30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Public Housing Agency (PHA) 5-Year and Annual Plan, OMB Control No.: 2577-0226, 52074-52076 [2024-13582]
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[Docket No. FR–7080–N–28]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Public Housing Agency
(PHA) 5-Year and Annual Plan, OMB
Control No.: 2577–0226
Office of Policy Development
and Research, Chief Data 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: July 22,
2024.
Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection can be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Interested persons are
also invited to submit comments
regarding this proposal by name and/or
OMB Control Number and should be
sent to: Colette Pollard, Reports
Management Officer, REE, Department
of Housing and Urban Development,
451 7th Street SW, Room 8210,
Washington, DC 20410–5000; telephone
(202) 402–3400 (this is not a toll-free
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, REE, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 7th Street SW,
Room 8210, Washington, DC 20410;
email Colette Pollard at Colette.Pollard@
hud.gov or telephone (202) 402–3400.
This is not a toll-free number. HUD
welcomes and is prepared to receive
calls from individuals who are deaf or
hard of hearing, as well as individuals
with speech or communication
disabilities. To learn more about how to
make an accessible telephone call,
please visit https://www.fcc.gov/
consumers/guides/telecommunicationsrelay-service-trs.
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 December 14,
2023 at 88 FR 86667.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Proposal: Public Housing
Agency (PHA) 5-Year and Annual Plan.
OMB Control Number: 2577–0226.
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with
change, of previously approved
collection for which approval has
expired.
Form Number(s): HUD–50075–5Y,
HUD–50075–HCV, HUD–50075–HP,
HUD–50075–MTW, HUD–50075–SM,
HUD–50075–ST, HUD–50077–CR,
HUD–50077–CRT–SM, HUD–50077–
ST–HCV–HP and HUD–50077–SL.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The
Public Housing Agency (PHA) Plan was
created by section 5A of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437c–1). There are two different PHA
Plans: The Five-Year Plan and the
Annual Plan. The Five-Year Plan
describes the agency’s mission, longrange goals, and objectives for achieving
its mission over a five-year period. The
Annual PHA Plan is a comprehensive
guide to PHA policies, programs,
operations, and strategies for meeting
local housing needs and goals. This
revision addresses necessary updates to
all the forms and the automation of all
the PHA Plan forms including the
Moving to Work (MTW) Supplement for
PHAs that joined the MTW
Demonstration under the 2016
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Appropriations Act (i.e., MTW
Expansion).
PHA Plans are needed to inform the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), residents, and the
public of the PHA’s mission and
strategy for serving the needs of low
income, very low-income, and
extremely low-income families in the
PHA’s jurisdiction. This information
helps provide accountability to the local
community for how PHAs spend their
funding and implement their policies.
The PHA Plan submission also includes
various certifications to confirm that
PHAs will abide by all federal civil
rights laws and that the PHA Plan is
consistent with the applicable
Consolidated Plan.
PHA plans also allow HUD to monitor
the performance of programs and the
performance of the public housing
agencies that administer them. Since
2000, HUD has taken several steps to
reduce the administrative burden of the
PHA Plan submission including the use
of streamlined plan submissions for
certain PHA based on size and
performance. For example, the Housing
and Economic Reform Act (HERA)
removed the requirement for qualified
PHAs to submit an annual PHA Plan
and to only submit the 5-year Plan. A
‘‘qualified PHA’’ is one that manages
550 or fewer public housing units and
vouchers and is not labeled as a
troubled public housing agency.
Currently, qualified PHA’s must only
submit an annual certification to
confirm that they are abiding by all
federal civil rights laws.
In January 2021 HUD requested from
OMB that the PHA Plan collection be
reinstated with change. These changes
included the addition of a new section
to accommodate the anticipated fair
housing planning requirements of the
2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair
Housing (AFFH) Rule and the
introduction of the MTW Supplement.
OMB approved the changes, reinstated
the collections and HUD made the new
templates available to PHAs on the HUD
website as individual word processing
files. After publication, HUD made
subsequent minor changes to the forms
and certifications to remove
unnecessary sections, make minor edits
and to account for updated or
eliminated regulatory citations.
Additionally, HUD took steps to
automate the MTW supplement in the
Housing Information Portal (HIP).
