[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 2, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 54829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14556]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; 
Revisions to Two Information Collections: Medical Assessment Form and 
Dental Assessment Form (OMB #0970-0466) and Mental Health Assessment 
Form and Public Health Investigation Forms, Tuberculosis and Non-
Tuberculosis Illness (OMB #0970-0509)

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and 
Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is 
proposing a change of the described potential uses of data for two 
information collections: Medical Assessment Form and Dental Assessment 
Form (OMB #: 0970-0466) and Mental Health Assessment Form and Public 
Health Investigation Forms, Tuberculosis and Non-Tuberculosis Illness 
(OMB: #0970-0509).

DATES: Comments due August 1, 2024. OMB has agreed to make a decision 
about the updates to these collections of information following a 
public comment period of 30 days. Therefore, a comment is best assured 
of having its full effect if ACF receives it within 30 days of 
publication.

ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed changes and submit 
comments by emailing [email protected]. Identify all requests 
by the title of the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Description: The following two ORR information collections capture 
health data on children in ORR care:

 Medical Assessment Form and Dental Assessment Form
 Mental Health Assessment Form and Public Health Investigation 
Form: Active TB, and Public Health Investigation Form: Non-TB Illness

    The current description of purpose and use of the data collected 
states that confidential and sensitive health information will only be 
shared with external stakeholders (including other Federal agencies) 
for public health purposes (e.g., contact investigations to identify 
children exposed to a reportable infectious disease). However, ORR has 
identified a need to share the health data of specific unaccompanied 
children with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which falls 
outside of the stated limitations. The need to communicate with DHS 
occurs when a newly referred child arrives at an ORR facility ill or 
requires emergent/urgent healthcare services shortly after placement 
and ORR was not notified in advance. For DHS to investigate the event, 
ORR must share confidential and sensitive health information including 
the child's alien number, name, signs/symptoms, diagnoses, and date of 
diagnosis. The goal of this data sharing effort is to identify areas of 
potential improvement in delivery of healthcare services and continuity 
of care for children transferred from DHS to Health and Human Services 
custody.
    Respondents: Healthcare providers (pediatricians, medical 
specialists, and dentists), mental health professionals (psychiatrists, 
psychiatric nurse practitioners or physician's assistants, licensed 
psychologist or any other community based licensed mental health 
provider (e.g., social worker), care provider program staff.
    Annual Burden Estimates: No changes. For current burden estimates, 
see information below:

 https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202312-0970-002
 https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202312-0970-003

    Authority: 6 U.S.C. 279: Exhibit 1, part A.2 of the Flores 
Settlement Agreement (Jenny Lisette Flores, et al., v. Janet Reno, 
Attorney General of the United States, et al., Case No. CV 85-4544-RJK 
[C.D. Cal. 1996]).

Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-14556 Filed 7-1-24; 8:45 am]
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