Notice2025-11546
Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Refugee Assistance Program Estimates: Cash and Medical Assistance-ORR-1 (Office of Management and Budget #: 0970-0030)
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Published
June 24, 2025
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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 revisions to an existing data collection, ORR-1 Cash and Medical Assistance (CMA) Program Estimates (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #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.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26819-26820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11546]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review;
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.
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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 revisions to an existing data collection, ORR-1
Cash and Medical Assistance (CMA) Program Estimates (Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) #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 July 24, 2025. OMB must decide about 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.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. You can
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by
emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bdd4d3dbd2ded2d1d1d8dec9d4d2d3fddcdedb93d5d5ce93dad2cb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="20494e464f434f4c4c454354494f4e604143460e4848530e474f56">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all emailed 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
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reimbursed for the costs of providing these services and benefits for 4
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 specified by Congress. 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 in support of CMA
estimates must be submitted along with the ORR-1 form; however, ORR
does not currently provide a standardized budget justification
template. As a result, submissions vary widely in format, content, and
level of detail, making it challenging to extract and standardize
information, which increases the burden on both ORR reviewers and
recipients. This revision to the information collection process
requires states and Replacement Designees (RD) 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 been updated with minor revisions,
including updated column and line titles to reflect current
terminology, and a simplified structure that replaces unit cost
estimates with total cost estimates. 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
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Annual number Average Total
Information collection Total number of responses burden hours burden
of respondents per respondent per response hours
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ORR-1, CMA Program Estimates........................... 57 1 0.5 28.5
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Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1522(a)(4).
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-11546 Filed 6-23-25; 8:45 am]
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