[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 214 (Friday, November 6, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 57516]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-26769]



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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5281-N-85]


Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB; 
Emergency Comment Request Public Housing Capital Fund Recovery Act 
Reporting

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: November 13, 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/or 
OMB approval number and should be sent to: Mr. Ross A. Rutledge, HUD 
Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503; e-mail: Ross A. [email protected]; 
fax: (202) 395-5806.

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 submitted to OMB 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 on status 
reports for Public Housing Capital Fund Recovery Act grants, which are 
authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 
2009. Under the Recovery Act, HUD was allocated $4 billion of 
additional Capital Funds to be made available to PHAs. Per the Recovery 
Act, $3 billion was to be distributed by the same formula used for 
amounts made available in fiscal year 2008. $1 billion was to be 
distributed by competition for priority investments, including 
investments that leverage private sector funding or financing for 
renovations and energy conservation retrofit investments.
    This Notice also lists the following information:
    Title of Proposal: Public Housing Capital Fund Recovery Act 
Reporting.
    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 Public Housing Capital Fund Recovery Act Reporting. Public 
Housing Agencies (PHAs) must provide information to HUD for the 
reporting requirements of Capital Fund American Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (``Recovery Act'') grants. Section 1512 of the 
Recovery Act details the reporting requirements for the recipients of 
recovery Act funding. Recipients are to report on the obligation and 
expenditure of Recovery Act funds, the projects on which those funds 
have been obligated and expended, an evaluation of the completion 
status of projects and the number of jobs created and jobs retained by 
the project.
    OMB Control Number: Pending.
    Agency Form Numbers: N/A, an automated electronic Microsoft Excel 
spreadsheet will be used to collect data.
    Members of Affected Public: Business or other for-profit, State, 
Local Government.
    Estimation of the total numbers of hours needed to prepare the 
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of 
responses, and hours of responses: The estimated number of respondents 
is 3,496 and the number of respondents is 0.301. The total reporting 
burden is 2,115 hours.

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

    Dated: October 29, 2009.
Stephen A. Hill,
Director, Office of Investment Strategies and Policy Management.
[FR Doc. E9-26769 Filed 11-5-09; 8:45 am]
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