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Control Number and should be sent to:
HUD Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503; fax: 202–395–5806. Email:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Washington, DC 20410; email
Colette Pollard at
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov or telephone
202–402–3400. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339. This is not a toll-free number.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD has
submitted to OMB a request for
approval of the information collection
described in Section A. The Federal
Register notice that solicited public
comment on the information collection
for a period of 60 days was published
on April 15, 2013.
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A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: OSHC
Progress Report Template.
OMB Approval Number: 2501–New.
Type of Request: New collection.
Form Number: None.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The
Appropriations Act, provided a total of
$100,000,000 to HUD for a Sustainable
Communities Initiative to improve
regional planning efforts that integrate
housing and transportation decisions,
and increase the capacity to improve
land use and zoning. Of that total,
$70,000,000 is available for the
Sustainable Communities Regional
Planning Grant Program, and
$30,000,000 is available for the
Community Challenge Planning Grant
Program. The Appropriations Act, 2010,
provided a total of $150 million in fiscal
year 2010 to HUD for a Sustainable
Communities Initiative to improve
regional planning efforts that integrate
housing and transportation decisions,
and increase the capacity to improve
land use and zoning. This information
collection is necessary to fulfill the
reporting requirements of HUD‘s
Sustainable Communities Initiative
(SCI) Planning Grant Programs, which
comprise of the Sustainable
Communities Regional Planning Grant
Program, the Community Challenge
Planning Grant Program, and the
Capacity Building for Sustainable
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Communities Grant Program. All grant
programs require progress reporting by
grantees on a semi-annual basis (i.e.
Twice per year: January 30th and July
30th). The grant program terms and
conditions require the grantee to submit
a semi-annual progress report which
reflects activities undertaken, obstacles
encountered and solutions achieved,
and accomplishments. Progress reports
that show progress of the program in
meeting approved work plan goals,
objectives are to be submitted.
Estimation of the total numbers of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents, frequency of response, and
hours of response: The total number of
annual burden hours is 226.5. The
number of respondents is 151, the
number of responses is 302, the
frequency of response is semi-annually
(6 months), and the burden hour per
response is 0.75 (45 minutes).
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) 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) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Ways to 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.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35.
Dated: June 25, 2013.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5683–N–53]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection:
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
(RESPA) Disclosures
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
HUD has submitted the
proposed information collection
requirement described below to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review, in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. The
purpose of this notice is to allow for an
additional 30 days of public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: July 31,
2013.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
HUD Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503; fax: 202–395–5806. Email:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW., Washington, DC 20410; email
Colette Pollard at
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov or telephone
202–402–3400. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339. This is not a toll-free number.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD has
submitted to OMB a request for
approval of the information collection
described in Section A. The Federal
Register notice that solicited public
comment on the information collection
for a period of 60 days was published
on April 24, 2013.
SUMMARY:
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Real
Estate Settlement Procedures Act
(RESPA) Disclosures.
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0265.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Form Number: HUD–1 and HUD–1A,
and GFE.
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Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The Real
Estate Settlement Procedures Act of
1974, (RESPA), 12 U.S.C. 2601 et. seq.,
and Regulation X, codified at 24 CFR
3500, require real estate settlement
service providers to give homebuyers
certain disclosure information at and
before settlement, and pursuant to the
servicing of the loan and escrow
account. This includes a Special
Information Booklet, a Good Faith
Estimate, a Servicing Disclosure
Statement, the Form HUD–1 or Form
HUD–1A, and when applicable an
Initial Escrow Account Statement, an
Annual Escrow Account Statement, a
Consumer Disclosure for Voluntary
Escrow Account Payments, an Affiliated
Business Arrangement Disclosure, and a
Servicing Transfer Disclosure.
Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street
Reform and Consumer Protection Act
(Dodd-Frank Act), rulemaking authority
for and certain enforcement authorities
with respect to the Real Estate
Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) of
1974, as amended by Section 461 of the
Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act
of 1983 (HURRA), and other various
amendments, transferred from the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) to the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on
July 21, 2011. The Dodd-Frank Act also
directed the CFPB to integrate certain
disclosures required by the Truth in
Lending Act (TILA) with certain
disclosures required by the Real Estate
Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) of
1974. The CFPB expects the content and
format of information collection forms
under this clearance, HUD’s existing
HUD–1/1A and GFE forms, to be
significantly revised or replaced by
rulemaking. The CFPB published
proposed rules in July and August of
2012 to that effect.
Historically, in order to satisfy
information collection requirements
under the Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA), the HUD–1/1A and GFE listed
HUD’s Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) control number, 2502–
0265. While the CFPB will be, upon
OMB approval of this information
collection request, the ‘‘owner’’ of this
information collection, the CFPB
believes that requiring covered persons
to modify existing forms solely to
replace HUD’s OMB control number
with the Bureau’s OMB control number
would impose substantial burden on
covered persons with limited or no net
benefit to consumers. Accordingly, the
CFPB has reached an agreement with
OMB and HUD whereby covered
persons may continue to list HUD’s
OMB control number on the HUD–1/1A
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and GFE forms until a final rule to the
contrary takes effect. Covered persons
also have the option of replacing HUD’s
OMB control number with the Bureau’s
OMB control number on the HUD–1/1A
and GFE forms until a final rule to the
contrary takes effect. Once the CFPB’s
final rule takes effect, regulated industry
will no longer be able to use the HUD
control number.
