Notice2022-23341
Expedited Review and Public Comment: Monitoring and Compliance for Office of Refugee Resettlement Care Provider Facilities (OMB #: 0970-0564)
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Published
October 26, 2022
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is requesting expedited review of an information collection request from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This information collection will allow the ORR Unaccompanied Children (UC) Program to enhance monitoring efforts at care provider facilities that are not licensed by the state. A separate notice will be published inviting public comments on the proposed collection.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64797-64798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23341]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Expedited Review and Public Comment: Monitoring and Compliance
for Office of Refugee Resettlement Care Provider Facilities (OMB #:
0970-0564)
AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and
Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, is requesting expedited review of an information collection
request from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This
information collection will allow the ORR Unaccompanied Children (UC)
Program to enhance monitoring efforts at care provider facilities that
are not licensed by the state. A separate notice will be published
inviting public comments on the proposed collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: ACF is requesting emergency review and approval of
this information collection by OMB, as authorized under 44 U.S.C. 3507
(subsection j). The proposed forms are necessary to allow the ORR UC
Program to enhance monitoring efforts at care provider facilities that
are not licensed by the state. The information collected is essential
to the mission of the agency and an unanticipated event occurred that
could reasonably result in public harm if normal Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) clearance procedures are followed. A recent proclamation in
Texas (Proclamation by the Governor of the State of Texas, May 31,
2021) and recent emergency rule in Florida (Emergency Rule 65CER21-3,
December 10, 2021) has resulted in a large number of ORR facilities no
longer being licensed by the states. To help mitigate the issue, ORR
plans to perform quarterly health and safety monitoring visits to Texas
and Florida programs. The quarterly monitoring visits are in addition
to and do not take the place of ORR's existing monitoring activities as
described in UC Policy Guide Section 5.5. In order to implement
quarterly health and safety site visits for unlicensed programs, ORR is
seeking emergency approval to begin use of instruments related to this
effort as soon as possible. ORR plans to make minor edits to 15
existing forms in this information collection to create the following
alternate versions:
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Site Visit Guide (Form M-7A-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Personnel File Checklist (Form M-10A-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Program Director Questionnaire (Form M-
11A-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Clinician Questionnaire (Form M-11C-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Case Manager Questionnaire (Form M-11E-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Education Staff Questionnaire (Form M-11G-
UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Medical Coordinator Questionnaire (Form M-
11I-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Youth Care Worker Questionnaire (Form M-
11J-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Prevention of Sexual Abuse Compliance
Manager Staff Questionnaire (Form M-11K-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Interpreter Questionnaire (Form M-11P-UK)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility UC Questionnaire--Ages 6-12 Years Old
(Forms M-12A-UF and M-12As-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility UC Questionnaire--Ages 13 and Older (Forms
M-12B-UF and M-12Bs-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility UC Questionnaire--Ages 5 and Under (Form
M-12E-UF and M-12Es-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Legal Service Provider Questionnaire (Form
M-13C-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Case Coordinator Questionnaire (Form M-
13E-UF)
Additionally, ORR plans to add the below form (currently approved
under OMB #0970-0558) to this information collection as well as the
alternate version listed above to facilitate the quarterly monitoring
on unlicensed programs.
<bullet> Interpreter Questionnaire (Form M-11P)
Finally, ORR plans to use the following forms with more than nine
respondents. These were previously approved by OMB but were removed
from the information collection due to the number of respondents.
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Monitoring Notes (Form M-6A-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility UC Case File Checklist (Form M-7A-UF)
<bullet> Unlicensed Facility Onsite Monitoring Checklist (M-9A-UF)
At this time, ACF is requesting that OMB grant a 180-day approval
for this request under procedures for expedited processing. A request
for review under normal procedures will be submitted within 180 days of
the approval for this request. ACF will invite public comment through
this process. The first comment period, which invites comments over a
60-day period, begins concurrently with the publication of this notice
(see notice titled Proposed Information Collection Activity; Monitoring
and Compliance for Office of Refugee Resettlement Care Provider
Facilities (Office of Management and Budget #: 0970-0564) in this issue
of the Federal Register).
Respondents: ORR grantee and contractor staff; and UC.
Annual Burden Estimates:
The following burden estimates are specific to the forms described
above and the subject of this request for emergency approval. For
information about all currently approved forms under this OMB number,
see: <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202108-0970-016">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202108-0970-016</a>.
Estimated Burden Hours for Respondents
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Annual number
Annual number of responses Average Annual total
Information collection title of per burden hours burden hours
respondents respondent per response
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Unlicensed Facility Site Visit Guide (Form M-7A- 56 4.0 1.00 224.00
UF)............................................
Unlicensed Facility UC Case File Checklist (Form 56 20.0 1.00 1,120.00
M-8A-UF).......................................
Interpreter Questionnaire (Form M-11P).......... 115 2.0 0.50 115.00
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Unlicensed Facility Program Staff Questionnaires 56 32.0 1.00 1,792.00
(Forms M-11A-UF to M-11K-UF)...................
Unlicensed Facility Interpreter Questionnaire 56 4.0 0.50 112.00
(Form M-11P-UF)................................
Unlicensed Facility UC Questionnaires (Forms M- 1,120 1.0 0.50 560.00
12A-UF to M-12B-UF & M-12E-UF).................
Unlicensed Facility Legal Service Provider 224 1.0 0.75 168.00
Questionnaire (Form M-13C-UF)..................
Unlicensed Facility Case Coordinator 224 1.0 1.00 224.00
Questionnaire (Form M-13E-UF)..................
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Estimated Annual Burden Hours Total:........ .............. .............. .............. 4,315.00
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Estimated Burden Hours for Contractor Monitors
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Annual number
Annual number of responses Average Annual total
Information collection title of per burden hours burden hours
respondents respondent per response
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Unlicensed Facility Monitoring Notes (Form M-6A- 18 12.0 12.00 2,592.00
UF)............................................
Unlicensed Facility Site Visit Guide (Form M-7A- 18 12.0 29.00 6,264.00
UF)............................................
Unlicensed Facility UC Case File Checklist (Form 18 62.0 6.00 6,696.00
M-8A-UF).......................................
Unlicensed Facility On-Site Monitoring Checklist 18 12.0 4.00 864.00
(Form M-9A-UF).................................
Unlicensed Facility Personnel File Checklist 18 50.0 1.00 900.00
(Form M-10A-UF)................................
Unlicensed Facility Program Staff Questionnaires 18 100.0 1.00 1,800.00
(Forms M-11A-UF to M-11K-UF)...................
Unlicensed Facility Interpreter Questionnaire 18 12.0 0.50 108.00
(Form M-11P-UF)................................
Unlicensed Facility UC Questionnaires (Forms M- 18 62.0 0.50 558.00
12A-UF to M-12B-UF & M-12E-UF).................
Unlicensed Facility Legal Service Provider 18 12.0 0.75 162.00
Questionnaire (Form M-13C-UF)..................
Unlicensed Facility Case Coordinator 18 12.0 1.00 216.00
Questionnaire (Form M-13E-UF)..................
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Estimated Annual Burden Hours Total:........ .............. .............. .............. 20,160.00
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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. Comments will be considered and any
necessary updates to materials made prior to, and responses provided
in, the submission to OMB that will follow this public comment period.
Authority: 6 U.S.C. 279; 8 U.S.C. 1232; Flores v. Reno Settlement
Agreement, No. CV85-4544-RJK (C.D. Cal. 1996); 45 CFR part 411.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-23341 Filed 10-25-22; 8:45 am]
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