[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 62 (Thursday, March 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16925-16951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7784]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4563-N-03]


Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Public Comment for 
the Family Report

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. The Department 
is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.

DATES: Comments Due Date: May 30, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB 
Control number and should be sent to: Mildred M. Hamman, Reports 
Liaison Officer, Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, 451 7th Street, S.W., Room 4238, Washington, D.C. 
20410-5000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mildred M. Hamman, (202) 708-3642, 
extension 4128, for copies of the proposed forms and other available 
documents. (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).

Background

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development seeks comments on 
the revised Form HUD-50058 (changes to the Form are noted in italics). 
The revised Form HUD-50058 incorporates changes required for the sound 
management of HUD programs. This includes updates required by the 
passage of various laws, including the Quality Housing and Work 
Responsibility Act of 1998 (otherwise known as the Public Housing 
Reform Act), and other changes.
    HUD worked with Public Housing Agencies (PHAs), trade 
organizations, vendors, and other interested parties to improve 
reporting to Multifamily Tenant Characteristics System (MTCS), the 
information system that collects electronic Form HUD-50058 data. In the 
past year, MTCS public housing reporting improved from 60 to 92 
percent, and Section 8 reporting improved from 73 to 97 percent. It is 
critical that high reporting rates be sustained. HUD will provide 
technical assistance and training to Field Offices and PHAs to help 
sustain reporting.
    To assure customer input, HUD conducted three industry consultation 
sessions to identify PHA needs for the revised Form HUD-50058. HUD held 
the first two sessions in November 1999 and January 2000. On February 
10, 2000, the Department held a public forum in Washington, DC for 
software vendors and PHAs to brief them on the revised Form and MTCS 
enhancements. HUD seeks to work collaboratively with the user community 
to produce a user-friendly Form HUD-50058 that meets HUD, PHA, and 
other needs.
    HUD is working to improve not only MTCS, but also the Form HUD-
50058 implementation process. HUD will implement a test center to help 
software vendors and PHAs identify fatal errors prior to the MTCS 
release date. So that PHAs and software vendors have sufficient time to 
perform the necessary tests and sustain the high reporting rates, the 
Department will give them ample notice of the Form HUD-50058 
modifications. In addition, HUD will implement a historical database so 
PHAs and HUD can track trends over time. This capability should provide 
PHAs greater flexibility and help them better meet local reporting 
needs.

Highlight of Changes

    The revised Form HUD-50058 include changes that cover flat rents, 
earned income disregards, the Housing Choice Voucher Program, the 
Voucher Homeownership Program, and the Welfare-to-Work Program. To 
determine if there is a need for better PHA quality controls, the 
revised Form HUD-50058 asks PHAs to track the reason for corrections to 
family data. HUD added new section action codes for voucher issuance to 
analyze the movement and progression of families who receive rental 
subsidies. The revised Form HUD-50058 collects, for the first time, 
information about the family's gross income and any income discrepancy 
adjustments. The revised Form HUD-50058 also strives to fix certain 
problems that exist on the current form. Particularly, a PHA will be 
able to correct erroneous effective dates of action (line 2b) 
transmitted to MTCS.
    This Notice also lists the following information:
    Title of Proposal: Family Report.
    OMB Control Number: 2577-0083.
    Agency Form Number: HUD-50058.
    Description of the need for the information and proposed use: 
Collection of this information is authorized by the U.S. Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437, et seq.), Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d), the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601-19), 
Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980.
    Initially, PHAs will need \1/2\ hour to input the data into each 
Form HUD-50058. After a one-year period, average input time should be 
reduced to 15 minutes per Form. The reduction in time is achieved by 
the pre-entering of key information on the Form (i.e., income changes, 
change in family composition, etc). PHAs that administer the FSS and/or 
Welfare to Work voucher program(s) will require an additional 15 
minutes per form for completion of the information.
    Members of affected public: PHAs, State or Local Governments, 
Individuals or Households.
    Estimation of the total number of hours needed to prepare the 
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of 
response, and hours of response:

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                                                       Number of      Responses per     Total annual      Hours per                         Regulatory
              Information collection                  respondents       respondent       responses         response       Total hours       reference
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HUD-50058.........................................            4500           667.67        3,000,000              0.5        1,500,000          985.101
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    Projected One-Year Period: Hours per response will be reduced to 
0.25 for total burden hour of 750,000.
    Status of the proposed information collection: Revision and 
extension of a currently approved collection.

    Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended.

    Dated: March 23, 2000.
Harold Lucas,
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.
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[FR Doc. 00-7784 Filed 3-29-00; 8:45 am]
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