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instructed by SAMHSA); and the third
component will consist of a streamlined
set of questions describing clients’
behavioral health history, screening and
diagnosis items, and services provided
to clients (as reported at the client-level
by the grantee using alternate data
sources that already may be in use for
other purposes, for example an
electronic health or medical record).
Question(s) about services provided to
the client will only be required at
reassessment and annually for some
programs as instructed by SAMHSA.
Currently, the tool and final burden
table are still under development and
will be available as part of the 30-Day
FRN. However, SAMHSA expects that
use of the multi-component tool will
result in a significant decrease in
burden for client and grantee
annualized reporting, not only because
of the streamlining of questions, but also
because not all items will be required at
every data collection time point. For
example, SAMHSA anticipates that the
services provided item will not be
required to report at baseline, only
reassessment and, for some programs,
annually. SAMHSA is also finalizing a
revised policy on when reassessments
are expected to occur, recognizing that
a one-size fits all approach may not be
appropriate for all client-focused grant
programs. SAMHSA is conducting
testing to establish a better estimate of
the time it will take to complete the
information collection given the varying
degree of direct client involvement
across the new tool’s components and
grantee use of alternate data sources for
a portion of the tool. At this point,
SAMHSA estimates that approximately
1,500 client-focused grantees annually
will use the tool and with a burden hour
estimate per assessment that ranges
from 0.13 to 0.27 for each of the three
tool components. SAMHSA’s goal is to
develop a new performance tool that is
streamlined and will significantly
reduce burden compared to the current
performance tools.
Send comments to the SAMHSA
Reports Clearance Officer, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Room 15E45, Rockville, Maryland
20857, OR email a copy to samhsapra@
samhsa.hhs.gov. The draft tool can be
found at: https://www.samhsa.gov/
grants/gpra-measurement-tools. Written
comments should be received by 15 Oct
2024.
Alicia Broadus,
Public Health Advisor.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7080–N–45]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection Requirement: Comment
Request; Implementation of the
Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995
(HOPA); OMB Control No: 2529–0046
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 an additional 30 days of
public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: October 7,
2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov or 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 and comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
Anna Guido, Clearance Officer, REE,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room
8210, Washington, DC 20410–5000;
email PaperworkReductionActOffice@
hud.gov.
SUMMARY:
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@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/
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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 March 27, 2024 at
89 FR 21265.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Implementation of the Housing for
Older Persons Act of 1995 (HOPA).
OMB Control Number: 2529–0046.
Type of Request: Proposed extension,
without change, of a currently approved
information collection requirement.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The Fair
Housing Act [42 U.S.C.3601 et seq.],
prohibits discrimination in the sale,
rental, occupancy, advertising, insuring,
or financing of residential dwellings
based on familial status (individuals
living in households with one or more
children under 18 years of age).
However, under § 3607(b)(2) of the Act,
Congress exempted three (3) categories
of ‘‘housing for older persons’’ from
liability for familial status
discrimination: (1) housing provided
under any State or Federal program
which the Secretary of HUD determines
is ‘‘specifically designed and operated
to assist elderly persons (as defined in
the State or Federal program)’’; (2)
housing ‘‘intended for, and solely
occupied by persons 62 years of age or
older’’; and (3) housing ‘‘intended and
operated for occupancy by at least one
person 55 years of age or older per unit
[‘55 or older’ housing].’’ In December
1995, Congress passed the Housing for
Older Persons Act of 1995 (HOPA) [Pub.
L. 104–76, 109 Stat. 787] as an
amendment to the Fair Housing Act.
The HOPA modified the ‘‘55 or older’’
housing exemption provided under
section 3607(b)(2)(C) of the Fair Housing
Act by eliminating the requirement that
a housing provider must offer
‘‘significant facilities and services
specifically designed to meet the
physical or social needs of older
persons.’’ In order to qualify for the
HOPA exemption, a housing community
or facility must meet each of the
following criteria: (1) at least 80 percent
of the occupied units in the community
or facility must be occupied by at least
one person who is 55 years of age of
older; (2) the housing provider must
publish and adhere to policies and
procedures that demonstrate the intent
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to operate housing for persons 55 years
of age or older; and (3) the housing
provider must demonstrate compliance
with ‘‘rules issued by the Secretary for
verification of occupancy, which shall
. . . . . provide for [age] verification by
reliable surveys and affidavits.’’