With this current proposed
information collection, HUD intends to
automate all PHA Plan templates and
certifications. While the templates will
be automated, the content and required
elements will be mostly the same with
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a few modifications as needed to
account for recent changes in
regulations. Modifications to the
collection include the following:
(1) HUD is adding an additional
element to the HUD–50075–HCV form.
The revised HUD–50075–HCV form will
include an additional element requiring
Section 8 only PHAs to report on their
Project Based Voucher (PBV) activities.
This template will be used by HCV-only
PHA’s that administer the Housing
Choice Voucher (HCV) program which
may also include PBV developments.
(2) HUD is adding an optional feature
for PHA’s to attach their written
Admission and Continued Occupancy
Policy (ACOP) or Administrative Plan
documents to their Five-Year Plan and
Annual Plan submissions. This will
create a centralized database of all local
PHA policies which currently can only
be found at each individual PHA or on
their websites.
(3) Section D of the PHA Plan
Templates, meant to address the fair
housing goals as was originally required
by the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering
Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, has been
removed. This is due to the 2020
Preserving Neighborhood and
Community Choice (PNCC) rule
rescinding the 2015 AFFH rule which
eliminated the requirement for HUD
grantees to conduct fair housing
planning. On June 10, 2021, HUD
published an AFFH interim final rule
Information
collection
Number of
respondents
Form HUD–50075–
ST †.
Form HUD–50075–
SM †.
Form HUD–50075–
HP †.
Form HUD–50075–
HCV †.
Form HUD–50075–
MTW †.
Form HUD–50077–
CR (Qualified
PHAs).
Form HUD–50075–
5Y †.
Total ...............
(IFR) which does not restore the 2015
AFFH rule for HUD grantees to conduct
fair housing planning only that grantees
meaningfully certify that they are
meeting the Fair Housing Act’s AFFH
obligation. The language in the HUD
certifications have been updated to
reflect this change.
(4) Additional edits have been made
to the PHA Plan templates as required
by the Housing Opportunity Through
Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA)—
Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) and
Project-Based Voucher (PBV)
Implementation final rule. These edits
include the addition of Section B.5 HUD
Form 50075–5Y for PHAs to report PBV
activities as required by 24 CFR
903.6(c). The HOTMA–HCV rule also
required citation updates to account for
the redesignation of paragraph (r) of 24
CFR 903.7 as paragraph (s).
(5) Lastly, HUD will now strongly
encourage complete electronic
submission from all PHAs. Currently,
PHA Plan templates are downloaded,
edited, and submitted as email
attachments which must then be
individually uploaded, analyzed, and
organized by HUD. Automating the PHA
Plan forms will make the PHA Plan
review process more efficient by
streamlining the submission and review
process thus reducing the
administrative burden on both HUD and
PHAs. HUD estimates that automating
the PHA Plan form will reduce both the
Frequency
of response
Responses
per annum
Burden hour
per response
PHA and HUD administrative burden by
approximately 25%. Electronic
submission and collection of this
information will also make future data
and policy analysis feasible.
Overall, the burden hours associated
with the collection is expected to
decrease by 2,024 hours due to the
automation of the PHA Plan templates.
Additional time may be required in the
first year to train PHAs on the system,
however, because the Public Housing
Portal is an existing HUD system that
PHAs use and are familiar with, this
burden is expected to reduce in
subsequent years. Accordingly, the
additional burden of the one-time
training is not expected to exceed the
time savings created by the system.
Finally, revisions were made to this
collection to reflect adjustments in
calculations based on the total number
of current, active PHAs to date. Since
the last approved information
collection, the number of active public
housing agencies has changed from
approximately 3,780 to 3,763. The
number of PHAs can fluctuate due to
many factors, including but not limited
to performance scoring, the merging of
two or more PHAs or the termination of
the public housing and/or voucher
programs due to the Rental Assistance
Demonstration (RAD).
Members of affected public: Public
Housing Agencies, Developers.
Annual
burden hours
Hourly cost
per response *
Annual cost
796
1
796
5.64
4,489.44 ................
$26.62
$119.508.89
202
1
202
2.67
539.74 ...................
26.62
14,367.99
152
1
152
5.26
799.52 ...................
26.62
21,283.22
246
1
246
4.52
1,111.92 ................
