Notice2025-18280
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Office of Refugee Resettlement Cash and Medical Assistance Program Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations (ORR-2)
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Published
September 22, 2025
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is requesting a 3- year extension of the ORR-2: Cash and Medical Assistance (CMA) Program Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations (OMB #: 0970-0407, expiration February 28, 2026). Minor changes are proposed to the form and instructions.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 181 (Monday, September 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45386-45387]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18280]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #: 0970-0407]
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Office of Refugee
Resettlement Cash and Medical Assistance Program Quarterly Report on
Expenditures and Obligations (ORR-2)
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) is requesting a 3-
year extension of the ORR-2: Cash and Medical Assistance (CMA) Program
Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations (OMB #: 0970-0407,
expiration February 28, 2026). Minor changes are proposed to the form
and instructions.
DATES: Comments due November 21, 2025.
ADDRESSES: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and Families
(ACF) is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above. You can obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information and submit comments by emailing
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c6afa8a0a9a5a9aaaaa3a5b2afa9a886a7a5a0e8aeaeb5e8a1a9b0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a3cacdc5ccc0cccfcfc6c0d7cacccde3c2c0c58dcbcbd08dc4ccd5">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the title of the
information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: ORR reimburses, to the extent of available
appropriations, certain non-federal costs for the provision of CMA to
refugees, along with allowable expenses for the
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administration of the refugee resettlement program at the state level.
States and Replacement Designees currently submit the ORR-2 Quarterly
Report on Expenditures and Obligations, which provides aggregate
expenditure and obligation data. The ORR-2 collects expenditures and
obligations data separately for each of the following four CMA program
components: refugee cash assistance, refugee medical assistance, CMA
administration, and services for unaccompanied refugee minors. This
breakdown of financial status data allows ORR to track program
expenditures in greater detail to anticipate any funding issues and to
meet the requirements of ORR regulations at 45 CFR 400.211 to collect
these data for use in estimating future costs of the refugee
resettlement program. ORR must implement the methodology at 45 CFR
400.211 each year after receipt of its annual appropriation to ensure
that appropriated funds will be adequate for reimbursement to states
for the costs of assistance provided to eligible refugees. The
estimating methodology prescribed in the regulations requires the use
of actual past costs by program component. If the methodology indicates
that appropriated funds are inadequate, ORR must take steps to reduce
federal expenses, such as by limiting the number of months of
eligibility for Refugee Cash Assistance and Refugee Medical Assistance.
The ORR-2 is a single-page financial report that allows ORR to collect
the necessary data to ensure that funds are adequate for the projected
need and thereby meet the requirements of both the Refugee Act and ORR
regulations.
Minor changes to the names of certain lines on the ORR-2 are
proposed to align with changes proposed for the ORR-1 form in a Federal
Register notice published on June 24, 2025, at 90 FR 26819 (<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-11546">https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-11546</a>), and approved by OMB in August
2025 (<a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewIC?ref_nbr=202506-0970-018&icID=9799">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewIC?ref_nbr=202506-0970-018&icID=9799</a>). ORR also proposes minor changes to the instructions to
align with the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles,
and Audit Requirement for Federal Awards at 2 CFR part 200.
Respondents: State governments and Replacement Designees.
Annual Burden Estimates:
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Annual number of Average burden
Instrument Total number of responses per hours per Annual burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Cash and Medical Assistance Program, 57 4 1.5 342
Quarterly Report on Expenditures and
Obligations.............................
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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.
(Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1521-1524.)
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-18280 Filed 9-19-25; 8:45 am]
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