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Comments Due Date: March 3,
2014.
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 November 4, 2013.
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ADDRESSES:
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Multifamily Project Monthly
Accounting Reports
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0108.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Form Number: HUD–93479, HUD–
93480, and HUD–9348.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: This
information is necessary for HUD to
monitor compliance with contractual
agreements and to analyze cash flow
trends as well as occupancy and rent
collection levels.
Respondents (i.e. affected public):
Business and Other for profit.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
13,646.
Estimated Number of Responses:
491,256.
Frequency of Response: Monthly.
Average Hours per Response: 3.5
hours.
Total Estimated Burdens: 573,132.
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:
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(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. Chapters
35.
Dated: January 23, 2014.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket Number FR–5752–N–11]
30-Day Notice of Information
Collection: Comprehensive Listing of
Transactional Documents for
Mortgagors, Mortgagees and
Contractors
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
On March 14, 2013, HUD
published in the Federal Register a
notice that announced that FHA’s
healthcare facility documents
completed the notice and comment
processes under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), and had
been assigned a control number, 2502–
0605, by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). The assignment of a
control number concluded a 10-month
process through which HUD solicited
public comment to update 115
healthcare facility documents to reflect
current policy and practices, to improve
accountability by all parties involved in
FHA’s healthcare facility transactions
and strengthen risk management.
On September 10, 2013, published a
notice in the Federal Register that
solicited, for a period of 60 days, public
comment on this collection solely on
the issue of which healthcare facility
documents are eligible for electronic
SUMMARY:
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submission. HUD did not address this
issue as part of the previous notice and
comment process, but recognized the
importance, efficiency, and reduction of
burden that electronic submission of
documents can achieve, and solicited
public comment on the healthcare
facility documents that HUD had
determined may be submitted, but are
not required to be submitted,
electronically.
The purpose of this notice is to allow
for an additional 30 days of public
comment.
DATES:
Comment Due Date: March 3,
2014.
Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this notice. Communications must refer
to the above docket number and title.
There are two methods for submitting
public comments:
1. Submission of Comments by Mail.
Comments may be submitted by mail to
the Regulations Division, Office of
General Counsel, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451
7th Street, SW., Room 10276,
Washington, DC 20410–0500.
2. Electronic Submission of
Comments. Comments may be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly
encourages commenters to submit
comments electronically. Electronic
submission of comments allows the
commenter maximum time to prepare
and submit a comment, ensures timely
receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to
make them immediately available to the
public. Comments submitted
electronically through the
www.regulations.gov Web site can be
viewed by other commenters and
interested members of the public.
Commenters should follow the
instructions provided on that site to
submit comments electronically.
ADDRESSES:
Note: To receive consideration as public
comments, comments must be submitted
through one of the two methods specified
above. Again, all submissions must refer to
the docket number and title of the notice.