26.62
29,599.31
100
1
100
6.50
650 ........................
26.62
17,303.00
2,321
1
2,321
0.16
371.36 ...................
26.62
9,885.60
3,763
1
3,763/5
1.23 (6.15/5)
4,628.49
(23,142.45/5).
26.62
123,210.40
3,763
1
3,763
25.98
12,590.47 ..............
26.62
335,158
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* The hourly cost for response assumes a GS–9, Step 5 ($55,564), Executive Assistant, hourly rate is $26.62.
† Note: The rows representing the burden for each template/respondent type includes the burden of the relevant annual certification forms
(HUD–50077–SL, HUD–50077–CR–SM & HUD–50077–ST–HCV–HP).
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;
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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
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who are to respond; including through
the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or the forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
(5) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
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.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of Policy Development and Research,
Chief Data Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
[Docket No. BIA–2022–0005–0004;
245A2100DD/AAKC001030/
A0A501010.999900; OMB Control Number
1076–0018, 1076–0020, 1076–0047, 1076–
0094, 1076–0112, 1076–0114, 1076–0120,
1076–0131, 1076–0134, 1076–0135, 1076–
0153, 1076–0160, 1076–0169, 1076–0182,
1076–0183, 1076–0184, 1076–0190, 1076–
0199]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Request for Comment on
Fiscal Year 2025 Expirations Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
SUMMARY:
Indian Affairs, are proposing to renew
eighteen (18) information collections.
We are seeking comments from the
public, and other Federal agencies, as
part of our continuing effort to minimize
burdens and enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before August
20, 2024.
ADDRESSES: To submit a comment,
please visit https://
www.regulations.gov/docket/BIA–2022–
0005 or use the search field on https://
www.regulations.gov to find the ‘‘BIA–
2022–0005’’ docket. Please follow the
instructions on Regulations.gov for
submitting a comment; and reference
the applicable OMB Control Number
within your comment submission.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven Mullen, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, by email at
comments@bia.gov or telephone at (202)
924–2650. Individuals in the United
States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of
hearing, or have a speech disability may
dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to
access telecommunications relay
services. You may also view each
information collection at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), all
information collections require approval
under the PRA. We may not conduct or
sponsor and you are not required to
respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we invite the public and other
Federal agencies to comment on new,
proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand our
information collection requirements and
provide the requested data in the
desired format.
We are especially interested in public
comment addressing the following:
(1) Whether the 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 our estimate of the
burden for the collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) How might the agency minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of response.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve the information
collection request. Before including
your address, phone number, email
address, or other personal identifying
information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire
comment—including your personal
identifying information—may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask us in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
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(1.) Verification of Indian Preference for Employment in BIA and IHS ...................................................................
(2.) Law and Order on Indian Reservations—Marriage & Dissolution Applications, 25 CFR 11 ...........................
(3.) Bureau of Indian Education Adult Education Program .....................................................................................
(4.) Indian Child Welfare Quarterly and Annual Report ..........................................................................................
(5.) Reporting System for Public Law 102–477 Demonstration Project .................................................................
(6.) Request for Certificate of Degree of Indian or Alaska Native Blood ................................................................
(7.) Sovereignty in Indian Education Grant Program ..............................................................................................
(8.) Indian Highway Safety Grants ..........................................................................................................................
(9.) Probate of Indian Estates, except for Members of the Osage Nation and the Five Civilized Tribes ..............
(10.) Tribal Colleges and Universities Grant Application Form, 25 CFR 41 ...........................................................
(11.) Indian Business Incubator Program, 25 CFR 1187 ........................................................................................
(12.) Application for Admission to Haskell Indian Nations University and to Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute ....................................................................................................................................................................
(13.) Loan Guarantee, Insurance, and Interest Subsidy Program, 25 CFR 103 ....................................................
(14.) Reindeer in Alaska ..........................................................................................................................................
(15.) Tribal Reassumption of Jurisdiction over Child Custody Proceedings, 25 CFR 13 .......................................
(16.) Student Transportation Form ..........................................................................................................................
