Notice2025-23592
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Office of Refugee Resettlement Cash and Medical Assistance Program Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations (ORR-2)
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Published
December 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 (Office of Management and Budget (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 243 (Monday, December 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59839-59840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23592]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #: 0970-0407]
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; 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 (Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) #0970-0407, expiration February 28, 2026). Minor
changes are proposed to the form and instructions.
DATES: Comments due January 21, 2026.
ADDRESSES: The public may view and comment on this information
collection request at: <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202512-0970-007">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202512-0970-007</a>. You can also obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information by emailing
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6dfd8d0d9d5d9dadad3d5c2dfd9d8f6d7d5d098dedec598d1d9c0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4821262e272b2724242d2b3c21272608292b2e6620203b662f273e">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all emailed 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 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 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 to 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.
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Annual number Average burden
Instrument Total number of of responses hours per Annual burden
respondents per 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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Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1521-1524
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-23592 Filed 12-19-25; 8:45 am]
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