[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 202 (Thursday, October 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63781-63782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22757]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking 
Program Data (OMB #0970-0542)

AGENCY: Office on Trafficking in Persons, Administration for Children 
and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: The Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP), Administration 
for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services (HHS), is requesting renewal with revisions of an approved 
information collection: Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking (DVHT) 
Program Data (OMB #0970-0542; expiration date 3/31/2023).

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a 
decision about 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.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. You can 
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by 
emailing [email protected]. Identify all emailed requests by 
the title of the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Description: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), 
as amended, authorizes the HHS Secretary to expand benefits and 
services to victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons in the 
United States, without regard to their immigration status. The TVPA 
also authorizes HHS to establish and strengthen programs to assist 
United States citizens and lawful permanent residents who have 
experienced sex trafficking or severe forms of trafficking in persons 
(22 U.S.C. 7105(f)(1)). Acting under a delegation of authority from the 
Secretary of HHS, ACF awards cooperative agreements to organizations to 
establish a program to assist United States citizens and lawful 
permanent residents who have experienced human trafficking, the DVHT 
Program. The DVHT Program is inclusive of two distinct programs: the 
Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking Services and Outreach Program 
(DVHT-SO), and the Demonstration Grants to Strengthen the Response to 
Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities Program (VHT-NC). 
Through the DVHT Program, grant recipients provide comprehensive case 
management to domestic survivors of human trafficking in traditional 
case management and Native community settings.
    OTIP proposes to continue to collect information to measure grant 
project performance, provide technical assistance to grant recipients, 
assess program outcomes, inform program evaluation, respond to 
congressional inquiries and mandated reports, and inform policy and 
program development that is responsive to the needs of victims.
    The information collection captures information on participant 
demographics (e.g., age, gender identity, race/ethnicity), type of 
trafficking experienced (sex, labor, or both), types of services and 
benefits provided, along with aggregate information on outreach 
activities conducted, subrecipients enrolled, and the types of 
trainings provided to relevant audiences. Minor updates have been made 
to performance indicators under this collection in

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consultation with existing grant recipients and stakeholders, to reduce 
respondent burden and strengthen privacy and confidentiality. 
Specifically, to reduce burden and strengthen client privacy and 
confidentiality, the following DVHT client-level indicators have been 
removed: Type of Intake, Date of Birth, Services Requested at Intake, 
Benefits Requested at Intake, Trafficker Relationship to Victim, and 
Employment Status at Case Closure. To reduce respondent burden, 
additional outreach and subrecipient indicators have also been removed: 
Screening Tool Used During Outreach, Goal of Subrecipient Partnership, 
Type of Subrecipient Partnership; Services Provided by Subrecipient 
(In-House) and Services Provided by Subrecipient (by Referral) have 
been collapsed into one category: Services Provided By Subrecipient. A 
currently approved form under this collection, the DVHT Spending Form, 
was renamed to Categories of Assistance and categories of assistance on 
the Spending Form have been simplified to reduce reporting burden. This 
form was inadvertently not included on the Federal Register Notice 
inviting initial comments on this collection (87 FR 45107) but has been 
included for comment here and is included in the request to OMB.
    Respondents: DVHT Program Grant Recipients and Clients of those 
programs, specifically DVHT-SO and VHT-NC funding recipients.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                   Total number
                                   Total number    of responses       Average      Total burden    Annual burden
           Instrument             of respondents        per        burden hours        hours           hours
                                                    respondent     per response
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Client Characteristics and                 1,700               1            0.75           1,275             425
 Program Entry..................
Client Case Closure.............           1,700               1           0.167           283.9            94.6
Barriers to Service Delivery and              35               4           0.167            23.4             7.8
 Monitoring.....................
Client Service Use and Delivery.           1,700               1            0.25             425           141.7
Victim Outreach.................              35               4             0.3              42              14
Training........................              35               4             0.5              70            23.3
Subrecipient Enrollment.........              35               3           0.167            17.5             5.8
Categories of Assistance........              35               1             .75           26.25            8.75
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 720.95.
    Authority: 22 U.S.C. 7105.

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-22757 Filed 10-19-22; 8:45 am]
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