[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 68 (Friday, April 10, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16399-16400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-8225]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Application for Office of Refugee Resettlement Targeted 
Assistance Formula Grants.
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: The Targeted Assistance Formula Grant program, 
administered by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), funds 
employment and other resettlement services for refugees and entrants 
who reside in high need areas. These areas are defined as counties with 
unusually large refugee and entrant populations and with high refugee 
or entrant population concentrations in relation to the overall county 
population. Such counties need supplementation of other available 
resources in order to help refugees and entrants obtain employment as 
soon as possible. Targeted assistance funds must be used primarily for 
employability services intended to enable refugees and entrants to 
obtain jobs with less than one year's participation in the program. 
Services funded with targeted assistance formula grants must be used to 
assist refugees and entrants in the following order of priority: (1) 
Refugees who are cash assistance recipients, particularly long-term 
recipients; (2) unemployed refugees and entrants who are not receiving 
cash assistance; and (3) employed refugees and entrants in need of 
services to retain employment or to attain economic independence. 
Targeted Assistance Formula Grants are funded under the authority of 
section 412(c)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 
1522(c)(2). Eligible applicants for these grants are State governments, 
Wilson/Fish projects, and State Replacement Agencies. Grant amounts 
under this program area are determined based on a formula using 
population figures for the past five years. Grantees are re-qualified 
to participate in this program every three years based on current 
population figures. The purpose of the proposed Application for Office 
of Refugee Resettlement Targeted

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Assistance Formula Grants is to obtain necessary information so that 
ORR can assess the allowability of applicants' proposed programs. The 
application will include contact information for the grantee agency and 
for the local agencies that are proposed as subgrantees; the 
applicant's allocation plan for the grant funds among qualified 
counties; a description of the applicant's plan for evaluating and 
monitoring the subgrantees; a line item budget and budget 
justification; and performance goals. The application will also require 
assurances from the applicant that the program will be conducted in 
accordance with the grant announcement. The application is a necessary 
data collection to allow ORR to ensure that all targeted assistance 
applicants propose programs that are in accordance with the Refugee Act 
and with ORR regulations.
    Respondents: State Governments, Wilson/Fish Project Grantees and 
State Replacement Agencies.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                  Number of     Average  burden
                 Instrument                      Number  of     responses per      hours per       Total burden
                                                respondents       respondent        response          hours
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Application for Office of Refugee                         30                1                1               30
 Resettlement Targeted Assistance Formula
 Grants.....................................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 30.
    In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and 
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the 
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed 
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded 
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of 
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, 
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail 
address: [email protected]. All requests should be identified 
by the title of the information collection.
    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.

    Dated: April 7, 2009.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-8225 Filed 4-9-09; 8:45 am]
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