Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Public Comment Choice Neighborhoods, 16437-16438 [2011-6764]
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submitting comments by e-mail please
make sure to add Civics and Citizenship
Toolkit/Teacher Training Registration in
the subject box. Written comments and
suggestions from the public and affected
agencies 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:
New information collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection: Civics
and Citizenship Toolkit/Teacher
Training Registration.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security
sponsoring the collection: No Form
Number; File No. OMB–58. 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. This information collection
is necessary to register for training and
to obtain a toolkit.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: Citizenship Toolkit: 7,000
responses at 10 minutes (.166 hours) per
response. Teacher Training Registration:
1,100 responses at 10 minutes (.166
hours) per response.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 1,344 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, Clearance
Officer, 20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.,
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Washington, DC 20529–2020;
Telephone 202–272–8377.
402–4109, (this is not a toll-free
number).
Dated: March 17, 2011.
Sunday Aigbe,
Chief, Regulatory Products Division, Office
of the Executive Secretariat, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5487–N–01]
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection for Public Comment Choice
Neighborhoods
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The proposed information
collection requirement described below
has been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended). The
Department is soliciting public
comments on the subject proposal, to
assure better understanding of the
reporting requirements and consistency
in the submission of data.
DATES: Comments Due Date: May 23,
2011.
SUMMARY:
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: Colette
Pollard, Departmental Reports
Management Officer, QDAM,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street, SW.,
Room 4160, Washington, DC 20410–
5000; telephone 202.402.3400 (this is
not a toll-free number) or email Ms.
Pollard at Colette_Pollard@hud.gov.
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. (Other than the HUD
USER information line and TTY
numbers, telephone numbers are not
toll-free.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Arlette Mussington, Office of Policy,
Programs and Legislative Initiatives,
PIH, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street, SW.,
(L’Enfant Plaza, Room 2206),
Washington, DC 20410; telephone 202–
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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: Choice
Neighborhood.
OMB Control Number: 2577–0269.
Description of Information Collection:
This is a revised information collection.
The Department of Housing and Urban
Development Appropriations Act, 2010
(Pub. L. 111–117, enacted on December
16, 2009) permits the HUD Secretary to
use up to $65,000,000 of the HOPE VI
appropriations for a Choice
Neighborhoods Initiative demonstration.
Thus, except as otherwise specified in
the appropriations act, the HOPE VI
program requirements and selection
criteria will apply to Choice
Neighborhoods grants for FY 2011. The
Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)
will contain the selection criteria for
awarding Choice Neighborhoods grants
and specific requirements that will
apply to selected grantees.
The program aims to transform
neighborhoods of poverty into viable
mixed-income neighborhoods with
access to economic opportunities by
revitalizing severely distressed public
and assisted housing and investing and
leveraging investments in wellfunctioning services, effective schools
and education programs, public assets,
public transportation and improved
access to jobs. Choice Neighborhoods
grants will primarily fund the
transformation of public and/or HUDassisted housing developments through
preservation, rehabilitation, and
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management improvements as well as
demolition and new construction. In
addition, these funds can be used on a
limited basis (and combined with other
funding) for improvements to the
surrounding community, public
services, facilities, assets and supportive
services. Choice Neighborhoods grant
funds are intended to catalyze other
investments that will be directed toward
necessary community improvements.
The leveraging of other sources will be
necessary to address other key
neighborhood assets and achieve the
program’s core goals. HUD is working
with other Federal agencies to integrate
Choice Neighborhoods with other
Federal place-based programs.
Agency Form Number: Pending.
Members of Affected Public: Local
governments, public housing
authorities, nonprofits, and for-project
developers that apply jointly with a
public entity.
Estimation of the total numbers of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents, frequency of responses,
and hours of responses: For Choice
Neighborhoods burden hours per
response total to 68.09 for
Implementation Grant applications and
34.59 for Planning Grant applications.
The total burden hours, estimating 150
respondents for both application is
6,864.
Status of the proposed information
collection: This is a new information
Collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: March 15, 2011.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Deputy Director for Office of Policy, Programs
and Legislative Initiatives.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5498–N–01]
Reallocation of American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act Capital Funds—
Capital Fund Grant Program Under the
American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
The American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery
Act) included a $4 billion appropriation
of Capital Funds for public housing
SUMMARY:
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agencies (PHAs) to carry out capital and
management activities, as authorized
under section 9 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (the 1937 Act). The
Recovery Act required that $3 billion of
these funds be distributed as formula
funds and the remaining $1 billion be
distributed through a competitive
process. HUD obligated approximately
$2.985 million in formula funds to
PHAs on March 18, 2009. On May 7,
2009, HUD posted on its Web site its
Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA),
which launched the competitive
distribution of Capital Funds. In
September 2009, HUD announced the
award of $995 million in Capital Fund
Recovery Competition (CFRC) Grants. In
accordance with the Recovery Act, HUD
was required to reallocate any Recovery
Act Capital Funds that were returned
prior to the initial obligation deadline
and/or recaptured.
After award, a number of grantees
were subsequently unable to meet the
NOFA and Recovery Act criteria and
approximately $14 million in CFRC
funds were recaptured. Additionally,
another $3.2 million in Capital Fund
Recovery Grant (CFRG) funds that were
unable to meet the obligation deadline
were recaptured. Since the Act required
that HUD redistribute any grant funds
that were not in compliance,
$17,161,649.00 was awarded to pending
Recovery Act PHA applicants who had
applied for funding under Category 4,
Option 2 of the NOFA Creation of
Energy Efficient, Green Communities,
consistent with the Department’s
objective of promoting energy
efficiency. This notice announces the
grantees that received the reallocated
funds.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dominique G. Blom, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Public Housing
Investments, Office of Public Housing
Investments, Office of Public and Indian
Housing, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street,
SW., Room 4130, Washington, DC,
20410–400, telephone number 202–402–
8500 (this is not a toll-free number).
