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4. A Lender must have submitted its
application under the GRRHP 2009
Notice published January 21, 2009,
Volume 74 FR 3551–3558, or the
GRRHP 2009 Notice published on June
26, 2009, Volume 74 FR 30503–30510 or
the GRRHP 2010 Notice published
February 26, 2010, Volume 75 FR 8896–
8902.
5. The application to be considered
must have been obligated from October
1, 2009 to December 17, 2010. However,
if the Demonstration Program funds
have not been fully utilized by
December 17, 2010, the Agency may
consider applications obligated on or
after October 1, 2008.
6. The Lender must not have closed
the construction loan prior to its
selection to participate in the
Demonstration Program.
Demonstration Program Selection
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Selections from qualified applications
that have requested consideration and
met all requirements for this
Demonstration Program will be based on
priority scores they received on their
previously submitted applications, with
the highest scoring applications being
selected first, until all available
Demonstration Program authority is
used. In the event of a tie, priority will
be given to the application that is in the
smaller rural community, and in case of
a subsequent tie to the application that
has the lowest LTC ratio.
The first round of selections into the
Demonstration Program will be made on
May 20, 2010. In the event there are not
enough qualified requests for selection
into the Demonstration Program to
utilize all the available Demonstration
Program authority, then until all funds
are exhausted, an additional selection
process will be conducted on the 3rd
Friday of each month starting
September 17, 2010. December 17, 2010,
will be the last possible selection date
unless the Final Rule is published as
explained below. All applicants will be
notified of the selection results no later
than 30 business days from the date of
selection.
DATES: Effective Dates: The GRRHP
intends to incorporate the guarantee
offered under this demonstration as a
permanent part of the program. To that
end we have published in the Federal
Register (January 29, 2009, Volume 75
FR 4707–4710) a proposed rule for
‘‘Continuous Construction-Permanent
Loan Guarantees.’’ This Notice will
terminate upon the earlier of either the
publication date of the final rule or
December 17, 2010.
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Demonstration Program Response
Submission Address
Eligible lenders wishing to have their
obligated applications considered for
selection into the Demonstration
Program must submit a signed request
(not to exceed one page) on its
letterhead that includes the following
information:
1. Developer’s Name
2. Borrower’s Name
3. Project’s Name
4. Project’s Address (City and State)
5. Project Type (Family, Senior, or
Mixed)
6. Project’s Total Units
7. Project’s Total Development Cost
(TDC)
8. Amount of 538 Loan Guarantee
9. Amount of Tax Credits Awarded
10. Amount and Source of Other
Financing
11. Loan to Cost (LTC) %
12. Area Population
13. Date obligated or date of
Conditional Commitment
Send the Demonstration Program
Response Submission Letter with all of
the information listed above, along with
a copy of the State Office’s ‘‘Proceed
with Application/NOFA Response
Selection’’ letter and a copy of the tax
credit award notification to: Tammy S.
Daniels, Financial and Loan Analyst,
Multi-Family Housing Guaranteed Loan
Division, Guaranteed Rural Rental
Housing Program, USDA Rural
Development, South Agriculture
Building, Room 1233, STOP 0781, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–0781.
Requests may also be faxed to 202–
690–3444 or sent by email (signed PDF
copies of the above submissions) to
tammy.daniels@wdc.usda.gov. Eligible
lenders mailing a request must provide
sufficient time to permit delivery to the
submission address. If all the funds set
aside for the Demonstration Program
have not been utilized, the Agency will
continue to accept requests for inclusion
into the FY 2010 Demonstration
Program until December 17, 2010 or
publication of the final rule if earlier.
Acceptance by a U.S. Post Office or
private mailer does not constitute
delivery. Postage due responses and
applications will not be accepted.
Paperwork Reduction Act
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the information
collection requirements contained in
this Notice is approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) under
OMB Control Number 0575–0174.
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Dated: May 3, 2010.
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Tammye Trevino,
Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request, Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program
Regulations, Part 275—Quality Control
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, this notice
invites the general public and other
public agencies to comment on the
proposed information collection for the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program’s Regulations, Part 275—
Quality Control. Specifically, the
burden associated with the collection of
information for the sampling plan,
arbitration process, and the good cause
process. This collection is a revision of
a currently approved collection, OMB
No. 0584–0303.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before July 9, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on:
(a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
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information has practical utility; (b) the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments may be sent to: Tiffany
Susan Wilkinson, Program Analyst,
Quality Control Branch, Program
Accountability and Administration
Division, Food and Nutrition Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101
Park Center Drive, Room 822,
Alexandria, VA 22302. You may also
download an electronic version of this
notice at https://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/
rules/regulations/default.htm and
comment via e-mail at SNAPHQWeb@fns.usda.gov or use the Federal
e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to https://
www.regulations.gov and follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments electronically.