The HOPA did not significantly
increase the record-keeping burden for
the ‘‘55 or older’’ housing exemption. It
describes in greater detail the
documentary evidence which HUD will
consider when determining, during a
familial status discrimination complaint
investigation, whether or not a housing
facility or community qualified for the
‘‘55 or older’’ housing exemption as of
the date on which the alleged Fair
Housing Act violation occurred.
The HOPA information collection
requirements are necessary to establish
a housing provider’s eligibility to claim
the ‘‘55 or older’’ housing exemption as
an affirmative defense to a familial
status discrimination complaint filed
with HUD under the Fair Housing Act.
The information will be collected in the
normal course of business in connection
with the sale, rental, or occupancy of
dwelling units situated in qualified
senior housing facilities or
communities. The HOPA’s requirement
that a housing provider must
demonstrate the intent to operate a ‘‘55
or older’’ housing community or facility
by publishing, and consistently
enforcing, age verification rules, policies
and procedures for current and
prospective occupants reflects the usual
and customary practice of the senior
housing industry. Under the HOPA, a
‘‘55 or older’’ housing provider should
conduct an initial occupancy survey of
the housing community or facility to
verify compliance with the HOPA’s ‘‘80
percent occupancy’’ requirement and
should maintain such compliance by
periodically reviewing and updating
existing age verification records for each
occupied dwelling unit at least once
every two years. The creation and
maintenance of such occupancy/age
verification records should occur in the
normal course of individual sale or
rental housing transactions and should
require minimal preparation time.
Further, a senior housing provider’s
operating rules, policies and procedures
are not privileged or confidential in
nature, because such information must
be disclosed to current and prospective
residents, and to residential real estate
professionals.
The HOPA exemption also requires
that a summary of the occupancy survey
results must be made available for
public inspection. This summary need
not contain confidential information
about individual residents; it may
simply indicate the total number of
dwelling units that are actually
occupied by persons 55 years of age or
older. While the supporting age
verification records may contain
confidential information about
individual occupants, such information
would be protected from disclosure
unless the housing provider claims the
‘‘55 or older’’ housing exemption as an
affirmative defense to a jurisdictional
familial status discrimination complaint
filed with HUD under the Fair Housing
Act. HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and
Equal Opportunity will only require a
housing provider to disclose such
confidential information to HUD if and
when HUD investigates a jurisdictional
familial status discrimination complaint
filed against the housing provider under
the Fair Housing Act, and if and when
the housing provider claims the ‘‘55 or
older’’ housing exemption as an
affirmative defense to the complaint.
Agency form number(s), if applicable:
None.
Members of affected public: The
HOPA requires that small businesses
and other small entities that operate
housing intended for occupancy by
persons 55 years of age or older must
routinely collect and update reliable age
Type of collection activity
Number of respondents
One: Collect reliable age
verification records for at
least one occupant per
dwelling unit to meet the
HOPA’s minimum ‘‘80%
occupancy’’ requirement.
Two: Publication of & adherence to policies & procedures that demonstrate intent to operate ‘‘55 or
older’’ housing.
Three: Periodic updates of
age verification records.
1,000 (estimated 10,000 occupants).
1 (once per each housing
transaction).
1,000 (estimated 1,000
housing providers).
Total Burden Hours &
Costs.
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Frequency of response
Responses
per annum
verification information necessary to
meet the eligibility criteria for the
HOPA exemption. The record keeping
requirements are the responsibility of
the housing provider that seeks to
qualify for the HOPA exemption.
Estimation of the total numbers of
hours needed to prepare the information
collection, including the number of
respondents, frequency of response, and
hours of response: Housing providers
claiming eligibility for the HOPA’s ‘‘55
or older’’ housing exemption must
demonstrate ongoing compliance with
the HOPA exemption requirements. The
HOPA does not authorize HUD to
require submission of this information
by individual housing providers as a
means of certifying that their housing
communities or facilities qualify for the
exemption. Further, since the HOPA has
no mandatory registration requirement,
HUD cannot ascertain the actual number
of housing facilities and communities
that are currently collecting this
information with the intention of
qualifying for the HOPA exemption.
Accordingly, HUD has estimated that
approximately 1,000 housing facilities
or communities would seek to qualify
for the HOPA exemption. HUD has
estimated that the occupancy/age
verification data would require routine
updating with each new housing
transaction within the facility or
community, and that the number of
such transactions per year might vary
significantly depending on the size and
nature of the facility or community.
