[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 70 (Monday, April 12, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 19210]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-8142]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4909-N-03]


Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Public Comment on 
the Continued Participant Tracking in the Moving to Opportunity 
Demonstration Program

AGENCY: Office of Policy Development and Research, 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: June 11, 2004.

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: Reports Liaison Officer, Office 
of Policy Development and Research, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 8226, Washington, DC 20410.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Todd Richardson, Program Evaluation 
Division, Office of Policy Development and Research, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 8140, 
Washington, DC 20410; (202) 708-3700, extension 5706 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). This Notice 
is soliciting comments from members of the public and affected agencies 
concerning the proposed collection of information to: (1) Evaluate 
whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the 
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether 
the information will have practical utility; (2) Evaluate the accuracy 
of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information; (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (4) Minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on those who are to respond, including 
through the use of appropriate automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology; e.g., permitting electronic submission 
of responses.
    This Notice also lists the following information:
    Title of Proposal: Continued Participant Tracking in the Moving to 
Opportunity Demonstration Program.
    Description of the need for the information and proposed use: This 
request is for the clearance of several survey instruments designed to 
collect information on the current locations of participants in the 
Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration program. The instruments also 
have a small number of outcome measures, such as employment. Authorized 
by Congress in the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, MTO 
is a unique experimental research demonstration designed to learn 
whether moving from a high-poverty neighborhood to a low-poverty 
neighborhood significantly improves the social and economic prospects 
of poor families. Families living in high poverty public and assisted 
housing in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York who 
applied for MTO were randomly assigned into two treatment groups and 
one control group between 1994 and 1998. Families assigned to the 
treatment groups were provided Section 8 to allow them to move out of 
the high poverty developments. Families in one of the treatment groups 
received intensive mobility counseling and were required to lease a 
unit in a neighborhood with less than ten percent poverty. The other 
treatment group families could lease a unit wherever they chose, but 
only received the normal housing authority counseling. Those families 
assigned to the control group did not receive any Section 8 assistance 
but continued to receive project-based assistance.
    This data collection is necessary to continue to track the families 
who signed up for the Moving to Opportunity program in order to measure 
impacts and mediators in 2007, approximately 10 years after families 
signed up for the program.
    Data gathered would be used by Abt Associates to provide HUD with 
continued information on where families are living so that the final 
evaluation will have as little sample attrition as possible.
    Agency form numbers: None.
    Members of Affected Public: 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: Approximately 1,430 households over 4 
years are expected to complete an 8-minute mail survey, 3,226 
households will respond to the 19-minute family canvass form in 2006. 
Total burden hours for this data collection are estimated at 1,214.
    Status of the proposed information collection: Pending OMB 
approval.

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

    Dated: April 2, 2004.
Harold L. Bunce,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs.
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