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information collection for a period of 60
days was published on October 17, 2018
at 83 FR 52503.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Report
of Additional Classification and Rate.
OMB Approval Number: 2501–0011.
Type of Request: Reinstatement
without change of a previously
approved collection.
Information collection
Number of
respondents
4750 .............................
4751 .............................
4752 .............................
Frequency of
response
1381.00
1133.00
1133.00
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.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Dated: December 21, 2018.
Anna P. Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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Responses
per bi-annum
2.00
2.00
2.00
Note: HUD now requires this information
every 2 years and the table reflects this
change.
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Form Number: HUD Form 4750, HUD
Form 4751, HUD Form 4752.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The
information is used by HUD and
agencies administering HUD programs
to collect information from laborers and
mechanics employed on projects
subjected to the Federal Labor
Standards provisions. The information
collected is compared to information
Total burden
hours per
response
2,762.00
2,266.00
2,266.00
1.00
4,532.00
2,266.00
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7001–N–63]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: HUD Technical Assistance
Assessment
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
HUD is seeking approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for the information collection
described below. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is
requesting comment from all interested
parties on the proposed collection of
information. The purpose of this notice
is to allow for 30 days of public
comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: March 13,
2019.
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:
Anna P. Guido, Reports Management
Officer, QMAC, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email Anna
P. Guido at Anna.P.Guido@hud.gov or
telephone 202–402–5535. This is not a
toll-free number. Person with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339. Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Guido.
SUMMARY:
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submitted by the respective employer
on certified payroll reports. The
comparison tests the accuracy of the
employer’s payroll data and may
disclose violations. Generally, these
activities are geared to the respondent’s
benefit that is to determine whether the
respondent was underpaid and to
ensure the payment of wage restitution
to the respondent.
Bi-Annual
burden hours
2,762.00
3.00
1.00
Hourly cost
per response
$36.24
$36.24
$36.24
Total cost
$100,094.88
$13,596.00
$82,119.84
This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for 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 September 27,
2018 at 83 FR 48859.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: HUD
Technical Assistance Assessment.
OMB Approval Number: 2528—New.
Type of Request: News.
Form Number: No forms.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: HUD is
conducting this study under cooperative
agreement with the Urban Institute to
assess its Technical Assistance (TA)
programs under the Community
Compass structure. HUD TA enables
housing and community development
providers to be more effective stewards
of HUD funding by equipping them with
the knowledge, skills and tools to better
manage HUD programs. TA is provided
by TA providers funded by HUD and
includes tools and product
development, help desk support, on-call
TA, direct TA and capacity building,
and needs assessments, among other
types.
Recipients of TA include State and
local governments, Tribes, TriballyDesignated Housing Agencies, Public
Housing Authorities (PHAs),
participating jurisdictions, housing
counseling agencies, multifamily
owners/operators, nonprofit
organizations, and Continuums of Care
(CoCs). In 2002, the GAO evaluated
HUD’s existing TA programs, and
recommended that HUD streamline and
coordinate its TA programs and request
its TA providers to establish
performance measures and report on
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their intended outputs and outcomes.
Since then, HUD has made significant
changes to the structure,
implementation, and data systems used
in administering its TA programs.
Beginning with the Fiscal Year (FY)
2010 Technical Assistance and Capacity
Building NOFA issued by the Office of
Community Development and Planning,
and the announcement of the OneCPD
Integrated Practitioner Assistance
System, the ‘‘Transformation Initiative’’,
HUD began to shift from a more siloed
program-specific approach to TA to a
more coordinated funding and
collaborative TA processes across
programs. Changes continued with the
integration of Office of Public and
Indian Housing TA programs in FY
2013 through OneCPD+ and finally in
FY 2014 with the addition of two more
TA funding streams to form Community
Compass. Now there is a unified NOFA
process for all programs included in
Community Compass, along with data
and coordination improvements, and
streamlined online assistance and
resource pages. This will be the first
assessment of these and other changes
made to HUD TA in response to GAO
recommendations. This project helps fill
the gap in understanding HUD’s TA
delivery system since Community
Compass began in FY 2014. The Urban
Institute is conducting an assessment
focused on answering three research
questions: (1) What TA does HUD
provide, (2) how does HUD provide TA,
and (3) how effective is HUD TA? To
answer these three questions, this study
will include in-depth interviews with
TA providers and TA customers to
supplement interviews completed
during the design of the research.
TA providers play a central role in
navigating the Community Compass
process and implementing TA activities.
To gain insights into how providers
engage in TA through Community
Compass, we plan to conduct 5 group
interviews that will target front-line TA
staff and subcontractors that deliver the
TA. This project will also interview
customers receiving TA under the
Community Compass. To better
understand the customer experience, we
will conduct interviews with key staff at
organizations that received TA. Out of
these interviews, the Urban Institute
will create a final report to HUD on the
answers to the above research questions.
