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(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agencies estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
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(1) Type of Information Collection:
Revision of a currently approved
information collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Application to Adjust Status from
Temporary to Permanent Resident.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security
sponsoring the collection: Form I–698.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS).
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
Households. The data collected on this
form is used by the USCIS to determine
eligibility to adjust an applicant’s
residence status.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: 1,179 responses at 60 minutes
(1 hour) per response.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 1,179 annual burden hours.
If you need a copy of the information
collection instrument, please visit the
Web site at: https://www.regulations.gov.
We may also be contacted at: USCIS,
Regulatory Products Division, 111
Massachusetts Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20529–2210;
Telephone 202–272–8377.
Dated: August 27, 2009.
Stephen Tarragon,
Deputy Chief, Regulatory Products Division,
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
Department of Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5288–N–08]
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection for Public Comment; Public
Housing Operating Subsidy—StopLoss and Appeals
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The proposed information
collection requirement described below
will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act. The Department is
soliciting public comments on the
subject proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: November
2, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name or OMB Control
Number and should be sent to: Lillian
L. Deitzer, Department Reports
Management Officer, ODAM,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street, SW.,
Room 4116, Washington, DC 20410–
5000; telephone: 202–708–2374, (this is
not a toll-free number) or e-mail Ms.
Deitzer at Lillian_L._Deitzer@HUD.gov
for a copy of the proposed form and
other available information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dacia Rogers, Office of Policy, Programs
and Legislative Initiatives, PIH,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20410; telephone: 202–
708–0713, (this is not a toll-free
number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department will submit the proposed
information collection to OMB for
review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended). This notice is
soliciting comments from members of
the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information to: (1) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (2) evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) minimize the
burden of the collection of information
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on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
This notice also lists the following
information:
Title of Proposal: Public Housing
Operating Subsidy—Stop-Loss and
Appeals.
OMB Control Number: 2577–0246.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: PHAs
that will experience a reduction in
subsidy will have their subsidy
reduction phased in over a five-year
period. PHAs that elect to stop the
phase in of the decrease in their subsidy
are required to demonstrate to HUD a
successful conversion to asset
management, as provided in the
operating fund final rule. A PHA with
a reduction in subsidy may make this
demonstration to HUD in order to ‘‘stop
its losses’’ during any one of the five
years over which HUD phases in the
reduction. Under the operating fund
final rule, PHAs that elect to file an
appeal of their subsidy amounts are
required to meet the appeal
requirements set forth in subpart G of
the operating fund final rule. The final
rule establishes five grounds for appeals
in 24 CFR § 990.245 and they are the: (a)
Streamlined appeal; (b) appeal of
formula income for economic hardship;
(c) appeal for specific local conditions;
(d) appeal for changing market
conditions; and (e) appeal to substitute
actual project cost data. To stop the
phase-in of the reduction in the amount
of subsidy a PHA receives under the
new operating fund formula, PHAs
submit a ‘‘stop-loss’’ package to HUD
demonstrating conversion to asset
management. To appeal the amount of
subsidy on any one of the permitted
bases of appeal, PHAs submit an appeal
request to HUD.
Agency form number, if applicable:
N/A.
Members of affected public: PHAs,
state or local government.
Estimation of the total number of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents: The estimated number of
respondents is an annual average of 146
PHAs that submit one request for stoploss and an annual average of 176 PHAs
that submit an appeal of the amount of
operating subsidy, for a total 322 PHAs
that submit annually. The average
number for each PHA response varies by
size of the PHA, with a total reporting
burden of 5,168 hours: An average of
21.7 hours per respondent for stop-loss;
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and an average of 11.5 hours per
respondent for appeals.
Status of the proposed information
collection: Extension of an existing
collection.
Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35,
as amended.
Dated: August 28, 2009.
