[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 66 (Monday, April 7, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19089-19090]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07606]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Rescue & Restore Regional Program Project Data.
OMB No.: 0970--NEW.
Description: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA),
as amended, authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services
(Secretary) to expand benefits and services to victims of severe forms
of trafficking in persons in the United States, without regard to the
immigration status of such victims. Such benefits and services may
include services to assist potential victims of trafficking in
achieving certification (Section 107(b)(1)(B) of the TVPA, 22 U.S.C.
7105(b)(1)(B)). It also authorizes the President, acting through the
Secretary and the heads of other Federal departments, to establish and
carry out programs to increase public awareness, particularly among
potential victims of trafficking, of the dangers of trafficking and the
protections that are available for victims of trafficking (Section
106(b) of the TVPA, 22 U.S.C. 7104(b)).
The Secretary delegated authority to carry out these
responsibilities to the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families
who further delegated the authority to the Director of the Office of
Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
The intent of the Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking
campaign, launched in 2004, is to increase the identification of
trafficking victims in the United States and to help those victims
receive the benefits and services they need to restore their lives. The
purpose of the Rescue & Restore Victims of Trafficking Regional Program
(Rescue & Restore Program) is to increase the identification and
protection of foreign victims of human trafficking in the United States
and to promote local capacity to prevent human trafficking and protect
human trafficking victims. The Rescue & Restore Program also seeks to
remove barriers to prevention and protection specific to foreign human
trafficking victims who live in the United States.
The Rescue & Restore Program has the following objectives:
(1) Identification and Referral of Foreign Victims of Human
Trafficking: To identify foreign victims of trafficking and refer them
to service delivery systems.
(2) Training and Technical Assistance: To build local capacity by
providing training and technical assistance on human trafficking to
local organizations not involved in a local coalition.
(3) Coalition Building: To lead or actively participate in a
community-led effort to bring together and leverage local resources to
address human trafficking in a region, such as a Rescue & Restore
Coalition or law enforcement task force (``coalition'').
(4) Public Awareness: To promote the public's awareness of human
trafficking by educating the public about the dangers of human
trafficking, possible indicators of sex and labor trafficking, and the
protections available to victims.
To measure each grant project's performance progress and the
success of the program, and to assist grantees to assess and improve
their projects over the course of the project period, ACF proposes to
require grantees to input numbers for each numeric indicator into a
spreadsheet during the 36-month project period.
ACF proposes to collect data for the following indicators:
Identification and Referral of Foreign Victims of Human Trafficking
The number of outreach events conducted by the grantee;
The number of people reached at outreach events;
The number of potential male and female, adult and minor
foreign human trafficking victims identified through Rescue & Restore
project efforts;
The number of potential male and female, adult and minor
foreign human trafficking victims referred by the grantee to service
providers; and
The number of male and female, adult and minor foreign
human trafficking victims who receive Certification, Eligibility, and/
or Interim Assistance Letters as a result of the grantee's efforts.
Training and Technical Assistance
The number of persons in social service agencies, law
enforcement agencies, and other relevant professional, community-based,
and faith-based organizations who were trained by the grantee;
The number of persons whose knowledge of human trafficking
measurably increased as a result of grantee training as evidenced by
the use of established practices in assessing learning; and
The number of social service, law enforcement, health,
legal, education, or other professionals provided technical assistance
on identifying human trafficking victims and referring them for
services or to law enforcement.
Coalition Building
The number and percentage of coalition meetings led or
attended by the grantee; and
The number of coalition meetings in which the applicant
proposed or promoted new or more efficient ways to combat human
trafficking, improve coalition effectiveness, or assist trafficking
victims in the targeted geographic location.
Public Awareness
The number of people, distinguished by professional,
occupational, community, or demographic sector, reached during
strategic public awareness activities conducted by the grantee; and
The number of people who reported knowledge of human
trafficking information that was distributed as a result of the
applicant's public awareness efforts.
In addition, ACF proposes to collect information on the victims and
potential victims of trafficking (victims) identified as a result of
each project's activities. ACF will not collect information about U.S.
citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents. ORR will aggregate this
information to include in reports to Congress, which are available to
the public, to help inform strategies and policies to prevent
trafficking in persons and to protect victims. This information will
also help ORR assess the project's performance in identifying victims
and referring them for services.
ORR proposes to collect the following information, if available,
for each victim
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reached by a grant recipient or any partner organizations:
Type of Trafficking (Labor, Sex, Labor and Sex, Unknown);
Client Identifier (e.g., Initials, Date of Birth, and
Country of Origin);
Client information (Sex, Adult/Minor);
Description of trafficking situation;
Date that organization made contact with the victim began
establishing trust and/or screened the person for victim status;
Date that grantee positively identified person as a victim
of a severe form of trafficking in persons;
Documentation from the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) about the time of temporary status the victim is pursuing (e.g.,
Continued Presence, T Visa, U Visa, SIJS);
Name of service agency assisting the victim;
Date of HHS Certification or Eligibility; and
Date the agency or victim terminated contact, with space
for explanation.
Respondents: Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking Regional
Program grantees.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average
Number of responses burden Total
Instrument respondents per hours per burden
respondent response hours
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Excel spreadsheet........................................... 20 4 4 16
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 320.
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. 2014-07606 Filed 4-4-14; 8:45 am]
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