The findings in the final report will
inform HUD’s future delivery of TA
under the Community Compass
structure.
Respondents: The interviews will
involve the following total numbers of
respondents by type: 40 TA provider
directors and managers and 25 TA
customer chief executives.
Estimation of total number of hours
needed to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents, frequency of response,
hours of response, and cost of response
time: Based on the below assumptions
and tables, we calculate the total burden
hours for this study to be 130 hours and
the total cost to be $8,267.10.
Whereas the interviewees from the TA
providers will be program-level
directors and managers responsible for
general program operations, including
formulating and implementing policies,
managing daily operations and planning
and executing the use of program
resources, we estimated their cost per
interview using the most recent (May
2017) Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Occupational Employment Statistics
median hourly wage for the labor
category General and Operations
Managers (11–1021): $48.27.
Whereas the interviewees from TA
customers are most likely to be directors
of their agency or organization which
receives and manages HUD funds and
seeks TA from HUD to improve their
work, we estimated their cost per
interview using the most recent (May
2017) Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Occupational Employment Statistics
median hourly wage for the labor
category Chief Executives (11–1011):
$88.11.
Respondent
Occupation
SOC Code
TA Provider ...................................................................
TA Customer ................................................................
General and Operations Managers ..............................
Chief Executives ...........................................................
Median
hourly wage
rate
11–1021
11–1011
$48.27
$88.11
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics (May 2017), https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.
The table below reflects all
assumptions about respondent numbers
and frequency, burden hour estimates
for scheduling and participating in the
data collection interview, and cost.
Number of
respondents
Respondent
Response
frequency
Burden hours
per response
Annual
burden hours
Hourly cost
per response
Total cost
TA Provider ..............................................
TA Customer ............................................
40
25
1
1
2
2
80
50
$48.27
88.11
$3,861.60
$4,405.50
Total ..................................................
65
1
—
130
—
$8,267.10
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;
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(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
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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.
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Dated: December 21, 2018.
Anna P. Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
HUD 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 30 days of
public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: March 13,
2019.
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, QMAC, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov, or telephone
202–402–3400. This is not a toll-free
number. Person with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for 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 September 27,
2018 at 83 FR 48861.
OMB Approved Number: 2502–0028.
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with
change.
Form Number: HUD–92448.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: Form
HUD–92448 is used by Contractors to
request insured mortgage proceeds for
construction costs. The information
regarding completed work items is used
by the Multifamily Hub Centers to
ensure that payments from mortgage
proceeds are made for work completed
in a satisfactory manner. The work must
be inspected and approved by a HUD
Field Office inspector and an architect
not employed by HUD. To ensure
compliance with prevailing wage rates,
the Field Office uses the certification on
form HUD–92448 regarding prevailing
wages. If the collection of information
was not conducted, disbursement of
mortgage proceeds and compliance with
prevailing wage rates could not be
monitored. 29 CFR part 3.3 requires the
contractor to submit an executed
document certifying adherence to
requirements of the Davis Bacon and
Related Acts (DBRA) and the Copeland
‘‘Anti-Kickback’’ Act regarding wages
paid to employees. The form is
completed by the contractor and
approved by the project architect and a
HUD Field Office inspector and must be
signed. The contractor submits the
completed form to HUD for review and
determination of acceptability/
unacceptability. Section 207(b) of the
National Housing Act (Pub. L. 479, 48
Stat. 1246, 12 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)
authorizes the Secretary of the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) to insure mortgages
(including advances on such mortgages
during construction) for construction of
rental housing projects. Section 212 of
the National Housing Act prevents the
Secretary of HUD from insuring a
project unless the principal contractor
files a prevailing wage certificate. The
requirements are set forth in 24 CFR
200.33, Labor Standards, for the
insurance of advances and certification
of compliance with labor standards and
prevailing wage requirements.
Respondents: Business or other for
profit.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
213.
Estimated Number of Responses:
2,556.
Frequency of Response: 12.
Average Hours per Response: 6.
Total Estimated Burdens: 15,336.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Contractor’s Requisition-Project
Mortgages.
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
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[Docket No. FR–7001–N–67]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Contractor’s RequisitionProject Mortgages
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY:
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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.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
Dated: December 21, 2018.
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–7001–N–66]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Certification of
Consistency With Promise Zone Goals
and Implementation
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
HUD is seeking approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for the information collection
described below. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is
requesting comment from all interested
parties on the proposed collection of
information. The purpose of this notice
is to allow for 30 days of public
comment.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
Comments Due Date: March 13,
2019.
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
ADDRESSES:
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-7001-N-63]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: HUD Technical
Assistance Assessment
AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment
from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information.
The purpose of this notice is to allow for 30 days of public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: March 13, 2019.
