[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 51 (Thursday, March 15, 2012)]
[Notices]
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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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