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The housing must be available for
occupancy only to low- or moderateincome families or persons, whose
incomes at the time of initial occupancy
do not exceed 115 percent of the median
income of the area. After initial
occupancy, the tenant’s income may
exceed these limits; however, rents,
including utilities, are restricted to no
more than 30 percent of the 115 percent
of area median income for the term of
the loan.
The Secretary is authorized under
Section 510(k) of the Housing Act of
1949 to prescribe regulations to ensure
that these federally-funded loans are
made to eligible applicants for
authorized purposes. The lender must
evaluate the eligibility, cost, benefits,
feasibility, and financial performance of
the proposed project. The Agency
collects this information from the lender
to determine if funds are being used to
meet the goals and mission of Rural
Development. The information
submitted by the lender to the Agency
is used by the Agency to manage, plan,
evaluate, and account for Government
resources.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 1.8 man hours
per response.
Respondents: Non-profit and forprofit lending corporations and public
bodies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
150.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 16.7.
Estimated Number of Responses:
2,498.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 1,389 hours.
Copies of this information collection
can be obtained from Jeanne Jacobs,
Regulations and Paperwork
Management Branch, at (202) 692–0040.
Comments:
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 information will
have 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; and (d) ways to 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. Comments may be sent to
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Jeanne Jacobs, Regulations and
Paperwork Management Branch, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Rural
Development, STOP 0742, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250. All responses to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for OMB
approval. All comments will also
become a matter of public record.
Dated: January 3, 2011.
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Tammye Trevino,
Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Information Collection Activity;
Comment Request
Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended), the
Rural Utilities Service, an agency
delivering the United States Department
of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural
Development Utilities Programs,
hereinafter referred to as Rural
Development and/or Agency, invites
comments on this information
collection for which the Agency intends
to request approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB).
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by March 14, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michele L. Brooks, Director, Program
Development and Regulatory Analysis,
Rural Utilities Service, 1400
Independence Ave., SW., STOP 1522,
Room 5162 South Building,
Washington, DC 20250–1522.
Telephone: (202) 690–1078, FAX: (202)
690–1078.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office
of Management and Budget’s (OMB)
regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) requires
that interested members of the public
and affected agencies have an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping activities
(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice
identifies an information collection that
the Agency is submitting to OMB for
extension.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
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of the functions of the Agency,
including whether the information will
have 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; and (d) ways to 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. Comments may be sent to:
Michele L. Brooks, Director, Program
Development and Regulatory Analysis,
Rural Utilities Service, U.S. Department
of Agriculture, STOP 1522, Room 5162,
1400 Independence Ave., SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–1522. FAX:
(202)720–4120.
Title: Public Television Station Digital
Transition Grant Program.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0134.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: As part of the nation’s
evolution to digital television, the
Federal Communications Commission
had ordered all television broadcasters
to initiate the broadcast of a digital
television signal. Public television
stations rely largely on community
financial support to operate. In many
rural areas the cost of the transition to
digital broadcasting may exceed
community resources. Since rural
communities depend on public
television stations for services ranging
from educational course content in their
schools to local news, weather, and
agricultural reports, any disruption of
public television broadcasting would be
detrimental.
Initiating a digital broadcast requires
the installation of a new antenna,
transmitter or translator, and new digital
program management facilities
consisting of processing and storage
systems. Public television stations use a
combination of transmitters and
translators to serve the rural public. If
the public television station is to
perform program origination functions,
as most do, digital cameras, editing and
mastering systems are required. A new
studio-to-tower site communications
link may be required to transport the
digital broadcast signal to each
transmitter and translator. The
capability to broadcast some
programming in a high definition
television format is inherent in the
digital television standard, and this can
require additional facilities at the
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studio. These are the new components
of the digital transition.