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: Anna P. Guido, Reports Management
Officer, QMAC, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th
Street SW, Washington, DC 20410; email Anna P. Guido at
Anna.P.Guido@hud.gov or telephone 202-402-5535. This is not a toll-free
number. Person with hearing or speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service at
(800) 877-8339. Copies of available documents submitted to OMB may be
obtained from Ms. Guido.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for 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
September 27, 2018 at 83 FR 48859.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: HUD Technical Assistance
Assessment.
OMB Approval Number: 2528--New.
Type of Request: News.
Form Number: No forms.
Description of the need for the information and proposed use: HUD
is conducting this study under cooperative agreement with the Urban
Institute to assess its Technical Assistance (TA) programs under the
Community Compass structure. HUD TA enables housing and community
development providers to be more effective stewards of HUD funding by
equipping them with the knowledge, skills and tools to better manage
HUD programs. TA is provided by TA providers funded by HUD and includes
tools and product development, help desk support, on-call TA, direct TA
and capacity building, and needs assessments, among other types.
Recipients of TA include State and local governments, Tribes,
Tribally-Designated Housing Agencies, Public Housing Authorities
(PHAs), participating jurisdictions, housing counseling agencies,
multifamily owners/operators, nonprofit organizations, and Continuums
of Care (CoCs). In 2002, the GAO evaluated HUD's existing TA programs,
and recommended that HUD streamline and coordinate its TA programs and
request its TA providers to establish performance measures and report
on
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their intended outputs and outcomes. Since then, HUD has made
significant changes to the structure, implementation, and data systems
used in administering its TA programs. Beginning with the Fiscal Year
(FY) 2010 Technical Assistance and Capacity Building NOFA issued by the
Office of Community Development and Planning, and the announcement of
the OneCPD Integrated Practitioner Assistance System, the
``Transformation Initiative'', HUD began to shift from a more siloed
program-specific approach to TA to a more coordinated funding and
collaborative TA processes across programs. Changes continued with the
integration of Office of Public and Indian Housing TA programs in FY
2013 through OneCPD+ and finally in FY 2014 with the addition of two
more TA funding streams to form Community Compass. Now there is a
unified NOFA process for all programs included in Community Compass,
along with data and coordination improvements, and streamlined online
assistance and resource pages. This will be the first assessment of
these and other changes made to HUD TA in response to GAO
recommendations. This project helps fill the gap in understanding HUD's
TA delivery system since Community Compass began in FY 2014. The Urban
Institute is conducting an assessment focused on answering three
research questions: (1) What TA does HUD provide, (2) how does HUD
provide TA, and (3) how effective is HUD TA? To answer these three
questions, this study will include in-depth interviews with TA
providers and TA customers to supplement interviews completed during
the design of the research.
TA providers play a central role in navigating the Community
Compass process and implementing TA activities. To gain insights into
how providers engage in TA through Community Compass, we plan to
conduct 5 group interviews that will target front-line TA staff and
subcontractors that deliver the TA. This project will also interview
customers receiving TA under the Community Compass. To better
understand the customer experience, we will conduct interviews with key
staff at organizations that received TA. Out of these interviews, the
Urban Institute will create a final report to HUD on the answers to the
above research questions. The findings in the final report will inform
HUD's future delivery of TA under the Community Compass structure.
Respondents: The interviews will involve the following total
numbers of respondents by type: 40 TA provider directors and managers
and 25 TA customer chief executives.
Estimation of total number of hours needed to prepare the
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of
response, hours of response, and cost of response time: Based on the
below assumptions and tables, we calculate the total burden hours for
this study to be 130 hours and the total cost to be $8,267.10.
Whereas the interviewees from the TA providers will be program-
level directors and managers responsible for general program
operations, including formulating and implementing policies, managing
daily operations and planning and executing the use of program
resources, we estimated their cost per interview using the most recent
(May 2017) Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment
Statistics median hourly wage for the labor category General and
Operations Managers (11-1021): $48.27.
Whereas the interviewees from TA customers are most likely to be
directors of their agency or organization which receives and manages
HUD funds and seeks TA from HUD to improve their work, we estimated
their cost per interview using the most recent (May 2017) Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics median hourly wage
for the labor category Chief Executives (11-1011): $88.11.
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Median hourly
Respondent Occupation SOC Code wage rate
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TA Provider................................... General and Operations Managers. 11-1021 $48.27
TA Customer................................... Chief Executives................ 11-1011 $88.11
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics (May 2017), https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.
The table below reflects all assumptions about respondent numbers
and frequency, burden hour estimates for scheduling and participating
in the data collection interview, and cost.
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Number of Response Burden hours Annual burden Hourly cost
Respondent respondents frequency per response hours per response Total cost
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TA Provider............................................. 40 1 2 80 $48.27 $3,861.60
TA Customer............................................. 25 1 2 50 88.11 $4,405.50
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Total............................................... 65 1 -- 130 -- $8,267.10
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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.
[[Page 3221]]
Dated: December 21, 2018.
Anna P. Guido,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
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