[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29570-29571]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12702]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5383-N-10]


Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Public Comment 
Public Housing Agency Plan Revisions To Implement Requirements for 
Certain Qualified Public Housing Agencies Under the Housing and 
Economic Recovery Act (HERA) 2008

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing, 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 of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended). The Department is soliciting public 
comments on the subject proposal.

DATES: Comments Due Date: July 26, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name/or OMB 
Control number and should be sent to: Leroy McKinney, Jr., Departmental 
Reports Management Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 4178, Washington, DC 20410-5000; 
telephone 202-402-8048, (this is not a toll-free number) or email Mr. 
McKinney at [email protected]. Persons with hearing or speech 
impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free 
Federal Information Relay Service at 800-877-8339. (Other than the HUD 
USER information line and TTY numbers, telephone numbers are not toll-
free.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dacia Rogers, Office of Policy, 
Programs and Legislative Initiatives, PIH, Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW., Room 4116, Washington, DC 
20410; telephone 202-402-3374, (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: 5-Year and Annual Public Housing Agency (PHA) 
Plan OMB Control Number, if applicable: 2577-0226.
    Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use: 
Section 2702 of Title VII--Small Public Housing Authorities Paperwork 
Reduction Act, of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 
amends section 5A(b) of the 1937 Act by establishing ``qualified public 
housing agencies'', a category of PHAs with less than 550 public 
housing units and tenant-based vouchers combined that are provided 
substantial paperwork relief, primarily with respect to the PHA Annual 
Plan requirements in section 5(A)(b) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937. The paperwork relief exempts qualified PHAs from the 
requirement to prepare and submit an annual PHA plan to HUD for review. 
This Act impacts approximately sixty-eight percent, or 2,802 of the 
4,114 PHAs that are required to submit Annual and 5-Year PHA Plans. 
This information collection revises previously OMB approved forms HUD-
50077 and HUD-50075, and adds Civil Rights certification (form HUD-
50077-CR) formerly appearing on form HUD-50077 as a separate document. 
The form HUD-50075 deletes category for ``HCV only PHAs'' and adds 
categories for ``Qualified PHAs,'' ``Non-Qualified PHAs'' and 
``Troubled PHAs'' in Section 1.0 containing PHA Information; adds a new 
section to describe activities for implementing the Violence Against 
Women Act (Section 5.3); incorporates a table identifying all Annual 
PHA Plan elements (Section 6.0); adds a new Section 6.1 for Admissions 
Policy for the Deconcentration of Lower-Income Families; adds a new 
requirement (Section 6.9(c)) under Additional Information for Troubled 
and Standard PHAs to include or reference any applicable memorandum of 
agreement with HUD or any plan to improve performance and any other 
information required by HUD; revises the list of Required Documents to 
add forms HUD-50077-CR, HUD-50077-SL, and Admissions Policy for 
Deconcentration of Lower-Income Families, lists separately the required 
PHA Plan attachments for Qualified and Non-Qualified PHAs (Section 
7.0); minor edits to the Instructions page of form HUD-50075, including 
a new requirement under the component for Operation and Management to 
update PHA Plans where PHAs have opted to implement non-smoking 
policies in public housing; and renumbers other sections of the form. 
The currently proposed form HUD-50075 will be used by all PHAs--high 
performing, standard, troubled, non-qualified, and qualified, who will 
only complete the 5-Year Plan information, sections 5.0 through 5.3--
the mission, goals and objectives of the PHA and the goals, objectives, 
policies, or programs for servicing victims of domestic violence, 
dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and submit the template 
every 5 years. Qualified PHAs no longer submit information on 
discretionary programs (demolition or disposition, HOPE VI, Project-
based vouchers, required or voluntary conversion, homeownership, or 
capital improvements, etc.) as part of an Annual PHA Plan submission. 
However, Qualified PHAs that intend to implement these activities are 
still subject to the full application and approval processes that exist 
for demolition or disposition, designated housing, conversion, 
homeownership, and other special application processes that will no 
longer be tied to prior authorization in an Annual PHA Plan for a 
Qualified PHA. All PHAs, including the PHAs identified as Qualified 
PHAs under HERA, must

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continue to submit any demolition or disposition, public housing 
conversion, homeownership, or other special applications as applicable 
to HUD's Special Applications Center (SAC) in Chicago for review and 
approval or to HUD Headquarters for CFFP proposals. Information on 
special applications can be found at the SAC Web site: http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/centers/sac/about/overview.cfm. The following 
Web site at: http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/capfund/index.cfm contains information on the Capital Fund Financing Program 
(CFFP), and Operating Fund Financing Program (OFFP). http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/am/. Qualified PHAs should, as a 
matter of good business practice, continue to keep their residents, the 
general public, and the local HUD office apprised of any plans to 
initiate these types of programs and activities. Revisions to form HUD-
50077-CR deletes, ``if there is no Board of Commissioner'' from 
paragraph 1, line 2. Qualified-only PHAs will complete proposed form 
HUD-50077-CR. To more accurately reflect the application requirements 
of PHAs for the Capital Fund Program, form HUD-50077 deletes item 3, 
``The PHA certifies that there has been no change, significant or 
otherwise, to the Capital Fund Program (and Capital Fund Program/
Replacement Housing Factor) Annual Statement(s), since submission of 
its last approved Annual Plan. The Capital Fund Program Annual 
Statement/Annual Statement/Performance and Evaluation Report must be 
submitted annually even if there is no change.'' and redesignates items 
(4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), 
(17), (18), (19), (20), (21), and (22), as (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), 
(8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (17), (18), (19), 
(20), and (21), respectively. Non-Qualified only PHAs are required to 
complete form HUD-50077. The PHA plan is a web-based submission process 
(allowing PHAs to retrieve the applicable templates) that allows PHAs 
to provide their plans to HUD via the Internet. The system allows HUD 
to track plans with limited reporting and any changes from the previous 
submission.
    Agency Form Numbers: HUD-50075; HUD-50075.1, HUD-50075.2, HUD-
50077, HUD-50077-CR, HUD-50077-SL, HUD-50070.
    Members of the Affected Public: Local, Regional and State Body 
Corporate Politic Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) Governments.
    Estimation of the total number of hours needed to prepare the 
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of 
response, and hours of response: The estimated number of burden hours 
needed to prepare the information collection is 111,005; estimated 
number of respondents is 4,114; the frequency of response for qualified 
PHAs is once every 5 years and when any interim changes in 
discretionary programs have been made and/or every year on a rolling 5-
year basis. For example, PHAs Fiscal Year beginning (FYB) 2006, covers 
the PHA's fiscal years 2007-2011. The next Five-Year Plan would be due 
for the PHA's FYB 2011 and would cover fiscal years 2012-2016; the 
estimated time to prepare the response varies depending on the interim 
changes in discretionary programs; and, the average annual burden hours 
per PHA is 5.4 hours. Consequently, this information collection reduces 
the total administrative burden hours accordingly and associated costs 
to approximately 68% (2,802 PHAs) of the total PHA inventory (4,114 
PHAs).
    Status of the Proposed Information Collection: This is a revision 
of currently approved collection. The revision is necessary to 
implement paperwork relief to qualified PHAs, as provided in Section 
2702 of Title VII--Small Public Housing Authorities Paperwork Reduction 
Act, of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

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

    Dated: May 20, 2010.
Merrie Nichols-Dixon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Programs, and Legislative 
Initiatives.
[FR Doc. 2010-12702 Filed 5-25-10; 8:45 am]
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