[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 49 (Monday, March 16, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 11127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-5633]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5281-N-21]


Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB; 
Emergency Comment Request Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing 
Program (HPRP) Annual Action Plan Substantial Amendment Form

AGENCY: Office of Community Planning and Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of proposed information collection.

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SUMMARY: The proposed information collection requirement described 
below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for emergency review and approval, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the 
subject proposal.

DATES: Comments Due Date: March 23, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments must be received within seven (7) days from the 
date of this Notice. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/
or OMB approval number and should be sent to: Ms. Kimberly P. Nelson, 
HUD Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20502; e-mail: [email protected]; fax: (202) 395-6974.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lillian Deitzer, Reports Management 
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410; e-mail: [email protected]; 
telephone (202) 402-8048. This is not a toll-free number. Copies of 
available documents should be submitted to OMB and may be obtained from 
Ms. Deitzer.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Notice informs the public that the U.S. 
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has submitted to OMB, 
for emergency processing, a proposed information collection for the 
Homelessness Prevention Fund, which is authorized under the American 
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. This new program provides 
$1.5 billion of formula grant funding for the provision of short-term 
or medium-term rental assistance, housing relocation and stabilization 
services, and other appropriate activities for homelessness prevention 
and rapid re-housing of persons who have become homeless. HUD will 
administer these funds as the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-
Housing Program (HPRP) and require a substantial amendment to the 
grantee's Consolidated Plan 2008 Annual Action Plan as a condition of 
receiving funds. HPRP grant amounts will be determined by a formula 
authorized by Section 413 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act 
and will be awarded by HUD to the following eligible grantees: states, 
metropolitan cities, and urban counties that receive over $500,000 
according to the formula allocation, and territories, which receive 
0.2% of the total allocation.
    This Notice also lists the following information:
    Title of Proposal: Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing 
Program: Substantial Amendment to the Consolidated Plan 2008 Annual 
Action Plan.
    Description of Information Collection: This is a new information 
collection. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is seeking 
emergency review of the Paperwork Reduction Act Requirements associated 
with the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP).
    Each HPRP grantee is required to submit (1) a SF-424 signed by an 
authorized representative; and (2) a HUD-40119, signed by an authorized 
official, which provides a description of how the grantee plans to use 
and monitor the use of the HPRP funds.
    OMB Control Number: Pending.
    Agency Form Numbers: SF-424; HUD-40119.
    Members of the Affected Public: Eligible grantees.
    Estimation of the total numbers of hours needed to prepare the 
information collection including number of responses, frequency of 
responses, and hours of responses: An estimation of the total number of 
reporting hours is 16.75 per response. The number of respondents is 
540. The total hours requested is 9,045.

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

    Dated: March 10, 2009.
Lillian Deitzer,
Departmental Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-5633 Filed 3-13-09; 8:45 am]
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