All written comments will be open for
public inspection at the office of the
Food and Nutrition Service during
regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday through Friday) at 3101
Park Center Drive, Room 822,
Alexandria, Virginia 22302.
All responses to this notice will be
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval. All
comments will also become a matter of
public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
form and instruction should be directed
to Tiffany Susan Wilkinson, (703) 305–
2805.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program’s (SNAP) Quality Control
Regulations, Part 275.
OMB Number: 0584–0303.
Expiration Date: November 30, 2010.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: There are three components
of the Quality Control (QC) system that
are covered in this proposed
information collection. They are: (1) The
sampling plan; (2) the arbitration
process; and (3) the good cause process.
Each State is required to develop a
sampling plan that demonstrates the
integrity of its case selection
procedures. The QC system is designed
to measure each State agency’s payment
error rate based on a statistically valid
sample of SNAP cases. A State agency’s
payment error rate represents the
proportion of cases that were reported
through a QC review as being ineligible,
overissued and underissued SNAP
benefits.
The QC system contains procedures
for resolving differences in review
findings between State agencies and
FNS. This is referred to as the
arbitration process. The QC system also
contains procedures that provide relief
for State agencies from all or a part of
a QC liability when a State agency can
demonstrate that a part or all of an
excessive error rate was due to an
unusual event that had an
uncontrollable impact on the State
agency’s payment error rate. This is
referred to as the good cause process.
The approved burden for the QC
system includes the burden for the QC
sampling plan, the arbitration process,
and the good cause process. The annual
reporting burden associated with the QC
sampling plan remains at 265 hours. We
estimate the annual reporting burdens
associated with arbitration and good
cause processes to total 936 hours and
160 hours, respectively. The increase in
the proposed burden from the currently
approved 840 to 936 hours for the
arbitration process is due to an increase
in the number of State agencies
estimated to respond from 14 to 15 and
to the estimated number of responses
per State agency from 2.5 to 2.6. These
increases are a result of State agencies
more frequently disagreeing with FNS’
findings. The proposed annual reporting
burden for the good cause process is
unchanged from the currently approved
burden of 160 hours. The total reporting
burden for the QC system is, therefore,
1,361 hours.
The proposed annual recordkeeping
burden associated with the QC sampling
plan is 1.25 hours per year. The
proposed annual recordkeeping burdens
associated with arbitration have
increased from 0.83 to 0.92 hours and
the good cause process remains at
0.0236 hour. The recordkeeping burden
for the arbitration process increased
from 0.83 hour to 0.92 hour due to an
increase in the estimated number of
affected State agencies from 14 to 15
and an increase in the estimated number
of responses per State from 2.5 to 2.6.
The recordkeeping burden for the good
cause process remains at 0.0236 hours.
The total burden for recordkeeping is
2.19 hours. As a result, the total annual
burden for the QC system, as proposed
by this notice, increased from 1,267 to
1,363 hours.
Quality Control System Reporting
Burden Associated with the Sampling
Plan, Arbitration, and Good Cause:
REPORTING BURDEN
Number of
responses/
respondent
Number of
respondents
Affected public
Requirement
State Agencies ............
State Agencies ............
State Agencies ............
Sampling Plan .........................
Arbitration Process ..................
Good Cause Process ..............
53
15
1
Total
responses
per year
1
2.6
1
1
39
1
Time per
response
(hrs)
5
24
160
Annual
reporting
burden
(hrs)
265
936
160
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1,361
Quality Control System
Recordkeeping Burden Associated with
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RECORDKEEPING BURDEN
Number of
records
Affected public
Requirement
State Agencies ............
State Agencies ............
State Agencies ............
Sampling Plan ........................
Arbitration Process .................
Good Cause Process .............
Number of
records/state
Dated: April 29, 2010.
