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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
submissions of responses.
This Notice Also Lists the Following
Information
Title of Proposal: Housing Choice
Voucher (HCV) Program: Application,
Allowances for Tenant-Furnished
Utilities, Inspections, Financial Reports,
Request for Tenancy Approval, Housing
Voucher, Portability Information,
Housing Assistance Payments (HAP)
Contracts, Tenancy Addendum,
Homeownership Obligations, Tenant
Information for Owner, Voucher
Transfers, Homeownership Contracts of
Sale, Information Requirements for
Additional Renewal Funding and the
Project-Based Voucher program.
OMB Control Number: 2577–0169.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use: Public
Housing Agencies (PHA) will prepare an
application for funding which specifies
the number of units requested, as well
as the PHA’s objectives and plans for
administering the HCV program. The
application is reviewed by the HUD
Field Office and ranked according to the
PHA’s administrative capability, the
need for housing assistance, and other
factors specified in the Notice of
Funding Availability (NOFA). The
PHAs must establish a utility allowance
schedule for all utilities and other
services. Units must be inspected using
HUD prescribed forms to determine if
the units meet the housing quality
standards (HQS) of the HCV program.
PHAs are also required to maintain
financial reports in accordance with
accepted accounting standards. The
PHA is required to submit one financial
document into an internet-based
Voucher Management System four times
a year. After the family is issued a HCV
to search for a unit, the family must
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complete and submit to the PHA a
Request for Tenancy Approval when it
finds a unit which is suitable for its
needs. Initial PHAs will use a
standardized form to submit portability
information to the receiving PHA who
will also use the form for monthly
portability billing. PHAs and Owners
will enter into HAP Contacts each
providing information on rents,
payments, certifications, notifications,
and Owner agreement in a form
acceptable to the PHA. A tenancy
addendum is included in the HAP
contract as well as incorporated in the
lease between the owner and the family.
Families that participate in the
Homeownership program will execute a
statement regarding their
responsibilities and execute contracts of
sale including an additional contract of
sale for new construction units. PHAs
that wish to voluntarily transfer their
HCV programs will notify HUD for
approval and, once approved, all
affected families and owners of the
divested PHA. PHAs participating in the
Project-Based Voucher program will
enter into Agreements with developing
owners, HAP contacts with the existing
and New Construction/Substantial
Rehabilitation owners, Statement of
Family Responsibility with the family
and a lease Addendum will be provided
for execution between the family and
the owner.
Agency form numbers: HUD–52515,
HUD–52667, HUD–52580, HUD–52580–
A, HUD–52681, HUD–52681–B, HUD–
52672, HUD–52517, HUD–52646, HUD–
52665, HUD–52641, HUD–52641–A,
HUD 52642, HUD 52642–A, HUD
52649, HUD 52531A, 52531B, HUD
52530A, HUD 52530B, HUD 52530C,
HUD 52578B.
Members of the Affected Public: State
and Local Governments, businesses or
other for-profits.
Estimation of the Total Number of
Hours Needed to Prepare the
Information Collection including the
Number of Respondents, Frequency of
response, and hours of response: The
Number of respondents (2450 PHAs +
245,000 families + 245,000 tenant-based
owners) = 492,450 total respondents.
Hours per response varies for each form
varies from annually, quarterly and onoccasion. Total annual burden hours
1,238,448.
Status of the Proposed Information
Collection: Extension of a currently
approved collection.
Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35,
as amended.
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Dated: June 24, 2010.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy,
Programs, and Legislative Initiatives.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5383–N–11]
Proposed Information Collection to
OMB Indian Housing Block Grant
(IHBG) Program (Combined and
Simplified Indian Housing Plan and
Annual Performance Reporting
Requirements); Withdrawal of Notice
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice, withdrawal.
SUMMARY: The Office of the Chief
Information Officer is announcing the
withdrawal of the Indian Housing Block
Grant (IHBG) Program (Combined and
Simplified Indian Housing Plan and
Annual Performance Reporting
Requirements) proposed information
collection published on May 21, 2010.
