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OMB Control No: 0970-0461	ICR Reference No: 201901-0970-009
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201806-0970-004
Agency/Subagency: HHS/ACF	Agency Tracking No: OHSEPR
Title: Immediate Disaster Case Management Intake Assessment
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 02/13/2019
	Date Received in OIRA: 02/05/2019
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	05/31/2020	05/31/2020	05/31/2020
Responses	630,000	0	630,000
Time Burden (Hours)	630,000	0	630,000
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The Office of Human Services Emergency Preparedness and Response (OHSEPR), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) seeks to improve the collection and storage of client data and optimize transfer of case files to State, Tribal, or Territorial partners upon Immediate Disaster Case Management (IDCM) program closure. The information collection will serve to optimize services delivered to individuals and households impacted by a disaster. In addition, it will better support State/Tribal/Territorial and Federal planning for disaster survivors' human service needs. This nonsubstantive change request is to upload screenshots, per the terms of clearance at approval in November 2018.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 42 USC 5189d Name of Law: Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	83 FR 6852	02/15/2018
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	83 FR 25463	06/01/2018
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	630,000	630,000
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	630,000	630,000
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The Spanish language version of the ECMRS was created to support the Hurricane Maria response in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. This reasonable accommodation was based on the need to provide services to a vast amount of respondents that did not speak, write, or read English or had limited to no comprehension of the language, or from a cultural standpoint, wanted to be spoken to in the Spanish language. Because the IDCM worker completes the assessments electronically through the ECMRS and the system automates the creation of a disaster recovery plan, translating the assessment forms into Spanish was a necessity. Therefore, this submission is requesting a review of the Spanish language standard assessment forms that supplement the English forms. The assessment questions have been translated in to Spanish and are identical to the English language version. Data points collected in the English and Spanish assessment versions are used for the same identical purpose. There is no difference or change to the electronic completion of assessment forms and automation processing of an IDCM data file within the ECMRS. This way, respondents can be processed through the IDCM program services using Spanish and will receive a Spanish language recovery plan. The addition of these alternate assessment forms in Spanish also provides opportunity for the provision of culturally and linguistically sensitive IDCM services for States where the primary language spoke is Spanish. A recent increase in disaster responses, improved data from the responses to Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, and increased technological efficiencies have prompted ACF to increase the estimated number of respondents from 3,500 to 630,000 and the corresponding burden from 2,333 hours to 630,000 hours. When ACF made its 2015 submission, there was no electronic system for processing intake information. Additionally, the estimate of the burden underestimated the time necessary for hand processing the intake information. With the move to the electronic system, ACF is able to provide relief services to a much larger population in a much more efficient manner. The increased service provision and improved efficiency, in combination with the improved data and the recent increase in disaster responses is the source of the increase in the burden associated with this submission.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $18,459,000

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Robert Sargis 202 690-7275 rsargis@acf.hhs.gov

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