No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile
(fax) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public
Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications will be
available for public inspection and
downloading at www.regulations.gov
under the docket number for this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
M. Hartung, Director, Policy and Risk
Management Division, Office of
Residential Care Facilities, Office of
Healthcare Programs, Office of Housing,
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 1222 Spruce Street, Room
3.203, St. Louis, MO 63103–2836;
telephone (314) 418–5238 (this is not a
toll-free number). Persons with hearing
or speech disabilities may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background
A. 2012 PRA Process on Substance of
Healthcare Facility Documents
On May 3, 2012, at 77 FR 26304, and
consistent with the PRA, HUD
published a notice in the Federal
Register seeking public comment for a
period of 60 days (60-day Notice) on
HUD’s proposed update and revisions to
a set of production, underwriting, asset
management, closing, and other
documents used in connection with
transactions involving healthcare
facilities, excluding hospitals
(collectively, the healthcare facility
documents), that are insured pursuant
to section 232 of the National Housing
Act (Section 232). In conjunction with
publication of the 60-day Notice, the
proposed revised healthcare facility
documents (115 documents) were made
available at: www.hud.gov/232forms. In
addition to presenting unmarked
versions of the documents, this Web
site, to the extent applicable, presented
the proposed healthcare facility
documents as a redline/strikeout against
the updated multifamily rental project
closing documents to highlight the
changes made to facilitate a healthcare
transaction. Where the proposed
healthcare facility documents were
based on existing healthcare facility
documents, the proposed healthcare
facility documents, in addition to being
presented in an unmarked format, were
presented in redline/strikeout format so
that reviewers could see the changes
proposed to the existing healthcare
facility documents.1
As a special outreach to the public on
proposed changes to the healthcare
facility documents and Section 232
program regulations, HUD hosted a
forum on May 31, 2012, in Washington,
DC. (See https://portal.hud.gov/
hudportal/HUD?src=/press/multimedia/
videos.) While comments were raised
and discussed at the forum, HUD
encouraged forum participants to file
written comments through the
www.regulations.gov Web site so that all
comments would be more easily
1 Along with the 60-day Notice, HUD published
in the Federal Register on May 3, 2012, at 77 FR
26218, a proposed rule that proposed to strengthen
regulations for HUD’s Section 232 program to
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accessible to interested parties. All
comments, whether submitted through
www.regulations.gov or raised at the
forum, were considered in the
development of the revised documents
which were published on November 21,
2012 (77 FR 69870), and for which,
consistent with the PRA, comment was
solicited for an additional 30 days (30day Notice).
In the 30-day Notice, HUD identified
substantive changes that were made to
the healthcare facility documents in
response to public comments submitted
on the 60-day Notice, responded to
significant issues raised by the
commenters, and identified proposed
additional changes based on further
consideration of certain issues. As was
the case with the 60- day Notice, HUD
posted on its Web site the further
revised healthcare facility documents in
(1) a clean format, and (2) in redline/
strikeout format, to show the changes
made from the versions posted with
issuance of the 60-day Notice.
On March 14, 2013, at 78 FR 16279,
HUD published in the Federal Register
a notice that announced the approval of
the healthcare facility documents under
the PRA and the assignment of a control
number, 2502–0605, by OMB. In
addition to announcing the assignment
of an OMB control number, HUD
advised in the May 14, 2013, notice that
additional changes were made to the
healthcare facility documents in
response to comments submitted on the
30-day Notice. In the March 14, 2013,
notice, HUD highlighted additional
changes made to the healthcare facility
documents, and once again, provided on
HUD’s Web site at www.hud.gov/
232forms, the final versions of the
documents in clean and redline/
strikeout formats so that reviewers
could see the final changes made to the
documents and the clean final versions
of the documents.
B. 2013 PRA Process on Eligibility of
Electronic Submission
On September 10, 2013, at 78 FR
55282, HUD published in the Federal
Register a notice solely seeking
comment on the issue of which
healthcare facility documents may be
submitted electronically. Questions
arose on this issue after conclusion of
the 2012 PRA process. Because of the
considerable comment solicited and
received during the 2012 PRA process
on the substance of the documents, and
which just concluded in March 2013,
reflect current policy and practices, and to improve
accountability and strengthen risk management. A
final rule following the May 3, 2012, proposed rule,
and taking into consideration public comment
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the September 30, 2013, notice did not
seek further comment on the provisions
of the documents and the estimate of
burden.