In designing the national competition
for the distribution of these grant funds,
priority is given to public television
stations serving the areas that would be
most unable to fund the digital
transition without a grant. The largest
sources of funding for public television
stations are public membership and
business contributions. In rural areas,
lower population density reduces the
field of membership, and rural areas
have fewer businesses per capita than
urban and suburban areas. Therefore,
rurality is a primary predictor of the
need for grant funding for a public
television station’s digital transition. In
addition, some rural areas have per
capita income levels that are lower than
the national average, and public
television stations covering these areas
in particular are likely to have difficulty
funding the digital transition. As a
result, the consideration of the per
capita income of a public television
station’s coverage area is a secondary
predictor of the need for grant funding.
Finally, some public television stations
may face special difficulty
accomplishing the transition, and a
third scoring factor for station hardship
will account for conditions that make
these public television stations less
likely to accomplish the digital
transition without a grant.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 21 hours per
response.
Respondents: Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
50.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.12.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 1,168 hours.
Copies of this information collection
can be obtained from MaryPat Daskal,
Program Development and Regulatory
Analysis, at (202) 720–7853. FAX: (202)
720–4120
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: January 5, 2011.
Jonathan Adelstein,
Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: National Survey of Fishing,
Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated
Recreation (FHWAR) Cell Phone and
Debit Card Test.
OMB Control Number: None.
Form Number(s): Control Advance
Letter FHW–W1[T], Prenotice Postcard
for Cell Phone Sample FHW–W1[C1],
Advance Letter for Cell Phone Sample
FHW–W1[C2], Advance Letter for Debit
Card Sample FHW–W1[D].
Type of Request: New collection.
Burden Hours: 254.
Number of Respondents: 1,500.
Average Hours per Response: 8
minutes.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (FWS) and the U.S.
Census Bureau plan to conduct (covered
under separate OMB clearance number
1018–0088) the 2011 National Survey of
Fishing, Hunting, and WildlifeAssociated Recreation (FHWAR) which
is authorized under the Fish and
Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Wildlife
and Sport Fish Restoration Programs
Improvement Act of 2000. The Census
Bureau is authorized to conduct the
FHWAR under Title 13, United States
Code Section 8(b). The FHWAR data,
collected approximately every five
years, assist Federal and State agencies
in administering the Sport Fish and
Wildlife Restoration grant programs and
provide up-to-date information on the
uses and demands for wildlife-related
recreation resources, trends in uses of
those resources, and a basis for
developing and evaluating programs
and projects to meet existing and future
needs.
The FHWAR uses an address-based
sample selected from the Census
Bureau’s Master Address File (MAF).
Interviewing is conducted using
Computer-Assisted Telephone
Interviewing (CATI) and ComputerAssisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI).
Through research conducted by
Relevate, Lexis Nexis, and by
researchers at the Census Bureau’s three
telephone centers, we estimate that we
will obtain telephone numbers for
47,891 sample households that will be
eligible for CATI interviewing. With a
total household sample of 81,955, this
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leaves 34,064 households eligible for a
CAPI interview. Due to the cost of
conducting personal visit interviews,
the 2011 FHWAR budget will only fund
5,154 CAPI interviews. These 5,154
cases will be subsampled from the
34,064 cases for which we do not have
a household telephone number.
A CAPI sample in the FHWAR is
particularly important because
households with available phone
numbers may differ in characteristics
from those without telephones and
those with unlisted phone numbers. By
decreasing our sample from 34,064 to
5,154, we are introducing additional
variance in our survey data.
The purpose of the Cell Phone and
Debit Card Test is to research alternative
survey designs that could increase the
number of CATI interviews while
reducing the variance associated with
conducting fewer CAPI interviews.
Researching comparable alternatives
to CAPI interviewing is important since
the FWS has limited funding to conduct
the survey. An FHWAR CAPI interview
is estimated to cost approximately $600
per case, while a CATI interview is
estimated to cost $65 per case.
We plan to conduct a test in the first
wave of interviewing (the FHWAR is
conducted in three waves) that includes
three panels of 500 households each.
We will select the test cases from the
remaining cases (approximately 28,910
cases) without phone numbers after the
production CAPI sample is selected.
These 1,500 cases will remain in the
CATI sample; they will not be sent for
CAPI interviewing.
