[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 88 (Friday, May 8, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21705-21706]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-10702]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5281-N-34]


Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB; 
Emergency Comment Request Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing 
Program (HPRP)

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, 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: May 15, 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

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OMB, for emergency processing, a proposed information collection for 
the Homelessness Prevention Fund, which is authorized under the 
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) of 2009, and is 
hereafter called the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing 
Program (HPRP). Title XII of Division A of the Recovery Act 
appropriated $1.5 billion for this program. These funds will be 
distributed to 360 grantees that received Emergency Shelter Grants 
Program (ESG) funding in Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 as well as 180 
metropolitan cities and urban counties that did not qualify for an ESG 
allocation in FY09. HUD will administer these funds as the Homelessness 
Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP) and will require a 
substantial amendment to the grantee's 2008 annual action plan as a 
condition of receiving funds. The formulas for the allocation of HPRP 
are the same as the formulas used for the annual allocation of ESG 
funds to the States, urban counties, metropolitan cities, and insular 
areas, except that the minimum allocation was reduced. On March 19, 
2009, HUD published the HPRP Notice, including the list of HPRP 
allocations. This Notice may be found at http://www.hud.gov/recovery/hrp-notice.pdf.
    In addition, section 1512 of the Recovery Act requires that not 
later than 10 days after the end of each calendar quarter, each 
recipient that received recovery funds from a Federal agency shall 
submit a report to that agency that contains: (1) The total amount of 
recovery funds received from that agency; (2) the amount of recovery 
funds received that were expended or obligated to projects or 
activities; and (3) a detailed list of all projects or activities for 
which recovery funds were expended or obligated, including the name of 
the project or activity; a description of the project or activity; an 
evaluation of the completion status of the project or activity; an 
estimate of the number of jobs created and the number of jobs retained 
by the project or activity; and for infrastructure investments made by 
State and local governments, the purpose, total cost, and rationale of 
the agency for funding the infrastructure investment with funds made 
available under the Recovery Act and name of the person to contact at 
the agency if there are concerns with the infrastructure investment. 
Not later than 30 calendar days after the end of each calendar quarter, 
each agency that made Recovery Act funds available to any recipient 
shall make the information in reports submitted publicly available by 
posting the information on a Web site.
    This Notice also lists the following information:
    Title of Proposal: Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing 
Program (HPRP).
    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.
    OMB Control Number: Pending.
    Agency Form Numbers: None.
    Members of the Affected Public: Eligible HPRP 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 210 per grantee. The number of grantees is 540. The 
total hours requested for the preparation of the Quarterly Reports is 
113,652. The number of hours requested for both document preparation 
and reporting is 114,624.

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

    Dated: May 1, 2009.
Stephen A. Hill,
Acting Director Policy and E-GOV.
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