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-7080-N-28]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Public Housing
Agency (PHA) 5-Year and Annual Plan, OMB Control No.: 2577-0226
AGENCY: Office of Policy Development and Research, Chief Data 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: July 22, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection can be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Interested persons
are also invited to submit comments regarding this proposal by name
and/or OMB Control Number and should be sent to: Colette Pollard,
Reports Management Officer, REE, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 20410-5000;
telephone (202) 402-3400 (this is not a toll-free number) or email:
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, REE, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 7th Street
SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 20410; email Colette Pollard at
[email protected] or telephone (202) 402-3400. This is not a
toll-free number. HUD welcomes and is prepared to receive calls from
individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as individuals
with speech or communication disabilities. To learn more about how to
make an accessible telephone call, please visit https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs.
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
December 14, 2023 at 88 FR 86667.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Proposal: Public Housing Agency (PHA) 5-Year and Annual
Plan.
OMB Control Number: 2577-0226.
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change, of previously approved
collection for which approval has expired.
Form Number(s): HUD-50075-5Y, HUD-50075-HCV, HUD-50075-HP, HUD-
50075-MTW, HUD-50075-SM, HUD-50075-ST, HUD-50077-CR, HUD-50077-CRT-SM,
HUD-50077-ST-HCV-HP and HUD-50077-SL.
Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The
Public Housing Agency (PHA) Plan was created by section 5A of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437c-1). There are two
different PHA Plans: The Five-Year Plan and the Annual Plan. The Five-
Year Plan describes the agency's mission, long-range goals, and
objectives for achieving its mission over a five-year period. The
Annual PHA Plan is a comprehensive guide to PHA policies, programs,
operations, and strategies for meeting local housing needs and goals.
This revision addresses necessary updates to all the forms and the
automation of all the PHA Plan forms including the Moving to Work (MTW)
Supplement for PHAs that joined the MTW Demonstration under the 2016
Appropriations Act (i.e., MTW Expansion).
PHA Plans are needed to inform the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), residents, and the public of the PHA's mission and
strategy for serving the needs of low income, very low-income, and
extremely low-income families in the PHA's jurisdiction. This
information helps provide accountability to the local community for how
PHAs spend their funding and implement their policies. The PHA Plan
submission also includes various certifications to confirm that PHAs
will abide by all federal civil rights laws and that the PHA Plan is
consistent with the applicable Consolidated Plan.
PHA plans also allow HUD to monitor the performance of programs and
the performance of the public housing agencies that administer them.
Since 2000, HUD has taken several steps to reduce the administrative
burden of the PHA Plan submission including the use of streamlined plan
submissions for certain PHA based on size and performance. For example,
the Housing and Economic Reform Act (HERA) removed the requirement for
qualified PHAs to submit an annual PHA Plan and to only submit the 5-
year Plan. A ``qualified PHA'' is one that manages 550 or fewer public
housing units and vouchers and is not labeled as a troubled public
housing agency. Currently, qualified PHA's must only submit an annual
certification to confirm that they are abiding by all federal civil
rights laws.
In January 2021 HUD requested from OMB that the PHA Plan collection
be reinstated with change. These changes included the addition of a new
section to accommodate the anticipated fair housing planning
requirements of the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)
Rule and the introduction of the MTW Supplement. OMB approved the
changes, reinstated the collections and HUD made the new templates
available to PHAs on the HUD website as individual word processing
files. After publication, HUD made subsequent minor changes to the
forms and certifications to remove unnecessary sections, make minor
edits and to account for updated or eliminated regulatory citations.
Additionally, HUD took steps to automate the MTW supplement in the
Housing Information Portal (HIP).
With this current proposed information collection, HUD intends to
automate all PHA Plan templates and certifications. While the templates
will be automated, the content and required elements will be mostly the
same with
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a few modifications as needed to account for recent changes in
regulations. Modifications to the collection include the following:
(1) HUD is adding an additional element to the HUD-50075-HCV form.
The revised HUD-50075-HCV form will include an additional element
requiring Section 8 only PHAs to report on their Project Based Voucher
(PBV) activities. This template will be used by HCV-only PHA's that
administer the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program which may also
include PBV developments.
(2) HUD is adding an optional feature for PHA's to attach their
written Admission and Continued Occupancy Policy (ACOP) or
Administrative Plan documents to their Five-Year Plan and Annual Plan
submissions. This will create a centralized database of all local PHA
policies which currently can only be found at each individual PHA or on
their websites.
