[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 51 (Thursday, March 15, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 15374]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6218]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Office of Refugee Resettlement Cash and Medical Assistance 
Program Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations.
    OMB No.: 0970--NEW.
    Description: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) reimburses, 
to the extent of available appropriations, certain non-federal costs 
for the provision of cash and medical assistance to refugees and other 
eligible persons, along with allowable expenses for the administration 
of the refugee resettlement program at the State level. States, Wilson/
Fish projects (alternative projects for the administration of the 
refugee resettlement program), and State Replacement Designees 
currently submit the SF-269 Financial Status Report in accordance with 
45 CFR part 92 and 45 CFR part 74. This proposed new data collection 
would replace the current requirement for the SF-269 Financial Status 
Report with a Quarterly Report on Expenditures and Obligations that 
would collect similar financial status data (i.e., amounts of 
expenditures and obligations) broken down by the four program 
components: refugee cash assistance, refugee medical assistance, health 
screening, and services for unaccompanied refugee minors as well as by 
program administration. This breakdown of financial status data on 
expenditures and obligations would allow 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 annual 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 the appropriated funds will be adequate for assistance to entering 
refugees. The estimating methodology prescribed in the ORR regulations 
requires the use of actual past costs by program component. In the 
event that 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. This proposed single-page 
report on expenditures and obligations will allow 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.
    Respondents: State Governments, Wilson/Fish Alternative Projects, 
State Replacement Designees

                                             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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Office of Refugee Resettlement Cash and                   59                4             0.50              118
 Medical Assistance Program Quarterly Report
 on Expenditures and Obligations............
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 118.
    Additional Information:
    Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained by writing to the 
Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research 
and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, 
Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. All requests should be identified 
by the title of the information collection. Email address: 
[email protected].
    OMB Comment:
    OMB is required to make a decision concerning the collection of 
information between 30 and 60 days after publication of this document 
in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best assured of having 
its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication. 
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of 
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Fax: 202-395-7285, 
Email: [email protected]. Attn: Desk Officer for the 
Administration for Children and Families.

Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-6218 Filed 3-14-12; 8:45 am]
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