# 2026-15842: More Forms to Watch Refugee Kids' Care Facilities 2026-15842, Proposed Information Collection Activity; Monitoring and Compliance for Office of Refugee Resettlement Care Provider Facilities, is a Federal Register notice from Health and Human Services Department, Children and Families Administration published 2026-08-05, effective Comments due October 5, 2026.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-12). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15842 - As of: 2026-08-12 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Document number: 2026-15842 - Title: Proposed Information Collection Activity; Monitoring and Compliance for Office of Refugee Resettlement Care Provider Facilities - Type: Notice - Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; Children and Families Administration - Citation: 91 FR 50545 - Published: 2026-08-05 - Effective: Comments due October 5, 2026. - Comments close: 2026-10-05 - Significant: no - Touches household money: yes - Regulation identifier numbers: none - Last updated: 2026-08-12 ## In one line More Forms to Watch Refugee Kids' Care Facilities ## Summary The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is inviting public comments on the proposed revisions to an information collection. The Monitoring and Compliance for ORR Care Provider Facilities information collection consists of several forms that will allow the Monitoring and Compliance Bureau (MCB) and Unaccompanied Alien Children Bureau (UACB) to better monitor UACB- funded care provider facilities for compliance with federal and state laws and regulations, licensing and accreditation standards, ORR policies and procedures, and child welfare standards. This request includes the addition of nine new instruments, discontinuation of obsolete instruments, and revisions to remaining currently approved instruments. ## Effects PRIA read - Licensed Facilities: Annual Site Visits: cost, medium. ORR will increase the frequency of comprehensive monitoring site visits for licensed care provider facilities from biennially (every two years) to annually (every year). If you run or manage a licensed ORR-funded facility, you can expect a full compliance visit once per year rather than once every… - Delicensed Facilities: Fewer Follow-Ups: mixed, medium. For delicensed (unlicensed) care provider facilities, ORR will change comprehensive and follow-up site visit timing from biennial visits with quarterly follow-ups to annual comprehensive visits with a six-month follow-up. If you operate a delicensed ORR-funded facility, you will have an annual revi… - Contract-Funded Facilities: New Quarterly Visits: cost, medium. ORR is introducing additional quarterly site visits for care provider facilities that are funded under a contract. If your facility is funded under an ORR contract, you should expect extra quarterly monitoring in addition to other visits. - New Quarterly PSA Reporting Requirement: cost, medium. ORR is adding a Prevention of Sexual Abuse (PSA) Quarterly Report (Form M-18) that care providers must submit to share quarterly data on incidents and allegations of sexual abuse and sexual harassment under 45 CFR 411.102(c). If you run an ORR-funded facility, you will need to provide PSA data ever… - Single Web App for All Monitoring Forms: benefit, low. ORR plans to move monitoring forms into one web-based Monitoring & Compliance App that will consolidate multiple Word and Excel tools into focused, web-based instruments. If you currently submit monitoring information, ORR will shift many submissions to the new web app as tools are developed. - Paperwork Burden Nearly Halved: benefit, high. The proposed revisions are estimated to result in a 49.80 percent decrease in total annual paperwork burden compared to the currently approved collection. The estimated annual burden hours for the main respondent group are reported as 13,133.30 hours. - Site Assessment Time Cut by Four Hours: benefit, medium. ORR estimates a 4-hour reduction in the time it takes to complete the Site Assessment (Monitoring Notes) tool. If you prepare Site Assessment materials, expect each assessment to require four fewer hours under the revised instruments. - Form Change: Sex Field Limited to Two Options: cost, low. The forms will change the field label from "Gender" to "Sex" and limit answer options to only "Male" or "Female." This applies to monitoring instruments used with unaccompanied alien children and other respondents. ## Related documents - [2026-16414](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-16414): Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, 2026-08-12 - [2026-16134](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-16134): Reducing Federal Burden for Head Start Programs, 2026-08-07 - [2026-11530](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-11530): Employment and Training Services for Noncustodial Parents in the Child Support Program; Rescission, 2026-06-09 - [2026-09383](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-09383): Restoring Flexibility To Support Head Start Program Access, 2026-05-12 - [2026-06632](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-06632): Work Participation Rate Calculation Changes: Recalibration of the Caseload Reduction Credit and Prohibition of Small Checks in Work Partici…, 2026-04-06 - [2026-20363](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-20363): Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Federal Case Registry, 2026-10-05 ## Sources - [2026-15842 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/05/2026-15842/proposed-information-collection-activity-monitoring-and-compliance-for-office-of-refugee) - [2026-15842 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-05/pdf/2026-15842.pdf) ## Related - [Previous: 2026-15841, Deregistration Under Section 8(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15841) - [Next: 2026-15843, Proposed Information Collection Activity; Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program…](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15843) - [All Federal Register documents](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15842 (as of 2026-08-12).