[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 194 (Tuesday, October 7, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57920-57921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-25322]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No.FR-4815-N-79]


Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB: 
Multifamily Tenant Characteristics Family Report

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, 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 review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Department 
is soliciting public comments on the subject proposal.
    The subject information is collected to ascertain public housing 
tenant eligibility. HUD is seeking renewal of the approval for this 
information collection requirement.

DATES: Comments Due Date: November 6, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB 
approval number (2577-0083) and should be sent to: Lauren Wittenberg, 
OMB Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, New 
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503; Fax number (202) 395-
6974; E-mail [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wayne Eddins, Reports Management 
Officer, AYO, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh

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Street, Southwest, Washington, DC 20410; e-mail [email protected]; 
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 or on HUD's Web site at http://mf.hud.gov:63001/po/i/icbts/collectionsearch.cfm.

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 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 name and telephone 
number 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: Multifamily Tenant Characteristics Family 
Report.
    OMB Approval Number: 2577-0083.
    Form Numbers: 50058, 50058-MTW.
    Description of the Need for the Information and its Proposed Use: 
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to revise 
Form HUD-50058 in a manner that will require changes to the Form HUD-
50058 Module in the Public and Indian Housing Information Center (PIC), 
but will not require changes in software systems of public housing 
agencies or vendors supporting public housing agencies. HUD will 
maintain the current information collection burden until the changes in 
HUD's PIC system have been completed. Therefore, HUD seeks comments on 
the proposed revisions to the Form HUD-50058 and on the proposal to 
extend the existing Form HUD-50058 (6/2001) until the revisions are 
fully implemented.
    The Form HUD-50058 collects demographic and income data on 
residents participating in PIH's Public Housing, Section 8 Housing 
Choice Voucher, Section 8 Project Based Certificates, and Section 8 
Moderate Rehabilitation programs. Public housing agencies will transmit 
the form electronically to HUD at least annually for each household.
    The Department updated the currently approved Form HUD-50058 by 
removing obsolete and unnecessary data fields. These deletions will not 
require vendors to modify their software for reporting family data to 
the Public and Indian Housing Information Center (PIC)--the information 
system that collects electronic Form HUD-50058 data. Public housing 
agencies should not modify their software to reflect the deletions, but 
they are no longer required to send data in the fields that HUD has 
deleted. If public housing agencies submit data for the deleted fields 
using the file structure of the current form (Form HUD-50058 (6/2001)), 
the PIC system will ignore the data.
    HUD seeks comments on the proposal to extend the existing Form HUD-
50058 MTW (6/2001). The Form HUD-50058 MTW collects demographic and 
income data on residents participating in PIH's Public Housing, Section 
8 Housing Choice Voucher, Section 8 Project Based Certificates, and 
Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation programs and whose public housing 
agencies participate in the Moving-to-Work (MTW) program. MTW-PHA 
(i.e., public housing agencies participating in the Moving-to-Work 
demonstration program) will transmit the form electronically to HUD at 
least annually for each household.
    Form HUD-50058 MTW addresses the particular reporting requirements 
and constraints for public housing agencies that participate in the 
Moving-to-Work (MTW) demonstration program mandated by Section 206 of 
the 1996 HUD Appropriations Act. This information collection effort 
supports MTW program monitoring and evaluation, as required by 
Congress.
    MTW-PHA will use the Form HUD-50058 MTW to collect data on MTW-
families only. MTW-families include families who participate in any 
component of the MTW program. This includes families who receive self-
sufficiency support services but pay rent under conventional program 
rules. Non-MTW-families include families who reside in a MTW-PHA but do 
not participate in any component of the MTW program. MTW-PHA will 
continue to use the regular Form HUD-50058 for Non-MTW families.
    Respondents: Public housing agencies, State and local governments, 
individuals and households.
    Frequency of Submission: Quarterly, monthly, annually.
    Reporting Burden: Number of Respondents 4,526; Average responses 
per respondent 1,077; Total annual responses 4,874,180.
    Total Estimated Burden Hours: 1,624,727.
    Status: Extension of a currently approved collection; HUD is 
seeking renewal of the approval for this information collection 
requirement.

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

    Dated: September 30, 2003.
Wayne Eddins,
Departmental Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-25322 Filed 10-6-03; 8:45 am]
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