Notice2025-23145
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Office of Refugee Resettlement Services for Survivors of Torture Program Data Points and Performance Progress Report
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Published
December 18, 2025
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) intends to continue collecting demographic, programmatic, and outcome data on Services for Survivors of Torture (SOT) grant recipients and the clients they serve. ORR collects information from the grantee cohort under the Survivors of Torture Program Data Points (PDP) and Program Performance Progress Report (PPR) (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #: 0970-0599; Expiration date: February 28, 2026) to learn more about the populations served; the types and effectiveness of services provided; methods, challenges, and facilitators of implementing services; and grant recipients' progress towards programmatic goals. Revisions are proposed as described in the discussion section that follows.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 241 (Thursday, December 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 59126]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23145]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[Office of Management and Budget #: 0970-0599]
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Office of Refugee
Resettlement Services for Survivors of Torture Program Data Points and
Performance Progress Report
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 Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) Office of
Refugee Resettlement (ORR) intends to continue collecting demographic,
programmatic, and outcome data on Services for Survivors of Torture
(SOT) grant recipients and the clients they serve. ORR collects
information from the grantee cohort under the Survivors of Torture
Program Data Points (PDP) and Program Performance Progress Report (PPR)
(Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #: 0970-0599; Expiration date:
February 28, 2026) to learn more about the populations served; the
types and effectiveness of services provided; methods, challenges, and
facilitators of implementing services; and grant recipients' progress
towards programmatic goals. Revisions are proposed as described in the
discussion section that follows.
DATES: Comments due February 17, 2026.
ADDRESSES: 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. You can obtain
copies of the proposed collection of information and submit comments by
emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8ee7e0e8e1ede1e2e2ebedfae7e1e0ceefede8a0e6e6fda0e9e1f8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1b72757d74787477777e786f7274755b7a787d35737368357c746d">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the title
of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: ORR proposes to continue to use the PDP Form and PPR,
with revisions, to collect data on the Services for SOT grant
recipients and their clients. The Recipients will continue to report
their PDP through the ORR Refugee Arrivals Data System (RADS), an
information technology platform used for enhanced data collection and
record keeping.
Grant recipients will provide aggregated data on new and continuing
clients annually, including demographic information, characteristics
related to experiences of torture, services received, length of
service, and wellbeing across six outcome domains.
Grant recipients will also provide information about community
attendance at trainings and pro-bono services donated to the program.
In the PPR, grant recipients will provide program narrative and program
metric information on grant-funded activities and progress towards
grant goals semi-annually.
Information collected will be used in aggregate by ORR to provide
reports to stakeholders, including a required Report to Congress, and
responses to funding requests.
ORR has made changes to the data collection, which include removing
a total of twelve subcategories for two program indicators and reducing
the frequency of reporting percentage-based outcomes in the program
metrics. ORR has also added one subcategory in one program indicator.
Overall, these changes have reduced the estimated reporting burden by
30 percent.
Respondents: Services for SOT grant programs (this may include non-
profit social service, health, and higher education organizations,
states, municipalities, and for-profit organizations).
Annual Burden Estimates
Estimated annual burden has been updated to reflect a reduction in
estimated time per response from an average of 6 hours per response to
an average of 4 hours per response.
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Total number Average burden
Instrument Total number of responses hours per Annual burden
of respondents per respondent response hours
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PDP Form........................................ 35 1 4.2 147
PPRs--Parts A and B............................. 35 2 4.2 294
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Total Annual Burden......................... .............. .............. .............. 441
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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: Section 5(a) of the ``Torture Victims Relief Act of
1998,'' Public Law 105-320 (22 U.S.C. 2152 note) Assistance for
Treatment of Torture Victims.
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-23145 Filed 12-17-25; 8:45 am]
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