Bessy Kong,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy, Program
and Legislative Initiatives.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5327–N–01]
Notice of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009
Opportunity To Register and Other
Important Information for Electronic
Application Submission for Continuum
of Care Homeless Assistance
Programs
AGENCY: Office of Community Planning
and Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
This notice provides
instructions to potential Continuums of
Care (CoCs) applying for the
approximately $1.43 billion of funding
under HUD’s Continuum of Care
Homeless Assistance Competition in FY
2009. The CoC competition uses an
electronic system outside of Grants.gov
for CoC registration, as well as for
submission of the CoC application,
called e-snaps. Notification of the
availability of the 2009 CoC application
will be released via HUD’s Homeless
Assistance listserv. To join HUD’s
listserv, go to https://www.hud.gov/
subscribe/mailinglist.cfm and click on
‘‘Homeless Assistance Program.’’
This notice provides information to
help applicants better understand the
CoC registration and electronic
application submission process through
e-snaps, which is located at https://
www.hud.gov/esnaps. Applicants for
project funding are also required to
register with Dun and Bradstreet, if they
have not already done so, and complete
or renew their registration in the Central
Contractor Registration (CCR). More
information on this can be found in the
General Section to HUD’s FY 2009
NOFAs for Discretionary Programs
published in the Federal Register
December 29, 2008 (73 FR 79548), as
amended April 16, 2009 (73 FR 17685).
In an effort to streamline the renewal
award process in 2009, HUD has
modified the selection process. Eligible
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Supportive Housing Program (SHP) and
Shelter Plus Care (S+C) renewal projects
will be conditionally awarded as
quickly as possible. New projects will
be awarded after the project threshold
review and the scoring of the CoC
application have been completed. A
project application must be submitted
for each project that is eligible for
renewal in the 2009 competition, in
order for it to be considered for funding,
Projects are considered eligible for
renewal in the 2009 competition if they
expire in Calendar Year 2010 and have
met all of the performance and capacity
requirements that will be outlined in the
2009 CoC Notice of Funding
Availability (NOFA). HUD reserves the
right to not renew grants where the
grantee has exhibited serious capacity
issues in prior grants, including
performance and financial problems, or
unresolved monitoring findings for
which there is no evidence that the
grantee is working toward appropriate
resolution. CoCs and project applicants
should read all sections of this notice,
as well as the upcoming 2009 NOFA, to
help identify these types of issues and
work with their local field office to
resolve the issues prior to the 2009 CoC
Application due date. Grantees and
project sponsors are responsible for
keeping grant files and for knowing the
beginning and ending dates of their
grants. If a grantee fails to apply for a
renewal project in the appropriate year,
the project will not be eligible for
renewal in the next funding
competition. Please Note: Under the
2002 and 2003 Appropriation Acts,
funds for all grants awarded in those
years will be available for use until
September 30, 2009, and September 30,
2010, respectively. Projects that were
awarded in 2002 and expire in 2009
were required to apply for renewal in
the 2008 competition and, therefore,
will not be eligible for renewal in the
2009 competition. Although the terms of
all grants awarded in 2002 and 2003
should have expired before September
30, 2009, and September 30, 2010,
respectively, HUD has discovered that,
due to delays in signing the grant
agreements or extensions, some grants
have an expiration date in 2010 or later.
Funds will not be available for
expenditure after September 30, 2009,
and September 30, 2010, respectively,
for these grants. Recipients may not
accelerate their spending rate. Field
offices will monitor draws for affected
grants, to ensure that funds will be
drawn only to reimburse the affected
recipients for actual costs incurred in
accordance with the project budget on,
or before, funds are no longer available.
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Notwithstanding the expiration date of
your SHP or S+C grant, if the grant was
awarded in 2002 or 2003, but has an
expiration date of 2010 or later, the
applicant must apply for renewal in
2009.
As stated previously, HUD will rate
new project applications separately
from renewal project submissions. The
determination of leveraging and housing
emphasis scores in Exhibit 1 will be
calculated only with data from new
project applications. For more
information on this and other significant
changes to the 2009 CoC competition,
please see Section III of this notice.
HUD advises potential applicants to
read this notice in its entirety and
complete the training offered at https://
www.hudhre.info.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
CoCs may contact the HUD Field Office
serving their area, at the telephone
number shown in the General Section.
