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Control Number and should be sent to:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street,
SW., L’Enfant Building, Room 8202,
Washington, DC 20410; telephone (202)
402–3400 (this is not a toll-free number)
for copies of the proposed forms and
other available information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Harry Messner, Office of Asset
Management, Policy and Participation
Standards Division, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451
7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410,
telephone number (202) 402–2626 (this
is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department is submitting 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 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
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: Use Restriction
Agreement Monitoring and Compliance.
OMB Control Number, if applicable:
2502–0577.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: This
information is necessary for HUD to
ensure that owners of certain
multifamily housing projects comply
with use restriction requirements once
the mortgage agreement is terminated.
This information is also used to monitor
owner compliance with the Use
Restriction Agreement provisions.
Agency form numbers, if applicable:
HUD–90060, HUD–90061, HUD–90065,
HUD–90066, HUD–93140, HUD–93142,
HUD–93143, HUD–93144, HUD–90067,
HUD–90068, HUD–90069, HUD–90070,
HUD–93150, HUD–93155, HUD–90075.
Estimation of the total numbers of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including numberof
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respondents, frequency of response, and
hours of response: The estimated
number of respondents is 590; the
frequency of responses is on occasion/
annual; estimated time to gather and
prepare the necessary documents
(combined) is 2 hours per submission,
and the estimated total annual burden
hours are 1,112.
Status of the proposed information
collection: Extension of a currently
approved collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, 44 U.S.C., Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: April 5, 2011.
Ronald Y. Spraker,
Associate General Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Housing.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5094–C–07]
Changes to the Public Housing
Assessment System (PHAS):
Management Operations Scoring
Notice
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
AGENCY:
HUD published a document
in the Federal Register of February 23,
2011, concerning request for public
comments on the Management
Operations interim scoring notice. The
document inadvertently omitted a word
with respect to the tenant accounts
receivable metric.
DATES: Effective Date: March 25, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Claudia Yarus, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, Office of
Public and Indian Housing, Real Estate
Assessment Center (REAC), 550 12th
Street, SW., Suite 100, Washington, DC
20410 at 202–475–8830 (this is not a
toll-free number). Persons with hearing
or speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Information Relay Service
at 800–877–8339. Additional
information is available from the REAC
Internet site at https://www.hud.gov/
offices/reac/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background
The proposed management operations
scoring information was published on
August 21, 2008 (73 FR 49575). This
proposal included a metric for tenant
rents collected, in which the highest
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score would have been given for a
successful collection rate of 97 percent
of the total rent due; the intermediate
score would have been given for a
successful collection rate of at least 93
percent but less than 97 percent; and the
lowest score would have been given for
a collection rate of less than 93 percent.
Stated in terms of accounts receivable,
these 3 tiers of scoring would be: for the
highest score, a 3 percent or .03 ratio of
accounts receivable; for the intermediate
score, at least 7 percent or .07 ratio of
accounts receivable to less than a 3
percent or .03 ratio of accounts
receivable; and for the lowest score, less
than a 7 percent or .07 ratio of accounts
receivable.
The interim Management Operations
Scoring Notice was published on
February 23, 2011 (76 FR 10050). This
interim notice is effective as of March
25, 2011, and HUD is accepting public
comments on this notice until April 25,
2011. In this interim notice, the same
metric is stated as ‘‘tenant accounts
receivable’’ and was intended to be
adjusted slightly compared to the
proposal.
The interim notice states that ‘‘A PHA
will receive 5 points if it has a tenant
accounts receivable ratio of less than
1.5. It will receive 2 points if it has a
tenant accounts receivable ratio of equal
to or greater than 1.5 and less than 2.5.
It will receive zero points if it has a
tenant accounts receivable ratio of equal
to or greater than 2.5.’’ (See 76 FR 10051,
3rd column). A chart immediately
following this text restates the same
figures. Both the paragraph and the
chart inadvertently omitted the word
‘‘percent’’ following each of these ratios.
Taken literally on a one-year basis, a
tenant accounts receivable ratio of, for
example, 1.5 would mean that one-andone half times the amount of total tenant
charges (rents and other charges to the
tenants) by a housing authority would
be uncollected, an obvious
impossibility, or, alternatively, over a 2year basis, a PHA had failed to collect
100 percent of all tenant charges in a
given year, and was still owed 50
percent of all the tenant charges from a
previous year, a performance so
unlikely as to be virtually impossible,
and one having no reasonable relation to
the proposal.