Julia Paradis,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
Commodity Credit Corporation
Information Collection; Noninsured
Crop Disaster Assistance Program
AGENCY: Farm Service Agency and
Commodity Credit Corporation and,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Farm Service Agency and the
Commodity Credit Corporation are
seeking comments from all interested
individuals and organizations on the
extension of a currently approved
information collection in support of the
Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance
Program (NAP). The information
collected is needed for producers to
determine eligibility to obtain NAP
assistance.
DATES: We will consider comments that
we receive by July 9, 2010.
ADDRESSES: We invite to submit
comments on this notice. In your
comments, include date, volume, and
page number of this issue of the Federal
Register. You may submit comments by
any of the following methods:
• Mail: Candance Thompson, Acting
Division Director, Production,
Emergencies, and Compliance Division,
Farm Service Agency, USDA, Mail Stop,
1400 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–0522.
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2.6
N/A
Total annual
recordkeeping
burden
(hrs)
• E–Mail:
Candy.Thompson@wdc.usda.gov.
• Fax: 202–690–2130.
You may also send comments to the
Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Washington, DC, 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Terry Hill, Section Head, Crop Disaster
Section, Disaster Assistance Branch,
(202) 720–3087.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description of Information Collection
Title: Noninsured Crop Disaster
Assistance Program.
OMB Number: 0560–0175.
Expiration Date: November 30, 2010.
Type of Request: Extension with no
revision.
Abstract: The NAP is authorized
under 7 U.S.C. Section 7333 and
implemented under regulations issued
at 7 CFR Part 1437. The NAP is
administered under the general
supervision of the Executive VicePresident of CCC (who also serves as
Administrator, FSA), and is carried out
by FSA State and County committees.
The information collected allows CCC to
provide assistance under NAP for losses
of commercial crops or other
agricultural commodities (except
livestock) for which catastrophic risk
protection under 7 U.S.C Section 1508
is not available, and that are produced
for food or fiber.
Additionally, NAP provides
assistance for losses of floriculture,
ornamental nursery, Christmas tree
crops, turfgrass sod, seed crops,
aquaculture (including ornamental fish),
sea oats and sea grass, and industrial
crops. The information collected is
necessary to determine whether a
producer and crop or commodity meet
applicable conditions for assistance and
to determine compliance with existing
rules. Producers must annually: (1)
Request NAP coverage by completing an
application for coverage and paying a
service fee by the CCC-established
application closing date; (2) file a
current crop-year report of acreage for
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0.0236
0.0236
0.0236
Total annual
reporting &
recordkeeping
burden
(hrs)
1.25
0.92
0.0236
266.25
936.92
160.02
2.1936
The Combined Quality Control
System’s Estimated Burden (includes
the burdens associated with the
Sampling Plan, Arbitration and Good
Cause): (Reporting 1,361 +
Recordkeeping 2 burden hours) = 1,363
hours.
53
15
1
Time per
record (hrs)
1,363.19
the covered crop or commodity; and (3)
certify production of each covered crop
or commodity. When damage to a
covered crop or commodity occurs,
producers must file a notice of loss with
the local FSA administrative county
office within 15 calendar days of
occurrence or 15 calendar days of the
date damage to the crop or commodity
becomes apparent. Producers must also
file an application for payment and
certification of income with the local
FSA County office.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this information collection is
estimated to average 0.6 hours per
response.
Type of Respondents: Producers of
commercial crops or other agricultural
commodities (except livestock).
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 291,500.
Estimated Annual Number of Forms
Filed per Respondent: 3.
Estimated Total Number of
Responses: 2,167,302.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,143,562.
We are requesting comments on all
aspects of this information collection
and to help us to:
(1) Evaluate whether the 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,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
All comments received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will be a
matter of public record. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Regulations,
Part 275--Quality Control
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment
on the proposed information collection for the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program's Regulations, Part 275--Quality Control.
Specifically, the burden associated with the collection of information
for the sampling plan, arbitration process, and the good cause process.
This collection is a revision of a currently approved collection, OMB
No. 0584-0303.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before July 9, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the agency, including whether the
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information has practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's
estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments may be sent to: Tiffany Susan Wilkinson, Program Analyst,
Quality Control Branch, Program Accountability and Administration
Division, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
3101 Park Center Drive, Room 822, Alexandria, VA 22302. You may also
download an electronic version of this notice at https://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/rules/regulations/default.htm and comment via e-
mail at SNAPHQ-Web@fns.usda.gov or use the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal.
