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
ORR’s 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 ORR’s 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 “unaccompanied alien child
(UAC)” with “unaccompanied child (UC)” 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 “alien” from the title of this
information collection and revise it to read “Placement and
Transfer of Unaccompanied Children into ORR Care Provider
Facilities.” 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
OMB’s 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.
$371,767,368
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Molly Buck 202 205-4724
mary.buck@acf.hhs.gov
No
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;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.