[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 53 (Friday, March 19, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 13510-13511]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6794]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

24 CFR Part 941

[Docket No. FR-4443-F-05]


Public Housing Development Rule: Information Collection Approval 
Numbers

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This rule revises the chart in the public housing development 
regulations showing the numbers assigned by the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) approving information collections contained throughout 
those regulations. This revision is necessary to bring the chart in 
conformity with the actual approval numbers, and to assure that the

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information collection approvals are accurately reflected in the 
codified regulations for 24 CFR part 941.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 19, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mildred Hamman, Reports Liaison 
Officer, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, Room 4238, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 
20410, telephone (202) 708-3642, ext. 4128. (This is not a toll-free 
number.) For persons with hearing or speech impairments, this number 
may be accessed by TTY through the Federal Information Relay Service, 
(800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended), HUD published two notices on October 26, 1998, 
announcing the effective dates of information collection approvals 
contained in the public housing development regulations, 24 CFR part 
941 (63 FR 57134, 57135). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a 
person is not required to respond to, a collection of information, 
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
    The notices published in October 1998 announced the effectiveness 
of approval numbers for Secs. 941.101, 941.205, 941.303, 941.606, and 
941.610. These sections were listed in the chart contained in 
Sec. 941.101(c) of OMB approval numbers for the entire part. The chart 
also listed approval numbers for other sections, Secs. 941.301, 
941.304, 941.402, and 941.404, for which no notice of effectiveness of 
the information collections has been published. This document serves as 
the notice that OMB has approved information collections contained in 
these provisions and to imbed the correct information concerning the 
actual approval numbers for the provisions throughout part 941 in 
Sec. 941.101(c). In addition, this document removes the information 
collection approval statement from the one individual section in part 
941 where it remained--Sec. 941.207.
    There are three approval numbers assigned to the various 
information collections contained in part 941. The numbers and their 
respective expiration dates are as follows: 2577-0033 expiring on 
December 31, 2000; 2577-0036 expiring on July 31, 2000, and 2577-0039 
expiring on April 30, 2000.

Justification for Final Rule

    In general, the Department publishes a rule for public comment 
before issuing a rule for effect, in accordance with its own 
regulations on rulemaking at 24 CFR part 10. However, part 10 does 
provide for exceptions from that general rule where the agency finds 
good cause to omit advance notice and public participation. The good 
cause requirement is satisfied when prior public procedure is 
``impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.'' (24 
CFR 10.1)
    In this case, the changes being made to the rule are technical in 
nature, conforming the rule to the OMB approval actions that have 
already taken place. Therefore, prior public procedure is unnecessary.

Catalog

    The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for the program 
affected by this rule is 14.850.

List of Subjects in 24 CFR Part 941

    Grant programs--housing and community development, Loan programs--
housing and community development, Public housing, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.
    Accordingly, part 941 of title 24 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations is amended as follows:

PART 941--PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

    1. The authority citation for part 941 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1437b, 1437c, 1437g, and 3535(d).

    2. Paragraph (c) of Sec. 941.101 is amended by revising the chart 
at the end of the paragraph to read as follows:


Sec. 941.101  Purpose and scope.

    (c) * * *

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             Approval No.                           Sections
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2577-0033.............................  941.207, 941.301, 941.303,
                                         941.304, 941.606, 941.610
2577-0036.............................  941.205, 941.404
2577-0039.............................  941.402
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Sec. 941.207  [Amended]

    3. Section 941.207 is amended by removing the parenthetical phrase 
at the end of the section.

    Dated: March 15, 1999.
Harold Lucas,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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