Go to https://www.regulations.gov and follow the online instructions for
submitting comments electronically.
All written comments will be open for public inspection at the
office of the Food and Nutrition Service during regular business hours
(8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday) at 3101 Park Center Drive,
Room 822, Alexandria, Virginia 22302.
All responses to this notice will be included in the request for
Office of Management and Budget approval. All comments will also become
a matter of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection form and instruction should be
directed to Tiffany Susan Wilkinson, (703) 305-2805.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program's (SNAP) Quality Control Regulations, Part 275.
OMB Number: 0584-0303.
Expiration Date: November 30, 2010.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Abstract: There are three components of the Quality Control (QC)
system that are covered in this proposed information collection. They
are: (1) The sampling plan; (2) the arbitration process; and (3) the
good cause process. Each State is required to develop a sampling plan
that demonstrates the integrity of its case selection procedures. The
QC system is designed to measure each State agency's payment error rate
based on a statistically valid sample of SNAP cases. A State agency's
payment error rate represents the proportion of cases that were
reported through a QC review as being ineligible, overissued and
underissued SNAP benefits.
The QC system contains procedures for resolving differences in
review findings between State agencies and FNS. This is referred to as
the arbitration process. The QC system also contains procedures that
provide relief for State agencies from all or a part of a QC liability
when a State agency can demonstrate that a part or all of an excessive
error rate was due to an unusual event that had an uncontrollable
impact on the State agency's payment error rate. This is referred to as
the good cause process.
The approved burden for the QC system includes the burden for the
QC sampling plan, the arbitration process, and the good cause process.
The annual reporting burden associated with the QC sampling plan
remains at 265 hours. We estimate the annual reporting burdens
associated with arbitration and good cause processes to total 936 hours
and 160 hours, respectively. The increase in the proposed burden from
the currently approved 840 to 936 hours for the arbitration process is
due to an increase in the number of State agencies estimated to respond
from 14 to 15 and to the estimated number of responses per State agency
from 2.5 to 2.6. These increases are a result of State agencies more
frequently disagreeing with FNS' findings. The proposed annual
reporting burden for the good cause process is unchanged from the
currently approved burden of 160 hours. The total reporting burden for
the QC system is, therefore, 1,361 hours.
The proposed annual recordkeeping burden associated with the QC
sampling plan is 1.25 hours per year. The proposed annual recordkeeping
burdens associated with arbitration have increased from 0.83 to 0.92
hours and the good cause process remains at 0.0236 hour. The
recordkeeping burden for the arbitration process increased from 0.83
hour to 0.92 hour due to an increase in the estimated number of
affected State agencies from 14 to 15 and an increase in the estimated
number of responses per State from 2.5 to 2.6. The recordkeeping burden
for the good cause process remains at 0.0236 hours. The total burden
for recordkeeping is 2.19 hours. As a result, the total annual burden
for the QC system, as proposed by this notice, increased from 1,267 to
1,363 hours.
Quality Control System Reporting Burden Associated with the
Sampling Plan, Arbitration, and Good Cause:
Reporting Burden
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Number of Total Annual
Affected public Requirement Number of responses/ responses per Time per reporting
respondents respondent year response (hrs) burden (hrs)
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State Agencies........................... Sampling Plan............... 53 1 1 5 265
State Agencies........................... Arbitration Process......... 15 2.6 39 24 936
State Agencies........................... Good Cause Process.......... 1 1 1 160 160
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1,361
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Quality Control System Recordkeeping Burden Associated with the
Sampling Plan, Arbitration, and Good Cause:
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Recordkeeping Burden
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Total annual
Number of Number of Time per Total annual reporting &
Affected public Requirement records records/state record (hrs) recordkeeping recordkeeping
burden (hrs) burden (hrs)
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State Agencies........................... Sampling Plan............... 53 1 0.0236 1.25 266.25
State Agencies........................... Arbitration Process......... 15 2.6 0.0236 0.92 936.92
State Agencies........................... Good Cause Process.......... 1 N/A 0.0236 0.0236 160.02
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2.1936 1,363.19
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The Combined Quality Control System's Estimated Burden (includes
the burdens associated with the Sampling Plan, Arbitration and Good
Cause): (Reporting 1,361 + Recordkeeping 2 burden hours) = 1,363 hours.
Dated: April 29, 2010.
Julia Paradis,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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