In the September 30, 2013, notice,
HUD advised that consistent with
current practice, HUD requires
applications for mortgage insurance to
be submitted electronically, and that
therefore any healthcare facility
documents submitted as part of an
application for mortgage insurance must
be submitted electronically. Of the other
healthcare facility documents, HUD
identified 13 documents that must be
submitted with original signatures, in
hard copy format. These documents are
the following: Healthcare Regulatory
Agreement—Borrower (HUD–92466–
ORCF); Healthcare Regulatory
Agreement—Operator (HUD–92466A–
ORCF); Management Certification—
Residential Care Facility (HUD–9839–
ORCF); Lender Certification (HUD–
92434–ORCF); Offsite Bond— Dual
Obligee (HUD–92479–ORCF);
Performance Bond—Dual Obligee
(HUD–92452–ORCF); Payment Bond
(HUD–92452A–ORCF); Request for
Endorsement (HUD–92455–ORCF);
Request for Final Endorsement (HUD–
92023–ORCF); Guide for Opinion for
Mater Tenant’s Counsel (HUD–92335–
ORCF); Healthcare Regulatory
Agreement—Master Tenant (HUD–
92337–ORCF); Guide for Opinion of
Borrower’s Counsel (HUD–91725–
ORCF); and Guide for Opinion of
Operator’s Counsel and Certification
(HUD–92325–ORCF). For any of the
remaining healthcare facility documents
other than the application documents or
the listed 13 documents, the September
30, 2013, notice advised that HUD
neither requires nor prohibits that any
of the remaining documents be
submitted electronically. Electronic
submission is an option.
In the 2012 PRA process, HUD’s 30day Notice, HUD listed in a table all the
documents for which approval under
the PRA was sought and provided the
burden hours and costs calculated for
preparation of and submission of each
of documents and provided a total
aggregate annual cost of $4,393,301.
(See 77FR 69887–69889).
In the September 30, 2013, notice,
HUD included the table below, which
provides a breakdown of the estimated
costs involved in hard copy preparation
and shipping, and estimates a $450,000
annual savings in costs if documents are
received on the proposed rule, was published on
September 7, 2012, at 77 FR 55120.
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submitted electronically rather than in
hard copy.
Cost per Item
Printing by Lender ......................................................................
Lender Box Preparation .............................................................
Shipping by Lender to HUD in Field ..........................................
HUD processing preparation (Field and HQ) .............................
Shipping by HUD Field to HQ ....................................................
1,500 pages at $.04 per page ....................................................
50 per hour and two hours per box ...........................................
1—40 lb. box ..............................................................................
50 per hour and 1 hour per box .................................................
1—40 lb. box ..............................................................................
$60.00
100.00
20.00
50.00
20.00
Total .....................................................................................
.....................................................................................................
$250.00 per
box
Estimated # Boxes per project ...................................................
Estimated # of projects per year ................................................
3 ..................................................................................................
600 ..............................................................................................
........................
........................
Total Annual Costs ..............................................................
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Item
(# of boxes x # of projects x cost per box) ................................
$450,000.00
Therefore, in accordance with 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1), HUD is soliciting, for an
additional 30 days, comments from
members of the public and interested
parties on:
(1) Whether the documents identified
by HUD for originally signed, hard copy
submission are necessary in such format
for proper performance of the
transactions in which the documents are
used;
(2) Whether any of the documents not
identified as necessary for originally
signed, hard copy submission should be
submitted only in originally signed,
hard copy;
(3) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the reduced burden and
reduced costs for submission of
documents electronically;
(4) Whether electronic submission of
application documents enhances the
utility and efficiency of the transactions
in which the documents are used;
(5) Whether electronic submission of
other documents enhances the utility
and efficiency of the transactions in
which the documents are used; and
(6) Additional ways, through
information technology, to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond.
Comments must be received by March
3, 2014. Comments must refer to the
proposal by name and docket number
(FR–5623–N–05) and may be sent to the
www.regulations.gov portal provided
under the ADDRESSES section of this
notice or to: HUD Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503, Fax number: (202) 395–6947.
Dated: January 28, 2014.
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–5750–N–05]
Federal Property Suitable as Facilities
to Assist the Homeless
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This Notice identifies
unutilized, underutilized, excess, and
surplus Federal property reviewed by
HUD for suitability for use to assist the
homeless.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Juanita Perry, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 Seventh
Street SW., Room 7266, Washington, DC
20410; telephone (202) 402–3970; TTY
number for the hearing- and speechimpaired (202) 708–2565 (these
telephone numbers are not toll-free), or
call the toll-free Title V information line
at 800–927–7588.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with 24 CFR part 581 and
section 501 of the Stewart B. McKinney
Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
11411), as amended, HUD is publishing
this Notice to identify Federal buildings
and other real property that HUD has
reviewed for suitability for use to assist
the homeless. The properties were
reviewed using information provided to
HUD by Federal landholding agencies
regarding unutilized and underutilized
buildings and real property controlled
by such agencies or by GSA regarding
its inventory of excess or surplus
Federal property. This Notice is also
published in order to comply with the
December 12, 1988 Court Order in
National Coalition for the Homeless v.