The first panel will receive an
advance letter with a cell phone. The
advance letter will ask that a household
member call the telephone center and
complete an interview using the cell
phone. The telephone centers will also
attempt to contact these households
using the assigned cell phone telephone
number. The second panel will receive
an advance letter and a $25 incentive.
The advance letter will ask that a
household member call the telephone
center to complete an interview and
accept the prepaid debit or gift card as
a ‘‘thank you’’ for participating. The
third panel will only receive an advance
letter that requests a household member
call the telephone center to complete an
interview. (NOTE: The only way that
contact will be made with households
in the second and third panels will be
if household respondents call the
telephone center.)
The test data from these three panels
will not be included with the
production FHWAR data and the FWS
will not have access to the data.
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[FR Doc No: 2011-372]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended), the Rural Utilities Service, an agency
delivering the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural
Development Utilities Programs, hereinafter referred to as Rural
Development and/or Agency, invites comments on this information
collection for which the Agency intends to request approval from the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by March 14, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michele L. Brooks, Director, Program
Development and Regulatory Analysis, Rural Utilities Service, 1400
Independence Ave., SW., STOP 1522, Room 5162 South Building,
Washington, DC 20250-1522. Telephone: (202) 690-1078, FAX: (202) 690-
1078.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB)
regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) requires that interested members
of the public and affected agencies have an opportunity to comment on
information collection and recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)). This notice identifies an information collection that the
Agency is submitting to OMB for extension.
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 information will have 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; and (d) ways to
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. Comments may be sent to: Michele
L. Brooks, Director, Program Development and Regulatory Analysis, Rural
Utilities Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, STOP 1522, Room
5162, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250-1522. FAX:
(202)720-4120.
Title: Public Television Station Digital Transition Grant Program.
OMB Control Number: 0572-0134.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: As part of the nation's evolution to digital television,
the Federal Communications Commission had ordered all television
broadcasters to initiate the broadcast of a digital television signal.
Public television stations rely largely on community financial support
to operate. In many rural areas the cost of the transition to digital
broadcasting may exceed community resources. Since rural communities
depend on public television stations for services ranging from
educational course content in their schools to local news, weather, and
agricultural reports, any disruption of public television broadcasting
would be detrimental.
Initiating a digital broadcast requires the installation of a new
antenna, transmitter or translator, and new digital program management
facilities consisting of processing and storage systems. Public
television stations use a combination of transmitters and translators
to serve the rural public. If the public television station is to
perform program origination functions, as most do, digital cameras,
editing and mastering systems are required. A new studio-to-tower site
communications link may be required to transport the digital broadcast
signal to each transmitter and translator. The capability to broadcast
some programming in a high definition television format is inherent in
the digital television standard, and this can require additional
facilities at the
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studio. These are the new components of the digital transition.
In designing the national competition for the distribution of these
grant funds, priority is given to public television stations serving
the areas that would be most unable to fund the digital transition
without a grant. The largest sources of funding for public television
stations are public membership and business contributions. In rural
areas, lower population density reduces the field of membership, and
rural areas have fewer businesses per capita than urban and suburban
areas. Therefore, rurality is a primary predictor of the need for grant
funding for a public television station's digital transition. In
addition, some rural areas have per capita income levels that are lower
than the national average, and public television stations covering
these areas in particular are likely to have difficulty funding the
digital transition. As a result, the consideration of the per capita
income of a public television station's coverage area is a secondary
predictor of the need for grant funding. Finally, some public
television stations may face special difficulty accomplishing the
transition, and a third scoring factor for station hardship will
account for conditions that make these public television stations less
likely to accomplish the digital transition without a grant.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 21 hours per response.
Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 50.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.12.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 1,168 hours.
Copies of this information collection can be obtained from MaryPat
Daskal, Program Development and Regulatory Analysis, at (202) 720-7853.
FAX: (202) 720-4120
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the
request for OMB approval. All comments will also become a matter of
public record.
Dated: January 5, 2011.
Jonathan Adelstein,
Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-372 Filed 1-10-11; 8:45 am]
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