HUD submits that the language
supports that it was not HUD’s intention
to give a high score in this metric to
such a low-performing PHA even if one
existed. What was meant was that 1.5
percent (or .015) of the tenant charges
would be uncollected. Stated in the
terms that the proposed rule used,
PHAS would require PHAs to collect
98.5 percent of the rents rather than 97
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Bluewater Wind Delaware, LLC
submitted the only valid expression of
commercial interest in response to the
April 26, 2010, RFI and BOEMRE
received no additional expressions of
interest in response to the January 26,
II. Correction
2011, RFCI. BOEMRE will proceed with
In the Federal Register of February
the noncompetitive lease process for the
23, 2011, in FR Doc. 2011–2658, on page
proposed lease area offshore Delaware
10051, in the third column, the second
as described in the RFCI.
full paragraph (beginning ‘‘A PHA will
This DNCI is published pursuant to
receive 5 points if * * * ’’) and the
subsequent chart should be corrected to subsection 8(p)(3) of the OCS Lands Act,
which was added by section 388 of the
add the word ‘‘percent’’ after the figures
Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) (43
‘‘1.5’’ and ‘‘2.5’’ wherever those figures
U.S.C. 1337(p)(3)), and the
occur, to read as follows:
A PHA will receive 5 points if it has
implementing regulations at 30 CFR part
a tenant accounts receivable ratio of less 285. Subsection 8(p)(3) of the OCS
than 1.5 percent. It will receive 2 points Lands Act requires that OCS renewable
if it has a tenant accounts receivable
energy leases, easements, and rights-ofratio of equal to or greater than 1.5
way be issued ‘‘on a competitive basis
percent and less than 2.5 percent. It will unless the Secretary determines after
receive zero points if it has a tenant
public notice of a proposed lease,
accounts receivable ratio of equal to or
easement, or right-of-way that there is
greater than 2.5 percent.
no competitive interest.’’ The authority
to make such determinations has been
Tenant accounts receivable value
Points
delegated to BOEMRE. This DNCI
<1.5 percent .................................
5 provides notice to the public that
≥1.5 percent but <2.5 percent ......
2 BOEMRE has determined that there is
≥2.5 percent ..................................
0 no competitive interest in leasing the
proposed area.
Dated: April 5, 2011.
BOEMRE received public comment
Sandra B. Henriquez,
submissions from four parties in
response to the January 26, 2011, RFCI.
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing.
A discussion of these comments is
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found below.
percent to receive the highest score, a
reasonable adjustment from the
proposal. This correction properly
conforms the language to the clearly
intended meaning.
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DATES:
Effective April 12, 2011.
Erin
C. Trager, Projects and Coordination
Branch, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Regulation and
Enforcement, Office of Offshore
Alternative Energy Programs, 381 Elden
Street, Mail Stop 4090, Herndon,
Virginia 20170–4817; telephone (703)
787–1713.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,
Regulation and Enforcement
[Docket No. BOEM–2011–0008]
Commercial Leasing for Wind Power
on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
Off Delaware, Determination of No
Competitive Interest
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Purpose of This DNCI
This notice provides
BOEMRE’s determination that no
competitive interest exists in acquiring
a commercial wind lease in the area
offshore Delaware proposed in the
January 26, 2011, Notice of Proposed
Lease Area and Request for Competitive
Interest (RFCI) (76 FR 4716). The
location of a proposed lease area was
identified through the issuance of a
Request for Interest (RFI) in the Federal
Register on April 26, 2010 (75 FR
21653).
This DNCI provides public notice that
BOEMRE has determined that there is
no competitive interest in acquiring a
lease in the area described in the
January 26, 2011, RFCI. Bluewater Wind
Delaware, LLC submitted the only valid
expression of commercial interest in
response to the RFI and BOEMRE
received no additional expressions of
interest in response to the RFCI. As a
result, no competitive interest exists in
the proposed leasing area. Subsequent
to the publication of this determination,
BOEMRE may proceed with the
noncompetitive lease process outlined
at 30 CFR 285.231(d) through (i).
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Regulation and
Enforcement (BOEMRE), Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Summary of Public Comments Received
in Response to the January 26, 2011,
RFCI
On February 10, 2011, the comment
period closed for the Delaware RFCI.
BOEMRE received four responses
during the public comment period,
including comments from two groups
representing waterway users, one
marine waterway operator, and one
company associated with the surf clam/
ocean quahog fishing industry.
Comments received in response to the
RFCI are available at the following URL:
https://www.boemre.gov/offshore/
RenewableEnergy/
stateactivities.htm#Delaware
Some of the comments received
requested a change to the area of interest
considered for leasing, and included
suggestions such as identifying areas for
exclusion, mitigation, or further study.
Other comments suggested that
BOEMRE undertake a more coordinated
outreach effort with public stakeholders,
to complement existing coordination
efforts with government stakeholders in
the BOEMRE/Delaware Renewable
Energy Task Force. In addition, other
comments expressed concern with
navigational safety and socioeconomic
impacts to the surf clam/ocean quahog
fishery in the proposed lease area as a
result of wind facility development.