Veterans Administration, No. 88–2503–
OG (D.D.C.).
Properties reviewed are listed in this
Notice according to the following
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categories: Suitable/available, suitable/
unavailable, and suitable/to be excess,
and unsuitable. The properties listed in
the three suitable categories have been
reviewed by the landholding agencies,
and each agency has transmitted to
HUD: (1) Its intention to make the
property available for use to assist the
homeless, (2) its intention to declare the
property excess to the agency’s needs, or
(3) a statement of the reasons that the
property cannot be declared excess or
made available for use as facilities to
assist the homeless.
Properties listed as suitable/available
will be available exclusively for
homeless use for a period of 60 days
from the date of this Notice. Where
property is described as for ‘‘off-site use
only’’ recipients of the property will be
required to relocate the building to their
own site at their own expense.
Homeless assistance providers
interested in any such property should
send a written expression of interest to
HHS, addressed to Theresa Ritta, Office
of Enterprise Support Programs,
Program Support Center, HHS, room
12–07, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
MD 20857; (301) 443–2265. (This is not
a toll-free number.) HHS will mail to the
interested provider an application
packet, which will include instructions
for completing the application. In order
to maximize the opportunity to utilize a
suitable property, providers should
submit their written expressions of
interest as soon as possible. For
complete details concerning the
processing of applications, the reader is
encouraged to refer to the interim rule
governing this program, 24 CFR part
581.
For properties listed as suitable/to be
excess, that property may, if
subsequently accepted as excess by
GSA, be made available for use by the
homeless in accordance with applicable
law, subject to screening for other
Federal use. At the appropriate time,
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket Number FR-5752-N-11]
30-Day Notice of Information Collection: Comprehensive Listing of
Transactional Documents for Mortgagors, Mortgagees and Contractors
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: On March 14, 2013, HUD published in the Federal Register a
notice that announced that FHA's healthcare facility documents
completed the notice and comment processes under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), and had been assigned a control number,
2502-0605, by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The assignment
of a control number concluded a 10-month process through which HUD
solicited public comment to update 115 healthcare facility documents to
reflect current policy and practices, to improve accountability by all
parties involved in FHA's healthcare facility transactions and
strengthen risk management.
On September 10, 2013, published a notice in the Federal Register
that solicited, for a period of 60 days, public comment on this
collection solely on the issue of which healthcare facility documents
are eligible for electronic submission. HUD did not address this issue
as part of the previous notice and comment process, but recognized the
importance, efficiency, and reduction of burden that electronic
submission of documents can achieve, and solicited public comment on
the healthcare facility documents that HUD had determined may be
submitted, but are not required to be submitted, electronically.
The purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of
public comment.
DATES: Comment Due Date: March 3, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this notice. Communications must refer to the above docket number and
title. There are two methods for submitting public comments:
1. Submission of Comments by Mail. Comments may be submitted by
mail to the Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel, Department
of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 10276,
Washington, DC 20410-0500.
2. Electronic Submission of Comments. Comments may be submitted
electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly encourages commenters to submit
comments electronically. Electronic submission of comments allows the
commenter maximum time to prepare and submit a comment, ensures timely
receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to make them immediately available to
the public. Comments submitted electronically through the
www.regulations.gov Web site can be viewed by other commenters and
interested members of the public. Commenters should follow the
instructions provided on that site to submit comments electronically.
Note: To receive consideration as public comments, comments must
be submitted through one of the two methods specified above. Again,
all submissions must refer to the docket number and title of the
notice.
