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response time, should be directed to the
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), USCIS, Chief, Regulatory
Products Division, Office of the
Executive Secretariat, Clearance
Officer,20 Massachusetts Avenue NW.,
Room 5012, Washington, DC 20529–
2020. Comments may also be submitted
to DHS via facsimile to 202–272–0997
or via e-mail at rfs.regs@dhs.gov. When
submitting comments by e-mail, please
make sure to add OMB Control No.
1615–0018 in the subject box.
Note: The address listed in this notice
should only be used to submit comments
concerning this information collection.
Please do not submit requests for individual
case status inquiries to this address. If you
are seeking information about the status of
your individual case, please check ‘‘My Case
Status’’ online at: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/
Dashboard.do, or call the USCIS National
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Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the collection of information
should address one or more of the
following four points:
(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
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
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Extension of an existing information
collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Application for Permission to Reapply
for Admission into the United States
after Deportation or Removal.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security
sponsoring the collection: Form I–212;
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS).
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
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abstract: Primary: Individuals or
households. The information provided
on Form I–212 is used by USCIS to
adjudicate applications filed by aliens
requesting consent to reapply for
admission to the United States after
deportation, removal or departure, as
provided under section 212 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: 3,272 responses at 2 hours per
response.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 6,544 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, Office of
the Executive Secretariat, 20
Massachusetts Avenue, NW., Room
5012, Washington, DC 20529–2020,
Telephone number 202–272–8377.
Dated: March 10, 2011.
Sunday Aigbe,
Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office
of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5480–N–23]
Notice of Submission of Proposed
Information Collection to OMB;
Emergency Comment Request; Federal
Housing Administration (FHA): Home
Energy Retrofit Loan Pilot Program;
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection for Public Comment
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of proposed information
collection.
AGENCY:
The proposed information
collection requirement described below
has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
emergency review and approval, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act. The Department is soliciting public
comments on the subject proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: March 30,
2011.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments must be
received within seven (14) days from
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the date of this Notice. Comments
should refer to the proposal by name/or
OMB approval number) and should be
sent to: HUD Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503; e-mail:
Ross_A._Rutledge@omb.eop.gov ; fax:
202–395–3086.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Reports Management Officer, QDAM,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 4517th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20410; e-mail
Colette.Pollard@HUD.gov; telephone
(202) 708–2374. This is not a toll-free
number. Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from the Reports Management Officer.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
Notice informs the public that the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) has submitted to
OMB, for emergency processing, an
information collection package with
respect to implementing an FHA Energy
Efficient Mortgage Innovation pilot
program targeted to the single family
housing market. The Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2010 (Pub. L. 111–
117, approved December 16, 2009, 123
Stat. 3034) (2010 Appropriations Act),
which appropriated fiscal year 2010
funds for HUD, among other agencies,
appropriated $50 million for an Energy
Innovation Fund to enable HUD to
catalyze innovations in the residential
energy efficiency sector that have the
promise of replicability and help create
a standardized home energy efficient
retrofit market. Of the $50 million
appropriated for the Energy Innovation
Fund, the 2010 Appropriations Act
stated that ‘‘$25,000,000 shall be for the
Energy Efficient Mortgage Innovation
pilot program directed at the single
family housing market.’’ (See Pub. L.
111–117, at 123 Stat. 3089). The FHA
Home Energy Retrofit Loan Pilot
Program (Retrofit Pilot Program) is
designed by HUD to meet this statutory
directive and provides funding to
support that effort. Under the Retrofit
Pilot Program, HUD, through FHAapproved lenders, will insure loans for
homeowners who are seeking to make
energy improvements to their homes.
Lender participation in the Retrofit
Pilot Program is voluntary. To facilitate
HUD’s monitoring of lender use of
incentive payments funds, lenders will
be required to enter into a pilot program
agreement with HUD, to report to HUD
on their use of incentive payments
funds.
This Notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and
affecting agencies concerning the
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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: Federal Housing
Administration (FHA): Home Energy
Retrofit Loan Pilot Program.
