[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 165 (Friday, August 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43557-43558]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21513]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4120-N-02]


Office of Administration; Notice of Submission of Proposed 
Information Collection to OMB

AGENCY: Office of Administration--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: The due date for comments is: August 30, 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: Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., HUD Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 
20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kay F. Weaver, Reports Management 
Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 708-0050. This is 
not a toll-free number. Copies of available documents submitted to OMB 
may be obtained from Ms. Weaver.


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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 proposed ``Conversion of Certain Public Housing to 
Tenant-Based Section 8 Vouchers and Certificates''.
    Section 202 of the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and 
Appropriations Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-134, approved April 26, 1996) 
(``OCRA'') requires Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to identify certain 
distressed public housing developments that will be required to be 
converted so that their households in occupancy can be given tenant-
based assistance or relocated into other project-based housing (that 
can include other public housing units). After residents are relocated, 
the developments will be removed from the public housing inventory. 
These developments must be removed from the public housing inventory 
within five years, or up to ten years where HUD extends the deadline 
because five years is impracticable. Plans to do so must be developed 
in consultation with affected public housing residents and the local 
government containing the public housing.
    The Department has submitted the proposal for the collection of 
information to OMB for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The Department has requested emergency 
clearance of the collection of information, as described below, with 
approval being sought by August 28, 1996:

(1) Title of the Information Collection Proposal

    Standards, Viability and Removal Plan for Conversion of Certain 
Public Housing to Tenant-Based Section 8 Vouchers and Certificates.

(2) Summary of the Collection of Information

    Each respondent would be required to submit the following 
information:
    1. Determine developments that fall within contiguity, size, and 
vacancy standards.
    2. Comparison of Section 8 costs and current public housing costs.
    3. Viability Plan.
    4. Removal Plan.
    5. Annual Review.

(3) Description of the Need for the Information and Its Proposed Use

    To determine that PHAs have identified those developments that will 
be required to be converted based on the standards, completed the 
comparison of housing costs, and the viability and removal plan as 
defined in Section 202.

(4) Description of the Likely Respondents, and Proposed Frequency of 
the Response to the Collection of Information

    Respondents will be PHAs.
    The estimated number of respondents is 120. The proposed frequency 
of the response to the collection of information is one-time.

(5) Estimate of the Total Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden That Will 
Result From the Collection of Information

    Reporting Burden:
      Number of respondents: 50.
      Total burden hours: 21,645 (@433 hours per response)
    Total Estimated Burden Hours: ________

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

    Dated: August 8, 1996.
David S. Cristy,
Director, IRM Policy and Management Division.
[FR Doc. 96-21513 Filed 8-22-96; 8:45 am]
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