Placement and Transfer of Unaccompanied Children into ORR Care Provider Facilities
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
10/12/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
03/31/2022
9,658,894
405,250
4,800,879
54,118
0
0
ORRâs UC Program provides care and custody for UC until they can be safely released to a sponsor, repatriated to their home country, or obtain legal status. ORR funds residential care provider facilities that provide temporary housing and other services to UC in ORR custody. Care provider facilities are State licensed, with the exception of temporary influx care facilities, and must meet ORR requirements to ensure a high-level quality of care. Services provided at care provider facilities include, but are not limited to, education, recreation, vocational training, acculturation, nutrition, medical, mental health, legal, and case management.
The instruments in this information collection allow ORR to place UC referred to ORR by Federal agencies into care provider facilities and to transfer UC within the ORR care provider network.
US Code:
8 USC 1232
Name of Law: Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA)
US Code:
6 USC 279
Name of Law: Homeland Security Act (HSA)
ORR revised all 13 instruments currently approved under OMB #0970-0554, all of which will be incorporated into ORRâs new case management system, UC Path. Five of the instruments contain revisions to the formatting, organization, or wording of field labels with no changes to the content. The remaining eight instruments contain changes in content. In addition, ORR proposes to add four new instruments to this collection that will also be incorporated into UC Path. Finally, ORR plans to replace the term âunaccompanied alien child (UAC)â with âunaccompanied child (UC)â throughout the instruments in this collection. Note that the screenshots of UC Path instruments attached to this package do not reflect this change because it has not yet been developed in the system. However, the revision in terminology will be made before the system is launched.
ORR plans to remove the term âalienâ from the title of this information collection and revise it to read âPlacement and Transfer of Unaccompanied Children into ORR Care Provider Facilities.â
ORR intends to conduct a phased rollout of the UC Path system. Beginning September 2021, ORR plans to roll the UC Path system out to a small group of care provider programs. ORR will gradually expand use of the system to other programs and expects all care provider programs will be using UC Path by Spring 2022. To ensure continuity of operations, care provider programs will need the ability to continue using instruments in the UC Portal system and in other formats (e.g., PDF, Excel) while they are waiting to transition over to the UC Path system. Therefore, ORR requests OMBâs approval to continue use of the following instruments, concurrently with the UC Path versions of the same instruments until all care provider programs are using UC Path. Although all care providers are expected to be using UC Path by Spring 2022, ORR requests approval to continue using these instruments for up to one year to account for any unexpected technical issues that may arise during rollout. These versions were last approved by OMB on March 10, 2021.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
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