Description of Information Collection:
Lender reporting requirements under
the Retrofit Pilot Program.
OMB Control Number: 2502–0596.
Agency Form Numbers: None.
Members of Affected Public: FHAapproved lenders.
Estimation of the total numbers of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents, frequency of responses,
and hours of response: An estimation of
the total number of hours needed to
prepare the information collection is
320, number of respondents is 20
frequency response is annually, and the
estimated number of hours per response
is 16.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: March 09, 2011.
Colette Pollard,
Departmental Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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URBAN DEVELOPMENT
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Section 8 Housing Assistance
Payments Program—Contract Rent
Annual Adjustment Factors (AAFs),
Fiscal Year 2011
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy Development and
Research, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The United States Housing
Act of 1937 requires that assistance
SUMMARY:
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contracts signed by owners participating
in the Department’s Section 8 housing
assistance payment programs provide
annual adjustment to monthly rentals
for units covered by the contract. This
Notice announces revised Contract Rent
AAFs for adjustment of contract rents
on assistance contract anniversaries.
The factors are based on a formula using
residential rent and utility cost changes
from the most current annual Bureau of
Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index
(CPI) survey. These factors are applied
at Housing Assistance Payment (HAP)
contract anniversaries for those calendar
months commencing after the effective
date of this Notice. HUD will publish
‘‘Renewal Funding AAFs,’’ in a separate
Notice, to be used exclusively for
renewal funding of tenant-based rental
assistance, if so required in the fiscal
year (FY) 2011 HUD Budget.
DATES:
Effective Date: March 16, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Danielle Bastarache, Director,
Housing Voucher Management, Office of
Public Housing and Voucher Programs,
Office of Public and Indian Housing,
202–708–1380, for questions relating to
the Project-Based Certificate and
Moderate Rehabilitation programs (non
Single Room Occupancy); Ann Oliva,
Director, Office of Special Needs
Assistance Programs, Office of
Community Planning and Development,
202–708–4300, for questions regarding
the Single Room Occupancy (SRO)
Moderate Rehabilitation program; Willie
Spearmon, Director, Office of Housing
Assistance and Grant Administration,
Office of Housing, 202–708–3000, for
questions relating to all other Section 8
programs; and Marie L. Lihn,
Economist, Economic and Market
Analysis Division, Office of Policy
Development and Research, 202–708–
0590, for technical information
regarding the development of the
schedules for specific areas or the
methods used for calculating the AAFs.
Mailing address for the above persons:
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20410. Hearing- or
speech-impaired persons may contact
the Federal Information Relay Service at
800–877–8339 (TTY). (Other than the
‘‘800’’ TTY number, the above-listed
telephone numbers are not toll free.)
Tables
showing Contract Rent AAFs will be
available electronically from the HUD
data information page at https://
www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/
aaf.html/FY2011_CR_tables.pdf.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Applying Contract Rent AAFs to
Various Section 8 Programs
Contract Rent AAFs established by
this Notice are used to adjust contract
rents for units assisted in certain
Section 8 housing assistance payment
programs during the initial (i.e., prerenewal) term of the HAP contract and
for all units in the Project-Based
Certificate program. There are three
categories of Section 8 programs that
use the Contract Rent AAFs:
Category 1—The Section 8 New
Construction and Substantial
Rehabilitation programs and the Section
8 Moderate Rehabilitation program.
Category 2—The Section 8 Loan
Management (LM) and Property
Disposition (PD) programs.
Category 3—The Section 8 ProjectBased Certificate (PBC) program.
Each Section 8 program category uses
the Contract Rent AAFs differently. The
specific application of the Contract Rent
AAFs is determined by the law, the
HAP contract, and appropriate program
regulations or requirements.
AAFs are not used in the following
cases:
Renewal Rents. With the exception of
the Project-Based Certificate program,
Contract Rent AAFs are not used to
determine renewal rents after expiration
of the original Section 8 HAP contract
(either for projects where the Section 8
HAP contract is renewed under a
restructuring plan adopted under 24
CFR part 401; or renewed without
restructuring under 24 CFR part 402). In
general, renewal rents are based on the
applicable State-by-State operating cost
adjustment factor (OCAF) published by
HUD; the OCAF is applied to the
previous year’s contract rent minus debt
service.