In addition, applicants are strongly
encouraged to send questions regarding
this notice to the e-snaps Virtual Help
Desk at https://www.hudhre.info/
helpdesk.
Full Text of Announcement
This notice is divided into three
sections. Section I describes important
information that CoCs and project
applicants should be familiar with prior
to applying for 2009 Homeless
Assistance funding. This includes
pertinent definitions and an overview of
the necessary CoC planning process.
Section II provides detailed information
on completing the CoC registration
process in e-snaps. Finally, Section III
provides information about the major
changes that HUD will make to the 2009
CoC Homeless Assistance competition.
HUD hopes that this will assist CoCs in
better planning their 2009 CoC
application.
I. Overview Information
A. Program Description
Approximately $1.43 billion is
available for funding through the
FY2009 CoC Homeless Assistance
Competition. Carried over or recaptured
funds from previous fiscal years, if
available, may be added to this amount.
The purpose of the CoC Homeless
Assistance Program is to reduce the
incidence of homelessness in CoC
communities by assisting homeless
individuals and families move to selfsufficiency and permanent housing.
The 2009 CoC NOFA will be
published separately in the Federal
Register no earlier than August 15,
2009.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5288-N-08]
Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Public Comment;
Public Housing Operating Subsidy--Stop-Loss and Appeals
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The proposed information collection requirement described
below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department
is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: November 2, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to: Lillian L. Deitzer, Department
Reports Management Officer, ODAM, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 4116, Washington, DC 20410-5000;
telephone: 202-708-2374, (this is not a toll-free number) or e-mail Ms.
Deitzer at Lillian_L._Deitzer@HUD.gov for a copy of the proposed form
and other available information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dacia Rogers, Office of Policy,
Programs and Legislative Initiatives, PIH, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410;
telephone: 202-708-0713, (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department will submit the proposed
information collection to OMB for review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended). This notice
is soliciting comments from members of the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of information to: (1) Evaluate
whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
the information will have practical utility; (2) evaluate the accuracy
of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology; e.g., permitting electronic submission
of responses.
This notice also lists the following information:
Title of Proposal: Public Housing Operating Subsidy--Stop-Loss and
Appeals.
OMB Control Number: 2577-0246.
Description of the need for the information and proposed use: PHAs
that will experience a reduction in subsidy will have their subsidy
reduction phased in over a five-year period. PHAs that elect to stop
the phase in of the decrease in their subsidy are required to
demonstrate to HUD a successful conversion to asset management, as
provided in the operating fund final rule. A PHA with a reduction in
subsidy may make this demonstration to HUD in order to ``stop its
losses'' during any one of the five years over which HUD phases in the
reduction. Under the operating fund final rule, PHAs that elect to file
an appeal of their subsidy amounts are required to meet the appeal
requirements set forth in subpart G of the operating fund final rule.
The final rule establishes five grounds for appeals in 24 CFR Sec.
990.245 and they are the: (a) Streamlined appeal; (b) appeal of formula
income for economic hardship; (c) appeal for specific local conditions;
(d) appeal for changing market conditions; and (e) appeal to substitute
actual project cost data. To stop the phase-in of the reduction in the
amount of subsidy a PHA receives under the new operating fund formula,
PHAs submit a ``stop-loss'' package to HUD demonstrating conversion to
asset management. To appeal the amount of subsidy on any one of the
permitted bases of appeal, PHAs submit an appeal request to HUD.
Agency form number, if applicable: N/A.
Members of affected public: PHAs, state or local government.
Estimation of the total number of hours needed to prepare the
information collection including number of respondents: The estimated
number of respondents is an annual average of 146 PHAs that submit one
request for stop-loss and an annual average of 176 PHAs that submit an
appeal of the amount of operating subsidy, for a total 322 PHAs that
submit annually. The average number for each PHA response varies by
size of the PHA, with a total reporting burden of 5,168 hours: An
average of 21.7 hours per respondent for stop-loss;
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and an average of 11.5 hours per respondent for appeals.
Status of the proposed information collection: Extension of an
existing collection.
Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: August 28, 2009.
Bessy Kong,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy, Program and Legislative
Initiatives.
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