Notice2026-03617
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Office of Refugee Resettlement Services for Survivors of Torture Program Data Points and Performance Progress Report
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Published
February 24, 2026
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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 91, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Page 8886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-03617]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[Office of Management and Budget #: 0970-0599]
Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; 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 March 26, 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=202602-0970-009">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202602-0970-009</a>. You can also obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information by emailing
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3d54535b525e525151585e495452537d5c5e5b1355554e135a524b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="177e79717874787b7b7274637e787957767471397f7f6439707861">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all emailed 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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Annual 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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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. 2026-03617 Filed 2-23-26; 8:45 am]
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