[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 111 (Friday, June 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
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Notice of Draft Outcome Performance Measurement System for Community 
Planning and Development Formula Grant Programs; Request for Comments; 
Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4970-N-01; HUD-2005-0011]


Notice of Draft Outcome Performance Measurement System for 
Community Planning and Development Formula Grant Programs; Request for 
Comments

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and 
Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: On September 3, 2003, HUD's Office of Community Planning and 
Development (CPD) issued CPD Notice 03-09 entitled, ``Development of 
State and Local Performance Measurements Systems for Community Planning 
and Development Formula Grant Programs.'' The notice encouraged CPD 
formula grantees that receive Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) 
Program, HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), Emergency Shelter 
Grants (ESG), or the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS 
Program (HOPWA) assistance to develop and use performance measurement 
systems. In March 2004, the Council of State Community Development 
Agencies (COSCDA) convened a meeting with representatives from the 
National Community Development Association (NCDA), the National 
Association for County Community Economic Development (NACCED), the 
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO), 
the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA), CPD, HUD's 
Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), and the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to discuss the development of a performance 
measurement system that would be used by CPD formula grantees to gather 
information and determine the effectiveness of their programs. That 
meeting resulted in the formation of a working group composed of 
representatives from those agencies and associations. The working group 
met at various times from June until November 2004 and developed the 
appendix entitled, ``Proposed Outcome Performance Measurement System'' 
which is attached to this notice. This notice solicits comments from 
the public and particularly from formula program grantees on the 
proposed performance measurement system.

DATES: Comments Due Date: September 8, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this notice to the Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel, 
Room 10276, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-0500. Electronic comments may be 
submitted through either:
     The Federal Rulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov; or
     The HUD electronic Web site at http://www.epa.gov/feddocket. Follow the link entitled, ``View Open HUD Dockets.'' 
Commenters should follow the instructions provided on that site to 
submit comments electronically.
    Facsimile (FAX) comments are not acceptable. In all cases, 
communications must refer to the docket number and title. All comments 
and communications submitted will be available, without revision, for 
public inspection and copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the 
above address. Due to security measures at the HUD Headquarters 
building, an advance appointment to review the public comments must be 
scheduled by calling the Regulations Division at (202) 708-3055 (this 
is not a toll-free number). Copies of the public comments are also 
available for inspection and downloading at http://www.epa.gov/feddocket.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margy Coccodrilli, CPD Specialist, 
Office of Block Grant Assistance, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7282, Washington, DC 20410-
7000, telephone, (202) 708-1577, extension 4507 (this is not a toll-
free number). Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals may access this 
number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay 
Service at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    CPD Notice 03-09, ``Development of State and Local Performance 
Measurements Systems for Community Planning and Development Formula 
Grant Programs,'' encouraged grantees to develop state and local 
performance measurement systems. In addition, it described the need for 
HUD to begin to show the results of the federal dollars spent on the 
activities funded by the CDBG, HOME, ESG, and HOPWA programs.
    Many CPD grantees have been frustrated by the inability to ``tell 
their story'' to their citizens and other stakeholders about the 
outcomes of the investments they have made in their communities using 
federal, state, and local resources. The inability to clearly 
demonstrate program results at the national level, which is the 
standard required by OMB's program assessment process, can have serious 
consequences on program budgets. The proposed outcome performance 
measurement system will enable HUD to collect information on the 
outcomes of activities funded with CPD formula grant assistance, and to 
aggregate that information at the national, state, and local level. The 
proposed outcome performance measurement system described by this 
notice is not intended to replace existing local performance 
measurement systems that are used to inform local planning and 
management decisions and increase public accountability. Grantees that 
had a local performance measurement system in place and those who are 
developing such a system should continue those efforts and are 
encouraged to make it compatible with this framework.