HUD also estimated the average number
of housing transactions per year at ten
(10) transactions per community. HUD
concluded that the publication of
policies and procedures is likely to be
a one-time event, and in most cases will
require no additional burden beyond
what is done in the normal course of
business. The estimated total annual
burden hours are 5,500 hours [See Table
below].
Burden
hour per
response
Annual
burden
hours
Hourly
cost per
response
Annual cost
10,000
1
1,000
$20.02
$20.02
1 (one-time event for publication).
1,000
2
2,000
20.02
40,040
1,000 (estimated 1,000
housing providers).
1 (update occupancy
records at least once
every two years).
1,000
2.50
2,500
20.02
50,050
12,000 ..................................
3 ...........................................
12,000
5,500
5,500
20.02
110,110
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B. Solicitation of Public Comments
This Notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
agencies concerning the proposed
information collection in order to: (1)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper performance of HUD’s
program functions; (2) Evaluate the
accuracy of HUD’s assessment of the
paperwork burden that may result from
the proposed information collection; (3)
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information which must be
collected; and (4) Minimize the burden
of the information collection on
responders, including the use of
appropriate automated collection
techniques or other 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.
Authority: Section 3506 of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended.
For
general information about this notice,
contact Aaron Santa Anna, Associate
General Counsel for Legislation and
Regulations, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street
SW, Room 10276, Washington, DC
20410–0500, telephone (202) 708–3055
(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.
For information concerning a
particular waiver that was granted and
for which public notice is provided in
this document, contact the person
whose name and address follow the
description of the waiver granted in the
accompanying list of waivers that have
been granted in the fourth quarter of
calendar year 2023.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
106 of the HUD Reform Act added a
new section 7(q) to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Act
(42 U.S.C. 3535(q)), which provides
that:
Colette Pollard,
1. Any waiver of a regulation must be
Department Reports Management Officer,
in writing and must specify the grounds
Office of Policy Development and Research,
for approving the waiver;
Chief Data Officer.
2. Authority to approve a waiver of a
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URBAN DEVELOPMENT
authority to issue the particular
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regulation to be waived;
3. Not less than quarterly, the
Notice of Regulatory Waiver Requests
Secretary must notify the public of all
Granted for the Fourth Quarter of
waivers of regulations that HUD has
Calendar Year 2023
approved, by publishing a notice in the
Federal Register. These notices (each
AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel,
covering the period since the most
HUD.
recent previous notification) shall:
ACTION: Notice.
a. Identify the project, activity, or
SUMMARY: Section 106 of the Department undertaking involved;
b. Describe the nature of the provision
of Housing and Urban Development
waived and the designation of the
Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform
provision;
Act) requires HUD to publish quarterly
c. Indicate the name and title of the
Federal Register notices of all
person who granted the waiver request;
regulatory waivers that HUD has
d. Describe briefly the grounds for
approved. Each notice covers the
approval of the request; and
quarterly period since the previous
e. State how additional information
Federal Register notice. The purpose of
about a particular waiver may be
this notice is to comply with the
obtained.
requirements of section 106 of the HUD
Section 106 of the HUD Reform Act
Reform Act. This notice contains a list
also contains requirements applicable to
of regulatory waivers granted by HUD
during the period beginning on October waivers of HUD handbook provisions
that are not relevant to the purpose of
1, 2023 and ending on December 31,
this notice.
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This notice follows procedures
provided in HUD’s Statement of Policy
on Waiver of Regulations and Directives
issued on April 22, 1991 (56 FR 16337).
In accordance with those procedures
and with the requirements of section
106 of the HUD Reform Act, waivers of
regulations are granted by the Assistant
Secretary with jurisdiction over the
regulations for which a waiver was
requested. In those cases in which a
General Deputy Assistant Secretary
granted the waiver, the General Deputy
Assistant Secretary was serving in the
absence of the Assistant Secretary in
accordance with the office’s Order of
Succession.
This notice covers waivers of
regulations granted by HUD from
October 1, 2023 through December 31,
2023. For ease of reference, the waivers
granted by HUD are listed by HUD
program office (for example, the Office
of Community Planning and
Development, the Office of Fair Housing
and Equal Opportunity, the Office of
Housing, and the Office of Public and
Indian Housing, etc.). Within each
program office grouping, the waivers are
listed sequentially by the regulatory
section of title 24 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) that is being waived.
