[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 163 (Wednesday, August 21, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 43259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21309]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-3960-N-06]


Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research; Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to 
OMB

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research--HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The proposed information collection requirement described 
below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for emergency review and approval, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the 
subject proposal.

DATES: Comments due: August 28, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments must be received within seven (7) days from the 
date of this Notice. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and 
should be sent to: Reports Liaison Officer, Office of Policy 
Development and Research, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 
451 7th Street, SW, Room 8126, Washington, DC 20410.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jane Karadbil, Office of University Partnerships--telephone (202) 708-
1537. This is not a toll-free number. Copies of available documents 
submitted to OMB may be obtained from Ms. Karadbil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Notice informs the public that the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has submitted to OMB, 
for emergency processing, an information collection package with 
respect to the Community Renaissance Fellows Program (CRFP). HUD seeks 
to implement this initiative as soon as possible.
    Under the Community Renaissance Fellows Program, HUD will create a 
new profession--community builders. Mid-level professionals will be 
selected through a nation-wide competition to learn how to transform 
neighborhoods into healthy, vibrant communities. Fellows will be placed 
in HOPE VI public housing transformation projects that are being 
converted to mixed income communities. The skills they learn can then 
be transferred to other neighborhood transformation projects. In 
addition to the on-site experience, Fellows will attend intensive 
seminars three times a year during their two-year Fellowships to learn 
state-of-the-art information about community building. The educational 
component of the program will be designed and offered by Yale 
University. At least 20 Fellows will be selected this year.
    Submission of the information required under this information 
collection is mandatory in order to compete for and receive the 
benefits of the program. All materials submitted are subject to the 
Privacy Act and will not be disclosed. An agency may not conduct or 
sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of 
information unless the collection displays a valid control number. The 
OMB control number, when assigned, will be announced by a separate 
notice in the Federal Register.
    The Department has submitted the proposal for the collection of 
information, as described below, to OMB for review, as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35):
    (1) Title of the information collection proposal: Applications 
Kit--Community Renaissance Fellows Program
    (2) Summary of the collection of information:
    Each applicant for CRFP would be required to submit current 
information, as listed below as:
    1. Biographical information
    2. Previous work experience
    3. Activities and achievements
    3. References
    4. Responses to three essay questions
    5. Certification that the information provided is correct
    (3) Description of the need for the information and its proposed 
use:
    To appropriately determine which Fellows should be selected certain 
information is necessary about the applicants' job history, plans for 
the future and analytic and writing skills.
    (4) Description of the likely respondents, including the estimated 
number of likely respondents, and proposed frequency of response to the 
collection of information:
    Respondents will be mid-level professional in development fields. 
Fellows will also be expected to prepare and submit monthly progress 
reports.
    The estimated number of respondents submitting applications is 300. 
The proposed frequency of the response to the collection of information 
is one-time. The application need only be submitted once. The estimated 
number of respondents to the monitoring requirements is 20.
    (5) Estimate of the total reporting and recordkeeping burden that 
will result from the collection of information:

Reporting Burden:
    Number of respondents: 300 for applicants; 20 for monitoring 
requirements.
    Total burden hours: 16 hours per respondent for application); 2 
hours a year per respondent for monitoring requirements.
Total Estimated Burden Hours: 5,280.

    Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended.

    Dated: August 13, 1996.
Michael A. Stegman,
Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy Development and Research.
[FR Doc. 96-21309 Filed 8-20-96; 8:45 am]
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