Persons with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number
through the TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Information Relay Service at
800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
NOFA for HUD’s CFRC Grants program
made available $995 million to PHAs for
capital and management activities as
authorized under section 9 of the 1937
Act in accordance with four funding
categories: (1) Improvements addressing
the needs of the elderly and/or persons
with disabilities; (2) public housing
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transformation; (3) gap financing for
projects that are stalled due to financing
issues; and (4) creation of energy
efficient, green communities.
In accordance with the Recovery Act
(Pub. L. 111–5, approved February 17,
2009), PHAs had to give priority to
capital projects that could award
contracts based on bids within 120 days
from the date the funds were made
available to the PHAs and had to
prioritize capital projects that were
already underway or included in the
5-year Capital Fund plans required by
the 1937 Act. Additionally, funds had to
supplement and not supplant
expenditures from other Federal, State,
or local sources or funds independently
generated by the grantee. Finally, the
Recovery Act provided for alternate
obligation and expenditure deadlines
(and penalties) as follows:
(1) HUD must obligate the CFRC grant
funding to grantees by September 30,
2009.
(2) PHAs must obligate 100 percent of
the grant funds awarded under this
NOFA within 1 year of the date on
which funds become available to the
PHA for obligation (which is the
effective date of the Annual
Contributions Contract (ACC)
amendment). If a PHA fails to comply
with the 1-year obligation requirement,
the Recovery Act required HUD to
recapture all remaining unobligated
funds awarded to the PHA, and to
reallocate the recaptured funds to PHAs
that are in compliance with the
Recovery Act’s obligation requirement.
(3) PHAs must expend at least 60
percent of the grant funds within 2 years
of the date on which funds become
available to the PHA for obligation
(which is the effective date of the ACC
amendment). If a PHA fails to comply
with the 2-year expenditure
requirement, the Recovery Act required
HUD to recapture the balance of the
funds awarded to the PHA, and to
reallocate the recaptured funds to PHAs
that are in compliance with the
Recovery Act’s 2-year expenditure
requirement.
(4) PHAs must expend 100 percent of
the grant funds within 3 years of the
date on which funds become available
to the PHA for obligation (which is the
effective date of the ACC amendment).
If a PHA fails to comply with the 3-year
expenditure requirement, the Recovery
Act required HUD to recapture the
balance of the funds awarded to the
PHA, and to reallocate the recaptured
funds to PHAs that are in compliance
with the Recovery Act’s 3-year
expenditure requirement.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5487-N-01]
Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Public Comment
Choice Neighborhoods
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 has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review and approval, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended). The Department is soliciting
public comments on the subject proposal, to assure better understanding
of the reporting requirements and consistency in the submission of
data.
DATES: Comments Due Date: May 23, 2011.
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: Colette Pollard, Departmental
Reports Management Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 4160, Washington, DC 20410-5000;
telephone 202.402.3400 (this is not a toll-free number) or email Ms.
Pollard at Colette_Pollard@hud.gov. 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. (Other than the
HUD USER information line and TTY numbers, telephone numbers are not
toll-free.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Arlette Mussington, Office of Policy,
Programs and Legislative Initiatives, PIH, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., (L'Enfant Plaza, Room 2206),
Washington, DC 20410; telephone 202-402-4109, (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: Choice Neighborhood.
OMB Control Number: 2577-0269.
Description of Information Collection: This is a revised
information collection. The Department of Housing and Urban Development
Appropriations Act, 2010 (Pub. L. 111-117, enacted on December 16,
2009) permits the HUD Secretary to use up to $65,000,000 of the HOPE VI
appropriations for a Choice Neighborhoods Initiative demonstration.
Thus, except as otherwise specified in the appropriations act, the HOPE
VI program requirements and selection criteria will apply to Choice
Neighborhoods grants for FY 2011. The Notice of Funding Availability
(NOFA) will contain the selection criteria for awarding Choice
Neighborhoods grants and specific requirements that will apply to
selected grantees.
The program aims to transform neighborhoods of poverty into viable
mixed-income neighborhoods with access to economic opportunities by
revitalizing severely distressed public and assisted housing and
investing and leveraging investments in well-functioning services,
effective schools and education programs, public assets, public
transportation and improved access to jobs. Choice Neighborhoods grants
will primarily fund the transformation of public and/or HUD-assisted
housing developments through preservation, rehabilitation, and
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management improvements as well as demolition and new construction. In
addition, these funds can be used on a limited basis (and combined with
other funding) for improvements to the surrounding community, public
services, facilities, assets and supportive services. Choice
Neighborhoods grant funds are intended to catalyze other investments
that will be directed toward necessary community improvements. The
leveraging of other sources will be necessary to address other key
neighborhood assets and achieve the program's core goals. HUD is
working with other Federal agencies to integrate Choice Neighborhoods
with other Federal place-based programs.
Agency Form Number: Pending.
Members of Affected Public: Local governments, public housing
authorities, nonprofits, and for-project developers that apply jointly
with a public entity.
Estimation of the total numbers of hours needed to prepare the
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of
responses, and hours of responses: For Choice Neighborhoods burden
hours per response total to 68.09 for Implementation Grant applications
and 34.59 for Planning Grant applications. The total burden hours,
estimating 150 respondents for both application is 6,864.
Status of the proposed information collection: This is a new
information Collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: March 15, 2011.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Deputy Director for Office of Policy, Programs and Legislative
Initiatives.
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