For example, a waiver of a provision in
24 CFR part 58 would be listed before
a waiver of a provision in 24 CFR part
570.
Where more than one regulatory
provision is involved in the grant of a
particular waiver request, the action is
listed under the section number of the
first regulatory requirement that appears
in 24 CFR and that is being waived. For
example, a waiver of both § 58.73 and
§ 58.74 would appear sequentially in the
listing under § 58.73.
Waiver of regulations that involve the
same initial regulatory citation are in
time sequence beginning with the
earliest-dated regulatory waiver.
Additionally, this notice includes
waivers made pursuant to the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic
Security Act (CARES Act), not
previously published in the Federal
Register. These waivers are listed
separately from other individual
waivers within each program office
grouping, as CARES Act waivers
broadly covered all affected parties
rather than individual, case-by-case
situations. The lists include additional
Memoranda and Notices issued
regarding broad CARES Act waivers
provided by HUD since the enactment
of the Act on March 27, 2020. In
addition, the lists provide a short, twoor three-line description of each memo
or notice, identifying the specific
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-7080-N-45]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requirement:
Comment Request; Implementation of the Housing for Older Persons Act of
1995 (HOPA); OMB Control No: 2529-0046
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 an additional 30 days of
public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: October 7, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to [email protected] or 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 and comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or
OMB Control Number and should be sent to: Anna Guido, Clearance
Officer, REE, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th
Street SW, Room 8210, Washington, DC 20410-5000; 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 [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 March 27,
2024 at 89 FR 21265.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: Implementation of the Housing for
Older Persons Act of 1995 (HOPA).
OMB Control Number: 2529-0046.
Type of Request: Proposed extension, without change, of a currently
approved information collection requirement.
Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The
Fair Housing Act [42 U.S.C.3601 et seq.], prohibits discrimination in
the sale, rental, occupancy, advertising, insuring, or financing of
residential dwellings based on familial status (individuals living in
households with one or more children under 18 years of age). However,
under Sec. 3607(b)(2) of the Act, Congress exempted three (3)
categories of ``housing for older persons'' from liability for familial
status discrimination: (1) housing provided under any State or Federal
program which the Secretary of HUD determines is ``specifically
designed and operated to assist elderly persons (as defined in the
State or Federal program)''; (2) housing ``intended for, and solely
occupied by persons 62 years of age or older''; and (3) housing
``intended and operated for occupancy by at least one person 55 years
of age or older per unit [`55 or older' housing].'' In December 1995,
Congress passed the Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 (HOPA) [Pub.
L. 104-76, 109 Stat. 787] as an amendment to the Fair Housing Act. The
HOPA modified the ``55 or older'' housing exemption provided under
section 3607(b)(2)(C) of the Fair Housing Act by eliminating the
requirement that a housing provider must offer ``significant facilities
and services specifically designed to meet the physical or social needs
of older persons.'' In order to qualify for the HOPA exemption, a
housing community or facility must meet each of the following criteria:
(1) at least 80 percent of the occupied units in the community or
facility must be occupied by at least one person who is 55 years of age
of older; (2) the housing provider must publish and adhere to policies
and procedures that demonstrate the intent
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to operate housing for persons 55 years of age or older; and (3) the
housing provider must demonstrate compliance with ``rules issued by the
Secretary for verification of occupancy, which shall . . . . . provide
for [age] verification by reliable surveys and affidavits.''
The HOPA did not significantly increase the record-keeping burden
for the ``55 or older'' housing exemption. It describes in greater
detail the documentary evidence which HUD will consider when
determining, during a familial status discrimination complaint
investigation, whether or not a housing facility or community qualified
for the ``55 or older'' housing exemption as of the date on which the
alleged Fair Housing Act violation occurred.
The HOPA information collection requirements are necessary to
establish a housing provider's eligibility to claim the ``55 or older''
housing exemption as an affirmative defense to a familial status
discrimination complaint filed with HUD under the Fair Housing Act. The
information will be collected in the normal course of business in
connection with the sale, rental, or occupancy of dwelling units
situated in qualified senior housing facilities or communities. The
HOPA's requirement that a housing provider must demonstrate the intent
to operate a ``55 or older'' housing community or facility by
publishing, and consistently enforcing, age verification rules,
policies and procedures for current and prospective occupants reflects
the usual and customary practice of the senior housing industry. Under
the HOPA, a ``55 or older'' housing provider should conduct an initial
occupancy survey of the housing community or facility to verify
compliance with the HOPA's ``80 percent occupancy'' requirement and
should maintain such compliance by periodically reviewing and updating
existing age verification records for each occupied dwelling unit at
least once every two years. The creation and maintenance of such
occupancy/age verification records should occur in the normal course of
individual sale or rental housing transactions and should require
minimal preparation time. Further, a senior housing provider's
operating rules, policies and procedures are not privileged or
confidential in nature, because such information must be disclosed to
current and prospective residents, and to residential real estate
professionals.
