family services and 

programs. Title IV–E Agencies must 

report the following: 

• The specific services or programs 

provided 

• The total expenditures for each of 

the services or programs provided 

• The duration of the services or 

programs provided, and 

• If the child was identified in a 

prevention plan as a candidate for foster 

care: 

Æ The child’s placement status at the 

beginning, and at the end, of the 12- 

month period that begins on the date the 

child was identified as a candidate for 

foster care in a prevention plan; and 

Æ Whether the child entered foster 

care during the initial 12-month period 

and during the subsequent 12-month 

period. 

To date, approximately 83 percent of 

the title IV–E Agencies have chosen to 

provide these prevention services. The 

data collected will continue to inform 

Federal policy decisions, program 

management, and responses to 

Congressional and Departmental 

inquiries. Specifically, the data will 

provide information about the use and 

availability of prevention services to 

children to prevent the need for foster 

care placement. The data contains 

personally identifiable information (date 

of birth and race/ethnicity). 

Respondents: Title IV–E Agencies. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument 

Annual 

number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden 

hours per 

response 

Annual 

Prevention Services Data Collection ............................................................................... 53 2 31 3,286

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. 


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Authority: Section 471(e)(4)(E) of the 

Act (42 U.S.C. 671), as amended by 

Public Law 115–123. 

Mary C. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31075 Filed 12–26–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Refugee Assistance Program 

Estimates: Cash and Medical 

Assistance–ORR–1 (Office of 

Management and Budget #: 0970–0030) 

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, 

Administration for Children and 

Families, U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Refugee 

Resettlement (ORR), Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services is requesting revisions to an 

existing data collection, ORR–1 Cash 

and Medical Assistance (CMA) Program 

Estimates (Office of Management and 

Budget #: 0970–0030, expiration June 

30, 2025). The proposed revisions 

include minor revisions to the existing 

ORR–1 form and the addition of a 

template recipients must use in 

preparing their annual budget 

justification estimates in accordance 

with the refugee resettlement program 

regulations. 

DATES: Comments due February 25, 

2025. 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: You can obtain copies of the 

proposed collection of information and 

submit comments by emailing 

infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. Identify all 

requests by the title of the information 

collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: The ORR–1, CMA 

Program Estimates, is the application for 

grants under the CMA program. The 

application is required by ORR program 

regulations at 45 CFR 400.11(b). The 

regulation specifies that states must 

submit, as their application for this 

program, estimates of the projected costs 

they anticipate incurring in providing 

CMA for eligible recipients and the 

costs of administering the program. 

Under the CMA program, states are 

reimbursed for the costs of providing 

these services and benefits for 12 

months after an eligible recipient arrives 

in this country. The eligible 

beneficiaries for these services and 

benefits are refugees, Amerasians, 

Cuban and Haitian Entrants, asylees, 

Afghans and Iraqi with Special 

Immigrant Visas, victims of a severe 

form of trafficking, and other 

populations. States that provide services 

for unaccompanied refugee minors also 

provide an estimate for the cost of these 

services for the year for which they are 

applying for grants. 

The proposed revisions include minor 

changes to the existing ORR–1 form and 

the addition of a template recipients 

must use in preparing their annual 

budget justification estimates in 

accordance with the refugee 

resettlement program regulations. 

Currently recipients must submit the 

ORR–1, CMA Program Estimates, as the 

application for grants under the CMA 

program. A budget justification must be 

submitted along with the ORR–1 form. 

However, ORR does not provide a 

standardized budget justification 

template, so submissions vary widely in 

format, content, and quality, making it 

challenging to extract and standardize 

information, increasing burden on both 

ORR reviewers and recipients. This 

revision to the information collection 

requires states to submit budget 

justifications in a standardized format 

via a Microsoft Excel workbook, with 

each tab of the justification in alignment 

with a specific line on the ORR–1. The 

ORR–1 form has minor revisions, 

including updating the titles of columns 

and lines to align with current 

terminology, and simplifying the form 

to require total cost estimates where 

unit costs were previously requested. 

These revisions are a result of the 

standardization of the budget 

justification. 

The revised instructions, which are 

now embedded within the standardized 

budget justification, provide guidance to 

recipients on how to fill out each 

section of the standardized budget 

justification. The recipients work 

through corresponding sections of the 

instructions and budget justification, 

and the standardized format makes clear 

what information is needed and at what 

level of detail. Upon completion of the 

budget justification, the values needed 

to populate the ORR–1 form are 

automatically calculated, and recipients 

are instructed to transfer specific data 

from the budget justification to the 

ORR–1 form in the system of record. 

ORR conducted a pilot of the 

standardized budget justification. 

Feedback was positive, with 

participating states citing time savings 

in development of their budget 

justification and more streamlined and 

consistent review and analysis by ORR 

reviewers. The annual burden estimate 

has been revised to reflect this. 

Respondents: State Agencies, the 

District of Columbia, and Replacement 

Designees under 45 CFR 400.301(c) 

administering or supervising the 

administration of programs under Title 

IV of the Act. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Information collection Total number 

of respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

ORR–1, CMA Program Estimates ................................................................... 57 1 0.5 28.5 

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. 


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