[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 162 (Wednesday, August 21, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52008-52009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-20295]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5683-N-72]


30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Multifamily 
Housing Service Coordinator Program

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: HUD has submitted the proposed information collection 
requirement described below to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. The 
purpose of this notice is to allow for an additional 30 days of public 
comment.

DATES: Comments Due Date: September 20, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding 
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB 
Control Number and should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer, Office of 
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 
20503; fax: 202-395-5806. Email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colette Pollard, Reports Management 
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street SW., Washington, DC 20410; email Colette Pollard at 
[email protected] or telephone 202-402-3400. Persons with hearing 
or speech impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the 
toll-free Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. This is not a toll-
free number. Copies of available documents submitted to OMB may be 
obtained from Ms. Pollard.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD has 
submitted to OMB a request for approval of the information collection 
described in Section A. The Federal Register notice that solicited 
public comment on the information collection for a period of 60 days 
was published on November 15, 2012.

A. Overview of Information Collection

    Title of Information Collection: Multifamily Housing Service 
Coordinator Program.
    OMB Approval Number: 2502-0447.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Form Number: SF 424, HUD 2993, HUD 2994-A, HUD-92456, HUD-50080-
SCMF, SF 424, HUD-2880, SF-LLL, HUD-91186-1, HUD-91186-A, HUD 96010, 
SF-269-A.
    Description of the need for the information and proposed use: SF-
424, HUD-91186, and other related documents) to assess the need and 
proposed use of grant funds and owners' ability to administer those 
funds. 2. HUD staff will use requests for extensions (HUD-91186-A) to 
evaluate anticipated program costs and the continued need for the 
program. 3. The LOCCS Payment Voucher (HUD-50080-SCMF) is used to 
monitor release of grant funds to reimburse eligible program costs over 
the term of the grant. Grant recipients will similarly use this voucher 
to track and record their requests for payment reimbursement for grant-
funded expenses. 4. The Department is revising the Semi-Annual 
Performance Report, HUD-92456. Changes include the following: A. 
Additional sources of funding; B. Modification of resident statistics 
and the numbers of project tenants and neighborhood residents served by 
the Service Coordinator during the reporting period; C. Adding hire 
date for the Service Coordinator and date of program inception; D. 
Adding number of contacts to number of residents that the Service 
Coordinator links to various supportive services; E. Providing a 
glossary of definitions of supportive service types; F. Modifying the 
section for reporting time allocation of monthly work responsibilities; 
G. Adding a new item to highlight community engagement; including 
meetings with community agencies and residents and Attendance at or 
planning of community events, and H. Adding a new section to track 
aging in place statistics. The semi-annual Performance

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Reports will be used to gauge program performance and effective use of 
Federal funds to meet stated program goals. The Department proposes the 
new changes to obtain more specific, accurate, and relevant data. To 
complete the form, Housing owners and Service Coordinators will develop 
and maintain meaningful data that reflect the efficacy of the Service 
Coordinator program. The Burden Hours per Response remains the same at 
six hours. (Previous requests had overstated the amount of time 
required to complete the report.) 5. The Department is proposing a new 
form to be used by field office staff to perform Service Coordinator 
program reviews. This proposed form is provided in this Notice to 
solicit comments from the public, even though the form is designed for 
use by HUD field office staff. The Department requires a consistent 
protocol to review and evaluate Service Coordinator programs. The use 
of this form will allow for consistent and thorough program assessment. 
It will also inform housing owners, management agents, and Service 
Coordinators about program requirements and expected performance. 6. 
SF-425, 7. HUD-96010.
    Estimation of the total numbers of hours needed to prepare the 
information collection including number of respondents, frequency of 
response, and hours of response: The number of respondents is 10,290; 
the frequency of responses is quarterly, semi-annually, and annually, 
with a total of 22,070 total annual responses. The estimated time to 
prepare collection varies from 15 minutes to 40 hours, with a total of 
74,800 annual burden hours.

B. Solicitation of Public Comment

    This notice is soliciting comments from members of the public and 
affected parties concerning the collection of information described in 
Section A on the following:
    (1) 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) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information;
    (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    (4) Ways to 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.
    HUD encourages interested parties to submit comment in response to 
these questions.

     Authority:  Section 3507 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.

    Dated: August 15, 2013.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-20295 Filed 8-20-13; 8:45 am]
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