The HOPA exemption also requires that a summary of the occupancy
survey results must be made available for public inspection. This
summary need not contain confidential information about individual
residents; it may simply indicate the total number of dwelling units
that are actually occupied by persons 55 years of age or older. While
the supporting age verification records may contain confidential
information about individual occupants, such information would be
protected from disclosure unless the housing provider claims the ``55
or older'' housing exemption as an affirmative defense to a
jurisdictional familial status discrimination complaint filed with HUD
under the Fair Housing Act. HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity will only require a housing provider to disclose such
confidential information to HUD if and when HUD investigates a
jurisdictional familial status discrimination complaint filed against
the housing provider under the Fair Housing Act, and if and when the
housing provider claims the ``55 or older'' housing exemption as an
affirmative defense to the complaint.
Agency form number(s), if applicable: None.
Members of affected public: The HOPA requires that small businesses
and other small entities that operate housing intended for occupancy by
persons 55 years of age or older must routinely collect and update
reliable age verification information necessary to meet the eligibility
criteria for the HOPA exemption. The record keeping requirements are
the responsibility of the housing provider that seeks to qualify for
the HOPA exemption.
Estimation of the total numbers of hours needed to prepare the
information collection, including the number of respondents, frequency
of response, and hours of response: Housing providers claiming
eligibility for the HOPA's ``55 or older'' housing exemption must
demonstrate ongoing compliance with the HOPA exemption requirements.
The HOPA does not authorize HUD to require submission of this
information by individual housing providers as a means of certifying
that their housing communities or facilities qualify for the exemption.
Further, since the HOPA has no mandatory registration requirement, HUD
cannot ascertain the actual number of housing facilities and
communities that are currently collecting this information with the
intention of qualifying for the HOPA exemption. Accordingly, HUD has
estimated that approximately 1,000 housing facilities or communities
would seek to qualify for the HOPA exemption. HUD has estimated that
the occupancy/age verification data would require routine updating with
each new housing transaction within the facility or community, and that
the number of such transactions per year might vary significantly
depending on the size and nature of the facility or community. HUD also
estimated the average number of housing transactions per year at ten
(10) transactions per community. HUD concluded that the publication of
policies and procedures is likely to be a one-time event, and in most
cases will require no additional burden beyond what is done in the
normal course of business. The estimated total annual burden hours are
5,500 hours [See Table below].
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Burden hour Annual Hourly cost
Type of collection activity Number of respondents Frequency of response Responses per burden per Annual cost
per annum response hours response
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One: Collect reliable age 1,000 (estimated 10,000 1 (once per each 10,000 1 1,000 $20.02 $20.02
verification records for at least occupants). housing transaction).
one occupant per dwelling unit to
meet the HOPA's minimum ``80%
occupancy'' requirement.
Two: Publication of & adherence to 1,000 (estimated 1,000 1 (one-time event for 1,000 2 2,000 20.02 40,040
policies & procedures that housing providers). publication).
demonstrate intent to operate ``55
or older'' housing.
Three: Periodic updates of age 1,000 (estimated 1,000 1 (update occupancy 1,000 2.50 2,500 20.02 50,050
verification records. housing providers). records at least once
every two years).
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Total Burden Hours & Costs....... 12,000................. 3...................... 12,000 5,500 5,500 20.02 110,110
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B. Solicitation of Public Comments
This Notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and
affected agencies concerning the proposed information collection in
order to: (1) Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is
necessary for the proper performance of HUD's program functions; (2)
Evaluate the accuracy of HUD's assessment of the paperwork burden that
may result from the proposed information collection; (3) Enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information which must be
collected; and (4) Minimize the burden of the information collection on
responders, including the use of appropriate automated collection
techniques or other 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.
Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of Policy Development and
Research, Chief Data Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-20127 Filed 9-5-24; 8:45 am]
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