[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 164 (Friday, August 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40586-40588]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-18102]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-6003-N-07]


60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Evaluation of 
the HUD-DOJ Pay for Success Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration

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: October 24, 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

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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 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: Evaluation of the HUD-DOJ Pay for 
Success Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration.
    OMB Approval Number: Pending.
    Type of Request: New.
    Agency Form Numbers: No agency forms will be used.
    Description of the need for the information and proposed use: The 
U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Justice 
(DOJ) entered into an interagency collaboration that combines DOJ's 
mission to promote safer communities by focusing on the reentry 
population with HUD's mission to end chronic homelessness. This 
collaboration resulted in the Pay for Success Permanent Supportive 
Housing Demonstration with $8.68M awarded to seven communities to 
develop supportive housing for persons cycling between the jail or 
prison systems and the homeless service systems using pay for success 
(PFS) as a funding mechanism. HUD-DOJ announced seven grantees from 
across the country in June 2016. The PFS Demonstration grant supports 
activities throughout the PFS lifecycle, including feasibility 
analysis, transaction structuring, and outcome evaluation and success 
payments, with each grantee receiving funds for different stages in the 
PFS lifecycle. Through the national evaluation, which is funded through 
an interagency agreement between HUD and DOJ and managed by HUD's 
Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD-DOJ seek to assess 
whether PFS is a viable model for scaling supportive housing to improve 
outcomes for a re-entry population. The main goal of the evaluation is 
to learn how the PFS model is implemented in diverse settings with 
different structures, populations, and community contexts. The Urban 
Institute has designed a multi-disciplinary, multi-method approach to 
``learn as we do'' and meet the key objectives of the formative 
evaluation. To understand project implementation, the evaluation 
includes data collection on both the time that project partners 
dedicate to each PFS project as well as PFS partner perceptions and 
interactions and community-level changes that may benefit the target 
population. This information collection request is for an ongoing time 
survey and an annual partnership web survey. The time survey will be 
used to assess staff time spent on development of each PFS project 
throughout the different lifecycle phases and the partnership survey 
will be used to document partner perceptions and interactions and 
community-level changes that may benefit the target population.
    Respondents: For the annual web-based partnership survey and weekly 
time text survey, 100 respondents from the grantee and key project 
partner at 7 demonstration sites. For the monthly web-based time 
survey, 35 supervisory staff.
    Estimated total number of hours needed to prepare the information 
collection including number of respondents, frequency of response, 
hours of response, and cost of response time: Based on the below 
assumptions and tables, we calculate the annual burden hours for the 
study to be 266.74 hours and the annual cost to be $7,123.92 and the 
total burden hours for the first three years of this study to be 800.22 
hours and the total cost for the first three years to be $21,371.76. 
Whereas the typical key project partner role is either a management or 
support role, we estimated the cost per response using the average of 
the most recent (May 2015) Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational 
Employment Statistics median hourly wages for the labor categories 
Social and Community Services Manager (11-9151) with a median hour wage 
of $30.54 and Community and Social Service Specialist, All Other (21-
1099) with a rate of $20.14. For the annual partnership survey and 
weekly text time survey, we averaged the median hourly wage for the two 
labor categories; this produces an average of both median hourly wage 
rates equal to $25.34. For the monthly supervisory time survey, we used 
only the Social and Community Services Manager rate.

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                                                                                                      Average
                                                                                  Median  hourly     (median)
              Respondent                       Occupation            SOC Code        wage rate      hourly wage
                                                                                                       rate
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HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners......  Social and Community             11-9151          $30.54          $25.34
                                         Services Manager.               21-1099           20.14  ..............
                                        Community and Social
                                         Service Specialist, All
                                         Other.
HUD-DOJ PFS Supervisors...............  Social and Community             11-9151           30.54
                                         Services Manager.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics (May 2015), https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.

    To produce a basic hourly rate, we divided the average median 
annual income amount by 1,950 work hours per year, equaling 5 days at 
37.5 hours per week for each of the 52 weeks of the year.
    All assumptions are reflected in the table below.

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                                                             Number of     Frequency of    Burden  hour    Annual burden   Hourly  cost
                 Information collection                     respondents      response      per  response       hours       per  response    Total cost
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HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners (Annual web-based                   100               1            0.25              25           25.34         $633.50
 partnership survey)....................................

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HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners (Weekly text time                   100              52           0.033           171.6           25.34        4,348.34
 survey)................................................
HUD-DOJ PFS Supervisors (Monthly web-based time survey).              35              12           0.167           70.14           30.54        2,142.08
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    Total...............................................             235  ..............  ..............          266.74  ..............        7,123.92
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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 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: July 20, 2017.
Matthew E. Ammon,
General Deputy Assistant, Secretary for Policy Development and 
Research.
[FR Doc. 2017-18102 Filed 8-24-17; 8:45 am]
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