Estimation of the total numbers of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents, frequency of response, and
hours of response: The total number of
annual burden hours needed to prepare
the information is 17,183,450; the
number of respondents is estimated to
be 50,000 generating approximately
149,589,500 responses annually; these
are third party disclosures, the
frequency of response is annually for
one disclosure and as required for
others; and the estimated time per
response varies from 2 minutes to 35
minutes.
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) 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) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Ways to 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.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.
Date: June 25, 2013.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
[FWS–HQ–FHC–2013–N044;
FXFR13360900000–134–FF09F14000]
National Environmental Policy Act:
Implementing Procedures; Addition to
Categorical Exclusions for U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service
Department of the Interior.
Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
This notice announces a
proposed categorical exclusion under
the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. The proposed categorical
exclusion pertains to adding species to
the injurious wildlife list under the
Lacey Act. The addition of this
categorical exclusion to the Department
of the Interior’s Departmental Manual
will improve conservation activities by
making the NEPA process for listing
injurious species more efficient.
DATES: We will consider comments we
receive on or before July 31, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Comment submission: Send
comments to Susan Jewell, by one of the
following methods:
• U.S. mail or hand delivery: U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service; 4401 N.
Fairfax Drive, Suite 700, Arlington, VA
22203; or
• Email: prevent_invasives@fws.gov
(emails must have ‘‘Categorical
Exclusion’’ in the subject line).
Document availability: You may view
the Departmental Manual at https://
elips.doi.gov/elips/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Susan Jewell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive,
Arlington, VA 22203; telephone 703–
358–2416. If you use a
telecommunications device for the deaf,
please call the Federal Information
Relay Service at 800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
Under the National Environmental
Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.,
NEPA), Federal agencies are required to
consider the potential environmental
impact of agency actions prior to
implementation. Agencies are then
generally required to prepare either an
Environmental Assessment (EA) or an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
However, when a Federal agency
identifies classes of actions that under
normal circumstances do not have a
potentially significant environmental
impact, either individually or
cumulatively, Council on
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5683-N-53]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection:
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) Disclosures
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: HUD has submitted the proposed information collection
requirement described below to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. The
purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public
comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: July 31, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC
20503; fax: 202-395-5806. Email: OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th
Street SW., Washington, DC 20410; email Colette Pollard at
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov or telephone 202-402-3400. Persons with hearing
or speech impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the
toll-free Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. This is not a toll-
free number. Copies of available documents submitted to OMB may be
obtained from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD has
submitted to OMB a request for approval of the information collection
described in Section A. The Federal Register notice that solicited
public comment on the information collection for a period of 60 days
was published on April 24, 2013.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Real Estate Settlement Procedures
Act (RESPA) Disclosures.
OMB Approval Number: 2502-0265.
Type of Request: Extension without change of a currently approved
collection.
Form Number: HUD-1 and HUD-1A, and GFE.
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Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974, (RESPA), 12 U.S.C. 2601
et. seq., and Regulation X, codified at 24 CFR 3500, require real
estate settlement service providers to give homebuyers certain
disclosure information at and before settlement, and pursuant to the
servicing of the loan and escrow account. This includes a Special
Information Booklet, a Good Faith Estimate, a Servicing Disclosure
Statement, the Form HUD-1 or Form HUD-1A, and when applicable an
Initial Escrow Account Statement, an Annual Escrow Account Statement, a
Consumer Disclosure for Voluntary Escrow Account Payments, an
Affiliated Business Arrangement Disclosure, and a Servicing Transfer
Disclosure.
Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
(Dodd-Frank Act), rulemaking authority for and certain enforcement
authorities with respect to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
(RESPA) of 1974, as amended by Section 461 of the Housing and Urban-
Rural Recovery Act of 1983 (HURRA), and other various amendments,
transferred from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on July 21, 2011.
The Dodd-Frank Act also directed the CFPB to integrate certain
disclosures required by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) with certain
disclosures required by the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
(RESPA) of 1974. The CFPB expects the content and format of information
collection forms under this clearance, HUD's existing HUD-1/1A and GFE
forms, to be significantly revised or replaced by rulemaking. The CFPB
published proposed rules in July and August of 2012 to that effect.
Historically, in order to satisfy information collection
requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the HUD-1/1A and
GFE listed HUD's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number,
2502-0265. While the CFPB will be, upon OMB approval of this
information collection request, the ``owner'' of this information
collection, the CFPB believes that requiring covered persons to modify
existing forms solely to replace HUD's OMB control number with the
Bureau's OMB control number would impose substantial burden on covered
persons with limited or no net benefit to consumers. Accordingly, the
CFPB has reached an agreement with OMB and HUD whereby covered persons
may continue to list HUD's OMB control number on the HUD-1/1A and GFE
forms until a final rule to the contrary takes effect. Covered persons
also have the option of replacing HUD's OMB control number with the
Bureau's OMB control number on the HUD-1/1A and GFE forms until a final
rule to the contrary takes effect. Once the CFPB's final rule takes
effect, regulated industry will no longer be able to use the HUD
control number.
Estimation of the total numbers of hours needed to prepare the
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of
response, and hours of response: The total number of annual burden
hours needed to prepare the information is 17,183,450; the number of
respondents is estimated to be 50,000 generating approximately
149,589,500 responses annually; these are third party disclosures, the
frequency of response is annually for one disclosure and as required
for others; and the estimated time per response varies from 2 minutes
to 35 minutes.
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and
affected parties concerning the collection of information described in
Section A on the following:
(1) 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) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(4) Ways to 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.
HUD encourages interested parties to submit comment in response to
these questions.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.
Date: June 25, 2013.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-15690 Filed 6-28-13; 8:45 am]
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