No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile (fax) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications will be available for public inspection and
downloading at www.regulations.gov under the docket number for this
notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John M. Hartung, Director, Policy and
Risk Management Division, Office of Residential Care Facilities, Office
of Healthcare Programs, Office of Housing,
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1222 Spruce Street,
Room 3.203, St. Louis, MO 63103-2836; telephone (314) 418-5238 (this is
not a toll-free number). Persons with hearing or speech disabilities
may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal
Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
A. 2012 PRA Process on Substance of Healthcare Facility Documents
On May 3, 2012, at 77 FR 26304, and consistent with the PRA, HUD
published a notice in the Federal Register seeking public comment for a
period of 60 days (60-day Notice) on HUD's proposed update and
revisions to a set of production, underwriting, asset management,
closing, and other documents used in connection with transactions
involving healthcare facilities, excluding hospitals (collectively, the
healthcare facility documents), that are insured pursuant to section
232 of the National Housing Act (Section 232). In conjunction with
publication of the 60-day Notice, the proposed revised healthcare
facility documents (115 documents) were made available at: www.hud.gov/232forms. In addition to presenting unmarked versions of the documents,
this Web site, to the extent applicable, presented the proposed
healthcare facility documents as a redline/strikeout against the
updated multifamily rental project closing documents to highlight the
changes made to facilitate a healthcare transaction. Where the proposed
healthcare facility documents were based on existing healthcare
facility documents, the proposed healthcare facility documents, in
addition to being presented in an unmarked format, were presented in
redline/strikeout format so that reviewers could see the changes
proposed to the existing healthcare facility documents.\1\
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\1\ Along with the 60-day Notice, HUD published in the Federal
Register on May 3, 2012, at 77 FR 26218, a proposed rule that
proposed to strengthen regulations for HUD's Section 232 program to
reflect current policy and practices, and to improve accountability
and strengthen risk management. A final rule following the May 3,
2012, proposed rule, and taking into consideration public comment
received on the proposed rule, was published on September 7, 2012,
at 77 FR 55120.
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As a special outreach to the public on proposed changes to the
healthcare facility documents and Section 232 program regulations, HUD
hosted a forum on May 31, 2012, in Washington, DC. (See https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/multimedia/videos.) While
comments were raised and discussed at the forum, HUD encouraged forum
participants to file written comments through the www.regulations.gov
Web site so that all comments would be more easily accessible to
interested parties. All comments, whether submitted through
www.regulations.gov or raised at the forum, were considered in the
development of the revised documents which were published on November
21, 2012 (77 FR 69870), and for which, consistent with the PRA, comment
was solicited for an additional 30 days (30-day Notice).
In the 30-day Notice, HUD identified substantive changes that were
made to the healthcare facility documents in response to public
comments submitted on the 60-day Notice, responded to significant
issues raised by the commenters, and identified proposed additional
changes based on further consideration of certain issues. As was the
case with the 60- day Notice, HUD posted on its Web site the further
revised healthcare facility documents in (1) a clean format, and (2) in
redline/strikeout format, to show the changes made from the versions
posted with issuance of the 60-day Notice.
On March 14, 2013, at 78 FR 16279, HUD published in the Federal
Register a notice that announced the approval of the healthcare
facility documents under the PRA and the assignment of a control
number, 2502-0605, by OMB. In addition to announcing the assignment of
an OMB control number, HUD advised in the May 14, 2013, notice that
additional changes were made to the healthcare facility documents in
response to comments submitted on the 30-day Notice. In the March 14,
2013, notice, HUD highlighted additional changes made to the healthcare
facility documents, and once again, provided on HUD's Web site at
www.hud.gov/232forms, the final versions of the documents in clean and
redline/strikeout formats so that reviewers could see the final changes
made to the documents and the clean final versions of the documents.
B. 2013 PRA Process on Eligibility of Electronic Submission
On September 10, 2013, at 78 FR 55282, HUD published in the Federal
Register a notice solely seeking comment on the issue of which
healthcare facility documents may be submitted electronically.
Questions arose on this issue after conclusion of the 2012 PRA process.
