Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 248 / Friday, December 27, 2024 / Notices 105609 

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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105610 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 248 / Friday, December 27, 2024 / Notices 

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 412(a)(4). 

Mary C. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31044 Filed 12–26–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4184–45–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Unaccompanied Children 

Bureau Incident Reporting (Office of 

Management and Budget #: 0970– 

NEW) 

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 inviting public comments 

on the proposed information collection, 

including proposed changes. The 

request consists of several forms that 

will allow the Unaccompanied Children 

Bureau (UCB) to ensure that serious 

issues are elevated to ORR and that all 

incidents and the response to such 

incidents are documented and resolved 

in a way that protects the interests of 

children. 

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: ORR UCB is in the 

process of reorganizing its information 

collections to create more unique 

information collections that will contain 

fewer forms under each OMB control 

number. This will promote operational 

efficiency for UCB by decreasing the 

burden associated with renewing large 

collections and enabling UCB to create 

more purpose-specific information 

collections. In addition, this will 

facilitate OMB review by ensuring the 

scope of the collection is targeted and 

narrower than existing collections, 

resulting in clearer requests. As part of 

that reorganization effort, ORR plans to 

move the following forms into this new 

information collection: 

• Child-Level Event (Form A–9A) 

• Emergency Significant Incident 

Report (eSIR) (Form A–9B) 

• Non-Emergency Significant Incident 

Report (non-eSIR)(Form A–9C) 

• Historical Disclosure (Form A–9D) 

• Behavioral Note (Form A–9E) 

• Program-Level Event (PLE) Report 

(Form A–10) 

In addition, ORR plans to revise the 

forms as follows to better align the 

forms with related reporting 

requirements and processes found in 

ORR agency guidance (i.e., regulations, 

policies, and procedures), as well as 

improve the forms’ organization, clarity, 

and functionality: 

Child-Level Event (Form A–9A) 

• Adjust the dropdown options for 

the ‘‘Location of Event’’ field to remove 

duplication and improve accuracy by: 

Æ Removing ‘‘Group Home’’ and ‘‘Foster 

Home’’ 

Æ Rewording ‘‘Community (field trip or 

outside the foster home)’’ to 

‘‘Community’’ 

Æ Rewording ‘‘U.S. Interior, not DHS or 

ORR custody’’ to ‘‘U.S. Interior 

(before entering DHS or ORR 

custody)’’ 

• Adjust the dropdown options for 

‘‘Specify Location’’ for accuracy by: 

Æ Rewording options to clarify when 

they are referring to locations inside 

the care provider facility 

Æ Adding an option for ‘‘Individual 

Foster Home’’ 

Æ Adding the following options to 

select from if ‘‘Community’’ is 

selected in the ‘‘Location of Event’’ 

field 

D Hospital or other healthcare facility 

D School 

D Field Trip 

D Other 

• Add the following fields: 

Æ Level of Care 

Æ Specify Out-of-Network Facility 

Æ Specify Out-of-Network Level of Care 

• Reword the Date/Time Event 

Reported to Care Provider fields as 

follows since provider staff may have 

directly witnessed the event, as opposed 

to having it reported to them by a thirdparty: 

Æ Date Care Provider Became Aware of 

Event 

Æ Time Care Provider Became Aware of 

Event 

Emergency Significant Incident Report 

(Form A–9B) 

• Reword the subcategory 

‘‘Molestation (penetration or touching 

unrelated to official job duties of a 

child’s buttocks, breasts, or anal, oral, or 

genital area by a body part or object’’ to 

‘‘Molestation (intentional penetration or 

touching unrelated to official job duties 

of a child’s genitalia, anus, groin, breast, 

inner thigh, buttocks, or mouth by a 

body part or object, including kissing, 

with intent to abuse, arouse, or gratify 

sexual desire)’’ for added clarity. 

• Remove the option of ‘‘UC and UC 

consensual’’ from the ‘‘Type of 

Allegation’’ dropdown field to align 

with the related regulation. 

Non-Emergency Significant Incident 

Report (Form A–9C) 

• For the ‘‘Staff Code of Conduct & 

Boundary Violation’’ category: 

Æ Reworded the subcategory ‘‘Failing to 

report any knowledge, suspicion, or 

information about sexual abuse, 

sexual harassment, or inappropriate 

sexual behavior’’ to ‘‘Failing to 

report any knowledge, suspicion, or 

information about sexual abuse, 

sexual harassment, inappropriate 

sexual behavior, or any other form 

of abuse/neglect’’ to clarify that 

other forms of abuse/neglect are 

also reportable 

Æ Added the following subcategories to 

better align with ORR agency 

guidance: 

D Failing to report a code of conduct 

violation 

D Engaging in sexual contact with 

anyone while on duty or while 

acting in the official capacity of 

their position 

D Threatening a child with incident 

reporting or behavioral notes to 

regulate their behavior or for any 

other reason 

D Threatening a child with legal, 

immigration, sponsor unification, or 

asylum case consequences to 

regulate their behavior or for any 

other reason 

Historical Disclosure (Form A–9D) 

• Reword the ‘‘Abuse Neglect in DHS 

Custody’’ category to ‘‘Violation of Civil 

Rights/Liberties in DHS Custody’’ and 

replace the current subcategories with 

the following options to better reflect 

the types of reportable incidents: 

Æ Conditions of detention 

Æ Disability accommodation 

Æ Excessive force or inappropriate use 

of force 

Æ Fourth Amendment (confiscation of 

documents/property) 

Æ Intimidation, threat, or improper 

coercion 


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