[Federal Register: April 10, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 68)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Application for Office of Refugee Resettlement Targeted
Assistance Formula Grants.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Targeted Assistance Formula Grant program,
administered by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), funds
employment and other resettlement services for refugees and entrants
who reside in high need areas. These areas are defined as counties with
unusually large refugee and entrant populations and with high refugee
or entrant population concentrations in relation to the overall county
population. Such counties need supplementation of other available
resources in order to help refugees and entrants obtain employment as
soon as possible. Targeted assistance funds must be used primarily for
employability services intended to enable refugees and entrants to
obtain jobs with less than one year's participation in the program.
Services funded with targeted assistance formula grants must be used to
assist refugees and entrants in the following order of priority: (1)
Refugees who are cash assistance recipients, particularly long-term
recipients; (2) unemployed refugees and entrants who are not receiving
cash assistance; and (3) employed refugees and entrants in need of
services to retain employment or to attain economic independence.
Targeted Assistance Formula Grants are funded under the authority of
section 412(c)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.
1522(c)(2). Eligible applicants for these grants are State governments,
Wilson/Fish projects, and State Replacement Agencies. Grant amounts
under this program area are determined based on a formula using
population figures for the past five years. Grantees are re-qualified
to participate in this program every three years based on current
population figures. The purpose of the proposed Application for Office
of Refugee Resettlement Targeted
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Assistance Formula Grants is to obtain necessary information so that
ORR can assess the allowability of applicants' proposed programs. The
application will include contact information for the grantee agency and
for the local agencies that are proposed as subgrantees; the
applicant's allocation plan for the grant funds among qualified
counties; a description of the applicant's plan for evaluating and
monitoring the subgrantees; a line item budget and budget
justification; and performance goals. The application will also require
assurances from the applicant that the program will be conducted in
accordance with the grant announcement. The application is a necessary
data collection to allow ORR to ensure that all targeted assistance
applicants propose programs that are in accordance with the Refugee Act
and with ORR regulations.
Respondents: State Governments, Wilson/Fish Project Grantees and
State Replacement Agencies.
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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Application for Office of Refugee 30 1 1 30
Resettlement Targeted Assistance Formula
Grants.....................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 30.
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
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail
address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 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.
Dated: April 7, 2009.
Janean Chambers,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-8225 Filed 4-9-09; 8:45 am]
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