Budget-Based Rents. Contract Rent
AAFs are not used for budget-based rent
adjustments. For projects receiving
Section 8 subsidies under the LM
program (24 CFR part 886, subpart A)
and for projects receiving Section 8
subsidies under the PD program (24 CFR
part 886, subpart C), contract rents are
adjusted, at HUD’s option, either by
applying the Contract Rent AAFs or by
budget-based adjustments in accordance
with 24 CFR 886.112(b) and 24 CFR
886.312(b). Budget-based adjustments
are used for most Section 8/202 projects.
Certificate Program. In the past,
Contract Rent AAFs were used to adjust
the contract rent (including
manufactured home space rentals) in
both the tenant-based and project-based
certificate programs. The tenant-based
certificate program has been terminated
and all tenancies in the tenant-based
certificate program have been converted
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5480-N-23]
Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB;
Emergency Comment Request; Federal Housing Administration (FHA): Home
Energy Retrofit Loan Pilot Program; Notice of Proposed Information
Collection for Public Comment
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of proposed information collection.
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SUMMARY: The proposed information collection requirement described
below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for emergency review and approval, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the
subject proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: March 30, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments must be received within seven (14) days from
the date of this Notice. Comments should refer to the proposal by name/
or OMB approval number) and should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer, Office
of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC
20503; e-mail: Ross_A._Rutledge@omb.eop.gov ; fax: 202-395-3086.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Reports Management Officer, QDAM,
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 4517th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20410; e-mail Colette.Pollard@HUD.gov; telephone (202)
708-2374. This is not a toll-free number. Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained from the Reports Management Officer.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Notice informs the public that the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has submitted to OMB,
for emergency processing, an information collection package with
respect to implementing an FHA Energy Efficient Mortgage Innovation
pilot program targeted to the single family housing market. The
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (Pub. L. 111-117, approved
December 16, 2009, 123 Stat. 3034) (2010 Appropriations Act), which
appropriated fiscal year 2010 funds for HUD, among other agencies,
appropriated $50 million for an Energy Innovation Fund to enable HUD to
catalyze innovations in the residential energy efficiency sector that
have the promise of replicability and help create a standardized home
energy efficient retrofit market. Of the $50 million appropriated for
the Energy Innovation Fund, the 2010 Appropriations Act stated that
``$25,000,000 shall be for the Energy Efficient Mortgage Innovation
pilot program directed at the single family housing market.'' (See Pub.
L. 111-117, at 123 Stat. 3089). The FHA Home Energy Retrofit Loan Pilot
Program (Retrofit Pilot Program) is designed by HUD to meet this
statutory directive and provides funding to support that effort. Under
the Retrofit Pilot Program, HUD, through FHA-approved lenders, will
insure loans for homeowners who are seeking to make energy improvements
to their homes.
Lender participation in the Retrofit Pilot Program is voluntary. To
facilitate HUD's monitoring of lender use of incentive payments funds,
lenders will be required to enter into a pilot program agreement with
HUD, to report to HUD on their use of incentive payments funds.
This Notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and
affecting agencies concerning the
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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: Federal Housing Administration (FHA): Home
Energy Retrofit Loan Pilot Program.
Description of Information Collection: Lender reporting
requirements under the Retrofit Pilot Program.
OMB Control Number: 2502-0596.
Agency Form Numbers: None.
Members of Affected Public: FHA-approved lenders.
Estimation of the total numbers of hours needed to prepare the
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of
responses, and hours of response: An estimation of the total number of
hours needed to prepare the information collection is 320, number of
respondents is 20 frequency response is annually, and the estimated
number of hours per response is 16.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: March 09, 2011.
Colette Pollard,
Departmental Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-6064 Filed 3-15-11; 8:45 am]
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