II. Performance Measurement Objectives

    The proposed outcome performance measurement system has three 
overarching objectives: (1) Creating Suitable Living Environments, (2) 
Providing Decent Affordable Housing, and (3) Creating Economic 
Opportunities. There are also three outcomes under each objective: (1) 
Availability/Accessibility, (2) Affordability, and (3) Sustainability. 
Thus, the three objectives, each having three possible outcomes, will 
produce nine possible ``outcome/objective statements'' within which to 
categorize formula grant activities. Grantees will complete an outcome/
objective statement in HUD's Integrated Disbursement and Information 
System (IDIS) by entering data in the form of an output indicator, 
seventeen of which have been specified and are described in the 
appendix to this notice.
    Many of these output indicators already exist in IDIS for one or 
more formula programs, and this will be familiar to most grantees. 
However, HUD recognizes the need for terminology to be defined so that 
grantees, across programs, report data consistently. Some examples of 
terms that may require definition include numbers of persons served by 
public facilities or public services, area served, subsidized housing 
units, first-time homebuyers, and households served.
    HUD requests that commenters pay special attention to the output 
indicators that are intended to represent most of the eligible 
activities carried out by grantees, and to offer definitions for

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terms that may be subject to interpretation.
    The list of indicators in the appendix does not attempt to describe 
the data collection process as it would appear in IDIS, but rather 
attempts to outline the fundamental IDIS data requirements across the 
four formula program areas and for each of the various eligible 
activities. In this document, the data output indicators are, by 
necessity, described in a narrative format that is repetitive. However, 
the performance measurement system will be incorporated into the 
redesign of IDIS, or any successor system, allowing for simplified data 
collection, including drop-lists and yielding performance data that can 
be aggregated and reported by HUD Headquarters, field offices, or 
grantees.
    HUD acknowledges that there are some outcomes that the Department 
would like to be able to demonstrate that require more information than 
could be provided through the data described in this Notice. An example 
is determining whether a household that was assisted was able to 
maintain its homeownership. To minimize the burden on grantees, HUD 
will endeavor to undertake research and evaluation efforts to address 
such issues.
    It is hoped that a fully redesigned IDIS would significantly reduce 
the overall administrative burden on grantees by folding the 
Consolidated Plan, Annual Action Plan, and Consolidated Annual 
Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) into a single performance 
measurement system, thereby eliminating duplicative data entries. In 
the interim, elements of the performance measurement system will be 
incorporated into the Consolidated Plan Management Process (CPMP) Tool 
so that local objectives and outcomes can be entered at the beginning 
of the Consolidated Plan or Annual Action Plan development process, and 
accomplishments under those objectives and outcomes can be reported in 
CAPER. Grantees should continue to encourage citizens and local 
organizations to participate in the development of their outcome-
oriented performance measurement plans and reports and make drafts 
available for public comment via the Internet, where possible.
    The first phase of the IDIS changes, which will be operational by 
late 2006 or early 2007, will include many elements of the proposed 
outcome performance measurement system. Consequently, the new 
performance measurement system is planned to be in place in time for 
reporting Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 program year activities. HUD intends to 
provide training in the first half of Calendar Year 2006 so that 
grantees can include the system's national objectives and outcome 
statements as part of their FY2007 Consolidated Plan or Annual Action 
Plan submission.

III. Additional Opportunities for Public Participation

    HUD is actively soliciting comments from grantees to improve and 
fine-tune the design and actual use of this framework. CPD is also 
planning five facilitation sessions and one satellite broadcast to 
explain the importance of measuring performance and the use of the 
proposed outcome performance measurement system to capture those 
results. Dates and locations of the facilitation sessions are listed 
below. Additional information regarding the sessions can be obtained by 
accessing the following Web site: http://www.icfhosting.com/hud/cdbg/registration.nsf or by telephone, at (703) 934-3392.

Satellite Broadcast, June 30, 2005.
San Francisco, CA, July 18, 2005.
Philadelphia, PA, July 20, 2005.
Detroit, MI, July 26, 2005.
Atlanta, GA, July 28, 2005.
Austin, TX, August 2, 2005.

Persons wishing to comment, particularly program grantees, may use 
these sessions to do so, or may send comments directly to HUD using the 
contact information provided in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
    HUD intends to analyze the comments received and make any 
appropriate revisions prior to issuing final guidance. This will 
provide opportunity for grantees to include outcome measurements in 
their FY2007 Annual Action Plans.

    Dated: June 7, 2005.
Pamela H. Patenaude,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
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