[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 88 (Friday, May 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 25260]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-10784]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services (DUCS) Request
for Specific Consent.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA of 2008), Public Law 110-457 was
enacted into law December 23, 2008. Section 235(d) directs the
Secretary of HHS to grant or deny requests for specific consent for
unaccompanied alien children in HHS custody who seek to invoke the
jurisdiction of a State court for a dependency order and who also seek
to invoke the jurisdiction of a State court to determine or alter his
or her custody status or release from ORR. These requests can be
extremely time sensitive since a child must ask a State court for
dependency before turning 18 years old.
In developing procedures for collecting the necessary information
from unaccompanied alien children, their attorneys, or other
representatives to allow HHS to approve or deny consent requests, ORR/
DUCS devised a form. Specifically, the form asks the requestor for his/
her identifying information, basic identifying information on the
unaccompanied alien child, the name of the HHS-funded facility where
the child is in HHS custody and care, the name of the court and its
location, and the kind of request (e.g., for a change in custody,
etc.). The form also asks that the unaccompanied alien child's attorney
or authorized representative attach a Notice of Representation, which
is an approved Federal government agency form used for immigration
procedures that authorizes the attorney to act on behalf of the child
(i.e., G-28, EOIR-28, EOIR-29), or any other form of authorization to
act on behalf of the unaccompanied alien child.
Respondents: Attorneys, accredited legal representatives, or others
authorized to act on behalf of an unaccompanied alien child.
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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ORR-0132........................................ 72 1 0.33 23.76
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 23.76.
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: [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.
Dated: May 4, 2010.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-10784 Filed 5-6-10; 8:45 am]
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