[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 14 (Wednesday, January 22, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3596-3597]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-01133]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

    Title: Request for Specific Consent to Juvenile Court Jurisdiction.
    OMB No.: 0970-0385.
    Description: The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection 
Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA of 2008), Public Law 110-457 was 
enacted into law December 23, 2008. Section 235(d) directs the 
Secretary of HHS to grant or deny requests for specific consent for 
unaccompanied alien children in HHS custody who seek to invoke the 
jurisdiction of a state court for a dependency order and who also seek 
to invoke the jurisdiction of a state court to determine or alter his 
or her custody status or release from ORR. These requests can be 
extremely time sensitive since a child must ask a state court for 
dependency before turning 18 years old.
    In developing procedures for collecting the necessary information 
from unaccompanied alien children, their attorneys, or other 
representatives to allow HHS to approve or deny consent requests, ORR/
DUCS devised a form. Specifically, the form asks the requestor for his/
her identifying information, basic identifying information on the 
unaccompanied alien child, the name of the HHS-funded facility where 
the child is in HHS custody and care, the name of the court and its 
location, and the kind of request (e.g., for a change in custody, 
etc.). The form also asks that the unaccompanied alien child's attorney 
or authorized representative attach a Notice of Representation, which 
is an approved federal government agency form used for immigration 
procedures that authorizes the attorney to act on behalf of the child 
(i.e., G-28, EOIR-28, EOIR-29), or any other form of authorization to 
act on behalf of the unaccompanied alien child.
    Respondents: Attorneys, accredited legal representatives, or others 
authorized to act on behalf of a unaccompanied alien child.

[[Page 3597]]



                                             Annual Burden Estimates
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                  Number of      Average burden
                 Instrument                      Number of      responses per      hours per       Total burden
                                                respondents       respondent        response          hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ORR-0132....................................              72                1             0.33            23.76
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 23.76.
    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 
Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., 
Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. Email 
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.

Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-01133 Filed 1-21-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-01-P