DATES: The withdrawal is effective June
30, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dacia Rogers, Office of Policy, Programs
and Legislative Initiatives, PIH,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street, SW.,
Room 4116, Washington, DC 20410;
telephone 202–402–3374, (this is not a
toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HUD
established a working group to
streamline the Indian Housing Plan
(IHP) and Annual Performance Report
(APR) to address the amendments
which were made in the NAHASDA
Reauthorization Act of 2008. The
objective of the IHP/APR streamlining
was to reduce the reporting burden on
tribes and tribally designated housing
entities. It was HUD’s intention to
publish the notice to maintain
momentum as we continued with the
negotiated rule making process. At this
time, HUD is withdrawing the
emergency comment request for the
Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG)
Program (Combined and Simplified
Indian Housing Plan and Annual
Performance Reporting Requirements)
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection published on May 21, 2010.
Tribes and tribally designated housing
entities should continue to use the
current versions of the Indian Housing
Plan and Annual Performance Report
until further notice.
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Title of Proposed Notice: Indian
Housing Block Grant Program
(Combined Indian Housing Plan and
Annual Performance Reporting
Requirements) .
Description of Information Collection:
This is a withdrawal of a proposed
information collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, 44 U.S.C. ch. 35, as amended.
Dated: June 24, 2010.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy,
Programs, and Legislative Initiatives.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5420–N–01]
Notice of Regulatory Waiver Requests
Granted for the First Quarter of
Calendar Year 2010
AGENCY:
Office of the General Counsel,
HUD.
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ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: Section 106 of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development
Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform
Act) requires HUD to publish quarterly
Federal Register notices of all
regulatory waivers that HUD has
approved. Each notice covers the
quarterly period since the previous
Federal Register notice. The purpose of
this notice is to comply with the
requirements of section 106 of the HUD
Reform Act. This notice contains a list
of regulatory waivers granted by HUD
during the period beginning on January
1, 2010 and ending on March 31, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general information about this notice,
contact Camille E. Acevedo, Associate
General Counsel for Legislation and
Regulations, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street,
SW., Room 10282,Washington, DC
20410–0500, telephone (202) 708–1793
(this is not a toll-free number). Persons
with hearing- or speech-impairments
may access this number through TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Information
Relay Service at (800) 877–8339.
For information concerning a
particular waiver that was granted and
for which public notice is provided in
this document, contact the person
whose name and address follow the
description of the waiver granted in the
accompanying list of waivers that have
been granted in the first quarter of
calendar year 2010.
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Section
106 of the HUD Reform Act added a
new section 7(q) to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Act
(42 U.S.C. 3535(q)), which provides
that:
1. Any waiver of a regulation must be
in writing and must specify the grounds
for approving the waiver;
2. Authority to approve a waiver of a
regulation may be delegated by the
Secretary only to an individual of
Assistant Secretary or equivalent rank,
and the person to whom authority to
waive is delegated must also have
authority to issue the particular
regulation to be waived;
3. Not less than quarterly, the
Secretary must notify the public of all
waivers of regulations that HUD has
approved, by publishing a notice in the
Federal Register. These notices (each
covering the period since the most
recent previous notification) shall:
a. Identify the project, activity, or
undertaking involved;
b. Describe the nature of the provision
waived and the designation of the
provision;
c. Indicate the name and title of the
person who granted the waiver request;
d. Describe briefly the grounds for
approval of the request; and
e. State how additional information
about a particular waiver may be
obtained.
Section 106 of the HUD Reform Act
also contains requirements applicable to
waivers of HUD handbook provisions
that are not relevant to the purpose of
this notice.
This notice follows procedures
provided in HUD’s Statement of Policy
on Waiver of Regulations and Directives
issued on April 22, 1991 (56 FR 16337).
In accordance with those procedures
and with the requirements of section
106 of the HUD Reform Act, waivers of
regulations are granted by the Assistant
Secretary with jurisdiction over the
regulations for which a waiver was
requested. In those cases in which a
General Deputy Assistant Secretary
granted the waiver, the General Deputy
Assistant Secretary was serving in the
absence of the Assistant Secretary in
accordance with the office’s Order of
Succession.
