[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 211 (Tuesday, November 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59195-59196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28570]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4441-N-51]


Submission for OMB Review: Welfare to Work Voucher Program 
Evaluation

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.


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ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Administration (VA) and the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Independent 
Agencies Appropriation Act of 1999 established the Section 8 Welfare to 
Work Vouchers Program to help eligible families make the transfer from 
welfare to work and set aside 283 million to achieve the effect. The 
same act permitted HUD to use up to one percent of that amount to 
conduct detailed evaluations of the effect of providing tenant-based 
rental assistance to eligible families on their ability to obtain and 
retain employment. Review of existing literature yields scant scholarly 
or governmental research on the impact of the availability of assisted 
housing on employment. The Department determined that the most 
effective way to gauge the impact of Welfare to Work Vouchers was to 
establish an experimental situation in which a small number of 
communities allocated vouchers among eligible participants by random 
assignment. An experimental group would receive the voucher, and a 
control group would not. Both groups would be surveyed over time to 
test whether the presence of the voucher had an independent effect on 
the ability of families to obtain and retain employment and, thereby, 
move from dependency upon welfare.

DATES: Comments Due Date: December 2, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB 
approval number and should be sent to: Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., OMB Desk 
Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, New Executive 
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wayne Eddins, Reports Management 
Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, 
Southwest, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 708-2374. This is not 
a toll-free number. Copies of the proposed forms and other available 
documents submitted to OMB may be obtained from Mr. Eddins.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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). The Notice lists the following information: (1) The title of the 
information collection proposal; (2) the office of the agency to 
collect the information; (3) the OMB approval number, if applicable; 
(4) the description of the need for the information and its proposed 
use; (5) the agency form number, if applicable; (6) what members of the 
public will be affected by the proposal; (7) how frequently information 
submissions will be required; (8) an estimate of the total number of 
hours needed to prepare the information submission including the number 
of respondents, frequency of response, and hours of response; (9) 
whether the proposal is new, an extension, reinstatement, or revision 
of an information collection requirement; and (10) the names and 
telephone numbers of an agency official familiar with the proposal and 
of the OMB Desk Officer for the Department.
    This Notice also lists the following information:
    Title of Proposal: Welfare to Work Voucher Program Evaluation.
    OMB Approval Number: 2528-XXXX.
    Form Number: None.
    Description of the Need for the Information and its Proposed Use: 
The Purpose is to evaluate the impact of the provision of Section 8 
vouchers on the ability of eligible low-income families to obtain or 
retain jobs.
    Respondents: Individuals or Households.
    Frequency of Submission: Annually.
    Reporting Burden:

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                                     Number of           Frequency of          Hours per
                                    respondents     X      response      X      response      =   Burden  hours
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Information Collection..........          10,000                    1                  .67                6,667
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    Total Estimated Burden Hours: 6,667.
    Status: New.

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

    Dated: October 26, 1999.
Wayne Eddins,
Departmental Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-28570 Filed 11-1-99; 8:45 am]
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