[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29570-29571]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12702]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5383-N-10]
Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Public Comment
Public Housing Agency Plan Revisions To Implement Requirements for
Certain Qualified Public Housing Agencies Under the Housing and
Economic Recovery Act (HERA) 2008
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The proposed information collection requirement described
below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended). The Department is soliciting public
comments on the subject proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: July 26, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name/or OMB
Control number and should be sent to: Leroy McKinney, Jr., Departmental
Reports Management Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 4178, Washington, DC 20410-5000;
telephone 202-402-8048, (this is not a toll-free number) or email Mr.
McKinney at [email protected]. Persons with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Information Relay Service at 800-877-8339. (Other than the HUD
USER information line and TTY numbers, telephone numbers are not toll-
free.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dacia Rogers, Office of Policy,
Programs and Legislative Initiatives, PIH, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 4116, Washington, DC
20410; telephone 202-402-3374, (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department will submit the proposed
information collection to OMB for review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended). This Notice
is soliciting comments from members of the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of information to: (1) Evaluate
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) evaluate the accuracy
of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4) 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.
This Notice also lists the following information:
Title of Proposal: 5-Year and Annual Public Housing Agency (PHA)
Plan OMB Control Number, if applicable: 2577-0226.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use:
Section 2702 of Title VII--Small Public Housing Authorities Paperwork
Reduction Act, of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008
amends section 5A(b) of the 1937 Act by establishing ``qualified public
housing agencies'', a category of PHAs with less than 550 public
housing units and tenant-based vouchers combined that are provided
substantial paperwork relief, primarily with respect to the PHA Annual
Plan requirements in section 5(A)(b) of the United States Housing Act
of 1937. The paperwork relief exempts qualified PHAs from the
requirement to prepare and submit an annual PHA plan to HUD for review.
This Act impacts approximately sixty-eight percent, or 2,802 of the
4,114 PHAs that are required to submit Annual and 5-Year PHA Plans.
This information collection revises previously OMB approved forms HUD-
50077 and HUD-50075, and adds Civil Rights certification (form HUD-
50077-CR) formerly appearing on form HUD-50077 as a separate document.
The form HUD-50075 deletes category for ``HCV only PHAs'' and adds
categories for ``Qualified PHAs,'' ``Non-Qualified PHAs'' and
``Troubled PHAs'' in Section 1.0 containing PHA Information; adds a new
section to describe activities for implementing the Violence Against
Women Act (Section 5.3); incorporates a table identifying all Annual
PHA Plan elements (Section 6.0); adds a new Section 6.1 for Admissions
Policy for the Deconcentration of Lower-Income Families; adds a new
requirement (Section 6.9(c)) under Additional Information for Troubled
and Standard PHAs to include or reference any applicable memorandum of
agreement with HUD or any plan to improve performance and any other
information required by HUD; revises the list of Required Documents to
add forms HUD-50077-CR, HUD-50077-SL, and Admissions Policy for
Deconcentration of Lower-Income Families, lists separately the required
PHA Plan attachments for Qualified and Non-Qualified PHAs (Section
7.0); minor edits to the Instructions page of form HUD-50075, including
a new requirement under the component for Operation and Management to
update PHA Plans where PHAs have opted to implement non-smoking
policies in public housing; and renumbers other sections of the form.
The currently proposed form HUD-50075 will be used by all PHAs--high
performing, standard, troubled, non-qualified, and qualified, who will
only complete the 5-Year Plan information, sections 5.0 through 5.3--
the mission, goals and objectives of the PHA and the goals, objectives,
policies, or programs for servicing victims of domestic violence,
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and submit the template
every 5 years. Qualified PHAs no longer submit information on
discretionary programs (demolition or disposition, HOPE VI, Project-
based vouchers, required or voluntary conversion, homeownership, or
capital improvements, etc.) as part of an Annual PHA Plan submission.
However, Qualified PHAs that intend to implement these activities are
still subject to the full application and approval processes that exist
for demolition or disposition, designated housing, conversion,
homeownership, and other special application processes that will no
longer be tied to prior authorization in an Annual PHA Plan for a
Qualified PHA. All PHAs, including the PHAs identified as Qualified
PHAs under HERA, must
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continue to submit any demolition or disposition, public housing
conversion, homeownership, or other special applications as applicable
to HUD's Special Applications Center (SAC) in Chicago for review and
approval or to HUD Headquarters for CFFP proposals. Information on
special applications can be found at the SAC Web site: http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/centers/sac/about/overview.cfm. The following
Web site at: http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/capfund/index.cfm contains information on the Capital Fund Financing Program
(CFFP), and Operating Fund Financing Program (OFFP). http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/am/. Qualified PHAs should, as a
matter of good business practice, continue to keep their residents, the
general public, and the local HUD office apprised of any plans to
initiate these types of programs and activities. Revisions to form HUD-
50077-CR deletes, ``if there is no Board of Commissioner'' from
paragraph 1, line 2. Qualified-only PHAs will complete proposed form
HUD-50077-CR. To more accurately reflect the application requirements
of PHAs for the Capital Fund Program, form HUD-50077 deletes item 3,
``The PHA certifies that there has been no change, significant or
otherwise, to the Capital Fund Program (and Capital Fund Program/
Replacement Housing Factor) Annual Statement(s), since submission of
its last approved Annual Plan. The Capital Fund Program Annual
Statement/Annual Statement/Performance and Evaluation Report must be
submitted annually even if there is no change.'' and redesignates items
(4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16),
(17), (18), (19), (20), (21), and (22), as (3), (4), (5), (6), (7),
(8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (17), (18), (19),
(20), and (21), respectively. Non-Qualified only PHAs are required to
complete form HUD-50077. The PHA plan is a web-based submission process
(allowing PHAs to retrieve the applicable templates) that allows PHAs
to provide their plans to HUD via the Internet. The system allows HUD
to track plans with limited reporting and any changes from the previous
submission.
Agency Form Numbers: HUD-50075; HUD-50075.1, HUD-50075.2, HUD-
50077, HUD-50077-CR, HUD-50077-SL, HUD-50070.
Members of the Affected Public: Local, Regional and State Body
Corporate Politic Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) Governments.
Estimation of the total number of hours needed to prepare the
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of
response, and hours of response: The estimated number of burden hours
needed to prepare the information collection is 111,005; estimated
number of respondents is 4,114; the frequency of response for qualified
PHAs is once every 5 years and when any interim changes in
discretionary programs have been made and/or every year on a rolling 5-
year basis. For example, PHAs Fiscal Year beginning (FYB) 2006, covers
the PHA's fiscal years 2007-2011. The next Five-Year Plan would be due
for the PHA's FYB 2011 and would cover fiscal years 2012-2016; the
estimated time to prepare the response varies depending on the interim
changes in discretionary programs; and, the average annual burden hours
per PHA is 5.4 hours. Consequently, this information collection reduces
the total administrative burden hours accordingly and associated costs
to approximately 68% (2,802 PHAs) of the total PHA inventory (4,114
PHAs).
Status of the Proposed Information Collection: This is a revision
of currently approved collection. The revision is necessary to
implement paperwork relief to qualified PHAs, as provided in Section
2702 of Title VII--Small Public Housing Authorities Paperwork Reduction
Act, of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: May 20, 2010.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Programs, and Legislative
Initiatives.
[FR Doc. 2010-12702 Filed 5-25-10; 8:45 am]
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