This notice covers waivers of
regulations granted by HUD from
January 1, 2010 through March 31, 2010.
For ease of reference, the waivers
granted by HUD are listed by HUD
program office (for example, the Office
of Community Planning and
Development, the Office of Fair Housing
and Equal Opportunity, the Office of
Housing, and the Office of Public and
Indian Housing, etc.). Within each
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program office grouping, the waivers are
listed sequentially by the regulatory
section of title 24 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) that is being waived.
For example, a waiver of a provision in
24 CFR part 58 would be listed before
a waiver of a provision in 24 CFR part
570.
Where more than one regulatory
provision is involved in the grant of a
particular waiver request, the action is
listed under the section number of the
first regulatory requirement that appears
in 24 CFR and that is being waived. For
example, a waiver of both § 58.73 and
§ 58.74 would appear sequentially in the
listing under § 58.73.
Waiver of regulations that involve the
same initial regulatory citation are in
time sequence beginning with the
earliest-dated regulatory waiver.
Should HUD receive additional
information about waivers granted
during the period covered by this report
(the first quarter of calendar year 2010)
before the next report is published (the
second quarter of calendar year 2010),
HUD will include any additional
waivers granted for the first quarter in
the next report.
Accordingly, information about
approved waiver requests pertaining to
HUD regulations is provided in the
Appendix that follows this notice.
Dated: June 24, 2010.
Helen R. Kanovsky,
General Counsel.
Appendix—Listing of Waivers of
Regulatory Requirements Granted by
Offices of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development January 1,
2010 through March 31, 2010
Note to Reader: More information about
the granting of these waivers, including a
copy of the waiver request and approval, may
be obtained by contacting the person whose
name is listed as the contact person directly
after each set of regulatory waivers granted.
The regulatory waivers granted appear in
the following order:
I. Regulatory waivers granted by the Office
of Community Planning and Development.
II. Regulatory waivers granted by the Office
of Housing.
III. Regulatory waivers granted by the
Office of Public and Indian Housing.
I. Regulatory Waivers Granted by the
Office of Community Planning and
Development
For further information about the
following regulatory waivers, please see
the name of the contact person that
immediately follows the description of
the waiver granted.
• Regulation: 24 CFR 58.22(a).
Project/Activity: The State of
Louisiana Department of Culture,
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5383-N-11]
Proposed Information Collection to OMB Indian Housing Block Grant
(IHBG) Program (Combined and Simplified Indian Housing Plan and Annual
Performance Reporting Requirements); Withdrawal of Notice
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice, withdrawal.
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SUMMARY: The Office of the Chief Information Officer is announcing the
withdrawal of the Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) Program (Combined
and Simplified Indian Housing Plan and Annual Performance Reporting
Requirements) proposed information collection published on May 21,
2010.
DATES: The withdrawal is effective June 30, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dacia Rogers, Office of Policy,
Programs and Legislative Initiatives, PIH, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 4116, Washington, DC
20410; telephone 202-402-3374, (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HUD established a working group to
streamline the Indian Housing Plan (IHP) and Annual Performance Report
(APR) to address the amendments which were made in the NAHASDA
Reauthorization Act of 2008. The objective of the IHP/APR streamlining
was to reduce the reporting burden on tribes and tribally designated
housing entities. It was HUD's intention to publish the notice to
maintain momentum as we continued with the negotiated rule making
process. At this time, HUD is withdrawing the emergency comment request
for the Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) Program (Combined and
Simplified Indian Housing Plan and Annual Performance Reporting
Requirements) Notice of Proposed Information Collection published on
May 21, 2010. Tribes and tribally designated housing entities should
continue to use the current versions of the Indian Housing Plan and
Annual Performance Report until further notice.
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Title of Proposed Notice: Indian Housing Block Grant Program
(Combined Indian Housing Plan and Annual Performance Reporting
Requirements) .
Description of Information Collection: This is a withdrawal of a
proposed information collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. ch.
35, as amended.
Dated: June 24, 2010.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Programs, and Legislative
Initiatives.
[FR Doc. 2010-15875 Filed 6-29-10; 8:45 am]
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