(3) Section D of the PHA Plan Templates, meant to address the fair
housing goals as was originally required by the 2015 Affirmatively
Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, has been removed. This is due to
the 2020 Preserving Neighborhood and Community Choice (PNCC) rule
rescinding the 2015 AFFH rule which eliminated the requirement for HUD
grantees to conduct fair housing planning. On June 10, 2021, HUD
published an AFFH interim final rule (IFR) which does not restore the
2015 AFFH rule for HUD grantees to conduct fair housing planning only
that grantees meaningfully certify that they are meeting the Fair
Housing Act's AFFH obligation. The language in the HUD certifications
have been updated to reflect this change.
(4) Additional edits have been made to the PHA Plan templates as
required by the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016
(HOTMA)--Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) and Project-Based Voucher (PBV)
Implementation final rule. These edits include the addition of Section
B.5 HUD Form 50075-5Y for PHAs to report PBV activities as required by
24 CFR 903.6(c). The HOTMA-HCV rule also required citation updates to
account for the redesignation of paragraph (r) of 24 CFR 903.7 as
paragraph (s).
(5) Lastly, HUD will now strongly encourage complete electronic
submission from all PHAs. Currently, PHA Plan templates are downloaded,
edited, and submitted as email attachments which must then be
individually uploaded, analyzed, and organized by HUD. Automating the
PHA Plan forms will make the PHA Plan review process more efficient by
streamlining the submission and review process thus reducing the
administrative burden on both HUD and PHAs. HUD estimates that
automating the PHA Plan form will reduce both the PHA and HUD
administrative burden by approximately 25%. Electronic submission and
collection of this information will also make future data and policy
analysis feasible.
Overall, the burden hours associated with the collection is
expected to decrease by 2,024 hours due to the automation of the PHA
Plan templates. Additional time may be required in the first year to
train PHAs on the system, however, because the Public Housing Portal is
an existing HUD system that PHAs use and are familiar with, this burden
is expected to reduce in subsequent years. Accordingly, the additional
burden of the one-time training is not expected to exceed the time
savings created by the system.
Finally, revisions were made to this collection to reflect
adjustments in calculations based on the total number of current,
active PHAs to date. Since the last approved information collection,
the number of active public housing agencies has changed from
approximately 3,780 to 3,763. The number of PHAs can fluctuate due to
many factors, including but not limited to performance scoring, the
merging of two or more PHAs or the termination of the public housing
and/or voucher programs due to the Rental Assistance Demonstration
(RAD).
Members of affected public: Public Housing Agencies, Developers.
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Number of Frequency of Responses per Burden hour Hourly cost
Information collection respondents response annum per response Annual burden hours per response * Annual cost
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Form HUD-50075-ST [dagger]........ 796 1 796 5.64 4,489.44............ $26.62 $119.508.89
Form HUD-50075-SM [dagger]........ 202 1 202 2.67 539.74.............. 26.62 14,367.99
Form HUD-50075-HP [dagger]........ 152 1 152 5.26 799.52.............. 26.62 21,283.22
Form HUD-50075-HCV [dagger]....... 246 1 246 4.52 1,111.92............ 26.62 29,599.31
Form HUD-50075-MTW [dagger]....... 100 1 100 6.50 650................. 26.62 17,303.00
Form HUD-50077-CR (Qualified PHAs) 2,321 1 2,321 0.16 371.36.............. 26.62 9,885.60
Form HUD-50075-5Y [dagger]........ 3,763 1 3,763/5 1.23 (6.15/5) 4,628.49 (23,142.45/ 26.62 123,210.40
5).
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Total......................... 3,763 1 3,763 25.98 12,590.47........... 26.62 335,158
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* The hourly cost for response assumes a GS-9, Step 5 ($55,564), Executive Assistant, hourly rate is $26.62.
[dagger] Note: The rows representing the burden for each template/respondent type includes the burden of the relevant annual certification forms (HUD-
50077-SL, HUD-50077-CR-SM & HUD-50077-ST-HCV-HP).
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
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who are to respond; including through the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or the forms of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of responses.
(5) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
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.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of Policy Development and
Research, Chief Data Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-13582 Filed 6-20-24; 8:45 am]
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