[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2390-2392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00163]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5915-N-14]


60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Supportive 
Services Demonstration Resident Assessment Form

AGENCY: Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In 
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comments 
from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. 
The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.

DATES: Comments Due Date: March 10, 2017.

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: Anna P. Guido, Reports Management 
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street SW., Room 4176, Washington, DC 20410-5000; telephone 202-402-
5534 (this is not a toll-free number) or email at [email protected] 
for a copy of the proposed forms or other available information. 
Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number 
through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service at (800) 
877-8339.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anna P. Guido, Reports Management 
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th 
Street SW., Washington, DC 20410; email

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Anna P. Guido at [email protected] or telephone 202-402-5535 (this 
is not a toll-free number). Persons with hearing or speech impairments 
may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal 
Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Copies of available documents 
submitted to OMB may be obtained from Ms. Guido.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice informs the public that HUD is 
seeking approval from OMB for the information collection described in 
Section A.

A. Overview of Information Collection

    Title of Information Collection: Supportive Services Demonstration 
Resident Assessment Form.
    OMB Approval Number: Pending.
    Type of Request: New.
    Form Number: No forms.
    Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use: HUD 
assists a large vulnerable senior population in its Section 202 and 
other elderly-designated properties. By virtue of their advanced ages, 
low-incomes and other demographic characteristics, residents in these 
communities have complex social, health and functional situations. The 
quality affordable housing provided by HUD provides a fundamental base 
for these individuals to age safely in their community. With housing as 
a key social determinant of health, HUD wishes to leverage its 
properties as a platform for the coordination and delivery of services 
to better address the interdependent health and supportive service 
needs of its older residents. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Consolidated 
Appropriations Act gave HUD the authority to develop a demonstration to 
test a model of housing and supportive services for low-income elderly 
residents in HUD-assisted housing. In FY 2015, HUD announced the 
availability of a funding opportunity under the Supportive Services 
Demonstration that will provide grants to property owners to 
participate in the demonstration. The purpose of this demonstration is 
to test a model of housing and supportive services with the potential 
to delay nursing home care for low-income elderly residents in HUD-
assisted housing. HUD aims to better manage residents' health, decrease 
emergency room and hospital utilization, and maintain residents' 
independence in their homes for a longer period of time, thus delaying 
or preventing transfers to a higher level of care.
    Conducting this research will require the Implementation Team (The 
Lewin Group and our partners from Leading Age and the National Center 
for Healthy Aging, under HUD contract HHSP23337002T) to collect self-
reported information from demonstration participants. The 
Implementation Team will leverage existing validated tools combined 
together in one comprehensive Resident Needs Assessment. The Resident 
Needs Assessment requests information on demographics, health status 
and ability to complete Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), and 
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs), as well as other 
social and medical service information.
    The Resident Needs Assessment will occur face-to-face in a private 
setting administered by trained enhanced service coordinators or 
wellness nurses. The assessment interview is expected to last an 
average of 90 minutes.
    Respondents: This information collection will affect approximately 
4,000 individuals residing in units of 40 funded demonstration sites 
(approximately 100 residents per property; 40 properties in total). 
Respondents are expected to be low-income seniors who currently reside 
in HUD-assisted multi-family properties. All respondents will be 
presented with an IRB approved informed consent form prior to 
participation in the demonstration. In their consent, individuals agree 
to the collection of data about their health and wellness. Upon 
consent, respondents will be requested to complete a Resident Needs 
Assessment within 45 days of enrollment in the demonstration.
    Information will be collected in a secure web-based platform that 
meets all required federal regulations to track general health and 
service use information. Information will be attributed to individuals 
by name. Names and information collected in a project-specific web-
based platform will link to HUD's administrative data, which HUD can be 
linked to Medicare and possibly Medicaid data for program evaluation 
purposes. All collected information will be self-reported and will 
inform the development of individualized healthy aging plans and 
property-wide health education/promotion activities and programs, 
including selection of specific evidence-based interventions to be 
implemented within demonstration sites. Additionally, results will 
support the evaluation of the demonstration in meeting HUD's goals and 
desired outcomes for the national demonstration.
    The table below estimates the total burden to the public for the 
proposed information collection, assuming an hourly cost per response, 
based on the income levels of respondents. Hourly costs were estimated 
using FY 2016 income limits from the Office of Policy Development and 
Research through HUD's Web site located at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il16/index.html.
    HUD tiers the income levels for funded recipients at three levels: 
Extremely low, very low, and low. For purposes of burden estimate, we 
selected the ``low income'' tier to identify a median income level.
    Further delineation of the burden estimates requires income 
adjustments based on the number of individuals residing with the 
respondent. Using HUD data to conduct data analysis, we estimate that:

 66% of potential respondents will live alone (2650 
respondents)
 17% will reside with a spouse (690 respondents)
 8% will reside with three people (330 respondents)
 8% will reside with four people (330 respondents)

    For HUD, the baseline for median income is based on a four-person 
household. For FY 2016 this was adjusted at $65,800. Adjustments for 
number of residents are legislated by Congress.
 A single household is adjusted at 70% of income of baseline 
($46,060)
 Living with spouse is adjusted at 80% of income of baseline 
($52,640)
 Living in a three-person household is adjusted at 90% of 
income of baseline ($59,220)

    These income adjustments, based on both probability of residence 
status as well as adjustments based on the income baseline, are used to 
estimate burden of information collection in the table below.

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                                             Number of     Frequency of    Responses per    Burden hour    Annual burden    Hourly cost
         Information collection             respondents      response          annum       per response        hours       per response        Cost
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HUD Residents living alone (single                 2,650               3               1             1.5           3,975          $33.21     $132,009.75
 household).............................

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HUD Residents living with spouse (2-                 690               3               1             1.5           1,035           37.97       39,298.95
 person household)......................
HUD Residents in 3-person household.....             330               3               1             1.5             495           42.71       21,141.45
HUD Residents in 4-person household.....             330               3               1             1.5             495           47.45       23,487.75
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    Total...............................           4,000  ..............  ..............  ..............           6,000  ..............      215,937.90
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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: December 23, 2016.
Matthew Ammon,
General Deputy, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research.
[FR Doc. 2017-00163 Filed 1-6-17; 8:45 am]
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