In identifying a lease area for analysis
under the National Environmental
Policy Act, BOEMRE will consider
excluding the area designated as a
potential U.S. Coast Guard vessel
anchorage area, first identified by the
U.S. Coast Guard in its response to the
Delaware RFI. Comments received from
waterways operators in response to the
Delaware RFCI indicate support for
excluding a designated anchorage area
from a proposed lease area to replace
unofficial anchorage areas currently in
use throughout the area of interest,
which may be displaced by future
development.
In response to concerns regarding the
proposed 500-meter buffer between the
proposed lease area and the adjacent
Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS),
BOEMRE has decided that additional
information is needed to evaluate
whether this proposed buffer should be
widened. BOEMRE will collaborate with
the U.S. Coast Guard to better quantify
the amount and location of vessel
activity and research ways to analyze
the effects of wind energy facility
infrastructure on marine vessel traffic in
the area to better inform any future
mitigation in a proposed lease area. If
data suggest that heavy traffic transits
within 0.5 nautical mile of the edge of
the TSS, BOEMRE has the discretion to
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[FR Doc No: 2011-8597]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5094-C-07]
Changes to the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS):
Management Operations Scoring Notice
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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SUMMARY: HUD published a document in the Federal Register of February
23, 2011, concerning request for public comments on the Management
Operations interim scoring notice. The document inadvertently omitted a
word with respect to the tenant accounts receivable metric.
DATES: Effective Date: March 25, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Claudia Yarus, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Real Estate
Assessment Center (REAC), 550 12th Street, SW., Suite 100, Washington,
DC 20410 at 202-475-8830 (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. Additional information is available from the REAC Internet site
at https://www.hud.gov/offices/reac/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The proposed management operations scoring information was
published on August 21, 2008 (73 FR 49575). This proposal included a
metric for tenant rents collected, in which the highest score would
have been given for a successful collection rate of 97 percent of the
total rent due; the intermediate score would have been given for a
successful collection rate of at least 93 percent but less than 97
percent; and the lowest score would have been given for a collection
rate of less than 93 percent. Stated in terms of accounts receivable,
these 3 tiers of scoring would be: for the highest score, a 3 percent
or .03 ratio of accounts receivable; for the intermediate score, at
least 7 percent or .07 ratio of accounts receivable to less than a 3
percent or .03 ratio of accounts receivable; and for the lowest score,
less than a 7 percent or .07 ratio of accounts receivable.
The interim Management Operations Scoring Notice was published on
February 23, 2011 (76 FR 10050). This interim notice is effective as of
March 25, 2011, and HUD is accepting public comments on this notice
until April 25, 2011. In this interim notice, the same metric is stated
as ``tenant accounts receivable'' and was intended to be adjusted
slightly compared to the proposal.
The interim notice states that ``A PHA will receive 5 points if it
has a tenant accounts receivable ratio of less than 1.5. It will
receive 2 points if it has a tenant accounts receivable ratio of equal
to or greater than 1.5 and less than 2.5. It will receive zero points
if it has a tenant accounts receivable ratio of equal to or greater
than 2.5.'' (See 76 FR 10051, 3rd column). A chart immediately
following this text restates the same figures. Both the paragraph and
the chart inadvertently omitted the word ``percent'' following each of
these ratios.
Taken literally on a one-year basis, a tenant accounts receivable
ratio of, for example, 1.5 would mean that one-and-one half times the
amount of total tenant charges (rents and other charges to the tenants)
by a housing authority would be uncollected, an obvious impossibility,
or, alternatively, over a 2-year basis, a PHA had failed to collect 100
percent of all tenant charges in a given year, and was still owed 50
percent of all the tenant charges from a previous year, a performance
so unlikely as to be virtually impossible, and one having no reasonable
relation to the proposal.
HUD submits that the language supports that it was not HUD's
intention to give a high score in this metric to such a low-performing
PHA even if one existed. What was meant was that 1.5 percent (or .015)
of the tenant charges would be uncollected. Stated in the terms that
the proposed rule used, PHAS would require PHAs to collect 98.5 percent
of the rents rather than 97
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percent to receive the highest score, a reasonable adjustment from the
proposal. This correction properly conforms the language to the clearly
intended meaning.
II. Correction
In the Federal Register of February 23, 2011, in FR Doc. 2011-2658,
on page 10051, in the third column, the second full paragraph
(beginning ``A PHA will receive 5 points if * * * '') and the
subsequent chart should be corrected to add the word ``percent'' after
the figures ``1.5'' and ``2.5'' wherever those figures occur, to read
as follows:
A PHA will receive 5 points if it has a tenant accounts receivable
ratio of less than 1.5 percent. It will receive 2 points if it has a
tenant accounts receivable ratio of equal to or greater than 1.5
percent and less than 2.5 percent. It will receive zero points if it
has a tenant accounts receivable ratio of equal to or greater than 2.5
percent.
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Tenant accounts receivable value Points
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<1.5 percent................................................. 5
>=1.5 percent but <2.5 percent............................... 2
>=2.5 percent................................................ 0
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Dated: April 5, 2011.
Sandra B. Henriquez,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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