[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 203 (Friday, October 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64053-64054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22842]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Trafficking Victim Assistance Program 
Data (OMB #0970-0467)

AGENCY: Office on Trafficking in Persons, Administration for Children 
and Families, U.S. 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 to renewal with revisions of an approved 
information collection: Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) 
Data (OMB #0970-0467).

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: 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

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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, country of 
origin), type of trafficking experienced (sex, labor, or both), types 
of services and benefits provided, along with aggregate information on 
the amount of money spent on each type of service provided, 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 consultation with 
existing grant recipients and stakeholders, to reduce respondent 
burden, strengthen client privacy and confidentiality, and to bring the 
collection into alignment with program requirements under the revised 
TVAP. Specifically, to reduce burden and strengthen client privacy and 
confidentiality, the following TVAP 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 proposed 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. To bring the collection into alignment with the revised 
TVAP requirements, outreach-specific indicators have been added, 
specifically: Number of Outreach Activities Conducted, Date of Outreach 
Activity, Outreach Settings, Target Population(s), Number of Victims 
Identified. The TVAP Spending Form was renamed to Categories of 
Assistance and categories have been simplified to reduce reporting 
burden.
    Respondents: TVAP Grant Recipients and Clients of those programs, 
specifically the: TVAP (HHS-2022-ACF-IOAS-OTIP-ZV-0150), Aspire: Child 
Trafficking Victim Assistance Demonstration Program (HHS-2022-ACF-IOAS-
OTIP-TV-0099), Victims of Human Trafficking Services and Outreach 
Program--Pacific Region Demonstration Program (VHT-SO Pacific) (HHS-
2022-ACF-IOAS-OTIP-ZV-0038) and the Lighthouse: Services, Outreach, and 
Awareness for Labor Trafficking (Lighthouse) Demonstration Program 
(HHS-2022-ACF-IOAS-OTIP-ZV-0059).

                                             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                  6600               1            0.75            4950            1650
 Program Entry..................
Client Case Closure.............            6600               1           0.167          1102.2           367.4
Barriers to Service Delivery and             386               4           0.167          257.85           85.95
 Monitoring.....................
Client Service Use and Delivery.            6600               1            0.25            1650             550
Victim Outreach.................             386               4             0.3           463.2           154.4
Training........................             386               4             0.5             772           257.3
Subrecipient Enrollment.........             193               2           0.167            64.5            21.5
Categories of Assistance........             193               1             0.5            96.5            32.2
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3118.75.
    Authority: 22 U.S.C. 7105.

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-22842 Filed 10-20-22; 8:45 am]
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