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OMB Control No: 0970-0646	ICR Reference No: 202504-0970-010
Status: Active	Previous ICR Reference No:
Agency/Subagency: HHS/ACF	Agency Tracking No: ORR - UAC Bureau
Title: Unaccompanied Alien Children Assessments for Children and Sponsors
Type of Information Collection: New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 08/22/2025
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 05/28/2025
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	08/31/2028	36 Months From Approved
Responses	1,394,640	0	0
Time Burden (Hours)	1,355,586	0	0
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Bureau provides care and custody for unaccompanied alien children until they can be safely released to a sponsor, repatriated to their home country, or obtain lawful immigration status. ORR funds residential care provider facilities that provide temporary housing and other services to children in ORR custody. Generally, care provider facilities are State-licensed, except those located in states unwilling to consider them for licensure and temporary emergency or influx care facilities and must meet ORR requirements to ensure a high-level quality of care. In order to adequately provide for the safety and wellbeing of children in ORR care, ORR conducts assessments of the child upon admission and at routine intervals while in ORR custody. Concurrently, ORR must identify and assess the suitability of potential sponsors and household members to ensure safe and timely release of the child to vetted and adult, qualified to provide for the child’s physical and emotional wellbeing. ORR uses several instruments to carry out its responsibilities with respect to UAC. These instruments are used, for example, to evaluate the child’s physical and mental health status, capture important biographic data, determine risk of sexual abuse or victimization, and enable ORR to track high-level milestones in the child’s case up through release. ORR has also developed an instrument to identify and screen potential sponsors. The instruments in this proposed information collection allow ORR to document the findings of these assessments as required by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279); the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232); the Foundational Rule, 45 C.F.R. Part 410; and the Prevention of Sexual Abuse Interim Final Rule, 45 C.F.R. Part 411. Forms transferred from the Services information collection (OMB # 0970-0553) were last approved by OMB on August 22, 2024 and expire on April 30, 2025. Once approved, the Assessments information collection will contain a total of 9 unique, revised forms.

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	1,394,640	1,394,640
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	1,355,586	1,355,586
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

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

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Bureau has undertaken a reorganization of its information collections with the goal of promoting operational efficiency for the UACB by creating more unique information collections with fewer total forms under each OMB number. This will reduce the burden associated with renewing large collections and clarify future requests for modifications and renewals under these narrower purpose-specific collections. This package pertains to the creation of a new information collection: Unaccompanied Alien Children Assessments for Children and Sponsors (OMB #0970-NEW) Under this application for, ORR proposes to revise and transfer seven existing forms currently approved under the Services Provided to Unaccompanied Alien Children (OMB# 0970-0553) information collection, as well as the creation of two new instruments.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $36,995,476

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. Yes

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. Yes

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? No

Agency Contact: Molly Buck 202 205-4724 mary.buck@acf.hhs.gov