Because of the considerable comment solicited and received during the
2012 PRA process on the substance of the documents, and which just
concluded in March 2013, the September 30, 2013, notice did not seek
further comment on the provisions of the documents and the estimate of
burden.
In the September 30, 2013, notice, HUD advised that consistent with
current practice, HUD requires applications for mortgage insurance to
be submitted electronically, and that therefore any healthcare facility
documents submitted as part of an application for mortgage insurance
must be submitted electronically. Of the other healthcare facility
documents, HUD identified 13 documents that must be submitted with
original signatures, in hard copy format. These documents are the
following: Healthcare Regulatory Agreement--Borrower (HUD-92466-ORCF);
Healthcare Regulatory Agreement--Operator (HUD-92466A-ORCF); Management
Certification--Residential Care Facility (HUD-9839-ORCF); Lender
Certification (HUD-92434-ORCF); Offsite Bond-- Dual Obligee (HUD-92479-
ORCF); Performance Bond--Dual Obligee (HUD-92452-ORCF); Payment Bond
(HUD-92452A-ORCF); Request for Endorsement (HUD-92455-ORCF); Request
for Final Endorsement (HUD-92023-ORCF); Guide for Opinion for Mater
Tenant's Counsel (HUD-92335-ORCF); Healthcare Regulatory Agreement--
Master Tenant (HUD-92337-ORCF); Guide for Opinion of Borrower's Counsel
(HUD-91725-ORCF); and Guide for Opinion of Operator's Counsel and
Certification (HUD-92325-ORCF). For any of the remaining healthcare
facility documents other than the application documents or the listed
13 documents, the September 30, 2013, notice advised that HUD neither
requires nor prohibits that any of the remaining documents be submitted
electronically. Electronic submission is an option.
In the 2012 PRA process, HUD's 30-day Notice, HUD listed in a table
all the documents for which approval under the PRA was sought and
provided the burden hours and costs calculated for preparation of and
submission of each of documents and provided a total aggregate annual
cost of $4,393,301. (See 77FR 69887-69889).
In the September 30, 2013, notice, HUD included the table below,
which provides a breakdown of the estimated costs involved in hard copy
preparation and shipping, and estimates a $450,000 annual savings in
costs if documents are
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submitted electronically rather than in hard copy.
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Item Cost per Item Costs
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Printing by Lender................ 1,500 pages at $.04 $60.00
per page.
Lender Box Preparation............ 50 per hour and two 100.00
hours per box.
Shipping by Lender to HUD in Field 1--40 lb. box....... 20.00
HUD processing preparation (Field 50 per hour and 1 50.00
and HQ). hour per box.
Shipping by HUD Field to HQ....... 1--40 lb. box....... 20.00
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Total......................... .................... $250.00 per
box
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Estimated Boxes per 3................... ..............
project.
Estimated of projects 600................. ..............
per year.
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Total Annual Costs............ ( of boxes $450,000.00
x of
projects x cost per
box).
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Therefore, in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), HUD is
soliciting, for an additional 30 days, comments from members of the
public and interested parties on:
(1) Whether the documents identified by HUD for originally signed,
hard copy submission are necessary in such format for proper
performance of the transactions in which the documents are used;
(2) Whether any of the documents not identified as necessary for
originally signed, hard copy submission should be submitted only in
originally signed, hard copy;
(3) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the reduced burden and
reduced costs for submission of documents electronically;
(4) Whether electronic submission of application documents enhances
the utility and efficiency of the transactions in which the documents
are used;
(5) Whether electronic submission of other documents enhances the
utility and efficiency of the transactions in which the documents are
used; and
(6) Additional ways, through information technology, to minimize
the burden of the collection of information on those who are to
respond.
Comments must be received by March 3, 2014. Comments must refer to
the proposal by name and docket number (FR-5623-N-05) and may be sent
to the www.regulations.gov portal provided under the ADDRESSES section
of this notice or to: HUD Desk Officer, Office of Management and
Budget, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, Fax
number: (202) 395-6947.
Dated: January 28, 2014.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-02060 Filed 1-30-14; 8:45 am]
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